Robax Technical Glass - Skan Glass Robax and Skan
Robax is renowned as a leading technical heat-resistant glass.
Its high specification and performance means that Robax is also the perfect choice for Skan, the technical glass engineering business.
For over 50 years, SKAN has grown steadily and robustly into a stable, medium sized, design led, engineering business! Remaining true to its Midlands roots and still a wholly independently owned business to this day, SKAN Glass remains small enough to care about your individual needs, whilst having unique access to almost every conceivable glass material and processing capability available, and on a truly global scale!
Robax is just one of the many products and brands stocked by Skan, whose comprehensive resource network is very strongly underpinned by longstanding partnership agreements. These provide SKAN with the unique ability to access a global network of over 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, in order to provide customers, with unique cutting edge glass solutions!
Whether you are seeking Robax or one of the many other glass products from Skan, the company prices itself of operating in a personalised, and truly dedicated manner, from UK based team of trained applications and materials specialists within SKAN Glass
"Combining our huge alliance with SCHOTT and our own in-house stock holding, including extensive ROBAX technical glass stocks, and processing capability, means we can offer a service that really is second to none, within the UK."
SKAN provides customers with a one-stop-shop for most glass materials available from our own comprehensive UK stocks.
Together with our strong / stable global business partners such as SCHOTT, SKAN offers a unique single access point for UK business, accessing global market intelligence and quality global products to solve YOUR LOCAL glass problems!
Please contact the team at SKAN glass
ROBAX...
The use of ceramic glass in front of high efficiency gas fires is not new. However the latest contemporary “hole in the wall” fires, with large flame picture aspect and “eye-line” wall-mounted position, creates a whole new list of challenging material requirements.
ROBAX CASE STUDY - largest ROBAX ceramic glass vision windows on the market.
One of our clients, a leading manufacturer of fire and fire related products that is recognised for products of the highest quality, innovativeness and aesthetics and who consistently leads the markets in which it participates. Of course Robax was requested by brand and Skan was happy to oblige.
When the company launched the Kinder branded Rocco, this “wall recessed” 3.9kW fire had one of the largest ROBAX ceramic glass vision windows on the market. Couple this large area flame picture aspect with the neutral coloured fire box internals and eye-line situation, meant that even the most innocuous material defects were potentially visible to the end user.
Together, the purchasing and quality team at BFM alongside SKAN, worked toward a series of quality “end-goals”, which was set to push material quality and processing performance to the absolute limits.
As Neil Lomax, BFM Head of Purchasing puts it
“Out-performing our competitors through providing the highest level of product quality, commensurate with reasonable price points, is our goal. Working alongside material suppliers to enable this, clearly is a purchasing strategy that we must follow. SKAN has over some years now, provided practical examples of both process and product improvements as well as innovative solutions in decorative glass fire fascias.”
Improving SKAN’s supply performance in all areas, has meant many internal changes and investments were necessary. Not all were successful!
A case in point is where SKAN normally supply BFM from stock, providing regular deliveries to the Stoke site, with the flexibility to react to short notice fluctuations in build demand. For ROBAX glass ceramic deliveries, we remain 100%!
However some new product development / product launches with complex glass fascias have though not always been plain sailing. Process bottlenecks at SCHOTT in the area of large CNC cut-outs in glass, has been an issue. However pressure applied has now meant that new investment at SCHOTT will provide additional capacity in this area, and should begin to come on stream at the back end of 2007. Customer driven change!
As Neil goes on to say
“Being able to affect change and being instrumental in this, makes the job so much more fulfilling. SKAN has demonstrated the ability to “step-up-to-the mark” and remains an important supply partner for BFM.”
BFM Europe is the fastest growing gas fire manufacturer in the country with an unequalled reputation for quality and service.
BFM’s brand portfolio includes three established consumer brands - Kinder, Flavel and Vermont, with products covering a large range of heating related products.
For more information on ROBAX heat resistant glass, or technical glass, please contact SKAN.
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