At the beginning of December 2010, the Bystronic glassTechnology Center Bystronic Lenhardt GmbH commissioned the first TPS insulating glass line in China, according to a Feb. 15 release. The privately run Dalian Huaying Glassware Products Co. Ltd. is the first Chinese producer of insulating glass units using TPS thermoplastic spacer material.
The delivery and installation of the line took place in November 2010 and the commissioning of the TPS applicator as well as the on-site training of the staff members took place at the beginning of December 2010. The company based in the north-east of China came to know of the TPS as a spacer approximately two years ago,during the China Glass 2009 Exhibition in Shanghai. Bystronic glass presented this application technology for the first time in China at this exhibition. Zhao Yong, Dalian Glass president, was surprised to learn that TPS already has been used in insulating glass production as a spacer for 15 years. During visits to reference units in Europe and to the material manufacturer Kömmerling in Pirmasens, Germany, he saw for himself that the technology is fully developed and meets his requirements.
TPS automates and streamlines the production of insulating glass, and improves the product characteristics of insulating glass units by heat-insulated, elastic edge bond. With the tps'line, Bystronic glass offers individual production solutions for all types of orders with unique versatility. This allows for the economical and streamlined production of rectangular and shaped formats. On the tps’line, up to four-sided stepped insulating glass units, double and triple units with dimensions of up to 3210-by-6000 millimeters, with varying spacer widths, with or without gas filling and with optional automatic or manual application of muntin bars can be manufactured during a continuous production process. Separate production processes for the bending, sawing, connecting, filling and butyling of spacers are not necessary.