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Bigger units, heavier glass, and increased use of laminates is making manual handling of glass higher risk. Glass Times talked to Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle. Glass is being used as a main structural element of the building envelope, and on an increasing scale. The floor-to-ceiling installations, which have dominated high rise designs for decades, have now migrated into...
Lee Dover, from Houghton International, expresses concerns about how machine downtime can have a drastic impact if a business is not prepared for it. No matter what industry you specialise in, machine downtime can have a major impact on your business; if you’re not prepared, technical errors in your appliances can bring significant costs to your productivity and negatively impact...
With industry warning of a skills crisis, Bohle’s Dave Broxton explains how the supply chain could be part of the answer. While there’s universal agreement that the skills gap is one of the key challenges facing industry, what to do about it is less clearly defined. Under investment has resulted in a failure to recruit young people into the sector....
Promac discusses how the addition of linesscanners could save you £thousands a year in avoided remakes. Glass is getting bigger. The cost of getting it wrong – regardless of whether that’s a defect in edge quality, dimensional or surface defects or anisotropy – is also far greater, not to mention the reputational damage and potential loss of future business that...
By Forel. The glass balustrades of the Tour Odeon Skyscraper of the Principality of Monaco, the interior of the Doha Airport in Qatar, the new BBC headquarters, Manchester University’s facades, the glasses for the Winter Garden in London’s Shard, and the cruise ships of Costa Crociere. These are just a few projects that Formator in Rijeka, Croatia, has been involved...
Treforest Glass has been manufacturing high quality sealed units for more than 30 years and has recently made a considerable investment in its own tempering plant, sourced from Lambert GT. Glass Times spoke to Peter Zehetmayr, managing director of Treforest Glass, to find out more about the machinery investment and the impact this will have on the company and its...
With unlimited fines for those companies who fail to comply, plus reputational damage and lost business, Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle, asks if your waste water strategy is up to scratch. The penalties for failure to comply are astronomical, the potential rewards significant, so why wouldn’t you be on top of waste water management? Yet there are still far...
Energy Saving Glass has continued its investment in its in-house manufacturing facility with seven-figure spend on a new toughening facility. The company’s Alex Walker explains why. Bringing more of your supply chain in-house to increase controls on quality and cost isn’t new but it’s happening with increasing frequency across the window, door and, particularly, glass processing sectors. We manufacture IGUs,...
Embodied energy in building products is under greater scrutiny, delivering environmental benefits and production efficiencies. Joe Hague, managing director of Promac Group, explains. The construction industry is the largest consumer of resources in the UK, swallowing up more than 400 million tonnes of material a year (Davis Langdon) and accounting for 10% of UK carbon emissions (Envest). While the industry...
Cheadle Glass discusses it 50 years in business, and its plans for continued investment and expansion. In April 2017 Glass Times visited glass processor Cheadle Glass, which had just installed a new Cooltemper toughening plant as part of an ongoing investment strategy aimed at improving productivity and reducing operating costs to support competitive trade pricing in the marketplace. 18 months,...
With over-sized units already making up a sizeable chunk of the IGU market, super-sized IGU manufacture has arrived at Glasstec. Joe Hague, managing director of Promac Group, Forel’s exclusive supply partner in the UK, explains. Size, it seems, does matter. Exhibition space at this year’s Glasstec has been defined by high volume but also production on an increasingly gargantuan scale....
Oakland Glass’s production director Paul Hutton, explains what the market expects from the company’s sealed units today and what manufacturers have had to do behind the scenes to meet this demand. Quality can mean different things to different people. For some it’s about the price point of a product, while for others it’s about longevity and service. In our sector,...
Semco’s recipe for success is investment in automation and maintaining efficient plants, according to Lisec. Klaus Köttering, technical manager of the German company Semco, said: “If you want to be successful in the glass processing industry, you have to invest in staff, plants, and software.” In the last 10 years, the owners of Semco Group have invested more than 150...
The Glass Wipe Board Company has secured more than £7,000 funding to support its purchase of a new Bohle Sedimentor. Success is often built on specialism; the identification of an otherwise over-looked market, identifying its specific requirements and combining that with a commitment to be the best supplier to it. The Glass Wipe Board Company was set up by Aaron...
Economical production is only possible if everything runs smoothly, from cutting to shipping, according to A+W. If there are chronic jams at individual workstations, the processor should check whether the software can keep the workflow constant. The demand for larger glasses is increasing; anyone who regularly produces large-format panes should have optimised their processes in the best possible way. Occasionally,...
Transparency in glass supply – and particularly supply of laminated glass – has been flagged by the industry as an area of concern. So how can glass suppliers and their customers guarantee what’s dispatched or fitted on site? By Bohle. The integrity of your supply chain is key. And in glass it’s even more so, because the ramifications of incorrect,...
Double R Glass and Roofing Systems improved its sealed unit manufacture with its vertical Super Spacer automatic hot melt IGU line – the quickest of its kind in the world. Managing director of Double R, Ian Sims, explains how this level of automation is directly benefitting customers. A smart factory is only smart if it’s managed and operated by skilled...
Phil Popple, head of production at Thermoseal, discusses how the group’s manufacturing facilities are set up with central amalgamation of its production processes to streamline its facilities for efficiency and quality control. With an initial £5 million injection into the project, Thermoseal Group began manufacturing spacer bars in 2010 from its Wigan site. This required setting up a bespoke manufacturing...
Chris Alderson, managing director of Edgetech, explains how automation is already changing the way fenestration businesses operate. We’re living through the rise of the machines. There were 1.9 million industrial robots in the world in 2014, according to US think-tank the Brookings Institute. By 2020, that’s expected to have risen to almost 3 million. Everywhere you look, businesses and industries...
Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager for Pilkington UK, discusses how policy changes, emerging construction trends and new technology could help to stimulate the energy efficiency market over the next five years. There’s plenty of activity concerning the energy efficiency of buildings, with product development and innovation, policy changes, and emerging trends in construction. However, over the next five years...
