GLASS TEMPERING IS NOW

MORE PROFITABLE THAN EVER BEFORE

See Flat Glass Tempering

The experience before safety glass industry

 I had a successful career in companies like  Sandvik, KONE and OUTOKUMPU. The final title was marketing manager with ”bottom line responsibility.”  I opened market practically worldwide with capital equipment. This job taught me the importance innovations. See ”Competition” if you want to see what has happened in safety glass engineering since 1990’ies.

Safety Glass Industry

I joined to Tamglass Engineering Oy, later GLASTON Oyj as a Product Manager of Bending and Tempering.  Tamglass/GLASTON was an extremely profitable and arrogant company in 1990’ies with flat tempering furnaces ans winscreen bending furnaces. The ”bottom line” responsibility did not fit GLASTON. I was fired in 1992.  

I wanted to work in Finland.  Therefore, I have kept offering Tamglass/GLASTON management and board ideas, inventions and warned GLASTON  of problems they were heading to. Not any answers. Finally I offered this to 4 majority shareholders. The negative answers were very arrogant and insulting. They think that I am the cause of GLASTON setbacks. Indirectly this true.  A good lesson for any western technology company. 

FERACITAS/Risto Nikander inventions are great.

In Tamglass/GLASTON my responsibility cylindrical shape HTBS for door glasses of cars. Product development team failed to develop complex glass furnace for car rear glasses. I invented BTF.  GLASTON made BTF process 25 years later! Maybe with reverse curve patent of mine, FI88909. by which I tried to ”blackmail” management to accept BTF. Finnish patent FI88909.   See below the links.

https://glaston.net/releases/?id=55D9E431486F20E8   Also https://www.glassonweb.com/news/glaston-emerging-technologies-sells-bending-and-tempering-equipment-us.

Later I was ”forced” to move glass heating technologies. Land Glass was http://www.landglass.net  violated  FERACITAS patents US 7290405B2 and Chinese patent ZL 02 8 16208.0 and Finnish FI111006.  Land Glass models are ”JetConvection” and ”Cyclone”. Maybe also ”UltraJet”. 

     

The greatest is to come!

See ”Flat Glass Tempering”.   By the same invention continuous furnace length inversely proportional to the heating speed!