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Pilkington aggressively protected its patents and trade secrets through a network of licensing agreements with glass manufacturers around the world. The modern "float" technique (pouring the molten glass on a layer of very pure molten tin) became commercially widespread when Alastair Pilkington developed a practical version, patented in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Triplex Safety Glass Company Ltd was founded in 1912 by Kent-born Reginald Delpech (30 March 1881 - 29 May 1935). [2] [3] The company was established in 1912 to build laminated windscreens in Britain, under French patents.
The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, [4] which pioneered the technique in the 1950s at their production site in St Helens, Merseyside. [5] Modern windows are usually made from float glass, [6] though Corning Incorporated uses the overflow downdraw method. [7]
Pilkington's Group Plc was a UK-based manufacturer and supplier of wall and floor coverings and building materials. The group had a history in ceramic tile manufacturing with the head office located on Rake Lane in Clifton Junction , near Manchester , England .
A study by University of Surrey and Pilkington Glass proposes that waste laminated glass be placed into a separating device such as a rolling mill where the glass is fragmented and the larger cullet is mechanically detached from the inner film. The application of heat then melts the laminating plastic, usually polyvinyl butyral (PVB), enabling ...
Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington OBE FRS [1] (7 January 1920 – 5 May 1995), known as Sir Alastair Pilkington, was a British engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass.