Ravensby Glass is a glass company based in Dundee, Scotland, specializing in products such as double and triple glazed units, interior glass and façades. With over 150 employees and 7,000 square metres of production space, the company distributes its products throughout the UK, distinguishing itself for quality, service and customer care.
In the production plant, there are two warehouses of large panes, from which two horizontal cutting lines are fed. The glasses are then processed and tempered where needed, before being directed to one of three existing lines for the production of insulating glass.
The current owners, CEO Hamish Ogilvie and CFO Nicholas Cunningham, are the great-grandsons of the founders of the company.
“In 2019 we decided to enhance our production with a new insulating glass line,” Mr. Ogilvie explained, “and we accepted an invitation to visit the Forel plant in Italy. On this occasion we were very impressed by the technology and solutions developed, and decided to purchase our first Forel IGU Line along with a Vertical Processing Line, for the production of processed glass pre tempering.”
Being suitably satisfied with both lines’ performance, and as part of their growth strategy, the company decided to order a second IGU line.
The Forel machinery in operation at Ravensby Glass are the “Residential” IG line, capable of processing double glazing units up to 4,000 by 2,500 millimetres, with rigid or flexible spacer bars, and a “High Tech” IG line with a wide range of options such as triple/quadruple glazing, all sides stepped and large piece processing of up to 5,000 by 2,800 millimetres. The edging machine is the Forel Art. EM, appreciated worldwide and renowned for its precision and output performance in arrissing, grinding and polishing.