Articles from 2021

Maintaining schedule on a greenfield glass plant despite Covid-19

NSG Article 1 | Toledo Engineering Co., Inc.

The NSG Group is in the final stages of completing a turnkey float plant in Luckey, Ohio. Construction began in the second quarter of 2019 and production will start at the end of 2020. The $265 million, 511,000ft2 facility, will melt 600 tons per-day of transparent ...

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A True Veteran of the Glass Industry

Quinn Glass | Toledo Engineering Co., Inc.

Christopher J. Hoyle, Senior Vice President – Technical Director, has been a part of the TECO family for 21 years and has served the glass industry for 41 years.

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Radiant Heating Systems In Glass Applications

Ro Man Manufacturing Inc 1 | Toledo Engineering Co., Inc.

Radiant heat is employed in many sectors of the glass industry to control cooling of a material during the part of the process where direct contact of the glass is not viable. The use of radiant heat covers a large range of temperatures and often requires ...

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Is Your Weighing System Accurate?

Figure 1 Weighing apparatus components | Toledo Engineering Co., Inc.

This article is intended to provide а practical, and applications-oriented discussion of the issues involved in weigh system accuracy, and how to estimate the accuracy а particular system might achieve.

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Economic Solutions of Ownership

Figure 2 Merkle backwall | Toledo Engineering Co., Inc.

What is the right material for this application? Who should be responsible for this portion or that portion? Where should we set the limits of the scope of supply? How can we lower the installed cost? How can we reduce the delivered cost?

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Furnaces for Low Iron Solar Glass

Glass Melting Furnace | Toledo Engineering Co., Inc.

Low iron glasses for solar PV (photovoltaic) applications are generally characterized by the following physical and chemical properties:

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