Glaston signs deal for three new FC Series E tempering lines in the UK

The company was established over 45 years ago and currently employs 370 colleagues over 14 sites. Glaston will deliver the lines during 2025. The order has been booked in Glaston’s Q3 2024 order book.

The tempering lines will be used to manufacture glass for residential windows, interiors and commercial architectural projects.

The three furnaces are equipped with Glaston Autopilot, which enables a fully automatic tempering process. The operators simply need to insert glass thickness and type to the line – the Autopilot will automatically adapt processing parameters according to the processed loading to achieve an optimal result constantly.

Along with the line’s high automation level, Glaston FC Series E delivers consistent glass quality thanks to its convection technology, Glaston Bora. This efficient circulated-air convection system ensures effective and accurate heating for processing all types of high-end glass.

Glaston will deliver the lines to three of the Cornwall Group’s manufacturing sites – Mackenzie Glass in Bristol, Cornwall Glass Manufacturing in St Austell and Forward Glass in Birmingham.

“In addition to automation capabilities, Cornwall Group will be able to gain significant savings on energy consumption as Glaston’s adaptive process optimization technology cuts energy consumption to very low levels,” says Sami Kelin, Sales & Service Director, Glaston UK.

According to Mark Mitchell at Cornwall Group, “This is the largest single supplier purchase of plant and machinery in our company's long history and one which will cement our position as one of the UK's most reliable and established glass distributor, specialist processor and IGU manufacturer. We selected Glaston in part because of the tempering line’s advanced Autopilot automation technology, which will help us with our production quality and reliability.”