GLASS SERVICE, Inc. is a leading consulting and engineering company that provides advanced services to the glass industry in melting, conditioning and forming technologies. GLASS SERVICE Inc., founded by glass industry specialists in 1990, has quickly developed into an international company with over 80 employees and a network of subsidiaries and agents serving the glass industry worldwide. GLASS SERVICE, Inc., based in Vsetin, Czech Republic, has subsidiaries and joint ventures in Teplice, Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), Kalinovo, Slovakia; Maastricht, The Netherlands; Stuart, Florida, USA; QingDao, China, and Tokyo, Japan. The company’s founding mission is to link basic research in glass melting to the use of advanced laboratory technologies, and advanced computer technology, and to incorporate years of practical technical experience with the operation and construction of melting furnaces. GLASS SERVICE Inc. helps to optimize, design and troubleshoot key processes related to glass batch composition, furnace design and operation. The company´s programmers have developed in-house mathematical modeling software for the optimization of glass melting and combustion processes in glass furnaces and forehearths. More than 400 different projects have been completed using this software. GLASS SERVICE Inc. consults and provides laboratory service and laboratory equipment related to glass melting chemistry, glass defects, glass color changes and glass melting, glass redox and glass/refractory interaction. Using advanced laboratory technologies, the company can help to identify the sources of glass defects such as bubbles, stones and cords and thus improve the glass quality. The company has its own laboratory where more than 5,000 defects are analyzed yearly. Many years of experience in glass furnace control, supported by intensive development in the optimization of control systems, were the basis for the creation of a comprehensive programme of advanced control for the glass manufacturing process – the GLASS SERVICE Inc. software called the Expert System ES III™. More than 45 installations have been successfully deployed worldwide. The electric pot furnaces supplied by GLASS SERVICE Inc. are among the world’s best of their type thanks to the application of advanced technologies and the company´s continuous monitoring of new trends in the glass industry. The construction and design of these small capacity pot furnaces, developed by GLASS SERVICE Inc. engineers, are fully consistent with the worldwide trend of environmentally friendly glass melting processes. Electric melting is especially suitable for high quality hand made glass production such as lead crystal and colored glasses. More than 40 electric pot furnaces had been installed as turn-key deliveries by the year 2006. GLASS SERVICE Inc. also consults on glass forming, annealing and production efficiency. GLASS SERVICE Inc. has provided services and products to more than 300 glass producers in more than 50 countries worldwide. Customers can contact us also during all important glass exhibitions and conferences such as GLASSTEC, Dusseldorf; The Glass Problems Conference, USA; GLASS INDIA; CHINA GLASS or MIR STEKLA in Moscow, and during all GLASSMAN exhibitions. In 2007 GLASS SERVICE Inc. will participate for example in Gulf Glass (Dubai, March 27 - 29), Glassman Europe (Prague, May 9 - 10), Mir Stekla (Moscow, June 4 - 6), Glassman Middle East (September 4 - 5). In addition, GLASS SERVICE together with the Czech Glass Society organize the International Seminar - Mathematical Modelling of Furnace Design and Operation. This Seminar is the most important event focusing on furnace simulations. The next one, the 9th Seminar, will be held on June 28-29, 2007 in Velke Karlovice, Czech Republic. |
