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THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG ! |
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
 2010 sees us back in Duesseldorf for the GLASSTEC international glass fair with our usual 30002 ft location in the corner of Hall 15. We will demonstrate a new generation of fully automatic arrissing (seaming), batching and washing that has stirred up tremendous excitement within the Ashton camp. |
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Wednesday, 04 August 2004 |
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Employment at Ashton Industrial I received a letter from the Department for Work & Pensions, stating that they
suspected I was not paying my employees enough and they would send an inspector
to interview me.
He turned up yesterday and said "OK Mr Ashton, tell me about your staff" .
"Well," I said "there's the production staff. I pay them £500 a week, and they
get free lunch and 5 weeks paid vacation. The office staff get £400 a week, free
lunch, free coffee all day, and an extra week off at Christmas. Then there's
the cleaner. She gets £190 a week, along with free coffee and an early finish on
Fridays.
 There's also the company half-wit, the general hand. He works a 16 hour day, does
90% of the work, earns about £25 a week, along with a bottle of gin, and, very
occasionally, gets to sleep with my wife."
"OK That's who I want to talk to," said the inspector, “the half-wit."
"That'll be me then," I said.
Steve Ashton
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GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES NEW HIGH TECH PROCESSING PLANT IN CANADA |
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Monday, 02 August 2010 |
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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 |
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Friday, 02 July 2010 |
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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 |
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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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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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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
 Following a 3 year contract in Finland, Peter Hedges has returned to the UK and has joined ASHTON INDUSTRIAL as National Sales Manager. In particular, Peter has control of ASHTON's full range of insulating glass materials, including high performance molecular sieve and sealants, spacers and Georgian bars.
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
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UPRATING TO DUAL SEALED UNITS TO MEET THE NEW A, B OR C RATING ? and need a free butyl extruder ? ASHTON INDUSTRIAL are offering butyl extruders entirely free of charge to converts to their new HEDEX sealant range.
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NEW CORPORATE DVD FROM ASHTON INDUSTRIAL |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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 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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TWO GREAT GEORGIAN OFFERS |
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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 39p / metre. And 25mm at an incredible 45p.
Full range of accessories of course, also keenly priced, and all ex stock.
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NEDEX - ASHTON VIRTUAL PARTNERSHIP |
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 |
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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 |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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. |
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Sunday, 04 April 2010 |
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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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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME |
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 |
 It had to happen! Demand has been such that Ashton are now developing fully automatic arrissing (seaming) of random shaped (non-rectangular) flat glass. A robotic system with PLC controls maps the shape and location of any glass lite entering the production line, then communicates the data to a special software control program that steers a high performance arrissing head. |
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
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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 |
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 |
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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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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 |
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 |
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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 |
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
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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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PRESTIGIOUS NEW SEAMMAX-X CONTRACT FOR UAE |
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 |
  STEVE ASHTON..... "I am so pleased to announce that F A GLASS have awarded a contract to Ashton Industrial to install a fully automatic SeamMaX-XTM arrissing line in their new facility in Ras Al Khaimah in the first quarter of 2010. While Ashton has commissioned many of its world-renowned heavy duty UNIX manually operated arrissers in the Gulf states over the past 10 years, this prestigious order will mark the event of the first fully automated system for the area".
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5TH AUTOMATIC SEAMING (ARRISSING) LINE FOR GLASSWERKS GROUP |
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 |
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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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IGU LINES - GREAT OFFERS ! |
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Sunday, 08 March 2009 |
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SPECIAL OFFERS ON IGU LINES
UNDER THE HAMMER /// EARLY BIRD
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Refurbished lines /// Showroom Model
GREAT VALUE |
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MASSIVE BARGAINS ON HELIMA SPACER TUBES WHILE STOCKS LAST |
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
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WAREHOUSE REORGANISATION - CLEARANCE SALE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED ! LOWEST SPACER PRICES EVER FOR ORIGINAL HELIMA BACKWELDED SPACER TUBES 
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AIRFLOW DRY ARRISSING - THE VIDEO |
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Saturday, 16 September 2006 |
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TO VIEW THIS WEBSITE - USE MOZILLA FIREFOX or INTERNET EXPLORER (MINIMUM LEVEL 6)  Watch the ASHTON new demo reel and discover our latest assembly line. SeamMaX-XTM Automatic Arrissing Line - Half the footprint of traditional lines
- Latest precision Servo Drive technology
- Fastest pay-back times ever
- Typical 8-12 seconds cycle per glass
- Proven Diamond Belt technology
- ASHTON vacuum belt hold-down system with no contact at all to upper glass surfaces
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FULL I.G. LINE DELIVERED AND INSTALLED FOR £50,000 |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
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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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