Capabilities:

Bending and Sagging: When heated glass starts to soften, it slumps and sags under its own weight to create shapes or can be bent to specific angles.

Polishing - flat or radius surfaces.  (both spherical and cylindrical)  The standard Commercial Grade Polishing is typically a flatness of 3 to 5 waves per inch and parallelism of 3 arc minutes or better.  Our Optical Grade Polishing is a flatness of 1/2 wave per inch and parallelism of 1 minute or better.  The surface quality specification is also much higher:  60/40 for our optical quality polishing, and 80/50 for our commercial quality.  If your application demands, we have the capabilities of a 10/5 surface and 1/20 wave flatness. Please contact one of our application specialists for more information.

Grinding: The removal of glass with abrasive (grinding) wheels in order to shape, polish or otherwise finish both flat and hollow glass. Grinding processes include milling, sawing, edging and drilling.

Edging: Grinding edges to a specified finish on round, square, rectangle, elliptical, and other assortment of  shapes. We also chamfer and seam sharp corners.

CNC Machining and Digital Patterns: CNC machining can provide tight tolerances and all sorts of shapes, with consistent repeatability. With CNC machining it is possible to manufacture parts quickly and cost effectively.

Drilling: (large and small holes)

Beveling: (ground or polished surface finishing)

Etching: The two common methods are sand-blasting and acid-etching.

Acid etching was usually done in two stages. Firstly the whole glass is etched to a matt finish. This is followed by a different type of acid-etch to bring back some areas to a clear finish.

Sand-blasting: is done by pressure-spraying a fine abrasive onto the glass

Laminating: Two or more sheets of glass put together with a clear or colored interlayer to create a laminated safety glass. The interlayer can be a variety of thicknesses and can be combined with colors or rice paper to give the resulting glass different architectural or lighting possibilities. The interlayer is most commonly polyvinyl butyl (PVB), which in most cases absorbs over 98% of the UV region. The laminating process can be done in several ways; using PVB sheets cut to the glass sizes and sealed in an autoclave or liquid resin poured and cured via time, heat or exposure to UV. They all result in essentially the same resin bond and safety features. Our unique capabilities are in laminating a variety of patterned and unusual glass types with irregular surfaces and different inter-layers.

Molding:  The process of heating sand (silica), soda ash, limestone, and borax are raw materials for glass making, and other elements to a molten stage and the dropping gobs of a specific weight into a mould. There are four main methods of shaping glass: blow molding, press molding, drawing, and casting.

Tempered: (toughened) glass is two or more times stronger than annealed glass. When broken, it shatters into many small fragments which prevent major injuries. This type of glass is intended for glass façades, sliding doors, building entrances, bath and shower enclosures and many other uses requiring superior strength and safety properties.

Chemical Tempering: A hardening process primarily used for thin soda lime based glass. It creates a tougher surface without any internal stress, which helps keep the flatness. Generally it will increase the base glass strength by a factor of three. This is not a safety glass and can be fabricated afterward without it breaking into fine pieces. We use this for instrument windows as well as certain optical glasses.

Glass to Glass  & Glass to Metal Seals: Glass to metal sealing is typically performed in a single step by heating the glass and metal materials above the glass melting point in a nitrogen or nitrogen/hydrogen atmosphere at a 15°C dew point.   When the materials to be united (sealed) have thermal coefficient of expansions too far apart to be compatible, using a graded glass to glass seal built with of as many as 5 layers of glasses to achieve compatibility from one end to the other always will result in a perfect hermetic seal. Glass to glass sealing is also used to seal flat windows to tubular glass components to make glass envelopes.

Glass Performs: glass compositions designed with specific thermal expansions to match materials to be sealed together. Stringent batch controls provide the highest degree of dependability. The preformed frames, rings, and solids introduce a finite amount of sealing glass which can be shaker-loaded into sealing fixtures to create an infinite range of size and shapes in single or multi-bore forms creating a glass perform.

Glass Blowing:  Blowing glass creates a variety of standard and one-of-a-kind glass items by heating commercial tubing to the softening point and with the skill of an artist creates components, vessels and apparatus glassware for use in a myriad of products and or processes.

Precision Bore: Precision Bore Tubing involves the heating and shrinking of standard tubing over a precision mandrel when precise ID specifications and tolerances are required. The final product is formed as the tube is pulled over the mandrel.

Silk Screening: Using ceramic frit a pattern is silk screened onto glass and baked into the surface of the Glass.  Patterns and colors lets a designer create a subtle or bold look. This can also be used to screen graduation marks on laboratory vessels or adding a logo to a resale item.

Lens Generation: Optical lens based on required specifications (See Products page)

Redrawn tubing: is an economical alternative to Precision Bore. The process of heating and redrawing tubing is accepted in many engineering applications.

Water Jet Cutting: is the ultra-high tolerance 3D machining in cutting advancement for glass and ceramics composite.  Computer algorithms that control both machine motion and water jet cutting dynamics have pushed water jet versatility to the forefront in modern machining. Imagine cutting so precise, you can have the most intricate shape cut in glass with complete control of tolerance. A perfect Glass Dynamic.

Glass Dynamics, LLC

2662 Hance Bridge Road, Vineland, NJ 08361 

Tel:  856-205-1530  Fax:  856-507-1471 

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