Stop Wrestling With Infrared Lamps Buying a single infrared lamp is the easy part. The real headache starts when you try to actually get it into your...

IR Lamps That Actually Fit Your Borosilicate Setup Working with borosilicate glass is a balancing act. You need the heat to be exactly right, or...

Stop Wasting Power on Your Glass Annealing Let’s be honest: the annealing stage in spectacle glass production is usually an energy hog. Most ovens...

Getting Your Voltage Right with Twin Tube IR Heating Twin tube infrared lamps are a clever bit of engineering. By packing two heating elements into...

Cutting through ultra-thick glass is a nightmare for your equipment. There’s just so much friction and stress that if you try to score it cold, your...

Why Fast-Response IR Lamps are a Must for Glass Inline Annealing In a glass production line, waiting around is the enemy. When you’re moving...

If you’ve ever tried cutting glass cold, you know the frustration. You get those annoying little chips along the edge or micro-cracks that you...

Stop the Cracks: Getting Your Glass Annealing Right There is nothing worse than spending hours on a batch of borosilicate glassware only to have it...

Stopping Glass from Cracking in the Lehr Nothing kills a production run faster than the sound of glass shattering. It usually happens because the...

Stop Dealing with Cold Spots in Your Glass Annealing Ever pull a piece out of the kiln only to find a couple of stubborn “dead zones”...

Out on the line, the heat profile has to land on setpoint and hold steady across the glass—no drift. When the lamp can’t keep up, you end up...

On the tempering line, the gob hits the furnace at full speed. If the preheat profile wanders even a little, the glass drags thermal stress right...

On the lamination line, the clock is always breathing down your neck. Every extra minute in the heating zone drags the whole shift off schedule, and...

On the glass line, heat control isn’t a preference—it’s the line between good parts and scrap. Whether you’re tempering, bending,...

Out on the floor, a cracked lab glass part, a bending mold that’s off, or a delaminated automotive visor doesn’t care about batch cycles. It needs...