Pilkington Brothers

British company

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In construction: Glass as a building material
In 1952 the Pilkington Brothers in England developed the float glass process, in which a continuous 3.4-meter- (11-foot-) wide ribbon of glass floated over molten tin and both sides were fire finished, avoiding all polishing and grinding; this became the standard method of production. Pilkington also pioneered the…
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In industrial glass: Flat glass
…machine in 1935 at the Pilkington Brothers works in Doncaster, Eng., made it possible for plate to be made by horizontal flow through a double-roller process and then ground and polished on-line. Finally, it took seven years of intense development before Alastair Pilkington introduced in 1959 the float glass process,…
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