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CHUCKLE OF THE WEEK
Sunday, 13 August 2000
 The guy in the seat across the aisle sneezed three in a row on my recent flight from Vienna to London.

"Gesundheit ! "  I said.  "Good health!"

"Thank you", he replied, " But rather wish me Good Luck."

"How so?" I asked.

"Well the way I see it" he said thoughtfully, "the Titanic was full of healthy people !"

 
 
CREDIT FOR UP TO 5 YEARS ..... UNSECURED !
Thursday, 03 May 2012
 In our drive to further promote export sales, Ashton Industrial now offers up to 5 years' low interest credit, and that's totally unsecured except for first lien on the equipment itself.
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TRANSATLANTIC ALLIANCE
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
 ERDMAN AUTOMATION in the USA have formed an alliance with Ashton Industrial to bring new high performance I.G. solutions to market.
 
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TRIPLE BENEFIT FOR FUJIAN AUTOMOTIVE
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
 FUYAO Glass Industry Group has specified Ashton’s powerful triple diamond belt edge grinding machine for their automotive division based in Fujian province.

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TWO MORE FOR THE KINGDOM
Sunday, 05 February 2012
 The value of heavy duty reliable arrissing is not lost on leading temperers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
 
More than 99.5% uptime round the clock, 24 hours a day is an absolute must if you don't want to have your tempering furnace, perhaps your whole production, out of action waiting for arrissed glass !
 
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WARM EDGE SPACER BENDS WITHOUT HEAT
Thursday, 02 February 2012
Tested on all major standard corner bending machines
              
 
 
 
With minimal or no adjustment, all standard corner benders can process our revolutionary new IsoPro-4X warm edge spacer.
Neatly formed corners are achieved without any heat application.
Simply switch from metal to warm-edge -
Totally metal-free product with PSI value of 0.033 and suited for use with all secondary sealant types.
 
               
 
AL REYAMI GLASS & ALUMINIUM
Thursday, 26 January 2012

 “the inspiration for our vision comes from our ability to dream”

A magnificent brand new factory centered in Jebel Ali is now home to Ashton Industrial’s latest SEAMMAX-X PRO fully automatic arrissing line and HWPRO washer, capable of processing glass plates up to 5m x 2.5m.

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WARM EDGE SPACERS FROM PROFILEX -THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED!
Monday, 19 September 2011
 PROFILEX warm edge spacers are already shipping out of their new 60,000 ft2 production facility at the rate of 4 million metres a month.... and growing.

An increase to 20 extrusion lines is planned for the near future, to meet the tremendous demand in Europe.

 
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BELTING OFFER !
Thursday, 26 January 2012
 
MUESLI ….IN YOUR DOUBLE GLAZING ? WATCH OUT!
Friday, 03 February 2012
Ever noticed how all the nuts & raisins seem to get concentrated in one end of your breakfast cereal box ? If the kids got there before you, more often than not you’re left with just sparsely populated bland oats ?

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AIRFLOW DRY ARRISSING - THE VIDEO
Thursday, 17 November 2011

 
NEW APPOINTMENT: NATIONAL SALES MANAGER
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
 ASHTON INDUSTRIAL has recruited Iain Britton to head up their UK and Ireland insulating glass materials team.

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ROBOLOAD PRO on Youtube
Monday, 01 August 2011
 ROBOLOAD PRO is a new fully automatic glass feeder developed for loading glass sheets into any downstream process, completely labour-free.

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BUILDING FOR EGYPT'S FUTURE
Friday, 29 April 2011
  One of Egypt's leading experts in structural glazing and modern architectural projects, Nile Aluminium & Metals Company, is preparing to play a major role in the building of Egypt's economic future.

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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Saturday, 19 March 2011
It had to happen!
 


Demand has been such that Ashton have now developed a concept for fully automatically arrissing (seaming) any shape of flat glass.
 
No pre-programming is required, no library of shapes of data lists.  This sets this machine apart from all currently available equipment.

The new SHAPESEAM-PRO can be presented with any shape in totally random sequence!
 


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PRICE FIXING? OR SIMPLY FOLLOWING MARKET TRENDS?
Thursday, 14 April 2011
 Another law suit for ‘fixing the market’ has hit the news. Glass manufacturers are accused of conspiring to share markets and fix prices.
 
But does following the market trend on pricing necessarily constitute collaboration or is it just good, sensible business practice?

Are we too quick to accuse?

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NOT SO SUPER?
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Spacer lawsuit: Glasslam vs  Edgetech IG

According to a March 23 release and trade publications, manufacturer of Air-Tight (TM) foam spacer system, Glasslam ,  based in Florida., has filed a lawsuit against Edgetech IG Inc. ,  of  Ohio, alleging violations of  several Anti-Trust acts,  defamation,  breach of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, and breach of contract . 

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G JAMES AUSTRALIA
Sunday, 13 March 2011
SECOND ASHTON AUTOMATIC ARRISSING LINE FOR LEADING GLASS PROCESSORS 'DOWN UNDER'
 
They are Australia's leading and most prestigious glass and aluminium processing company and we are delighted to have been selected to supply their second automatic arrissing plant .........
 
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SYSTEM 3 GLASS
Saturday, 05 March 2011
 NEW 5m AUTOMATIC ARRISSING AND BATCHING FACILITY
 
An extremely prestigious contract to replace an ageing vertical machine has been awarded to Ashton Industrial by System 3 Glass in Manchester.

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ALUMCO DUBAI
Saturday, 05 March 2011
 MAJOR ARRISSING UPGRADE FOR LEADING GLASS FABRICATOR

After many years of trouble-free arrissing with Ashton Industrial's UNIX heavy duty manual arrissers, leading UAE glass processor ALUMCO is upgrading to a SeamMaX-X triple-head arrissing line that grinds the flat glass edges as well as upper and lower arriss. 
 
 
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TWO GREAT GEORGIAN OFFERS
Saturday, 03 April 2010
 CLASSIC GEORGIAN BARS FROM ASHTON INDUSTRIAL
 
Beat That!
18mm classic white Georgian from Ashton in either 9010 or 9016 at an incredible 45p / metre.
And 25mm at an incredible 65p.
Full range of accessories of course, also keenly priced, and all ex stock.
 
 

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DON'T MISS IT ! SEAMMAX-X....... the film !
Saturday, 27 November 2010

Please click the following Youtube Links for live action !
 
 


This is the link to see the very latest compact SeamMaX-X Pro 
arrissing/seaming and batching
in full action    
 
 
 
 
This is the link to Richard Green's Glasstec  
interview 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NEDEX TAKES OVER H B FULLER POLYSULPHIDE PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
 On 28th August 2010, in Heidelberg Germany,  Nedex and H B Fuller USA signed a contract finalising negotiations for H.B.Fuller to hand over total production and marketing of their polysulfide range for the whole of Europe, CIS Russia, North Africa and the Near East.

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AND THEN THERE WERE SIX !
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
 At the risk of becoming repetitive, the very best recommendation we can get from our customers, are repeat orders.
 
They are a perfect example of customer satisfaction and reflect our commitment to excellence.
 

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NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING
Monday, 25 October 2010
 
We were wrong about Glasstec 2008 being the best ever........

GLASSTEC 2010 in Duesseldorf was even better !  

WOW ! What a show !

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NEW EDGE DELETION PRO
Monday, 25 October 2010
 
A tremendously efficient low-cost addition to the ASHTON stables:
EDGE DELETION PRO is a highly effective edge deletion tool, self-adjusting to all different glass thickness.

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GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES NEW HIGH TECH PROCESSING PLANT IN CANADA
Monday, 02 August 2010
 
 
Worldwide leading glass manufacturer and processor, Guardian Industries, have chosen Ashton Industrial's fully automated seaming and batching to enhance their new processing plant in Rexdale, Ontario.
 
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SANTELLI TEMPERED GLASS - NEW FACILITY IN INDIANA
Friday, 02 July 2010
Santelli Tempered Glass Inc. is opening a new tempering facility in Elkhart, Indiana where owner Joe Santelli is investing $3.7 million.
 
"This 32,500 square-foot facility is equipped with the very latest glass processing technology, including a high speed continuous tempering furnace fed by Ashton Industrial's state-of-the-art new seaming and batching line.
 
It is perfectly situated between major glass areas of Toledo and Chicago, both with large residential window manufacturers which is the prime market for our tempered glass" says owner and CEO Joe Santelli.
 
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CANADIAN TILT ON DESICCANT FILLING
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
 PPG's Nova Scotia factory is taking delivery of an ASHTON desiccant filling machine. The filler is fitted with a pneumatic tilt, to improve Health & Safety. The large hopper can be re-filled at ground level, removing any need for lifting heavy refills.
 
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STAINLESS REPUTATION
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
 London-based stainless steel specialist RIMEX has been fitted out with a customised washing and drying machine from ASHTON INDUSTRIAL.
 
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NEW CORPORATE DVD FROM ASHTON INDUSTRIAL
Monday, 15 March 2010

  NOT TO BE MISSED!     

SEE ALL THE EQUIPMENT IN ACTION

  • FastTrak and SeamMaXX arrissing lines 
  • Fully automatic Batching
  • high speed horizontal washers and batch washers
  • laser glass marking
  • manually operated wet and dry arrissers
  • high speed loaders and tilt conveyors
  • I G lines for conventional and warm edge systems
  • offline I G machinery ............. and more
For your own copy...
 
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NEDEX - ASHTON VIRTUAL PARTNERSHIP
Saturday, 03 April 2010
 
In a very innovative move, ASHTON INDUSTRIAL has formed a 'virtual partnership' business plan with NEDEX Group, the world's biggest manufacturer of I G Molecular Sieves.
 
Nedex Group has factories manufacturing I G materials in Turkey, Germany, Ukraine, Russia and Bulgaria and claims to make 25 - 30% of the world's requirement for specialist I G sieves. Even other well-known manufacturers are part of the Nedex clientelle list.
 
SUPASIV ULTRA has been a leading product in Britain's I G units for the past one and a half decades. NEDEX Group's molecular sieve is branded for more than 30 different worldwide manufacturers and agencies. In western Europe that includes major suppliers based in Italy and in France, and of course SUPASIV in the UK.
 
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SANTELLI TEMPERED GLASS IN FLORIDA
Monday, 15 March 2010
 
Joe Santelli's glass tempering operation in Pittsburgh has proven a fantastic success despite troubled times and a depressed world economy.
 
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SAUDI AMERICAN GLASS
Monday, 15 March 2010
 
 
SAUDI AMERICAN GLASS are taking delivery of two UNIX heavy duty arrissing machines for their tempering operation this April.
 
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ANOTHER NEW SEAMING LINE FOR N.W.I.
Sunday, 04 April 2010
 Northwestern Glass Industries (NWI) have acquired and installed the fully automatic Ashton SeamMaX-XTM seaming line originally delivered to Westshore Glass in Florida. Fully automatic batching of lites for the furnace without human intevention, is a feature of the line which was first shown at the GLASSTEC show in Germany (see pic).
 
Congratulations Darrell, we are delighted to see the machinery find such a prestigious home.
 
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BEST OF THE BATCH
Wednesday, 21 October 2009

 NEW ROLLER DEVELOPMENT MAINTAINS PERFECT GLASS SYMMETRY THROUGH WASHING

 

Following more than a year of close cooperation and development with prestige customer ROCHESTER INSULATING GLASS (R.I.G) in New York county, ASHTON INDUSTRIAL have perfected a new roller design which keeps batches of glass of any thickness, perfectly spaced and symmetrical right through the washing and drying process. There is no manual intervention required for glass thickness changes. Glass sizes can be totally random within a batch, and sizes as small as 12" x 6"  (300 x 150mm) are effortlessly accommodated. 

 

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WET AND DRY GRINDING SCORES AT GLOBAL GLASS INDUSTRIES
Sunday, 04 October 2009
 
Some specialist glass coatings are easily damaged by water and manual handling, so the preference is for dry arrissing/seaming of edges when preparing the glass for tempering.  
 
On the other hand, a finer finish is achieved, particularly on thicker glass, when wet grinding with diamond belts.
 
The brand new factory of Global Glass in Rak Al Khaimah, UAE has therefore decided to order BOTH.

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BUSINESS IS 'BEAMING'
Tuesday, 29 September 2009

 LASER MARKING brings state of the art benefits to glass processors.
 
Apart from marking of company logos, production dates for warranty purposes, and the usual fixed text like EN Standards codes, laser marking offers a range of additional benefits for glass factories.
 
The marks are smudge-free; they do not rely on the operator's steady hand.
 
There are no consumables such as inks or templates.
 
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SAUDI ARABIAN GLASS SPECIALIST'S NEW SUITE
Sunday, 13 September 2009
 
 
SAUDI ARABIAN glass specialists Salam Saleh BABGI have received a new suite of ASHTON high performance arrissing (seaming) equipment.
 
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NORTH AFRICA'S FIRST ASHTON AUTOMATIC SEAMING, ROUTING AND BATCHING
Wednesday, 02 September 2009
One of Egypt's largest and finest architectural glass specialists, EGYBEL Corporation in Cairo, has selected and installed an ASHTON INDUSTRIAL state of the art arrissing (seaming) line in June 2009.
 
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5TH AUTOMATIC SEAMING (ARRISSING) LINE FOR GLASSWERKS GROUP
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
The most expressive form of customer satisfaction, and therefore the best possible form of reference for a company's products, must be repeat orders.
No-one keeps ordering more of the same, if they are unhappy with what they already have.
 
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FULL I.G. LINE DELIVERED AND INSTALLED FOR £50,000
Friday, 07 December 2007
Check out our used machinery pages (click the UNDER the HAMMER button) for more details of this overhauled Ashton I G production line with the latest PLC controls.
 



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