GS-MR GLASS AND STONE: IG-L ROBOTIC GLASS LOADING SYSTEM

The global Insulated Glass Unit industry (IGU) continues to face multiple challenges impacting upon manufacturing performance.

These challenges are firmly on the radar of every IGU manufacturer.

The mission for any industry manufacturer is to achieve defined, lean manufacturing, meeting or exceeding environmental and safety responsibilities, whilst reducing unnecessary costs.

The IGU industry utilizes technology, combined with historical manual handling processes, yet has resisted in taking advantage of automation and the advantages it affords. In listening to Press Glass UK’s concerns in 2018, and challenging an historical manual industry process, GS-MR developed the IG-L Robotic Glass Loading System; the automated solution to manual glass loading onto IGU processing lines. GS-MR’s IG-L contributes to future proofing the IGU industry, facilitating previously unavailable advantages, enabling reductions in materials wastage, improvements in quality and productivity, reduced safety issues, enabling employee upskilling. Following multiple installations, with its proactive, industry leading verification software and operational process, Press Glass UK acknowledge GS-MR’s IG-L as the automated alternative for safe, cost-effective, consistent loading of glass from vertical stillages onto IGU processing lines.

GS-MR have been granted patents for our unique IG-L operational process both in the UK and USA, with patents pending in Europe and Australia.