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For the next generation of lamination
Laminating glass with different systems
In order to create comparability among the current laminating systems, they are each defined based on 6 attributes and shown graphically in the following diagrams.
For a better overview, LAMIPRESS® is included in each diagram.
Glass laminators in comparison
basis - comparability - categorization regarding:
Personnel:
Number of employees per shift
Training level of these employees
Operational efficiency:
Energy efficiency & consumables
Continuous material flow
Flexibility:
Cycle times
Preparation effort
Product portfolio:
Number of different products
Quality and reject rate of these products
Throughput:
square meters per cycle / shift / year
Investment:
Acquisition costs
Price-performance ratio
LAMIPRESS® - laminating high-quality glass flexibly and efficiently
- Not the cheapest system on the market
- Not suitable for >800 sqm per day
- Some handling steps cannot be automated
- Certified quality for all laminated products on the market
- Laminates glass from 45 minutes cycle time
- Hardly any consumables + most energy-efficient process
- Different film types and glass thicknesses in one process
- Always optimal utilization (>85%) and maximum flexibility
- 100% customizable in terms of throughput and hall space
Autoclave with nip-roll line - the conventional process for laminating glass.
- Process used as the basis for certification
- Product quality is the standard for PVB laminates
- Process is considered to be easy to automate
- High acquisition costs
- Long cycle times (> 5 hours) => high energy consumption
- Labor-intensive handling, clamping, re-autoclaving
- Poor utilization, especially for fixed-size laminates
- Inflexible and time-consuming pre-planning necessary
- Less suitable for special products (e.g. SentryGlas)
Autoclave with vacuum bags - when producing basic laminates alone is not enough
- A supplement to the classic autoclave process
- Only in this way are many special products possible
- High acquisition costs remains
- Even longer cycle times, as vacuum bags insulate
- Therefore the most energy-inefficient process
- Problems with the use of vacuum bags are known
- Most labor-intensive process
- Very inefficient utilization of the autoclave
- Often not useful as a stand-alone system
Autoclave with nip-roll line and vacuum bags - loss of mass advantage
- Possibility to use the strengths of both processes
- Lamination of simple glasses with nip-roll line
- Special glasses are laminated in the vacuum bag
- Still high investment
- Still long cycle times
- Still high energy consumption
- Still problematic use of vacuum bags
- Still very labor-intensive
- Vacuum bags block possible output of the nip-roll line
Autoclave-free vacuum ovens - The cheap alternative from the PV industry
- Cheap
- Suitable for laminating glasses with EVA film
- No certification for many applications
- High rejection rate for PVB products
- Long cycle times
- Building vacuum bags takes time and is error-prone
- Inflexible and time-consuming pre-planning necessary
- Technically very limited
- Limited possibilities to laminate high quality glass
Options on the market to laminate glass:
LAMIPRESS® (Black)
Autoclave with vacuum bags (Gray)
Autoclave-free vacuum ovens (Red)
Autoclave with nip-roll line (Yellow)
Combination of autoclave with nip-roll line and vacuum bags (Green)
