Glass Manufacture

Float Glass and Rolled GlassFloat GlassThe float process, invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952, makes flat glass. This process...

IS Process for Container Glass FormingThe IS process has now universally replaced almost all others. It is not certain whether...

Reinforcement fibre glass manufacturing requires a high temperature stability of the draw-plate to ensure good quality of the wire, one...

Glass in the form of fibres has found wide and varied applications in all kinds of industry.Its composition depends on...

Danner ProcessThe Danner process was developed for the continuous production of glass tubing and rods. Subject to equipment design the...

The demand for ultra thin sheet glass increased substantially over the last 20 years due to the introduction of all...

Solutions for Glass Manufacturing ProcessesFrom the simplest single loop control to full scale information integration and plant wide distributed control systems,  Eurotherm can...

Making bushing control ‘green’Last year, René Meuleman, Stanley Rutkowski and Martin Moeginger discussed how improving the design of a transformer...

Obviously, the title of this new Glass WorldWide article was compelling enough to draw attention. Readers may be sufficiently convinced...

Published in Glass Worldwide, 2009Nowadays almost everybody is suffering from the economic downturn and having talked to many people in...

Rene Meuleman takes a trip down memory lane to look at some of the technical innovations that inspired his future,...

The idea behind a tiny and cheap computer for children came in 2006, when Eben Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and...