Enabling Competitive Glass
High Quality Graphite Enables Competitive Glass Container Manufacturing
Containers, and the materials they are made of, can have a significant impact on the final cost of products, and on both the perception and the actual quality of their contents. Glass containers need to be lighter to maintain competitiveness in today’s markets. Using our high-quality GLASSMATE® HT graphite, we seek to reduce checking and formation of other defects that can lead to bottle rejection, or worse, catastrophic failure once it reaches the consumer.
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Enabling Competitive Glass
This paper addresses the challenges glass container manufacturers are facing with reducing container weight and materials to remain competitive in the consumable goods packaging market.
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Enabling Competitive Glass with Custom Graphite Inserts
This pictogram illustrates how our custom GLASSMATE® graphite inserts can enable a higher-temperature manufacturing process and help produce higher-quality glass without sacrificing yield.
Glass Weight Reduction
Glass weight can lessen the lifetime of materials traditionally used in the take-out process. Fortunately, glass weight can be decreased through higher temperature processing, and glass lifetime can be maintained, and potentially increased, by switching to our specially treated, high-temperature GLASSMATE® HT graphite.
Higher Temperature Processing to Create Thinner, Stronger Bottles
Traditional graphite (black holes) shows irregular pores and potential for cracks
Specialized graphite with more consistent microstructure has fewer flaws.
Shipping is one of the largest expenses for glass container manufacturers. Learn how higher temperature processing can lead to lower weight bottles, increased pack rate, and reduced total cost of ownership. Brass and traditional graphite have a greater opportunity for producing checks, while graphite that is specially treated to withstand higher temperatures can help maintain or increase packing rate while maintaining throughput.
Brass vs. Graphite and its Effect on Yield
Graphite is becoming the industry standard material for glass handling because it has better performance and total cost of ownership compared to brass. Costly rejection or failure from defects or downtime due to part failure can increase cost of ownership when using different materials. See how Entegris’ POCO Materials can increase yield by reducing checking under the finish.
Glass Handling Solutions
Use our material, holder, and engineered solutions for your toughest glass handling applications.
Product Solutions
Our GLASSMATE® graphite inserts are precision machined to a specified finish for hot-glass handling applications of any tolerance.
Our stainless-steel holders, paired with the superior strength and durability of our proven GLASSMATE graphite inserts, excel in hot glass-handling applications. Our wide portfolio can handle bottles small and large.