Glass forming and handling

Glass forming

Curved glass screens for ever beautiful smartphones

This is the new trend and we love it!  The new smartphones have curved screens and smooth shapes making them just great. 

This said, the glass forming process is quite demanding to get a perfect curved screen together with challenging pressures on cost of ownership.

As a market leader on isostatic graphite and on hot glass handling, Mersen has developed specific graphite grades to answer to the market expectations. 

Small pores evenly spaced on the mold surface to get consistent glass surface, graphite hardness to ease screen polishing, strong resistance to oxidation, mold life time to decrease cost of ownership are just a few of the significant number of key parameters that have been taken into consideration to develop our solutions.

Market leaders (do you really want to have their names?) are working with Mersen to produce the curved screen of their new smartphones.

Check out your screen: it might have been done with our enhanced graphite solution….

Glass handling

CERBERITE®: improve your “melt-to-pack” ratio

Mersen manufactures graphite grades, composites, and metallic systems that are used extensively throughout the glass container industry. Its leading brand is CERBERITE® able to handle hot glass at 1,200 °C.

Our technologically advanced materials provide superb performance in hostile environments of extreme heat and possible oil contamination. Innovative improvements of our grades and proven solutions mean we are able to supply a complete portfolio of high-quality materials and metallic supports. CERBERITE® hardware is custom designed to meet the specific hot handling requirements of process lines from start to finish.

Drawing on Mersen’s extensive experience in hot glass handling, CERBERITE® provides complete proven solutions combining metallic hardware and carbon contact consumables. We offer the same quality assurances worldwide, providing local services wherever you are and whatever your needs, including machining.

Electrical Power solutions

Glass industries are more and more concerned with the safety of workers and equipment, achieving optimal power efficiency and avoiding downtime where possible.

The protection of critical loads and asset management are also key concerns. Mersen has it all — from overcurrent protection to surge protection, cooling and interconnection solutions — meeting the needs of Glass industry market players in power distribution or power conversion alike.