Quality Assurance for Demanding Facade Projects: Flachglas Wernberg Relies on the Temper Scanner

Flachglas Wernberg Meets New Market Requirements with the Viprotron Temper Scanner

The requirements for quality assurance and documentation of thermally tempered glass are continuously increasing. Particularly in demanding façade construction, there is a growing expectation that glass is inspected for anisotropy and that the results are fully documented. For Flachglas Wernberg, this market development increasingly became a business-critical challenge.

The company was receiving a growing number of enquiries for scanned glass accompanied by traceable anisotropy documentation. Without its own high-performance scanning solution, projects with these requirements could either not be offered at all or only at considerable additional cost.

The need for action became particularly clear in connection with a major facade project. The confidential project included approximately 2,000 square metres of laminated safety glass with thermally tempered individual panes. Both anisotropy scanning and corresponding documentation of the measurement results were required for these panes.

In addition to the technical requirements, timing played a crucial role. The installation and commissioning of a suitable scanning solution had to be completed within a very ambitious timeframe to enable Flachglas Wernberg to submit its offer on time, secure the project and subsequently execute it reliably.

At glasstec 2024, the company therefore decided to invest in a Viprotron Temper Scanner. Thanks to the close coordination of everyone involved, the scanner was installed within the required timeframe and successfully integrated into the existing production and quality processes.

With the new technology, Flachglas Wernberg is now able to systematically inspect thermally tempered glass for anisotropy and evaluate the results digitally. The evaluations can be assigned to individual orders and made available to the respective customers at any time.

The immediate benefit of the investment was already demonstrated by the specific facade project: Flachglas Wernberg successfully secured the order and completed it on schedule. At the same time, the Temper Scanner provided a solution whose benefits extend far beyond this individual project.

Flachglas Wernberg has sustainably expanded its product and service portfolio and can now offer projects with corresponding quality and documentation requirements on an economically viable basis. At the same time, digital documentation enables the company to transparently demonstrate its own high quality standards and provide customers with the required evaluations in a straightforward manner.

The company is therefore not only responding to current market requirements but also creating the conditions for future demanding facade projects. The ability to inspect glass for anisotropy in-house and professionally document the results strengthens Flachglas Wernberg’s competitive position and opens up further opportunities to secure projects with corresponding requirements.

Arnon Museta, Head of Architecture Division, summarizes the added value of the investment:

“By investing in the Temper Scanner, we have expanded our product portfolio and can now meet both the requirements of the market and our own high quality standards. One key advantage is that we can provide our customers with order-specific evaluations digitally at any time.”

The Temper Scanner therefore does more than create transparency regarding the optical quality of tempered glass. For Flachglas Wernberg, it also provides the foundation for reliably meeting new market requirements, offering demanding projects on an economically viable basis and providing the required quality documentation professionally and digitally.