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Something has not been heard for a long time about the Borsk glass factory … The one whose products glazed all the cars in the USSR. I suppose someone sang for the repose …
No, hello. Not at the best time for the enterprise, it was taken under the wing by the Japanese industrial group AGC, the strongest player in the global glass market. For 15 years, products from the town of Bor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region have been marked with the abbreviation of the parent company for brevity. But we must know: in most of the current machines produced in the country, glass is Boron. And then, according to Japanese belief, one who changes his name at least once in his life will be lucky. Come true …
Hooligan on salary
Do not believe it if you hear that autoglass is “elementary, Watson!”: It is supposedly made of molten sand (it’s the same as a car made of iron). They would know how complicated it is. It’s worth starting from the end …
Some mischievous people clatter barely cooled glass every couple of hours. Briefly wave the hammer-core and bam - to smithereens. The flying red-hot sounds fun (it is door and rear in the car), the dull “typs” emits a frontal triplex. Ozornikov already two "gangs" - controllers and laboratory assistants.
Their salary is not an appendage to the hooligan joy: after the battle they are taken for "bookkeeping". A template window with a side of 50x50 mm is placed on the carpet scattering of fragments and counted. Squared should fit - strictly! - not less than 45, but not more than 450 fragments. Why so much? Because the most secure. And another thing: the edges do not have the right to be sharp.
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The camera miraculously caught the instant when the glass just cracked and started to crumble … The camera miraculously caught the moment when the glass just cracked and started to crumble …
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… And that's what it turned into. On the fragments, the pattern of controllers: now they will begin to count the fragments. … And that's what it turned into. On the fragments, the pattern of controllers: now they will begin to count the fragments.
And if the calculation gives a different result? All that has been produced in the last two hours is allowed into marriage. This is not an arbitrarily chosen period, but a temporary tick of technology.
Work for the stovemen
Let's start dispelling the misconceptions about “elementary!”.
The stove deserves a respectful description. It has a permanent-burning stove at 1600º (in a building with a furnace the heating was not even installed), and in this mode it should burn for at least 10 years (!) Continuously (!). The current factory has flashed so much, but since it is almost the best in the world, it was written for her kind to work two more years. Then they will put out the burners for a month and a half, and since there is no backup for the furnace, the production will freeze.
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A small fragment of a glass melting furnace. It is the size of a 5-6-story house with several entrances. A small fragment of a glass melting furnace. It is the size of a 5-6-story house with several entrances.
It will be dismantled in a brick (four floors above the burners and the same number under them). You can’t buy a refractory for a new one in the neighboring market: you need a special brick, for each fragment of the installation - with the specified properties. The brick is being transported from Belarus, Romania, Japan, Russian enterprises … Next, accurate masonry, installation of engineering systems - with a margin of safety for 12 years of torture by hellish temperatures.
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Modern glassmaker: control panel for the furnace. Modern glassmaker: control panel for the furnace.
Do not drop the keys in semolina
About the sand. From the fact that on the banks of the Volga and Oka, washing Nizhny Novgorod, and even from the sand that is on the shores of the seas, sound glass does not work. Raw materials with the right composition are explored, as minerals are explored, and transported from distant quarries. Bring to the state of the raw material mixture. As it melts, it acquires the consistency of a liquid semolina porridge, as in a porridge, lumps in it are unacceptable. Inclusions and except those necessary are also unacceptable. Do not bring a case where metal gets - magnets catch it … If you miss …
A catastrophic event happened once in a piece of bullshit. A mechanic, being above the furnace, was repairing something, dropped a wrench, the tool fell into the charge. And for a week the glass went greenish-striped.
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This story was remembered by Plato Chebotarev This story was remembered by Plato Chebotarev
To prevent the pillars from falling
You will not return it for re-melting - it will spoil the "porridge-malash". Marriage is a mountain. Consider: 600 tons of raw materials are loaded into the oven per day, 90% comes in glass, and almost 3.8 thousand striped glass tons per week! Of course, they were not buried, but sent to the production of glass panels for walls. All the same, the lost profit: after all, it was possible to produce goods of the highest quality!
Immediately answer meticulous. Yes, iron is added to the heat-absorbing auto glass. As amended: not in its pure form and not with impurities for hardening the metal (as for wrenches), but iron oxide. Which is not the same thing.
And in general, glass making is stricter than cooking. This is a housewife can put in cabbage soup, say, ordinary, dried or flowering dill - for a "signature" flavor. But neither the "pinch of salt" nor the "half carrots" are allowed to violate the order of preparation of glass. Otherwise, looking through it from the car, there will be eternal twilight before your eyes or all the posts will be “littered”. The implications are clear.
Glass, Pewter
About the optical curvature. Who has the imagination to imagine how the planes of glass are made even?
That's how. “Semolina” is released from the oven into a narrow hole, “porridge” falls on hot tin, grows in breadth to 3.4 meters. Tin step and forms a perfectly flat bottom plane. The upper one is simpler: it is “smoothed out" by the force of gravity. As soon as the hot mass "seizes", the gear rolls and clips pull the transparent canvas for a better future.
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"Photographing clear glass" sounds like an absurdity. But it seems that they managed to show it in the entire width of 3.4 m. The thickness, depending on the current order, is from 1.9 to 12 mm. Here, a few tens of meters from the mother furnace, it blows with fiery heat, only after passing through many blowing installations, the glass cools down to an acceptable 1000. "Photographing clear glass" sounds like an absurdity. But it seems that they managed to show it in the entire width of 3.4 m. The thickness, depending on the current order, is from 1.9 to 12 mm. Here, a few tens of meters from the mother furnace, it blows with fiery heat, only after passing through many blowing installations, the glass cools down to an acceptable 1000.
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This baguette was squeezed along the edge in a still viscous strip by the teeth of the wheels, which pull the newborn glass from the outlet of the oven. With it, further rolling on the rolls is facilitated. This baguette was squeezed along the edge in a still viscous strip by the teeth of the wheels, which pull the newborn glass from the outlet of the oven. With it, further rolling on the rolls is facilitated.
Glass flow is not perfect. But the laser controllers are looking for flaws: the marriage will not slip through! By detecting curvature, blotches of bubbles or deviations in thickness, the lasers give a signal to the glass cutter, and they mercilessly remove unsuitable slices.
Spa
Glass already has some kind of biography, but it is still raw material. To turn a simpleton into a person of blue blood, the “client” is cared for and cherished. Suckers of dozens of manipulators "kiss" him, diamonds bring the shapes to refined ones, cleaner polish the nail polish the edges and ennoble the "tattoo", lead through the hardening and "sauna" of the autoclaves …
They babysit tremblingly: they cool them not with rough air, but, please, with carbon dioxide, wash them with water (and more than once), purified from minerals - God forbid!..
Prestidigitation
However, not without miracles. To get a triplex, you need to “squeeze” two glass blanks and a sheet of plastic film between them (you can’t say without polyvinyl butyral one without training). But the film, which it is being brought in from Japan, is dull and matte … Like a magician who arouses interest, the press “pulls the curtain” - “wet sandwich” “hugs” with compressive planes. After a second, the “sandwich” is exposed - and all three layers are crystal clear.
What is transparent is seen by the amateur. Almost (as it turned out) the finished frontal triplex is sent to one more, control crimp with high pressure in the autoclave and at elevated temperature - in order to expel even micron inclusions of air from under the layers. Now it’s ready: the plastic is not just tightly stuck to both layers - it partially penetrated into their structure.
(Here, of course, there should be a photo. However, in areas with ingenious production methods, the hosts forbade shooting: competitors can “copy” technology from published images. The leader of a purely civilian industry has a privacy regime, as in our military-industrial complex.)
And after all the trials and transformations - to the chopping block ?! It is clear that a lot of auto-windows are made at the factory, and it’s a pity anyway when controllers clatter individual copies. And after that, laboratory assistants beat “their own”.
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This block in the laboratory, the victim is ready for execution. The laboratory technicians have their own methods … By the way, the entrance here is like in the surgical room: only after changing into a sterile special suit. This block in the laboratory, the victim is ready for execution. The laboratory technicians have their own methods … By the way, the entrance here is like in the surgical room: only after changing into a sterile special suit.
With such wastefulness, the thought resigns: all for the sake of impeccable quality. This is the case when the end justifies the means.
In the elite club
In this rather lyrical description, you need to see pragmatism: the goods are snapped up when they are better than others. Are AGC Bor Glassworks products good?
It is equipped with AvtoVAZ, GAZ, UAZ, IzhAvto cars, localized in Russia by Toyota, Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Volvo.
Volkswagen is weighing whether to switch to “universal” equipment with Bor components of all models produced in Kaluga and Nizhny Novgorod, including Skoda. And Ford handed the glass factory a certificate that allows importing products to the Focus III assembly without input control … Here's the answer.
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This is a glass for Peugeot, manufacturer designated. This is a glass for Peugeot, manufacturer designated.
With maternal care
Enlightened people have the right to assume that the victory in supplier competitions was predetermined by the low cost of products - they say that even due to logistics within the Russian Federation, the automotive component costs less than importation from abroad (and in Russia AGC has no equal rivals).
The author investigated the question: in some cases it is, but not in all. In our casuistic customs-tariff-tax realities, the concept of "lowest selling price" is not always the same as "cheaper for the recipient." And “profitable” is not always confirmed by the amount of money. Foreign companies that have taken root in Russia are buying a number of components in Europe, because they are confident in “that” product. Their own reputation is at stake, and it costs a lot of money. AGC plant from the Volga region will not wet it - it is checked.
Of course, the parent company is a major backwater. The Japanese, or rather, global AGC (200 enterprises in 20 countries) equipped the Russian branch (this is not only Bor production, but also the second plant in Klin, Moscow Region, and other business divisions) with the most modern technologies. Figure: invested here 775 million euros. Eloquently.
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In the last paragraphs of the text, there is no longer lyrics - even some pathos. This is involuntary: it is nice to realize that Russians are successfully running a huge business. Not that without the petty custody of the owner, but on the principles of full trust. Compliment to both of them.
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The people from AGC Bor Glass Factory. They are also young, smiling, confident in themselves. Team. The people from AGC Bor Glass Factory. They are also young, smiling, confident in themselves. Team.
