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About American Specialty Glass

ASG Glass started in 2001 recycling bottles and w indows for the terrazzo industry. Since then, ASG Glass has expanded its product offerings and capabilities to everything you see in this brochure. We’re located in North Salt Lake, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. We operate several glass-melting furnaces and color the glass with our proprietary methods and formulations. We stock significant quantities of standard colors in our warehouse. We’re willing to make custom colors given the right quantity and schedule flexibility. We market our products both through distributors and directly to end customers. We sell both on a wholesale and a retail level. We manufacture all of our glass from recycled products and can provide supporting documentation for LEED projects when needed. Most importantly, we love what we do. We hope it shows through in our glass quality and customer service.

Landscaping

Make a statement with tumbled glass nuggets and glass rocks. In lieu of ubiquitous bark mulch, glass can provide a striking groundcover. In lieu of stone, glass can provide the permanence you seek. In lieu of earth tone colored rocks, xeriscaping designs can now employ blues and purples and greens. The rainbow of colors available in ASG Glass’ products is unprecedented in landscaping applications. Dry riverbeds, fountain accents, flagstone fillers, paver aggregates, and rock gardens. Our standard mixes are especially popular as faux water features. Our standard colors are especially desired in doing something new, something different. Because it’s tumbled, the glass won’t cut. Because it’s 100% recycled, the glass is wildly in demand. Because it’s colorful, nearly any design incorporating glass is stunning.

Terrazzo

Never before have such vibrant colors been available to designers of terrazzo flooring. Recycled glass chips are a modern addition to an ancient flooring methodology that dates back to Michelangelo and the Renaissance. Glass chips can be used in epoxy terrazzo or sand cushion cement terrazzo either by themselves or in combination with traditional marble chips. As in typical terrazzo, the combination of sizes #0 and #1 provide a traditional look while the use of sizes #2 and/or #3 provide a bolder more aggressive appearance. Due to its weight, glass contributes substantially to a project’s overall recycled content in LEED calculations. Its unique hues contribute significantly to the impact of an environmentally sustainable floor. Arguably, glass increases the durability and life span of a terrazzo floor installation.

Countertops

Concrete countertops have been extremely popular of late. Customers have been thrilled at the ability to dictate the dimensions, shapes, colors, and textures of their countertops. Recycled glass aggregates have been an equally popular additive to recent designs. Glass adds color and variety at a highly customizable level. Interestingly, translucent glass adds a third dimension – depth – to any countertop concept. Some customers even under light their countertops with LED's strategically placed beneath our glass chips, a look unattainable with traditional granite materials. Whether it’s a do-it-yourself vanity assembled in a weekend warrior’s garage or a full-size slab carefully manufactured in a controlled fabrication environment, our glass is resplendent. Glass aggregate can be used in lieu of or in addition to traditional aggregates. Both light and heavy polishing brings out the glass shine.

Countertop uses Terrazzo Glass Category

Aquariums

Tumbled glass chips are a superb aquarium gravel. The translucence of glass lends itself to under lighting providing an unprecedented effect in aquatic environments. We’ve experimented with our tumbled glass and large rocks and have generated some spectacular looks. The glass is inert and beneficial bacteria grows within the glass chips in essentially the same way as traditional aquarium g ravels. Mixed colors provide unrivaled hues. Spoil your fish and get them something with panache.

Aquariums and Swimming Pools use Landscape Glass Category

Swimming Pools

One of the many limitations of traditional pool plaster materials is sparkle and depth. Faceted glass chips reflect and illuminate sunlight with unparalleled pop. Whether in a terrazzo-like finish or in an exposed aggregate finish, glass in swimming pools can take your pool or your clients’ pools to a new level. Installation is identical to traditional exposed aggregate plasters with the added step of gently polishing the surface to remove any rough edge. An especially audacious look is achieved with iridescent glass tiles installed at a pool’s waterline and tumbled glass chips throughout the plaster below. We’ve perfected the sizing of our chips to ensure a dense compacting of the aggregates in the pool finish. Almost any combination of colors can be incorporated either alone or in combination with traditional pebbles or quartz. Especially stunning is a combination of Dark Blue, Light Blue, Turquoise, Teal, and Dark Green in multiple sizes. Glass does not react with harsh swimming pool chemicals arguably extending the life of any new or remodeled swimming pool. Once you go glass, you never go back.

Swimming Pools and Aquariums use Landscape Glass Category

Jelly Bean Glass

Smaller, kidney-shaped, irregularly sized glass pieces with polished edges range in size from apple seeds to standard marbles. Colors are reasonably consistent with a fairly translucent finish to them. The larger sizes (#3 and #2) compare most favorably to edible jelly beans in size and shape. The smaller sizes (#1 and #0) are simply irregularly shaped mini replicas of the candy. The blues and size #2 are most frequently ordered for various applications. Obviously, Jelly Bean Glass is not edible. Do not eat.

Recycling

ASG Glass products are 100% recycled. That is, had our company not purchased and processed the glass used in our products, it would have been discarded in a local landfill. We receive recycled post-consumer glass bottles from various domestic sources including material recycling facilities (MRF's) in Park City, Los Angeles, the Intermountain West, and other locations along the West Coast. We also receive recycled post-industrial glass window scraps and furnace cleanouts from various window and glass product manufacturers in the Salt Lake City area and the East Coast. Some of our glass is simply ground and tumbled glass with various flaws and inconsistencies common with recycled glass. Most of our glass is re-melted and
re-processed to ensure a mostly consistently colored and consistently sized end product. In all cases, the glass products we produce use waste glass feedstock's that can unquestionably be labeled 100% recycled. Depending on the application of our recycled glass products in a given project, an architect or client may claim LEED credits or “green points” for using our glass.