Glaston introduces ACTIVE’SEALER: A new addition to the sealer product family

We recently unveiled our latest sealing robot for insulating glass units – Glaston ACTIVE’SEALER. This innovative addition expands our sealer product family, complementing the high-end Glaston SPEED’SEALER and bridging the gap for the mid-range market. Its excellent mixing and dosing quality is based on all our approved two-component sealants. ACTIVE’SEALER is an efficient yet economical […]

Walshs Glass in Australia upgrades with Glaston’s Roller Heat Control (RHC)

In January 2021, Walshs Glass in Western Australia began using their Glaston RHC upgrade, enabling them to improve glass flatness and optical quality. “Today, we’re positioned to take advantage of the rapidly changing glass processing demands in Western Australia,” says Steve Cuff, Executive Operations Manager at Walshs Glass. Walshs’ first experience with Glaston was with a […]

Glaston’s CHAMP 25 helps Paragon meet growing demands

“When we saw the CHAMP 25 a few years ago, we knew this was the future we should pursue for our next round of capital expenditures,” says Dan Wright, CEO of Paragon Tempered Glass.   Dan and his colleague Wes Brigner, Director of Manufacturing, already knew Bystronic glass and Glaston well from their vast experience […]

Ultra Tough invests in the future with two Glaston FC-zone upgrades

At the end of 2020, Ultra Tough from Welham Green, Hertfordshire, UK, finalized an agreement to purchase two Glaston FC-zone upgrades for their Uniglass 2448 UGT and UGC furnaces. The FC-zone replaces the existing heat chambers with Glaston’s enhanced system based on full convection with high air volume and closed circulation. The upgrades will be […]

Interested in boosting your lamination business?

Maybe you’ve been thinking about adding lamination to your business offering. Or perhaps you already have older lamination machinery that isn’t quite working up to speed. Whatever your situation, Glaston is ready to help. We can help you start from scratch with our ProL laminating line with full convection that ensures the highest quality for […]

Glaston Showroom demos – a tour into innovation

As part of the Glass Performance Days (GPD) 2019 conference, Glaston hosted informative demo tours at its facilities on June 27 and 28. Visitors had the opportunity to see the company’s glass processing machines in operation, check the actual end product quality and hear first-hand about some of Glaston’s latest innovations. The tour began with […]

BYSTRONIC GLASS INSTALLS TWO INNOVATIVE B’VARIO TPS® IG LINES AT NORTHEAST BUILDING PRODUCTS IN PHILADELPHIA

In a fiercely competitive market, the high caliber standards of Bystronic glass are giving long standing customers a decidedly significant market advantage. With over 650 employees, Northeast Building Products, based in Philadelphia PA, USA, manufactures high quality, energy efficient windows, doors and ancillary products for the residential window and door market. Alan Levin, President of […]

DISCOVER THE WORLD’S BIGGEST I.G. PRODUCTION LINE, MANUFACTURED BY BYSTRONIC GLASS

Longer – Heavier – Bigger! The B’JUMBO XXL insulating glass production line from Bystronic glass can be described using these three attributes that were inspired by the motto that was coined by Pierre de Coubertin for the Olympic Games. With this line, Bystronic glass is setting new benchmarks in architectural glass production: The production line measuring 165 […]

Euroview completes changeover to stay on top

“With a company name change and a GBP 4 million investment in new machinery and equipment, Euroview Architectural Glass has set out to provide the finest specialized glass available to commercial applications across the UK. A key part of our drive for quality has been the addition of Glaston’s FC500 flat glass tempering furnace with the first iLooK online […]

Peterlee Glass expands – a celebration of 40 years of success

Glaston RC350 enables move to bigger glass sizes “Although October 2017 officially marked our 40th birthday, we’ve been celebrating throughout the entire year with a significant investment in new machinery that will help us continue to grow and thrive in the architectural glass sector. At the end of summer, we started up our new Glaston RC350 […]

Dialum makes its customers’ dreams come true

For Dialum, an avant-garde glass processor in Santiago, Chile, keeping up with the latest technology available has always been natural. “This is what has helped us be chosen for some of the most prominent architectural projects in our region,” says Dialum’s owner Don Fernando Diez. “There is no such thing as a complex project – rather each […]

HSA Lachowicz Krzysztof tempers glass for the first time – and finds it easy

Glaston FC500 selected for tempering It takes courage, market agility and a lot of effort for any business to grow and develop. For family-owned HSA Lachowicz Krzysztof in Poland, it took a bold move to tap into a new business and expand its offering to include tempered glass. But when there’s a reliable equipment supplier […]

GPD 2017 – Celebrating 25 years

Where we’ve come from; where we’re heading The Opening Ceremony of the 25-year-old Glass Performance Days conference (GPD) that took place in Tampere’s TähtiAreena on June 28 was filled with music, fireworks and high-energy presentations to support the spirit that makes GPD so unique. Combining tradition with a look into the future, an impressive line-up […]

ONE OF THE LARGEST ORDERS OF AUTOMOTIVE GLASS PRE-PROCESSING EQUIPMENT OF ALL TIMES RECENTLY PLACED WITH BYSTRONIC GLASS

At Bystronic glass – in Buetzberg (Switzerland) in particular – there is much delight. The specialist in automotive glass pre-processingequipment is thrilled to have won recently one of the largest orders ever for champ’speed automotive glass cells. A considerable number of Bystronic glass champ’speed cells will be delivered during 2017 and 2018 to several production plants of […]

Al-Hadi Glass Industries lifts its level of professionalism

Glaston FC500 reaches high performance “Once we saw Glaston’s FC500 at Glasstec in Dusseldorf a few years ago, we knew that this was the tempering furnace for us. High-performance glass is required in our region, since temperatures soar to +50°C. And high-performance glass needs high-performance machinery. This is what Glaston’s FC500 tempering furnace is providing […]

Peterlee Glass celebrates 40th anniversary with major growth

Glaston RC350 helps aim for the top “Glaston’s RC350 opens up new opportunities for the architectural market. This furnace is part of our major multimillion-pound investment project for a prestigious new factory that will enable us to serve our customers with larger pieces of processed glass, better toughened lamination quality and a wider portfolio of […]

RELIABILITY OF TPEDGE MODULES SUCCESSFULLY TESTED

Within the scope of the »TPedge« project, Bystronic glass has cooperated with scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) in Freiburg regarding the development of a process for the industrial production of innovative PV modules based on a Fraunhofer patent. Numerous prototypes of these TPedge modules have now been subjected to […]

Village Glass to use data as key to develop business

Glaston FC500 with first iLooK in the UK “When I came to Village Glass in May 2015, I was excited about the opportunity to grow the business to become the largest independent producer of glazed units in the UK. Data is key to develop any business. That’s why we decided to invest in Glaston’s FC500 […]

New business opportunities with Glaston Matrix for Shandong Donghao Autoglass

With quality as a priority, the Shandong Donghao Autoglass in China chose Glaston Matrix to bend even the most demanding windshield shapes and meet the highest OEM standards. Founded in 2009 in Liaocheng City, Shandong Donghao Autoglass is one of the biggest automotive glass companies in China, processing all kinds of glasses for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, […]

United Plate Glass shares best kept secret

Glaston heating chamber replacement for tempering furnace “When you’re basically happy with the quench and your bed size, it becomes a no-brainer to change the furnace chambers with Glaston’s chamber replacements to get a completely new furnace. The best thing – you’re only paying about half the price of a new furnace and you get […]

50 YEARS OF MACHINES FOR INSULATING GLASS UNIT PRODUCTION

Two years after Bystronic glass in Bützberg, Switzerland celebrated its 50 year anniversary, the Neuhausen-Hamburg division in Baden Württemberg, Germany followed suit. This location has been developing, manufacturing and shipping machines and insulating glass production units all over the world since 1966. Employees, their families as well as former employees all celebrated this major company […]

70 TPEDGE MODULES ON THE FRAUNHOFER ISE FAÇADE IN FREIBURG

It is only recently that 70 TPedge photovoltaic modules have adorned the external façade of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) laboratory in Freiburg (Germany). These modules are a joint development between Bystronic glass and the Fraunhofer ISE. Ten of these modules were already integrated into the façade in 2013 and still they continue […]

TPedge MODULE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES MECHANICAL LOAD TEST

The TPedge module, jointly developed by Bystronic glass and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has successfully completed the mechanical load test and hail impact test. The characteristic features of the TPedge module technology are the local fixing of the cell array – without lamination – and a glass edge sealing. The TPedge modules in the full-format measuring 1636 […]