Comfortable, quick and precise
Bystronic glass has launched its most recent development designed for the production of insulating glass to the European market: the comfort’line. Bernhard Schmitt, Managing Director of Bystronic glass in Neuhausen-Hamberg, Germany states that, “Working with the line is comfortable, quick and precise providing the ideal entry into solution for industrial insulating glass production.” He explains: “At the same time, the comfort’line allows us to reach out to customers who are searching for an affordable opportunity to expand their insulating glass production capacity.” 800 gas-filled insulating glass units can be produced in rectangular or shaped formats on the quick line per shift.
“The great advantage of the comfort’line is its simple handling and the uncomplicated operator guidance,” Bernhard Schmitt comments, knowing exactly what is important for the sector. The base model of the insulating glass line consists of three elements: a glass plate washing machine, a station for the visual monitoring of the glass plates, complete with subsequent frame positioning and an insulating glass press. With its three separate brush-pair drives, the washing machine ensures great results on sheets up to 15 millimetres thick. Its external, chainless brush and transport drive promises additional convenience and reassurance. The high-contrast, well-lit inspection area, complete with coloured signal lights, provides a quick and reliable inspection fac...

Comfortable, quick and precise
Bystronic glass has launched its most recent development designed for the production of insulating glass to the European market: the comfort’line. Bernhard Schmitt, Managing Director of Bystronic glass in Neuhausen-Hamberg, Germany states that, “Working with the line is comfortable, quick and precise providing the ideal entry into solution for industrial insulating glass production.” He explains: “At the same time, the comfort’line allows us to reach out to customers who are searching for an affordable opportunity to expand their insulating glass production capacity.” 800 gas-filled insulating glass units can be produced in rectangular or shaped formats on the quick line per shift.
“The great advantage of the comfort’line is its simple handling and the uncomplicated operator guidance,” Bernhard Schmitt comments, knowing exactly what is important for the sector. The base model of the insulating glass line consists of three elements: a glass plate washing machine, a station for the visual monitoring of the glass plates, complete with subsequent frame positioning and an insulating glass press. With its three separate brush-pair drives, the washing machine ensures great results on sheets up to 15 millimetres thick. Its external, chainless brush and transport drive promises additional convenience and reassurance. The high-contrast, well-lit inspection area, complete with coloured signal lights, provides a quick and reliable inspection facility for glass plates. The automatic beam setting for vertical positioning of the frame means the spacer can be applied precisely, even by inexperienced users.

Precise assembly of the units with gas filling
The core of the comfort’line is the insulating glass press that assembles the insulating glass units, fills them with inert gas and presses them precisely in one single processing step. “This works just as well with non-stepped, rectangular units as with shaped formats with steps on up to three sides, and works with both double- and triple insulating glass units: the customer has the choice – even when it comes to the spacer material,” explains Schmitt. Inert gas filing is completed quickly, efficiently and at a high level directly into the units, while adjustable press plates ensure precise and uniform insulating glass pressing.
The line is rounded off with a tilt table to discharge the units ready for the subsequent manual standard sealing. It goes without saying that the equipment for the manual sealing – the rotating sealing table and the manual sealing unit – are also available from Bystronic glass.
For those who do not wish to seal manually, the line can be expanded with a conveyor and a sealing machine.
Bernhard Schmitt explains: “With the aid of the compact’sealer sealing machine, customers can upgrade their comfort’line from an entry-level solution for industrial glass production to an automated production line. The main advantage of the compact’sealer is its precise dosage function which determines precisely the joint depth and then subsequently applies the exact volume of sealing material required. This level of precision cannot be achieved when sealing manually.”
As per customer request, the comfort’line can also be expanded to include machines for spacer production, such as a butyl extruder for the double-sided coating of rectangular and shaped frames with buytl; a frame bending robot and a desiccant filling station, which represent ideal additions to the comfort’line.

High-speed solutions
At this year’s China Glass in Shanghai, Bystronic glass presented two fast machines for glass processing: the speed’sealer, a high-speed sealing robot for insulating glass unit production, as well as the champ’speedgrind, developed for the quick premium grinding of automotive glass edges.
The speed’sealer seals windows and façade elements at a maximum flow rate, and with the highest application speed. Thanks to a dynamic mixer, in an industry first, it is now possible, even with different production conditions, to actively and consistently mix the two-sealant material components. With consistently convincing quality, the machine seals double and triple insulating glass units at high-speed. This is achieved regardless of the sealing material selected, or variations in material quality or temperature and even immediately after production commences. The constant mixing ratio of the two adhesive components is monitored electronically. The high-precision dosing techno-logy ensures a highly accurate, volume controlled application of sealing material and immediately adjusts volumes where the joint depths vary.

Quick and precise grinding of automotive glass
champ’speedgrind, the latest generation of glass grinding machines for automotive glass pre-processing, is particularly impressive with its short processing times and very good operator comfort. The optimized acceleration and deceleration process ensures an extremely dynamic grinding of glass lites at a processing speed of up to 30 meters per minute. Improved cycle times are achieved thanks to faster processing of the corners of convex contours. The champ’speedgrind is part of the champ’speed series, which fits perfectly into automotive glass pre-processing lines. The entire line concept is adapted for very short cycle times.