Pilkington Float Glass Process 

Appreciate the well filmed video that uses as much actual factory footage as possible rather than sims. Very informative.

It is amazing how much we take for Granted. Not realizing the scope of the levels of technology, skill, labor, innovation and costs to produce even the simplest things we use every day!

Amazing that the idea of this process occurred to Pilkington. I’m sure there was a tiny prototype machine, it probably cost a lot. Just to prove the floating process worked. Then there had to be investors found to risk millions to design and build this machine. There were so many different inventiveness to bring together to “just make a window “. Thanks for this video. I’m sure there are trade secrets that weren’t even mentioned that make this marvelous product possible.

As a small autoglas glass assembly company I love Pilkington Glass..; Float glass is a beautiful invention...

Not what I was actually looking for in my search but still very interesting! Thanks for the video

If anyone is wondering, the "sand" isn't just regular old sand but pure silica, usually in the form of quartz crystals. Sort of a pet peeve of mine when people talk about making glass by melting sand.

Outstanding and interesting process ❤

Really interesting!

Yeah! Glass!

Very nice video. Thank you.

Well done.

Awesome!

Very interesting.

I just had a windshield that only had a 90 warranty fail. I had it installed about 6 months ago during the winter and as soon as the temperature got up into the 90's the glue failed that holds the Honda Sensing unit cover in place. The shop tried to reattach it and that did not work. Luck for me the shop full covered the cost of the replacement and install. This Pilkington windscreen in my opinion had a funky tint to it. They replaced the Pilkington with a PGP windscreen its crystal clear. I was a Glazier in my younger years so I do know a thing or two about glass.

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nice video, shall i add this video in my blog??

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As it was introduced, the float glass process makes perfectly flat glass. How does this process change to make automotive glass, such as the sunroof for example?

informative video . can u share video for making of spherical convex glass ?? & its post process

Can the curvature of the earth be detected in the float glass?

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I want to work in this company I know I work in excellent shape

Excellent video! Please tell me which oxide is about at 3:49? Thanx 🙂

My dream is work in Pilkington in my city Caçapava, São Paulo, Brazil.

well done

Its crazy how to make something that seems simple such as a flat sheet of glass, you have to pour it on molten metal so its flat

Lame! i want to see the tin bath as it starts!!

That's amazing. What heating element do you used in producing float glass

i want to apply here

can send to me some technical data about the furnace and the manufacturing process as pdf file please

I could use several sheets to MAKE or POUR FLAT table for assembly... not welding.. ADHESIVES.. adhesi9ves ar in space.. I use it for SANDING sharpening chiseld.. As FLAT and cheap and available now.. figure out how to use it.. NO HEAT just adhesives.. whatcher think?

Great video, but I object to the characterization of float glass as "perfectly flat and even". Yeah, it's very even and very, very flat, but it's nowhere near flat enough for use in measurements in high-precision applications like machining. There's a reason surface plates are made of lapped granite instead of float glass.

I am working Pilkington automotive Pvt India

Cambridge IELTS 8 brought me here..

how can i down load this video ?

Can anyone send the vedio of fiber glass process

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Sir Alister Pilkington did not invent float glass , on of his employees did , credit where credit is due .

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Hey I work there!

This company has got no backbone i used to work for them at Middlesbrough site done fuck all for us laid us all off wile they boasted about been a world wide company

imagine falling into that glass pit. holy shit

It is NOT perfectly flat. It follows the curvature of the earth.

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