Pilkington Float Glass Process

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  • Опубліковано 17 жов 2013
  • The NSG Group's video on the Pilkington Float Glass Process provides an in depth look at how float glass is made and its multitude of uses. The video takes you step-by-step through each phase in the process, with detailed imagery is shown throughout. Float glass offers many possibilities, making glass an important part of the world we live in today. The NSG Group is committed to being at the forefront of these developments to offer our customers a wide range of Float Glass products.

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  • @memejeff
    @memejeff 9 місяців тому +4

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

  • @-WhizzBang-
    @-WhizzBang- 3 роки тому +27

    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!

    • @DearNotebook
      @DearNotebook 2 роки тому

      You can make your own

    • @ronin_yakuza8009
      @ronin_yakuza8009 2 роки тому

      Ima glassmith in montenegto ( i think thets how to say on english)and with that job I produce PVC and aluminum windows. these windows and doors are standard in europe itc not like in the usa of wood. and I can tell you that working with glass is not easy at all

  • @SasH_Grimm
    @SasH_Grimm 7 років тому +5

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

  • @lillyfranzen7802
    @lillyfranzen7802 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @michaelcarlisle5403
    @michaelcarlisle5403 2 роки тому +4

    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.

    • @Treviisolion
      @Treviisolion 2 роки тому +2

      The idea of floating glass on molten tin was a long-standing idea since the 1800s. Pilkington was just the first one to make it actually work.

  • @danishahmad2365
    @danishahmad2365 4 роки тому +4

    Outstanding and interesting process ❤

  • @imahnf1715
    @imahnf1715 3 роки тому

    really appreciate and thankful cause it's really help for my FYP THANK YOUU SO MUCHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! :")))))

  • @trangwuong7689
    @trangwuong7689 9 років тому +3

    Very nice video. Thank you.

  • @vickychan2740
    @vickychan2740 6 років тому +3

    Awesome!

  • @zygaf6252
    @zygaf6252 5 років тому +3

    Well done.

  • @lornehyde3547
    @lornehyde3547 9 років тому +8

    Really interesting!

  • @slayeryt637
    @slayeryt637 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @yusufmulani9495
    @yusufmulani9495 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @VenkatmaniM
    @VenkatmaniM 10 років тому +3

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

  • @DaleNorthEast
    @DaleNorthEast Рік тому +1

    Very interesting.

  • @voja2000
    @voja2000 2 роки тому

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

  • @mohammadashfaq1363
    @mohammadashfaq1363 4 роки тому

    well done

  • @themadzucchini
    @themadzucchini 3 роки тому +1

    This music is really good

  • @Gravy_Master
    @Gravy_Master Рік тому +1

    Yeah! Glass!

  • @vidforum
    @vidforum Рік тому

    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.

  • @kennyzhao265
    @kennyzhao265 7 років тому

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

    • @sansus80
      @sansus80 4 роки тому +2

      Mostly is used gas, you can use fuel oil or LGP as well

    • @glynthomas7213
      @glynthomas7213 3 роки тому

      It’s a secret

  • @redhousepainters
    @redhousepainters 10 років тому +13

    Where's Karl

  • @zanedapayne
    @zanedapayne 3 роки тому +1

    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?

    • @Dawnshadow
      @Dawnshadow 3 роки тому +1

      From what I know about glassblowing, there's a temperature range where glass is soft enough to be shaped, but firm enough to hold said shape. Presumably they'd take the glass and bend it while it's not quite cool, then let it finish cooling.

    • @wadewolf4341
      @wadewolf4341 3 роки тому +2

      Yes correct. The glass is heated to about 1800 to 1900 degrees. Then come out of the furnace into a mold which bends the glass afterwards it’s goes into an air quench which cools it to about 600 degrees rapidly. Which tempers the glass. Why it breaks into a thousand little pieces for safety.

    • @TheShadeManGuitar
      @TheShadeManGuitar 2 роки тому

      I work in a float glass plant, the process remains the same but the quality standards are alot more strict. the customer repeats and laminates the glass after ring cutting it

  • @veru451
    @veru451 6 років тому

    Can anyone send the vedio of fiber glass process

  • @nolacummins3001
    @nolacummins3001 2 роки тому

    👌

  • @eduardodeoliveiramachado3291
    @eduardodeoliveiramachado3291 2 роки тому

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

  • @EdwardTriesToScience
    @EdwardTriesToScience 3 роки тому

    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

  • @fasehalasad4545
    @fasehalasad4545 5 років тому +5

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

  • @johnnybarsztaitis336
    @johnnybarsztaitis336 6 років тому

    works here

  • @randysapitan8457
    @randysapitan8457 2 роки тому

    i want to apply here

  • @safaasalman2628
    @safaasalman2628 2 роки тому

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

  • @robertsnare3529
    @robertsnare3529 3 роки тому

    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?

  • @frankh.3849
    @frankh.3849 5 років тому +7

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

    • @therabman_5606
      @therabman_5606 5 років тому +7

      Frank Hughes no float glass is perfectly flat...like the earth

    • @frankh.3849
      @frankh.3849 5 років тому

      @@therabman_5606 liquid finds the natural level so yes the curvature of the Earth should be measurable within the float glass. I even contacted manufacturers asking about this measurement but none have returned my messages.

    • @adamkendall997
      @adamkendall997 5 років тому

      Also gravitational variations might play a factor but I'm sure the sizes of most windows it doesn't matter.

    • @frankh.3849
      @frankh.3849 5 років тому +1

      @@adamkendall997 the float glass is almost 2 kilometers long and then cut into different sizes.

    • @frankh.3849
      @frankh.3849 5 років тому +2

      @wally s I'd like to get the manufacturer to confirm that 8". Crystal lagoon the largest swimming pool builder actually contacted me back when I asked this same question about the swimming pools they built that's over a kilometer long. They wouldn't answer the question but they found it interesting I asked....

  • @meseretaregahegn2421
    @meseretaregahegn2421 4 роки тому +1

    how can i down load this video ?

  • @LinhVu-rm1zh
    @LinhVu-rm1zh 9 років тому +5

    Cambridge IELTS 8 brought me here..

  • @Daarkshade
    @Daarkshade 7 років тому +24

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

    • @Asdayasman
      @Asdayasman 5 років тому +1

      Yeah that's fuckin' why I'm here.
      Jesus christ.

    • @FreedomTalkMedia
      @FreedomTalkMedia 4 роки тому

      I clicked on this video hoping to see that, as well. They used the same tin float stock animated footage as the other video from the other glass plant. Multiple videos are using that footage

    • @josephinebennington7247
      @josephinebennington7247 4 роки тому

      Freedom Talk Media. Me too, I want to see the floating molten glass. I also want to know why there are many tin ingots ready to be melted. Surely it’s not wasted? Hopefully recycled. But....more.....

  • @harishtechintelugu964
    @harishtechintelugu964 4 роки тому +2

    I am working Pilkington automotive Pvt India

  • @luxun-mu4232
    @luxun-mu4232 7 років тому

    hola

  • @simsy5480
    @simsy5480 2 роки тому

    Hey I work there!

  • @BaberJacks
    @BaberJacks 9 років тому +1

    dandenong

  • @irrelevantfish1978
    @irrelevantfish1978 3 роки тому +1

    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.

    • @stewatparkpark2933
      @stewatparkpark2933 2 роки тому

      Yeah but can you make windows out of granite ?

    • @irrelevantfish1978
      @irrelevantfish1978 2 роки тому

      ​@@stewatparkpark2933 Sure! They'd probably be small, tinted/hazy, and ridiculously expensive, but you could do it. It'd be kind of like making perfectly flat and even float glass. ;)

  • @Neceros
    @Neceros Рік тому

    imagine falling into that glass pit. holy shit

  • @GurcharanSinghGilll
    @GurcharanSinghGilll 2 роки тому

    PUSA gang 👋🏻

  • @pravinkorde9074
    @pravinkorde9074 6 років тому

    pravin

  • @anitwakhobragade273
    @anitwakhobragade273 9 років тому

    hello

  • @farfourmibarki7636
    @farfourmibarki7636 9 років тому +1

    هذه بلا يحكمها رجال و ط ن ي و ن يحبو بلادهم و للاسف حنا ،،، ، ،

  • @MdHalim-xs3ye
    @MdHalim-xs3ye 2 роки тому

    God me

  • @glynthomas7213
    @glynthomas7213 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @Bhatt_Hole
    @Bhatt_Hole 6 років тому +8

    An extremely difficult fap!

  • @shanisohi5620
    @shanisohi5620 6 років тому

    Sale your chanel

  • @Tommytucamoto
    @Tommytucamoto 5 років тому +1

    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

  • @andyay1306
    @andyay1306 4 роки тому

    damn humans are scary

  • @MichaelKingsfordGray
    @MichaelKingsfordGray 2 місяці тому

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

  • @ZeeCaptainRon
    @ZeeCaptainRon Рік тому

    Wow, that music is stupidly distracting.