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| “Thank you for all the services your company has provided for us. We really appreciate all, the great installation and startup of the RC200™. We are very happy with the outcome of our new furnace.”
| Furnaces are currently inspected on a regular basis with thermal imaging sensors and other techniques that heavily rely on experience of the plant personnel.
| “UniGlass is committed to stay at the forefront of the technological trends. We want to make sure we can offer our customers the total range of glass products that they need for their projects.”
| For the past five years, Nile Aluminium & Metals Company, or AluNile, has had very positive experiences with Glaston's first FC500™ tempering furnace sold outside Finland.
| Being highly focused on flat glass processes for partitioning used in the office industry, Tufwell Glass Ltd has carved out a unique and resilient position for itself in southeast region of England.
| Spandrel glazing has developed to a stage where more efficient insulation can generate higher thermal stresses than can normally be resisted by heat strengthened (HS) glass on which ceramic enamel (frit) has been applied.
| After 10 years of experience with the Glaston HTF 2142 furnace, Paul Buckley, Managing Director of the PJB Glass Group, decided to complement his flat glass production offering by investing in a Glaston RC200™ furnace.
| The Flachglas Group employs around 1,100 employees at three sites in Switzerland and three sites in Germany – around 650 of them generate revenues of approx. € 70 million at the Wernberg site (Bavaria).
| Sanshiba Shozai of Japan chose to be the first glass processor in the world to invest in Glaston’s latest GlastonInsight™,the intelligent online assistance system, at the same time as it ordered the Glaston RC350™ tempering furnace.
| Melting glass is a very energy intensive process, with process temperatures of more than 1600°C required to melt the raw materials in the furnace.
| Will glass break if window film is installed to glazing?
| Even If float technology has been developed and explored in details, the requirement of new and more aggressive glasses is incremental to the expected length of float sequences.
| Fused silica rollers are widely used to convey glass in high temperature environments, the tempering furnace being among the most demanding operations.
| The following approach describes a new encapsulation technology for glass-glass-modules using tempered thin glass as front and back sheets.
| At this year's GPD in Finland LiSEC was represented by two lecturers.
| The most recent technical development from LiSEC is that of a brand-new laminating tunnel, which was installed at one of its Italian clients’ plants late in 2010.
| Last week Safety Glass Experts signed a service contract with Romanian safety glass producer Gerom S.A. Buzau.
| Advantages of the use of Radio Wave energy in the forming of glass and of tempering thin glass of less than 3.00mm. Some of the inherent problems in the conventional thermal tempering of thin glass are also presented.
| Forehearth operation is simple – you just set the temperatures you need on the zone controllers and away you go. In fact, it is so easy that the production department can attend to it alongside their real job of running the machine.
| This information introduces the concept of thermal stress which may be induced in glass as a result of exposure to solar radiation.