{"id":292,"date":"2021-12-20T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/?page_id=292"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:25:26","slug":"competition-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/competition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SAFETY GLASS TECHNOLOGY CHANGES\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>&#8221;ROLLER HEART FURNACES&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Were invented by Mr. Harold McMaster of GLASSTECH Inc. His inventions dominated also flat tempering and bending and tempering furnaces <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">as long as patents were valid. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong>FLAT GLASS TEMPERING<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first competitors of GLASSTECH Inc\u00a0 was Tamglass Engineering Oy\u00a0 whose products development director Pauli Reunam\u00e4ki.\u00a0 He patented<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> flat glass HTF furnaces and bending and tempering furnaces HTBS in<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1980.\u00a0 <\/span>Then came <span style=\"color: #333300;\">low emissive glasses in the market in 1990.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Many western companies tried.\u00a0 Everyone failed.\u00a0 Engineer Alberto Bertolini invented a great idea. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Lets make make a convection + radiation process.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The best radiation heating <\/span><\/span>HTF was copied and and added convection to it.\u00a0 For a great success it was christened <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CONVAIR.\u00a0<\/span> Its capacity was for 5 mm clear glass 26 loads\/hour and for triple silver glass only 5% lower.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In about 1996 were Tamglass\/GLASTON competed with <em>&#8221;ProConvection&#8221; <\/em>with <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">compressed air convection.\u00a0 Tamlass\/GLASTON tried\u00a0 to compete with CONVAIR .\u00a0 <em>&#8221;ProConvection&#8221;<\/em> was sold few furnaces.\u00a0 Then it was finished.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>In about 1996 sold Cattin quickly sold 5 convection heating furnaces. Tamglass bought Cattin immediately.\u00a0 Cattin furnaces fiascos. They were replaced by HTF furnaces.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GLASSROBOTS<em> &#8221;RoboTemp&#8221; <\/em>made in 2003.\u00a0 The same ex-engineer who copied HTF furnaces to CONVAIR.\u00a0 He was the father of\u00a0 <em>&#8221;CONVAIR&#8221; and &#8221;RoboTemp&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/em>In 2003 were thought that long heaters were necessary like in HTF furnaces.\u00a0 \u00a0It\u00a0 <\/span>GLASTON turbo charged convection named <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8221;SONIC&#8221;. <\/span>\u00a0SONIC process was fiasco.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GLASTON FC-series started in 2010.\u00a0 I<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">t had proper matrix heating for convection air. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">FC-series is otherwise a copy of CONVAIR and RoboTemp.\u00a0 Marketing and sales were a great <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">success, with false arguments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Initially increase of capacity was 40% and up to decrease of energy consumption was 30%. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The photo below is mislead of customers and competitors\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If would in as below below, it would be fiasco.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-glaston.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>GLASTON tries to keep \u201ch<em>igh-tech technology\u201d <\/em>image by articles like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassonweb.com\/article\/thermal-radiation-and-forced- convection-flat-glass-tempering-furnaces.\">https:\/\/www.glassonweb.com\/article\/thermal-radiation-and-forced- convection-flat-glass-tempering-furnaces.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0This article has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>The article like <a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/glaston.net\/releases\/?id=BF9AE34FEE811B86\">https:\/\/glaston.net\/releases\/?id=BF9AE34FEE811B86<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> look like green washing from a company. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">RADIATION TYPE FURNACES\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Energy efficiency and capacity are very bad for low emissivity glasses.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Accuracy of heating control is very bad because it is far from glass surface. Especially for triple silver glasses.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-radiation-type.jpg\" width=\"763\" height=\"222\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0South Glass Technology Co., Ltd is<\/span> one more big manufacturer in China. They replaced compressed air convection by a \u201cturbo\u201d to reduce energy consumption. They follow South Glass Technology Co. Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Radiation furnaces, like GLASTON RC-furnaces and MAPPI are good, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">but profitability is low emissive glasses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAFETY GLASS TECHNOLOGY CHANGES\u00a0 &nbsp; &#8221;ROLLER HEART FURNACES&#8221;\u00a0 Were invented by Mr. Harold McMaster of GLASSTECH Inc. His inventions dominated also flat tempering and bending and tempering furnaces as long as patents were valid. \u00a0\u00a0 FLAT GLASS TEMPERING The first competitors of GLASSTECH Inc\u00a0 was Tamglass Engineering Oy\u00a0 whose products development director Pauli Reunam\u00e4ki.\u00a0 He &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/competition-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Competition<\/span> Lue lis\u00e4\u00e4 &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feracitas.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}