In Luoyang Factory of NorthGlass, a new AG-Series gapless convection tempering furnace was being prepared for cold commissioning, which was ordered by Saint-Gobain and will be conducted acceptance test by Saint-Gobain professionals a week later. This is the 18th tempering furnace bought by Saint-Gobain from NorthGlass and is the 4th furnace among the 5 furnaces newly ordered by Saint-Gobain since last year.

Saint-Gobain is a globally well-known company with diversified businesses. It is a long-established company with a history of 352 years, ranking 225 in Fortune Global 500. Its headquarter is located in France and its branches can be found in 67 countries, having over 170,000 employees.

NorthGlass started business cooperation with Saint-Gobain in 2005, initially provided Saint-Gobain with small-size glass tempering furnace for coating system development and coating quality test. In 2013, NorthGlass started international marketing of the 5th generation AG-Series & AU-Series gapless convection tempering furnaces, which again attracted Saint-Gobain’s attention by virtue of their advanced performances, easy operability and excellent quality of processed glass. To testify the furnaces’ performances, in February, 2014, technical professionals and procurement personnel from Saint-Gobain paid a visit to NorthGlass’s Luoyang factory and conducted a comprehensive survey regarding the design, production as well as quality management system of the tempering line. Then again in June, 2014, Saint-Gobain did another commercial production test on one AG-1B50 furnace put into production in one of NorthGlass’s customers in Qingdao, China. Both the survey and test met Saint-Gobain’s strict requirements. Based on the trust built, Saint-Gobain officially starting purchasing two AG-Series furnaces from NorthGlass to put them into production in the factories of Korea Hanglas and UK SGG Hayes respectively. The two furnaces were running well to produce high-quality tempered glass beyond Saint-Gobain’s expectation and were well received by end users.

To further testify the technical innovativeness of NorthGlass AG-Series furnace, furnace technical expert from Saint-Gobain headquarter came all the way from Paris to Tianjin NorthGlass to conduct stricter production test on one AG-15B50 furnace used for 2 years. In this test, three kinds of raw glass (Triple-Ag Extreme 6028, E=0.007; High-reflective KS138, E=0.035; Double-Ag SKN165, E=0.01) with the highest processing difficulty among Saint-Gobain coated glass products were chosen as test specimen and unsurprisingly optimal results were obtained as required by Saint-Gobain with regard to general bow, roller wave, edge lift, stress, granularity, iridescence, etc..

Since then, NorthGlass received furnace orders from Saint-Gobain one after another. In May, 2017, Saint-Gobain signed a framework agreement of furnace procurement with NorthGlass, which means the cooperation between the two sides are much closer and more fruitful!