How Does Glass Automation Level Up Fabricator Lineups?
Achieving greater efficiency is always at the forefront for glass fabrication companies. In the past several years, automating machines and processes rose in popularity as an effective way to reduce costs and maximize productivity. The importance rose even more during and after COVID-19 as complicated workforce and supply change challenges mounted. It’s safe to say...
Preventative Maintenance Checklist
What is Preventative Maintenance? It’s the regular and routine maintenance of equipment and assets to keep them running and prevent costly, unplanned downtime from unexpected equipment failure. Use our preventative maintenance checklist to keep your operation running safely and smoothly. 5 Steps to Futureproof Your Fabrication Line Benefits of Proper Equipment Maintenance Questions about getting...
The advantages of a waterjet cutting system and how to choose the best machine for you
The advantages of utilizing a waterjet cutting system in your facility are endless. Whether you want to cut glass, stone, metal or other ultra-compact materials, waterjet cutting systems are fast becoming the technology of choice for many manufacturers. What exactly is a waterjet cutting system? A waterjet cutting system uses a high-pressure stream of water...
HHH Equipment Resources Launches New Maintenance Plan
Tailored glass tempering furnace technical service plans now available to meet fabricator needs. Winston-Salem, NC. (29 May 2020) –HHH Equipment Resources (HHH) helps glass fabricators protect their businesses and largest investment by developing customized tempering furnace service plans to meet a variety of fabricator needs. Three maintenance plan tiers are now available featuring graduated levels...
Eco Glass Production Anchors New Facility with Tempering Furnace from HHH Equipment
Medley, FL. (17 October, 2018) – Eco Glass Production (ECO), is doubling facility size and significantly increasing capacity with a new North Glass tempering furnace sold and serviced by HHH Equipment Resources (HHH). Eco, known for manufacturing laminated and insulated glass for commercial and residential applications, leased a new 183,000-square-foot facility in 2017. Facility expansion...
Glass Tempering Furnace Operator Training is the Key to Quality
It takes a highly skilled glass fabrication team to ensure excellence in an industry with ever-increasing quality and on-time delivery standards. But with high employee turnover rates, how do you maintain consistency and efficiency at all points in your operation? One of the keys to keeping your glass fabrication line running at peak performance is...
Why Glass Washers Are Essential For Top Quality Tempered Glass
Keeping impurities away from the glass is imperative in the glass tempering process. These impurities can cause damage resulting in a product that doesn’t live up to aesthetic standards, won’t meet a client specification or is completely unusable. Why tempered glass washing matters Though the glass tempering process itself is very important to meeting the...
How to Easily Maximize Uptime with Glass Furnace Maintenance
If you’ve ever found your glass tempering line down as you’re trying to get an important order out the door, you know how costly, frustrating and time-consuming any production interruption can be. After looking the line over and not being able to repair the issue right then and there, you have to call someone in...
Glass seaming best practices Seaming can be performed wet or dry. These methods vary due to preference and application. Both methods are designed to achieve the same result, but inherently have their own advantages and drawbacks. There are also numerous automated systems utilizing other grinding or sanding methods that again are typically selected due to...
Eliminate Tempered Glass Marking
Troubleshooting post-tempering glass marking Glass marking is also known as heat stain, skunk stripe or white haze. No matter what you call it, we all agree seeing imperfect tempered glass coming off the line is frustrating. To help solve this issue, our glass tempering experts share their process determining causes of and appropriate fixes for...