A glass product can look finished immediately after forming, yet its internal condition may still be unstable. Pressing, blowing, drawing, or float forming gives the glass its shape while the material is still hot enough…
In the production process, melting, refining, and homogenization are often depicted together in a large furnace block. However, they are separate steps that result in different transformations in the glass. While they are interconnected, understanding…
Consider two samples of glass at different temperatures. The warmer sample is more fluid, the cooler sample is more viscous. The difference between them relates directly to viscosity. In glassmaking, viscosity is never a secondary…
In order to understand the entire glass making process, we need to go back to the very beginning. But what do we actually mean by batch? The glass we are familiar with, sheet glass, glass…
