Since glass was first discovered, carbonaceous materials have been used to handle and shape it from the molten form into useable items.
Modern day bottle and container producers require materials that are abrasion resistant and have thermal properties that do not cause defects in the final product.
Graphite is used extensively for ware handling parts such as dead plates, sweep outs and stacker bars and much closer to the glass furnace for guide tubes and gob deflectors.
In the decorative glass industry, blow moulds used to make a wide variety of glassware are made from graphite. In this case it is the thermal properties and the ease of machining complex forms that make graphite the ideal material.
Tokai Carbon has a range of graphites that are most suitable for all of these applications.
