Glass for electric appliances such as household appliances and freezers, Optical glass; radiation shielding glass; CD/DVD mastering discs; technical - small batch bespoke compositions.

Utilising the same continuous melting units that manufacture optical glass Pilkington produces Pilkington Med-X™, a high quality X-Ray shielding glass.

Pilkington mastering discs are made exclusively from specially produced Pilkington float glass, providing seamless control from the very first step of manufacture.

Pilkington’s technical product service is built on over forty years of knowledge and experience in specialist glass development and manufacture.

New products and applications require a high degree of customisation. Pilkington meets these requirements through its technical product service backed by the facilities of the Pilkington European Technical Centre.

Batch composition, melting and annealing schedules and product control plans are generated specifically for each customer. Production volumes can also be widely varied. In addition to our main glass melting facility with capacity for hundreds of tonnes, specially developed melting technology allows for quantities as small as 35kg to be produced.

Examples of products developed through the Pilkington technical product service for exacting, specialist functions include:

• Matched expansion glasses for glass-metal sealing
• Ion exchange glasses for optical waveguides
• Filter glasses for laser protection
• Controlled dissolution glasses
• Precision optical substrates
• Fibre-optic core glasses
• Decorative glasses
• Heat filters