Advantages Of Fusion Draw Glass Sheets

Cornings fusion and slot downdraw sheet glass forming 1991.

Advantages of fusion draw glass sheets.

The economist discusses corning s fusion draw process and its strengths in inventing future glass technologies. In recent years acrylic sheets greenhouses have become increasingly popular and look set to overtake glass as the main material used for covering greenhouses. Corning s proprietary fusion manufacturing process is at the core of its innovation providing precision glass that is smooth flat and dimensionally stable. The company used fusion draw first in the 1960s to make experimental windshields then to produce optical quality lenses for photo chromic sunglasses.

Made using corning s proprietary fusion draw process it is manufactured at thicknesses that create unique properties such as the ability to be flexed. Fusion draw produced a continuous sheet of exceptionally thin pristine glass but it was too slow to compete. Watch this video to learn more about our fusion manufacturing process. Willow glass is ultra thin lightweight conformable.

Thus with such dual benefits of glass as dustproof and waterproof material it is mostly preferred in the areas often clad with dust and sand in the air. Corning pours the molten glass into a v shaped trough but doesn t stop at filling the trough to the top. Also leds and lcds require glass for support and glass absorbs some light. Glass has a smooth glossy surface so it is dustproof and can be cleaned efficiently.

Willow glass is ultra thin lightweight conformable. However both of them are designed to meet different criteria making with different advantages. Oled advantages and disadvantages oled advantages are numerous and include a lower power consumption and large fields of view. Oleds do not require glass.

Each sheet is just over half a millimeter thick. Dye penetrant inspection dp also called liquid penetrate inspection lpi or penetrant testing pt is a widely applied and low cost inspection method used to check surface breaking defects in all non porous materials metals plastics or ceramics. Corning had a novel process with a product. Layers of an led the conductive and emissive layers of an oled can be multi layered.

Another advantage is it is waterproof. Unlike other materials it is easy to maintain. The penetrant may be applied to all non ferrous materials and ferrous materials although for ferrous components magnetic particle inspection. Read more the sheet is carefully cooled and stabilized until it reaches the bottom of the draw where it is cut and moved to a nearby area to complete processing and packaging.