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Leading-edge
processes
Designing
materials is not enough : one needs to develop large scale processes
to produce them on an Industrial scale. Saint-Gobain has always
been driven by the need to master its many and very diverse processes.
In glass making, everything begins in the glass
furnace, seat of earth and fire, the fundamental elements that
Saint-Gobain is still learning to control through pilot installations
or mathematical modeling.
Saint-Gobain Recherche continues to develop industrial glass forming
processes by improving their precision, reliability and automation.
In this field, the role of mathematical modeling never ceases to
expand.
Saint-Gobain Recherche not only masters but also improves many techniques
for thin film deposition. This has become
a flexible and effective way of developing new functions for materials
and new applications.
All these processes require special installations
on the production lines and Saint-Gobain Recherche has developed
some extremely sophisticated ones.
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