Skills Improvement Glass Cutting and Glass Bonding - Bohle America Offers New Workshop Series

Master glazier “Big” Frank Ruzicka will teach the attendees and share his over 30 years of experience.

All tools will be provided for use during the workshop.

Next workshops are in Charlotte (February, 22), Dallas/Fort Worth (February, 24) and New York (March, 1). More details and booking under http://www.bohle- america.com/workshops.html.

Main subjects covered:

Glass Bonding Part - Basic technology of glass bonding - The use of adhesives and UV lamps - Specific characteristics of the different adhesives - The different processing steps of UV bonding - Materials and products for glass bonding - Working with various positioning systems - Construction of a sample display - Practical application of glass bonding technique Glass Cutting Part - Modern hand tools and how to use them - Cutting and breaking various thicknesses and types of flat glass - The use of cutting fluids when cutting glass - Solutions for shape cutting - SILBERSCHNITT 2000 - the new dimension of glass cutting - Excellent edge quality with Cutmaster® Platinum This is Bohle America, Inc.

The Bohle Group, Europe's leading manufacturer and supplier of tools, machines and accessories for glass processing and finishing, is represented in North America with their own subsidiary since 2008. Bohle America, Inc. is based in Charlotte, NC, and is the Bohle Group's fourteenth location worldwide. They will be responsible for developing the customer base in the United States and for providing services to these customers. In America Bohle will primarily market quality products from the divisions Manual Glass Cutting (Silberschnitt and Diamantor tools), Industrial Glass Cutting (Cutting wheels) and Glass Bonding (Verifix products).

This is the Bohle Group The family business, founded in 1923 in Germany, is represented by over 300 employees at fourteen locations worldwide. Divided into the product divisions Handling, Glass Cutting (manual and automatic), Glass Bonding, Glazing, Tools, Machinery, Fittings and Surface Technology, the total product range is precisely tailored to the respective customer groups from trade, industry and retail. Quality is the leading principle at Bohle – in every area. To live up to this standard, the company develops and manufactures many products themselves. A modern logistics centre quickly dispatches the ordered goods to the customer.