Glassrobots road to success began
in 1999 when the company made a contract with Luoyang Glass
Processing Company for the delivery of a bus windscreen bending
furnace. The customer in question is a subsidiary of one of
China's oldest glass producers, Luoyang Float Glass.
One of Glassrobots strong points, according to Mr. Li Wei,
Safety Glass Plant Manager, were various references to suppliers
all around the world. Luoyang manufactures bus windscreens both
for Chinese and imported buses.
Changzhou Industrial Technical Glass in Jiangsu Province ordered
a serial six-chamber bending furnace for bus windscreens in
2001. Based on long-term business relationship Glassrobots was
one of the strongest supplier candidates from the start and
won the open tendering process. In this furnace Glassrobots
used for the first time in China a so-called middle support
technique that enables better glass support before the bending
process. 60% of the production earlier made with 12 single chamber
furnaces could be transferred to the new furnace. This freed
staff for other tasks and dropped energy consumption levels
by a third compared to production before the new furnace was
installed.
In 2002, the Glassrobots success story continued as one of
China's largest windscreen manufacturers, Shenzen Xinyi Autoglass,
ordered the biggest bus windscreen furnace in China, a ten-chamber
serial furnace. This particular furnace can bend a windscreen
with a maximum. size of 2100 x 3300 mm. Xinyi Autoglass is an
experienced windscreen processor that already operated a serial
bending furnace.However, they were not able to bend all the
new models with their existing furnaces and asked Glassrobots
to deliver the newest technology for making the designs in question.
Glassrobots was happy to take up the gauntlet and the new furnace
was installed at the Xinyi factory in August 2002. It has been
used in production since September 2002.
Mr Tung , Managing Director of Xinyi Group (Glass) Co. Ltd
commented as follows: "Glassrobots has a clear advantage
in bus windscreen bending furnaces with vertical adjustable
heating elements and their FuzzyBend control system. After having
operation experience from the first delivery. we decided to
order two more furnaces for improving our bus windscreen production."
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