Mr Amjad A. Hussain, CEO & Managing Director of National Glass Industry L.L.C (NGI) in Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE and his team have decided to move their business to a higher level in terms of productivity, range of products and services.

Maryland contract glazing and tempering specialists KENSINGTON ART GLASS have installed a unique combined seaming and laser branding combination at their Ijamsville facility.

Lehnert GmbH, situated in rolling countryside north of Frankfurt, Germany, has installed the latest Ashton air floatation dry arrissing system UNIX AIRFLOW at their Fernwald plant which specialises in a large range of very attractive high tech glass wall and partitioning systems.

It was way back in 1998 that Ian Hamilton, owner and MD of County Glass, came striding on to our exhibition stand at GLASSTEC in Germany. "Steve," he said to me, " is that what I think it is?" It was the world's very first ever fully automatic arrissing (seaming) line for processing random sizes […]

  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. So what’s so special about SHAPESEAM PRO ? No pre-programming is required, no library of shapes of data lists. It can be presented with any shape at any […]

FUYAO Glass Industry Group has specified Ashton’s powerful triple diamond belt edge grinding machine for their automotive division based in Fujian province. The heavy duty TRIPLE-X  machine will be fitted with top quality diamond belts to provide a smooth flat edge and double arriss finish on shaped sidelites, backlites and windscreens. The flexibility of this […]

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 ! nbsp; In this […]

ROBOLOAD PRO is a new fully automatic glass feeder developed for loading glass sheets into any downstream process, completely labour-free.

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. The new government, led by PM Essam Sharaf, is in the news encouraging economic growth and investment from UAE, the US and the European […]

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. . The machine works entirely independent of […]

London-based stainless steel specialist RIMEX has been fitted out with a customised washing and drying machine from ASHTON INDUSTRIAL.   Fitted with closed-loop Reverse Osmosis water treatment, the machine is employed for final cleaning of very thin gauge stainless steel sheet, chemically processed to create bespoke surface finishes for architectural and other designer appications. Three […]

    SAUDI AMERICAN GLASS are taking delivery of two UNIX heavy duty arrissing machines for their tempering operation this April.   Ashton Industrial have seen a steady increase in demand for these high-performance machines in Saudi Arabia and the UAE this past year, and are in negotiation for several fully automatic arrissing and furnace […]

  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 […]

    SAUDI ARABIAN glass specialists Salam Saleh BABGI have received a new suite of ASHTON high performance arrissing (seaming) equipment.   The very latest UNIX AIRFLOW air floatation tables with heavy duty arrissing machine and dust extraction, is complemented by the amazingly flexible EASYSEAM hand-held kit.   Coupled with a  variable speed, driven suction […]

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.     The customised configuration processes sizes up to 5000 x 2500mm primarily in thicknesses of 6 – 10 mm. Laser technology is used to […]