The installation of Guardian Industries UK’s £35 million magnetron coater at its Goole plant is complete.
All elements of the coater installation have now been signed off ahead of schedule and handed to Guardian’s Process Group and Production Team. The coater is now operational on 3 shifts.
Over the next few weeks Guardian’s Process Group and Production team will be working on the characterisation and calibration of all the cathodes ready to produce ClimaGuard A+.
The product will undergo product testing at its R&D centres ahead of the start of production in October.
David Younker, Guardian Vice President of Engineering, said: “The Guardian team has done an amazing job with the new Coater installation, it is incredible that they have managed to fit such technically advanced equipment into such a restricted area, it is literally like fitting a 12oz egg into a 6oz shell”.
Technical advancements in magnetron glass Coater technology have broadened the scope for coated glass products, enabling Guardian to produce products such as its SunGuard High Selective SN Series.
These types of glass coatings require more chambers and equipment and therefore a bigger coater. This created a design challenge, which was fulfilled using an ingenious method of working levels, unique to the Guardian Coater.
Mark Bristow, Guardian's Regional Manager for the UK and Ireland said: "Now that Guardian has such a technically advanced Coater in the UK the potential for future product development is staggering.”
