Designing materials for today’s and tomorrow’s customer needs: optical and technical glass, glass ceramics and special materials e.g. powders, ceramics, sol-gel ...
Rethinking glass: For all that seems possible and impossible.
Glass offers innovative solutions for numerous ideas and projects. It enjoys having the most versatile properties imaginable, which can be changed and adapted as is required. Thus, there is a high potential for innovation, which can lead to entirely new application areas coming into use. It is what makes glass one of the most versatile materials for the future.
Maximize the innovative potential which glass has to offer.
Material
Development
Hot
Forming
Expert for hot processes after melting: especially forming processes of glass directly from the melt and reshaping of glass by reheating.
Laser
Processing
Identification, development and adoption of unique processing technologies: for cutting, structuring, shaping, joining or modifying edges and glass bodies; for filamentation and ablation, laser-induced scribing and cleaving, bending (uniaxial or multiaxial-3D), intrinsic decoration, marking and layer structuring.
Melting
New and optimized processes/technologies: for melting special glass and glass ceramics via lab experiments, test bed facility and modeling.
Coating
Development
Development of new functionalities for glass and glass ceramics via advanced coating and surface modification which allows glass to be more transparent, harder and scratch resistant.