Glass

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Our experience spans all segments of the glass industry including float, container, display, tableware and fibreglass. We offer glass manufacturers around the world a comprehensive range of products, technology and services to achieve high quality and high productivity.

Our Products and Services for the Glass Industry

• Combustion – we provide unmatched expertise in oxy-fuel combustion technology. We provide equipment and systems, sophisticated testing facilities and a full range of industrial gases to deliver solutions that reduce investment and increase glass quality. Our offering includes:
  • Services:
    • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) - to determine furnace output, temperature, burner placement, positioning of exhaust flues, waste gas temperatures and other parameters to increase furnace output.
    • Furnace design recommendations – a comprehensive package to support your critical decisions about oxy fuel furnace design and performance parameters.
    • Selection and installation of burners - for optimum heat transfer and temperature stability including oxy-gas and oxy-oil burners utilising oxygen, air and pressure atomising techniques.
    • Experienced technicians and project managers to assist in the installation and start-up of our oxy-fuel combustion systems including zero-port boost.
    • Oxy-fuel system audits, improvements and management.
  • Gases:
    • Oxygen –  bulk oxygen or on-site oxygen for combustion and boasting, liquid oxygen for float glass, and oxygen mixtures for Convective Glass Melting (CGM), technology.
    • Nitrogen – bulk or on-site nitrogen for protective atmospheres.
    • Hydrogen – bulk or on-site hydrogen for melting and atmospheres.
  • Equipment and systems:
    • A wide range of burners including our patented BOC-Maxon flat-jet LEFF burner and conical style burner.
    • Convective glass melting systems (CGM) - to extend furnace life, increase pull rate, improve quality and minimise energy consumption.
    • Combustion skids.
• Coating – products, technology and services for coating all types of glass:
  • Services:
    • Process design and audits services from our glass experts.
  • Gases:
    • Acetylene for carbon coating in float glass, sheet glass, bottles and containers.
• Nanotechnology – products, technology and solutions for the synthesis of nanoparticles for speciality glass.
• Semiconductor applications   -  bulk and process gases, equipment, services and solutions. 
• Insulation – rare gases such as neon, xenon and krypton.

Products and Services for Industrial Facilities

• Fire suppression chemicals and fire protection products for production premises.
• Health and safety eqipment, a large range of personal protective equipment, resuscitation packs, safety audits and training and risk management services.
• Instrument calibration – scientific and high purity gases for industrial instrument calibration.
• Water treatment  oxygen and sulphur dioxide for effluent treatment; total systems for utility water treatment from EMC  (www.emcinc.com) a specialist BOC company.
• Welding gases, equipment and consumables for maintenance and also a range of services to streamline your procurement, inventory management and invoicing for all maintenance consumables.