Float Glass
We serve the glass industry and more, with 62 years of experience in refractory research and development, Yumin is a reliable and competent refractory materials supplier that is able to better understand your needs and provide customized and optimized refractory solutions based on your specific applications, from the build to the repair, all along with your furnaces or kilns life cycle.
Float glass refers to the flat glass sheets made by the manufacturing process of floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal( tin bath ). Nowadays, float glass is the most widely used glass type in consumer products with the advantages of uniform thickness, clear and structural flexibility, easily shaped into different forms. It’s the ideal option for the applications such as insulated glass, automobile glass, glass furniture, special glass, decorative glass, precision electronics industry, etc.
The selection of refractory products is essential for the lifetime of float glass furnaces or kilns and the glass quality, high temperature, creep rate, thermal shock, physical wear are the key parameters of refractory materials and will affect the furnace performance. Yumin, with 60 years of experience in product research and production, offers a wide variety of refractory products for the float glass kiln or furnace: such as
- Fireclay bricks,
- High alumina bricks,
- Zircon series bricks,
- Sintered corundum-mullite,
- Sintered AZS bricks,
- Zircon mullite bricks,
- Sillimanite bricks,