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Water...The Most Overlooked Ingredient in Glass Fabrication

Everyone loves to talk about machines: Cutting tables, CNC processors, Tempering furnaces, Insulating glass lines. But after walking through hundreds of glass factories over the past four decades, I’ve learned something simple:

The real foundation of glass quality isn’t a machine — it’s water. Clean water.


THE FIRST TIME I SAW THE VITROSEP WATER SYSTEM

About 15+ years ago, I was visiting a very large jumbo glass fabrication plant in Spain, owned by one of the most respected glass fabricators in the country — and one of the most respected companies in the world, Tvitec. What caught my attention that day wasn’t the cutting system or the processing lines; It was the water system.


By that point in my career, I had already given up on water systems. Decades earlier, I had seen a well known water filtration system introduced to the industry — and let’s just say it belonged in the Fred Flintstone era of water treatment. It was primitive, crude, and ineffective.


After that came the centrifuge systems. Anyone who has lived through those knows exactly what I mean — maintenance nightmares and unstable performance.


Eventually I reached a conclusion: Water systems just weren’t worth the trouble. I had completely given up on them. Then that day in Spain happened.


When I saw the Vitrosep water management system at Tvitec, I immediately knew something was different. The water quality was stable; the system was engineered properly; and it was clearly designed with the realities of glass fabrication in mind.

At that moment, I made a decision: I wasn't leaving Spain until I met the people who built that system.

One of my fellow IGE team members was traveling with me on that trip.

He had just met a new girlfriend back home and was understandably eager to get back. Unfortunately for him, I had other plans. So he had to endure my little mission of tracking down the Vitrosep manufacturer. Eventually we found them, and I’ve been grateful ever since because that discovery reinforced something I’ve believed ever since:

Clean water quietly protects the entire glass factory.

Perfectly clean glass begins with perfectly clean water.



THE VITROSEP DIFFERENCE

This is why the Vitrosep system offers results measured in "Dollars &

Sense"

  • Fully automatic - set it and forget it. Your operators stop babysitting sludge and start making glass.

  • Maintenance in minutes - not hours and days. Every hour of downtime avoided is money in your pocket.

  • Close to zero fresh-water consumption - Cut your utility bill and forget water restrictions.

  • Proven to exceed 20%+ longer diamond wheel life - If your tooling budget is $200k, that's $40k back in your pocket every year.

  • More than 20% faster processing - More throughput = more orders shipped = more revenue.

  • Nearly 20% lower spindle energy use - Lower power bills, lower cost per life.


Who would ever think that a capital purchase in water processing could actually become a profit-making system? But that's exactly what the Vitrosep is - for many plants, it has become one of the most important profit centers in the building.

r competitors are throwing money down the drain - literally. Why should you?


Visit us today to discuss your Vitrosep system, and start producing with the right ingredient: clean water!

800-919-7181


 
 
 

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