The diversity and
colour of the field for the legendary Le
Mans 24-hour race is matched by the product range of
Sotraver, a local glass processing company. On an industrial
estate located in the south-west of the city, Sotraver produces a huge variety
of products, primarily using machines manufactured by Bystronic glass:
Alongside laminated glass, customers can acquire the most diverse types of insulating
glass from Sotraver, for example with metal spacers or TPS® between
the panes.
The glass processor Hansen Glass, based in the UK town of Kirkby , modernised its insulating glass production with the acquisition of a spacerbender COMBI from Bystronic glass. Alongside the frame-bending robot made of stainless steel, ideally suited for stainless-steel and plastic-stainless composite spacer bar profiles, the British glass processor also invested in a matching desiccant filling station and a butyl applicator.
The Bystronic glass Group
will be presenting numerous innovations at the glasstec trade fair that is taking place in Düsseldorf from 28 September to 1 October 2010. Richard
Jakob, CEO of the Bystronic glass Group revealed: “ In addition to numerous new and more sophisticated
machines, we will also be presenting our customers with some exclusive innovations
in our TOP SECRET area“. This closed area will only be accessible to invited or
registered guests when accompanied by the Bystronic glass sales staff.
The
production hall of Ravensby Glass, covering more than 3,000 square metres and
located in the Scottish city of Dundee ,
is bustling with order activity. Approximately 300 variants of insulating glass
units in many different glass formats and with a variety of spacer widths are
produced here – manufactured on two lines from Bystronic glass.
KÖWA
Isolierglas GmbH in Wackersdorf, Germany, has been working with the first
Bystronic glass second generation compact’sealer since the beginning of 2010.
“We were won over by both the machine’s capabilities as well as the fast,
expert service provided by Bystronic glass,” explained KÖWA’s Managing
Director, Klaus Köhler.
With
its champ’speed line , Bystronic glass is
launching onto the market a brand-new generation of machines for preprocessing
automotive glass. The line enables cutting, breaking, grinding and drilling of
automotive glass with the utmost precision and flexibility. “The champ’speed line is currently the fastest machine of its
quality on the market”, says Jean-Philippe Chételat, Sales Manager for the
Automotive Glass Sector at the Technology Center Bystronic Maschinen AG in
Switzerland.
The
Bystronic glass Group has received a large multi-million Swiss francs order from Saudi Arabia .
As 2009 drew to a close, Richard Jakob and Fahad Al-Harbi, Chairman of the
Wajhat Glass & Aluminium Factory as well as Vice Chairman and CEO of the Al
Harbi Holding, finalized the deal with the system’s installation scheduled to begin
in April 2010.
In line with
all new plants, the Bystronic Lenhardt GmbH which is part of Bystronic
glass Group, has now launched an optimised, spare-parts catalogue tailored
specifically for customer machines. “In CD-ROM format this enables customers to
easily identify the required parts and order them directly online. This speeds
up the entire delivery process while helping to prevent any wrong orders”,
Harry Auer, Head of Customer Service summed up regarding the improvement.
"Handling equipment is only popular if it is easy to use,"
states Stefan Herrmann, Branch Manager at Semcoglas in Nordhorn, commenting directly
about a reason to provide the entire production hall with handling systems from
the Bystronic glass group.
The market leader in the field of sorting systems for glass now also
offers customer-specific solutions for the solar industry. Therefore, Bystronic
glass's decades of experience in such systems, for example in insulating glass
production now also applies to the handling of substrates or ready- made
modules.
A large part of
manufacturing for photovoltaic modules incorporates handling and processing
glass. Bystronic glass makes a significant contribution in all areas to ensure
that the systems run smoothly and effectively.
The
production facilities at Cladtech in the Arab Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah are
characterised by spacious premises and a quiet working environment. As in all
Arab emirates, there is a lot of sunshine, sand and, above all, plenty of
space. The company uses this space, amongst other things, for glass processing
using machines from the Bystronic glass group.
When entering the production halls of the company Alumco, the visitor is
instantly hit by a wall of hot air: With several glass hardening furnaces in
operation, the temperature inside the 8,000 square metre area situated in the
desert of Dubai is still a few degrees higher than outside. But in a small
oasis – a separate, air-conditioned area – stands the insulating glass line of
Bystronic glass group.
The
24 th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
(EU PVSEC) 2009 held in Hamburg
was a great success for the Bystronic glass group. "A firm order was
placed with a number of customers expressing serious intentions to buy,"
reports Richard Jakob, CEO Bystronic glass.
The Bystronic glass group has produced several sealing robots equipped
with a longitudinally divided run-in conveyor. This conveyor makes it possible
to support all three glass plates of a triple insulating glass unit by sealing
it with a universal nozzle for double insulating glass units in two passes.
After
the delivery of five frame bending robots to one customer, Bystronic glass
proves its competence in the manufacturing of machines for the production of
insulating glass units with thermally optimized "Warm edge" spacer
systems. The spacerbender MULTI with a new, height-adjustable transport rail
allows bending of stainless steel, steel and aluminium as well as a variety of
plastic spacers.
Close
to the border between Germany
and the Netherlands,
the Scheuten Glas company has built a large, impressive 10,000 square metre
hall. There, in the Dutch border city of Venlo,
the company manufactures insulating glass on the latest, highly automated
plants from Bystronic glass.
This week the Bystronic glass Technology Center Bystronic Lenhardt deliveres a horizontal Thermo Plastic Applicator (TPA) which is the first machine of its kind for the application of high-viscous butyl on semiconductor thin-film substrates. The german company Centrotherm Photovoltaics installes this machine which is used for high-precision butyl application at the edge of substrate glasses prior to the lamination process. The butyl effictively protects the semiconductor against humidity.
At the end of last year, the Bystronic glass Technology Center Bystronic Armatec commissioned their pre-nip laminating system for pressing thin-film photovoltaic modules. With this installation at a German PV panel producer, the machine builder has successfully transferred technologies from flat glass processing to the photovoltaic industry.