EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Kaufman Glass Company is prepared to not only meet your needs today, but your development goals of tomorrow. We welcome the opportunity to work with you on your most challenging projects. Our customer service and technical staff is the most knowledgeable in the industry. We'll work closely with you to provide cost-effective solutions to your specific requirements.

GLASS DEFINITIONS:

In an effort to help you in a better understanding of glass types and their recommended uses offers the following definitions:

- Borosilicate Glass is made from silica and boric oxide. Such glass is highly resistant to chemical corrosion, temperature change and thermal shock. It is especially well suited for laboratory ware, such as test tubes, etc., domestic cookware, high-powered lamps and other technical glass ware. It is also used when glass must be bonded to metal and low expansion is essential. Examples of this glass include Pyrex No.7740 and Borofloat.

- Coated Glass such as high quality Borosilicate may be coated on one or both sides to provide certain properties of application. Photo sensitive, special infrared reflecting coatings, chromatography, photo tropic, special light filtering and other coatings are used industrially.

- Float Glass has vitually plane and parallel surfaces formed by floating a contnuous ribbon of glass in a controlled atmosphere on the surface of a bath of molten metal.

- Glass-Ceramics are highly crystalline ceramic formed by the heat treatment of glass ceramics made by special glass processes. They are very strong, transparent, resistant to heat, shock and are generally castable. Ceramic Glass is the proper glass used in wood burning stoves.

- Laminated Glass consists of two or more sheets of glass with one or more viscous plastic layers "sandwiched" between the glass panes. The solid joining of the glasses takes place in a pressurized vessel called an autoclave. In the autoclave, under simultaneous heating of the already processed layers of glass and special plastic, lamination occurs. When laminated safety glass breaks, the pieces remain attached to the internal plastic layer and the glass remains transparent.

- Pyrex Glass is the Corning Inc. trade name for a heat-resistant borosilicate rolled glass.

- Rolled Glass is a translucent glass with 50 to 80% light transmission, depending on its thickness and type of surface. It is used where transparency of the glass is not important or desired.

- Wired Glass is glass having a layer of meshed wire completely embedded into the sheet in order to add strength.

EXTENSIVE INVENTORY OF HIGH QUALITY INDUSTRIAL GLASS

Kaufman Glass Company is a Corning Inc. and Schott Corporation distributor and fabricator. In order to respond quickly to demands of the different industries we serve, Kaufman Glass Company maintains an extensive inventory.

PRECISION FABRICATION TO YOUR EXACT SPECIFICATIONS

The goal of every Kaufman Glass employee is to produce a zero defect product. Our quality assurance procedure begins with a thorough inspection of incoming raw materials to assure that they meet the required specifications. Constant monitoring is performed throughout the complete fabricating process, and finally the finished product is inspected to confirm that it meets our customer's exact specifications, as well as, our high quality products to our customers on time...every time.

Our many years of experience and technical know-how enables us to provide the fabricating technique that's required from any Pyrex, Schott or Vycor industrial glass.