Technical Glasses
Is it important for you to maintain purity to achieve high application temperatures and meet characteristic glass properties in the manufacture of special technical glasses? Heraeus will help you to attain these goals and to optimize your products. You can profit from our years of experience.
Your Advantages in Summary
The processing of glasses with higher melting temperatures is possible because the melting point of the platinum alloy is increased by rhodium alloy additions.
- Special properties of the glasses – the high melting, creep resistant PtRh materials enable the production of technical glasses with special properties.
- Optimum system design – because the platinum materials can be fully combined with each other.
- Solutions specific to the customer, which we design and optimize jointly with you using our excellent expertise. Components can be supplied individually or as a series of items.
- High durability of the components highlighted by the high strength and high ductility of the PtRh materials even in the weld joints.
- Standards – we are certified to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 and DIN EN ISO 14001. In the manufacture of high quality products, we work to the 5S standard and monitor processes by audit management. SixSigma tools are used for systematic process optimization.
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Our core competencies and material portfolio at a glance
Fields of Application of Technical Glasses
- Display glasses
for televisions, monitors, laptops, handheld computers, smart phones - Medical glasses
for analytical and pharmaceutical applications, e.g., Erlenmeyer flasks, ampoules, glass tubes, glass rods, laboratory glass - Glass-ceramics
for cooking hobs, mirror supports for large telescopes, high-power reflectors for digital projectors, dental prostheses - Tableware
- Hollow glass
- Measurement technology
- Mirrors and reflectors for digital projection
- Glazed fronts for fireplaces
- Glazing for refrigerators (with anti-bacterial coating, upright and chest refrigerators)
- Borosilicate glass with high chemical resistance
- Thin glass as a support for wafers
- Flexible glass
- Glass-metal composites with tailored CTE
Portfolio
- Crucibles
- Feeder systems
- Stirring cells
- Stirrers and plungers
- Refining chambers / refining systems
- Bubbler pipes
- Electrodes
- Protective thimbles for thermocouples
- Platinum cladding of ceramics
- Orifice rings and outlet tubes
- Mandrills for making glass tubes
- Danner pipes
- Manufacture of other custom made components
The Correct Material
A special Challenge for each Type of Glass
We offer you glass melting equipment with which you can manufacture glasses to meet your technical demands. Whereas display glasses require a high resistance to scratching, medical glasses for analytical and pharmaceutical applications have to demonstrate good resistance to acids or alkalis.
You can produce high purity technical glasses to meet special requirements using our equipment based on platinum-rhodium (e.g., melting crucibles, feeder systems, components for the Vello or Danner process...). The advantage of the platinum alloys containing rhodium is the increased strength combined with the higher melting point of the equipment, thus enabling the processing of very demanding glasses. We are pleased to support you in the selection of the suitable materials for your application.
- Pt-10%Rh and Pt-20%Rh: if a conventional material is required.
- Pt-10%Rh DPH: for high strength, dimensionally stable components which can withstand thermal expansion in the heating phase without damage.
- Pt-10%Rh DPH-A: for high strength active components in which stiffness in torsion and dimensional stability are essential.
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