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Mackenzie Glass has installed a new cutting line at its base in Bristol, which will enhance the glass merchanting business’s storage options, improve cutting times, and future-proof the business for the next decade. The complex installation required multiple engineers collaborating over a two-week project over Easter, but such an investment is vital as demand for specialist glass products continues to...
Toughened glass specialist, TuffX, has installed a new glass furnace at its Knowsley premises. The Glaston FC500 furnace, which replaces an older model, was purchased as part of an ongoing £3 million staggered investment plan announced to the trade at the start of this year. This plan also includes a 30,000ft2 extension to TuffX’s production space, which is due to...
HS Trade, operating under the Made By Sedgebrook brand, has doubled its dedicated Residence Collection manufacturing facility and invested in a second TimberWeld Urban welder and additional Urban milling machinery. According to HS Trade, the new machinery will help take current lead times down from nine weeks to under six, whilst still maintaining the very best in terms of product...
Mackenzie Glass has added a new automatic Boterro cutting line and table to its cut-to-size product capacity, representing a six-figure investment. The set-up includes a new Bottero 630CBM-R automatic loading machine, a Bottero 343BCS-R automatic float glass cutting table, and Bottero 103BBM-R air floatation breakout table. “Supply pressure and exponential growth in demand has meant float glass manufacturers have moved...
Bohle is offering a free 60-90-day trial of its sedimentor, which eliminates wastewater, extends tool life, and reduces energy costs. Suitable for a wide range of grinding, drilling and sawing glass equipment, sedimentors use a multi-stage process to remove contaminants from coolants and water. Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle, said: “Using clean water, especially when it is combined with...
Dundee-based Ravensby Glass has installed a new automated Forel line for applying Edgetech’s Super Spacer TriSeal. With the installation of the new TriSeal line, the firm saif it has significantly increased its ability to provide high-performing IGUs for commercial clients. Managing director Gordon Dickson said: “We use TriSeal because we know it guarantees the kind of long-lasting, top quality IGUs...
CRL provides a comprehensive range of products and solutions so that glass can always be handled with care. Highlights of the range include the CRL S338 Sure-Grip Vacuum Lifter, which features a ‘press and pump’ attachment feature that gives a secure grip even when used one-handed, and has a lifting capacity of 68kg. The 203mm diameter pad on CRL’s Wood’s...
Bohle’s new LiftMaster Quadro automatic vacuum lifter has been awarded a GS Mark, the first battery-powered lifting system to meet the safety accreditation’s strict requirements. The GS Mark is recognised throughout Europe and is designed to minimise a manufacturer’s risk of liability as well as to provide the confidence that products have been produced to the highest quality. Capable of...
Glass processors could almost instantly increase capacity by as much as 15%, according to Bohle. Time lost to cleaning machinery, water tanks and replacement of tooling, can significantly reduce manufacturing capacity, adding up to £tens-of-thousands each year to overheads in downtime. This, according to Bohle, can be eliminated overnight with the addition of a sedimentor to their lines. “That’s an...
Bohle has introduced a new, aluminium, lever-operated Veribor manual suction lifter. Available with a choice of two or three suction cups, the aluminium Veribor suction lifter has been designed to deliver a combination of safety, user comfort and durability. The new lifter is subjected to rigorous quality and safety checks by Bohle, including a ‘tearing test’ in which it must...
Promac has installed a Forel High Tec IGU line at Ravensby Glass – the first of its kind in the UK. With the rising trend for larger glazed areas to meet architectural trends, the automated IGU line now enables Ravensby to manufacture glass panes of up to 5m long by 2.8m high, using several machines including the newly acquired Forel...
Bohle has warned that glass processors run the risk of major fines by failing to stay on top of legislation governing the disposal of wastewater. Water and coolant used in glass processing are defined as trade effluent. As such IGU manufacturers and glass processors must get prior consent from water companies under Section 118 [5] of the Water Industry Act,...
ES-GuardS, the advanced laser marking system from Hegla boraident, makes non-destructive, permanent marks on glass without influencing the material’s properties. If the marking is made in the form of a QR or data matrix code, the pane will be uniquely identifiable at all times. And if the marking process is fully automated and carried out prior to cutting, later mix-ups...
Carey Glass recently bought an Easy-Lifter handling device from Glaston, which is the 2,500th sold by the company. The foundation for this success was laid by the former Armatec company and then continued under the former Bystronic glass brand, and finally under Glaston, the company said. With a 1,000,000ft2 production facility that boasts 12 insulating glass (IG) lines and 12...
Faster, safer and more accurate Bohle has launched VetroLevel, a suction-mounted device that allows installers to align glass more efficiently, with greater accuracy and with improved safety. Incorporating a 90mm suction pad, the BO5140450 VetroLevel combines the technology of Bohle’s Veribor lever-activated suction lifters, with three independent spirit levels. Once secured to a glass sheet, VetroLevel allows users to work...
Tyrolit’s Reverse wheel for grinding laminated glass, keeps the work area free of plastic waste. Laminated glass grinding is a widespread application in the construction of architectural and structural facades. The need to regularly stop grinding machines to remove the built-up plastic waste during the processing of laminated glass can, however, present a problem, the company said. To solve these...
TuffX recently processed it’s one millionth linear metre of glass, on the Bovone ELB 12 HS straight line edging machine installed at its Merseyside manufacturing plant 24 months ago. This milestone represents the consistently high customer demand that TuffX has experienced for its processed glass products, even while seven months into a global pandemic, the company said. When TuffX purchased...
Tecglass has launched Vitro-Jet MultiFlex, which is designed to “allow anyone in architecture to take the leap into digital printing”. The Vitro-Jet MultiFlex was designed as the fast, accurate digital alternative to screen printing, using single-pass or multi-pass printing systems to reproduce all kinds of graphic patterns, lines, dots, logos and frames on architectural glass. Housed in a compact, easy-to-...
Biesse Group will host a hybrid online/face-to-face event – Inside In Action – in October 2020. The first event will bring together all the divisions of the Biesse Group, from wood processing to the machining of advanced materials, to glass and stone. Inspired by Inside Biesse, a long-running popular marketing event, Inside In Action will run from October 5 to...
TuffX has taken its investment over the £500,000 mark this year with a new £250,000 Bottero cutting line that promises to boost the company’s cutting output by over a third. The multi-functional Modulinea cutting line – the third cutting line installed at the TuffX factory – can load, cut, grind, mark and break out glass sheets from 1.5m2 square up...