Published 9th April, 2021 by Greg Morris

Glaston Group has signed a €2 million contract for a Jumbo Series flat tempering line and a ProL flat laminating line with StekloMir LLP.

Larger glass panels in facades are a growing trend today. At the same time, safety and energy efficiency play an important role driving demand for tempered and laminated glass.

StekloMir is one of the largest enterprises in the Republic of Kazakhstan and provides services related to glass cutting, processing, tempering, and painting.

StekloMir has a large fleet of equipment for the production of a glass products including automated lines with sealing robots for the production of insulating glass units (IGU) from former Bystronic glass which currently is part of Glaston.

It needs to increase its capacity for safety glass production in bigger sizes. With these two new Glaston glass processing lines, the customer can process glass up to size 3300x6000 mm with high performance.

The benefits that StekloMir was looking for are manyfold. The heating control in Glaston Jumbo Series flat tempering line ensures the energy-efficient production of high-performance end products.

The ProL flat laminating line on the other hand utilises Glaston’s convection heating technology that provides flexibility for laminated glass production.

The lines will be delivered within the next six months.

Greg Morris has been editor of Glass International and organiser of the Glassman conferences since 2012, specialising in glass packaging. Prior to this he spent five years working in newspaper journalism.