Category: News

XPAR & Emhart Glass supply agreement

XPAR Vision and Bucher Emhart Glass signed a supply agreement, under which Bucher Emhart Glass will launch its new BlankRadar, based on two of XPAR Vision’s products, the Gob Assist (GA) and the Blank Temperature Control (BTC). To further enhance its product offering Bucher Emhart Glass ...

XPAR Vision & TIAMA – MSC&SGCC to settle legal actions

XPAR Vision had asserted its EP 0 643 297 B1 patent in Germany, France and Spain against TIAMA – MSC&SGCC I-care system. During a recent meeting between the management of the parties, XPAR Vision and MSC&SGCC agreed to settle all disputes and stop all legal ...

XPAR Vision announces the end of life of the IR-21

The IR-21 has been supplied to our customers from 2001 – 2003. As of June 1, 2013, the IR-21 will no longer be supported by XPAR Vision and is declared: End-of-life. Components and spare parts are no longer available for any kind of repair.   ...

BoX : Positive industry reactions

XPAR Vision and Bottero used the recent glasstec exhibition to launch BoX, described here by Paul Schreuders and Gianclaudio Borsarelli as the next step in the glassmaker’s search for automation and better repeatability of the forming process. The recent glasstec 2012 exhibition in Düsseldorf confirmed ...

Gob Assist and Blank side Temperature Control installed at Vitro

Vitro SA de CV, Mexico has installed 3 Blank Temperature Control (BTC) systems to their 3 Gob Assist systems (GA) in its Queretaro plant as part of decision to invest in hot end forming process control. It is the next logical step to provide operators ...

Partnership: BoX

About two years ago XPAR Vision from The Netherlands and Bottero from Italy have started a strategic partnership with the aim to control and optimize the forming process by automation, using their respective systems as a basis. After thorough studies and preparations the first automated ...

Events

During Glasstec 2012 we focused on presenting our InfraRed Dual camera system, our Gob Assist and our Blank side Temperature Control system. These solutions are part of what we call the XPAR Vision HE platform. This platform consists of a set of logically related tools for ...

Vitro about to receive three Gob Assists

Vitro, widely considered to be the leading container glass manufacturer in Mexico and one of the largest in the world, has made the decision to install three Gob Assists in January 2012. The three Gob Assists follow the installation of three IR-D’s in September 2011. The decision to ...

Crucial control for (ultra) light weighting

In the industry magazine Glass Worldwide issue November/December 2011 you’ll find an article with this title. The article contains the latest about the Gob Assist. Below you’ll find a summary of this article. Glass container manufacturers throughout the world face some important challenges: Living up ...

Anadolu Cam Sanayii and XPAR Vision join in partnership

Turkey based Anadolu Cam Sanayii, container glass manufacturing subsidiary of Şişecam, the market leader in Turkey also with operations in Russia, Georgia and Ukraine announces its strategic and exclusive partnership with Dutch based privately owned XPAR Vision, providing leading Hot End sensor technology to the ...