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CASE STUDY

he market is mov- ceptional performance and
ing more and more features in terms of weight,
“Ttowards insulating thickness and bending of
glass with higher quality, the processed glass sheets,
as well as large sizes. For normal or stepped.
this reason, we needed a THE PROJECT
company that wanted to
work with us as a partner, Made up of a loading area,
creating for us a particular edge deletion, washing
machine, completely new machine, inspection and
to the market, able to offer positioning, glass turning
high-tech and high-quality device (180°), press cou-
products, while guarantee- pler with gas filling (argon
ing high productivity. And and krypton) and auto-
with Forel we found this matic sealer, the line was
company.” designed and built follow-
These are the comments ing a precise list of aims to
from Roberto Arias, Mar- be reached:
keting Manager at Tvitec, - processing single glass
on the conclusion of the sheets up to 40-mil-
project that led to a new limetre thickness, and
Jumbo line for insulating insulating glass of up to
glass, aimed at the produc- 100 millimetres. This, in
tion of glass for façades and turn, requires load bear-
special glass types, with ing of finished products
particular and dedicated of up to 550 kilos per
requirements and construc- linear metre;
tion features. - structural stepped fa-
The result of this project is çades with lower vertical
a line from Forel with ex- side of 250 millimetres

and 1,000 millimetres
on the facing horizontal
sides;
- processing of curved
glass up to 2.5 millime-
tres per metre (15 milli-
metres on a glass sheet of
6 metres);
- sealing using three dif-
ferent products, and with
high flow non-stop sup-
ply of 4 l/min);
- step production with

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