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Your Glass Molding Machine Experts
Our profile
Vitrum Technologies supplies systems and process technologies for glass forming and optics production at the highest technical level.
Our system technology is suitable for the production of aspheres, free-form optics, wafers and other glass products with the highest precision and shape complexity.
Our innovative, cost-reducing processes enable Vitrum's customers to increase market share and expand into new markets.
Our focus is on the following industries: optics, automotive, energy, consumer electronics and communications.
Our unique selling points
- Innovative temperature control concepts
- Machine learning-supported process development
- Accuracies in the µm or sub-µm range
- Replicative forming processes eliminate the need for grinding and polishing
- Up to 90% faster cycle times
- Up to 80% energy savings at all times
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Development of a suitable forming process for existing or planned glass components
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Validation of planned processes on a test bench
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Manufacturing of the optimized production machine for the developed process
The processes
Non-isothermal process control
In a non-isothermal process control, the glass is tempered in parallel and independently of the molding tools. This significantly reduces the cycle times and number of molds, creating the conditions for cost-effective and fast processes for mass production.
Isothermal process control
Vitrum offers isothermal processes for high-precision forming.
Methods of process development
Vitrum Technologies' processes are validated for the respective applications on ultra-modern test facilities. A wide variety of parameters are recorded at intervals of up to 15 milliseconds and displayed in a digital twin. The use of machine learning tools with graphical HMI enables user-friendly and highly efficient process developments.
The Machine and Equipment Technology
Thin glass
Our individual machine concepts are designed for up to four hot forming processes per machine (4-in-1 system technology):
- Gravity slumping
- Vacuum assisted slumping
- Deep drawing
- Press bending
Bulk glass
We differentiate between the following processes for bulk glass forming:
- Isothermal precision glass molding for highest tolerances
- Non-isothermal glass molding for mass production
For both glass forming processes grinding and polishing of the finished product is no longer required.
Applications of Thin Glass
Precisely formed thin glass offers new applications in high value components in automotive and components for electronics and sensors.
The advantages compared to conventional materials are:
- Light and sturdy structures due to thin walls in Micrometer or single Millimeters thicknesses
- Chemical stable and scratch resistant and therefore easy to clean and suitable for haptically enhanced surfaces.
- UV-resistant
Applications of Bulk Glass
Vitrum Technologies offers custom designed optimized machine concepts according shape, precision, and surface requirements as well as targeted production rates.
The replicative forming technologies for bulk glass are suitable to produce complex and highly precise optics.
Be it aspheres, free-form optics, Wafers – with the machines and equipment from Vitrum we are your competent partner.
Components made of replicative formed bulk glass are used in markets such as laser technologies, medical equipment, automotive and sensorics.
