Glass

Kanthal's electric heating solutions, including the Globar® SiC portfolio, enable the container glass manufacturing industry. Our advanced heating systems are designed for forehearth furnaces and annealing lehrs, offering superior temperature control and increased efficiency with zero emissions. Explore how our reliable electric heating technology can enhance modern glass production.

With flat glass, precise temperature control, heating element longevity and reliability are key factors when choosing heating elements. Kanthal’s electric offer provides this, and with it comes a more quiet and clean work environment with significantly lower CO2 emissions.

With its focus on recycling glass and turning it into insulation, the foam glass industry is already on the right path. Still, CO2 emissions are prominent because of the common use of gas burners which offers poor thermal efficiency at around 30 percent – compared to 90 percent thermal efficiency offered by Kanthal’s electric heating elements.

In the manufacturing of optical fiber, sintering is a key process where the heating solution utilized affects the quality of the end product. This is because sintering is done in a controlled atmosphere and having precise control over the heat input and temperature, which Kanthal’s electric heating solutions offer, is crucial to the quality of the optical fiber.