Zamil Glass announces expanded automation plans and new strategic partnerships

Several recent purchases and partnership agreements will result in expanded production capacity and the company's ability to offer innovative new products to customers.

Zamil Glass has entered into an agreement with UNI Glass to purchase a new tempering line (UGC-extra), considered the best of its kind available. It will provide optimum quality tempered glass in terms of flatness and distortion, while delivering high throughput and reliability. This machinery has the capability to produce up to 80,000 square meters of tempered glass per month. It operates using an advanced next-generation system, which permits continuous monitoring by the manufacturer from its headquarters in Finland.

The company has also purchased an Insulating Glass line with a robotic sealant system from Lisec. This line implements the latest double glazing technology, and is capable of producing more than 40,000 square meters of double layered glass units per month. This machinery also has the capability to work on any kind of glass or spacer.

Zamil Glass is also currently involved in negotiations regarding the purchase of additional required machinery including arising, washing and spacer bender machines, which use the same software that operates the robotic cutting line to enable simultaneous output.

In related developments, Zamil Glass has entered an exclusive representation partnership with Southwall Technologies. This agreement makes Zamil Glass the sole fabricator of heat mirror glass units in the GCC region.

The company has also signed a strategic partnership agreement with Cabot, the sole producer of Nanogel, to explore the possibilities of this material when combined with glass. Nanogel is heralded as a worldwide technological breakthrough and is considered to be the best insulating material available on the market today.

"We are extremely pleased to announce these strategic purchases and partnerships," says Bader Haddad, General Manager of Zamil Glass. "The use of additional top quality automation equipment will enable us to provide expanded services to our current client base, and to competitively enter new markets. We are also very excited to be working with Southwall Technologies and Cabot to provide and develop innovative new products that are certain to raise the bar in terms of energy efficiency and deliver additional cost effective solutions to our customers."