Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology Co., Ltd.: Insights into the three main themes of the 2026 special glass industry transformation, embracing the new industry cycle through in-depth cultivation of all product categories.

In August 2026, China's specialty glass industry witnessed a concentrated release of multiple transformations. The official implementation of new national standards for architectural safety glass, the imminent breaking of the foreign monopoly on the largest domestically produced electrochromic glass, and the accelerated mass production of semiconductor TGV glass substrates—these three main themes of industrial transformation converged at this moment.

As a national high-tech enterprise deeply involved in the deep processing of specialty glass for nearly two decades, Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology Co., Ltd. is examining this transformation with keen industry insight. While continuing to cultivate core categories such as architectural safety glass, energy-saving glass, and smart dimming glass, it is actively focusing on cutting-edge sectors such as semiconductor packaging glass and electrochromic smart glass, embracing the new industry cycle with a full-category specialty glass product matrix.

I. Full Implementation of New National Standards: Architectural Safety Glass Enters the Era of "Mandatory General Principles"
On August 1, 2026, the much-anticipated new national standards for architectural safety glass officially came into effect. The mandatory national standard GB 46030—2025, "Safety Technical Requirements for Safety Glass for Buildings," approved and released by the State Administration for Market Regulation, along with a series of supporting national standards including GB/T 15763.1~4—2025, "Safety Glass for Buildings," and GB/T 11944, "Insulating Glass," have been implemented simultaneously.

Addressing the issues of fragmented standards and incomplete safety indicators in the past, the new standard establishes a safety management system of "mandatory general principles + specific product items," providing a unified basis for the production, testing, engineering application, and quality supervision of safety glass for buildings. GB 46030—2025 uniformly covers five major categories: tempered glass, homogeneous tempered glass, laminated glass, safety insulating glass, and fire-resistant glass, filling the gap in mandatory requirements for safety insulating glass previously. The new standard specifies mandatory testing items such as falling ball impact peeling, shot bag impact, fragmentation state, bending strength, weather resistance, and fire resistance, further clarifying the mandatory testing requirements that different types of safety glass must meet.

The new standards further refine safety indicators to address the specific application characteristics of different products. Tempered and homogeneous tempered glass face higher requirements for fragment count and bending strength; laminated glass focuses on specifications for performance related to falling ball impact and fragment detachment; fire-resistant glass is classified into three categories: A (insulating), B (partially insulating), and C (non-insulating), with different fire resistance ratings; homogeneous tempered glass has a more standardized hot-dip immersion process to reduce the risk of spontaneous breakage. The series of standards also unifies the sampling quantities, testing procedures, and re-inspection rules for various types of safety glass.

After the implementation of the new standards, architectural glass manufacturers and related testing and inspection institutions need to promptly review the changes in product technical requirements, testing items, and judgment rules, and adjust their product quality control and testing capabilities accordingly. Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology has already aligned itself with the new national standards, comprehensively promoting technological upgrades and process optimization in core product categories such as fire-resistant glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass. In the field of fire-resistant glass, the company has formed three major product lines: nano-silicon composite fire-resistant glass, monolithic cesium potassium fire-resistant glass, and composite heat-insulating fire-resistant glass. Nano-silicon composite fireproof glass boasts a transparency of over 95%. The 45mm specification can withstand temperatures exceeding 1000℃, showing no flame penetration or significant temperature rise within two hours. It is suitable for various applications including office buildings, shopping malls, schools, hospitals, high-rise buildings, financial institutions, and data centers.

In March 2026, the company's tempered glass products successfully obtained EU CE certification and have passed the national mandatory product certification "CCC," providing a solid guarantee for the company's products entering the international market and promoting quality in the domestic market.

II. New Breakthrough in Smart Glass: Domestic Production of Electrochromic Glass Enters Countdown
In August 2026, a key breakthrough occurred in the smart glass field. According to the Harbin Daily, the first ultra-large-size all-solid-state electrochromic electronic film production line in China will begin equipment installation this November. It is expected that the largest domestically produced (1.9m × 3.1m) electrochromic glass will officially roll off the production line next March. The project's completion will break the long-term monopoly of foreign technology in the high-end electrochromic glass field and fill a gap in the domestic industry.

Electrochromic glass is a smart material that changes the depth of glass color and light transmittance by applying voltage. It has wide applications in commercial building curtain walls, automotive sunroofs, rail transportation, and smart electronic device displays. This production line uses all-solid-state inorganic electrochromic technology, abandoning the traditional liquid electrolyte structure and completely avoiding leakage and aging failure problems, significantly improving the product's weather resistance and lifespan. Relying on a self-developed precision gas control system, it can achieve uniform coating on large-size, curved glass, suitable for mainstream products such as building curtain walls and automotive curved sunroofs. The production line has a capacity of 600,000 square meters per year and is planned to reach full production by the end of 2027, at which time the production price will be one-tenth of that of similar foreign products.

Meanwhile, Fuyao Glass's 2026 semi-annual report shows that the proportion of high-value-added products such as intelligent panoramic sunroof glass, dimmable glass, and head-up display glass continues to increase. From January to April 2026, the penetration rate of dimming sunroofs in domestic passenger vehicles reached 0.89%, an increase of 0.52 percentage points compared to 0.37% in 2025. The penetration rate in the first four months alone exceeded double the level of the entire previous year. The proportion of smart glass installations is expected to reach 25% to 30%, corresponding to a steady-state penetration rate of approximately 10%.

Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology has made forward-looking investments in the field of smart glass. In 2024, the company obtained a utility model patent authorization for "a smart dimming bulletproof glass structure," innovatively integrating smart dimming functionality with bulletproof safety features, expanding the application boundaries of smart dimming glass in security-sensitive scenarios such as financial security and special vehicles. The company is also conducting pre-research on electrochromic smart glass technology in conjunction with Quzhou University, actively preparing for the next generation of smart glass technology.

III. New Semiconductor Track: Glass Substrates Accelerate Towards Industrialization
2026 is also known in the industry as the "first year of commercialization for glass substrates." With the explosive growth of AI, high-performance computing, and optoelectronic co-packaging, glass substrates, with their low coefficient of thermal expansion, high flatness, low dielectric loss, and excellent dimensional stability, are becoming ideal semiconductor packaging substrates to replace organic substrates and silicon interposers.

The "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of New Materials Industry," officially issued in March 2026, has included semiconductor TGV glass through-hole substrates and G10.5 generation ultra-high generation alkali-free glass substrates in the key "bottleneck" material research list. It explicitly requires that by 2030, the overall domestic production rate of high-generation display glass substrates should exceed 60%, and that small-batch self-sufficiency in high-end semiconductor packaging glass substrates should be achieved.

In terms of industry progress, BOE's A-plate level pilot line achieved full automation in the first half of 2026. Lens Technology plans to construct a 30,000-square-meter dedicated TGV glass substrate plant and a complete set of supporting production lines, with the project expected to officially commence production by the end of 2026. Lens Technology has also signed a memorandum of understanding with Intel, making TGV advanced packaging a key area of ​​cooperation. Woguang Optoelectronics' TGV technology has achieved internationally leading levels with a through-hole diameter of 3 micrometers and an aspect ratio of 150:1. Kaisheng Technology plans to invest approximately 150 million yuan to build a pilot line for advanced TGV packaging glass. The industry has moved from technology verification to pilot-scale testing and capacity construction, with initial mass production expected in 2027-2028.

Regarding market size, according to Mordor Intelligence data, the global semiconductor glass substrate market size was $740 million in 2025 and is projected to grow to $1.67 billion by 2030. According to SEMI data, glass substrates may present a $13 billion market opportunity by 2040.

Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology closely monitors technological developments in the semiconductor and electronic glass fields. The company has established a provincial-level high-tech enterprise R&D center, possesses 86 independent intellectual property rights, and continuously builds technological reserves in core technology areas such as precision glass processing and ultra-thinning, making full preparations for future entry into the semiconductor and electronic glass industry chain.

IV. Continued Market Expansion: The Specialty Glass Market, Worth Hundreds of Billions, is Taking Shape

Driven by both policy and market forces, China's specialty glass market continues to expand. Statistics show that the market size of China's specialty glass industry has climbed from 59.9 billion yuan in 2020 to 102.6 billion yuan in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.36%. In the first half of 2026, the specialty glass market continued its high growth trend, with the overall market size expected to grow by 8% to 10%, higher than the average level of the glass industry. Industry reports predict that the size of China's specialty glass market is expected to exceed 230 billion yuan in 2026.

Looking at specific sub-sectors, fire-resistant glass is expected to grow by 12% to 15% year-on-year, with demand for fire-resistant glass in the new energy sector growing by 20% to 25%. The Low-E low-emissivity glass market size is expected to exceed 16.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%. The global smart glass market is projected to grow from US$8.67 billion in 2026 to US$19.55 billion in 2034. This synergistic growth across multiple sectors is propelling the specialty glass industry into a period of rapid development. Looking to the future, the transformation of the specialty glass industry will continue to deepen. On the policy front, specialty glass has been established as a key component of the new materials industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. On the technological front, emerging technologies such as glass substrates and electrochromic glass are rapidly moving from the laboratory to industrialization. On the market front, multiple demands, including those related to building safety, energy conservation and carbon reduction, smart cockpits, and semiconductor packaging, continue to be released.

Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology Co., Ltd. will continue to uphold its quality policy of "technology leadership, quality as the foundation, continuous innovation, and satisfactory service," closely following the development trends of intelligentization, greening, and high-end products in the specialty glass industry. While consolidating its core product advantages in architectural safety glass, energy-saving glass, and smart dimming glass, the company will actively seek development opportunities in cutting-edge sectors such as semiconductor packaging glass and electrochromic smart glass. Leveraging the platform advantages of its provincial-level high-tech enterprise research and development center, the company will continue to increase its R&D investment in core technologies such as precision machining and ultra-thinning, aiming to serve the overall development of national strategic emerging industries with safer, smarter, and more environmentally friendly specialty glass products, and contribute to the continuous leap forward of China's specialty glass industry towards "high-precision and cutting-edge" technologies.

About Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology Co., Ltd.

Located at No. 56, Donggang 2nd Road, Zhizao New City, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Jingtai Glass Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in March 2007 with a registered capital of 12 million yuan. It covers an area of ​​over 60 mu and has more than 30,000 square meters of standard factory buildings. The company is a national high-tech enterprise and a "specialized, refined, and innovative" SME in Zhejiang Province. It is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the R&D, production, sales, and service of safe, environmentally friendly, and energy-saving specialty glass. The company possesses advanced domestic tempering production lines, fully automated insulated glass production lines, bulletproof glass production lines, laminated glass production lines, and fireproof glass production lines, among other core equipment. It has a provincial-level high-tech enterprise research and development center and owns 86 independent intellectual property rights. The company spearheaded the development of the "Zhejiang Manufacturing" standard 0277-2017, "Lightweight High-Transparency Bulletproof and Impact-Resistant Composite Glass," and passed the Zhejiang Manufacturing Quality Mark certification. Its main products include nano-silicon composite fireproof glass, monolithic cesium potassium fireproof glass, composite heat-insulating fireproof glass, bulletproof and impact-resistant composite glass, Low-E insulated glass, smart dimming glass, and tempered glass, among other specialty glass series. The products have passed the national mandatory product certification "CCC" and the EU CE certification. The company has successively won honors such as "Quzhou Famous Trademark" and "Quzhou Famous Brand Product," and in 2024 was recognized as a Zhejiang Province AAA-level "Contract-Abiding and Creditworthy" enterprise.

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