Date: 17 June 2025
The tours showcased Glaston’s most recent solutions, boosting efficiency and quality across glass tempering, laminating, insulating, and bending processes, giving attendees firsthand experience of the innovations driving the industry forward.
Tempered glass production
The highlight of the tempering demo was Glaston’s FC Series E tempering line, featuring the industry-leading Autopilot. The only solution on the market offering a fully automated tempering process for highly variable mixed production, Autopilot impressed visitors with its ability to eliminate operator dependency, stabilize quality, reduce waste, and increase overall efficiency.
The tour also introduced other automation innovations like Batch Optimization, a robotized solution for automatic and optimized furnace loading, Online Stress Calculation, which provides a highly reliable way to monitor hardening results in real time, and a new Glass Temperature Imaging system that ensures reliable Low-E glass temperature monitoring.
Laminated glass production
Visitors were introduced to the ProL SPEED – the world’s fastest and most user-friendly laminating line for mixed glass production. The line features advanced convection control, which ensures extremely high yield and fully automatic operation – even for complex laminates.
The robot building a laminate sandwich attracted much attention. Its gentle handling is especially valuable for thin glass applications.
In addition, the automatic foil trimming feature demonstrated how automation supports accuracy and efficiency.
Insulating glass production
At the Rakla Tampere Oy factory, participants viewed high-performance insulating glass production with Glaston’s JUMBO TPS® line. The demo emphasized the role of automation in creating sustainable, high-quality insulating glass units with maximum productivity.
Automotive glass production
The tours also covered Glaston’s automotive glass solutions, including MATRIX EVO, a modular line for bending challenging modern windshields and sunroofs. The line has proven especially effective for borosilicate glass, providing a more durable and lightweight solution than normal soda lime glass.
Another highlight developed in collaboration with Glaston was the latest innovation from Miru, a Step Change company present at the latest two Glass Performance Days (GPD) events. The company’s dynamic electrochromic windows (eWindows) feature a controllable glass tint level. During the tours, visitors got a glimpse of the high-tech production process behind the technology. Since GPD 2023, the Glaston-Miru collaboration has evolved into a solution to transform automotive glazing.
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