HEGLA TaiFin philosophy

In silent mourning, we say farewell to our company founder, longstanding Managing Director and Executive Board Member Siegfried Glaser.

In manufacturing plants, maintenance and service are essential. Preventive maintenance is useful on the one hand in helping to prevent the occasional production stoppage, while regular checks are also required in order to satisfy safety regulations.

Visit us at glasstec in Düsseldorf from 20 to 23 September 2022.

With several donations to non-profit associations and organisations as appropriate for the Christmas season, the HEGLA Group from Beverungen has shown its solidarity with the region for the fifth year in a row.

The HEGLA Group, based in Beverungen, Germany, has expanded and restructured its leadership team in order to advance the company according to its sustainable growth strategy in the long term.

In response to the new surge in coronavirus cases and the unpredictable dynamics of the pandemic, the HEGLA Group has decided to cancel its participation in the Vitrum trade fair.

The HEGLA Group’s range of topics at Vitrum could scarcely be wider, but it is an example of just how diversely the glass industry has developed in recent years.

You can find the HEGLA Group at Vitrum in hall 22P booth number U01-Z08.

With direct access to additional types of products and lower handling costs, a compact storage system for glass contributes to improved workflows and greater flexibility. The individual storage positions are mounted side by side on rails to save space. For removal, an opening is created either manually or automatically so that the glass can be removed quickly without prior re-sorting.

More often than not, it’s the minor activities and extra jobs on the side that take up staff time and inhibit productivity. While optimisation almost always refers to machines and their availability, digital support for staff holds the promise of additional potential, too.

Gaining digital added value and simplifying workflows are the focus of the HEGLA Shop-Floor app, which is available in tablet and smartphone versions.

ES-GuardS, the advanced laser marking system from HEGLA boraident, makes non-destructive, permanent marks on glass without influencing the material’s properties. If the marking is made in the form of a QR or data matrix code, the pane will be uniquely identifiable at all times. And if the marking process is fully automated and carried out prior to cutting, later mix-ups will be virtually impossible.

Start your professional future at HEGLA and find out about your career opportunities at one of the most successful mechanical engineering companies in the local area at the digital STEP 1 from January 18 to February 12, 2021.

Industry 4.0 is one of the most-watched issues in the glass sector. While this term still describes a coherent, albeit somewhat broad, vision of the future with many buzzwords from a scientific point of view, many questions as to how it can be implemented in practice remain unanswered.

The glass production of the future will be fully networked and digitalized. Alongside digital support for employees, it will provide quick insight into machine capacity and even the current position of a specific pane.

The high-resolution laser marking from HEGLA boraident is machine-readable, making it ideal for the unique identification of window and door profiles.

Regardless of a new trade fair date, the vehicle special "Fensterbau Frontale-Edition" will be available from 18.3.2020.

The laws of physics cannot really resolve it: glass that features a low-E or another type of wear layer to improve its insulating properties, has a significantly reduced heat transfer coefficient, which improves the pane’s thermal insulation. The down side, however, is that the layer minimises the pane’s level of penetrability for high-frequency wireless communication waves. Communication with mobile phones or tablets is only limited in the best case scenario and impossible in the worst. Physically speaking, the problem is easy enough to identify. if the panes or the glass front are finished with a metallic coating, the building envelope acts like a Faraday cage involving a large proportion of glass and metal. This either prevents the penetration of wireless communications entirely or severely impairs them as a result of the unintentional reflection of the signals.

HEGLA and Glaston Corporation have decided to terminate their cooperation agreement due to changes in the companies’ competitive positions. The agreement, which was entered into in 2012 by Bystronic Lenhardt GmbH, Conzzeta AG, HEGLA GmbH & Co. KG, and LEWAG Holding AG, will be terminated by year-end 2019.

Scoring, breaking, heating and separating is the tried-and-tested rule of thumb used to describe the mechanical separation of laminated glass. The Beverungen-based mechanical engineering company HEGLA, which specialises in the glass industry, is currently demonstrating that it might be worth taking a closer look at, and even improving, procedures of this kind – even if they are already considered mature.

On 1 August 2019, the ground-breaking ceremony was held for the new HEGLA production site in Stockbridge, Henry County, Georgia (USA). In a jovial, buoyant atmosphere, the representatives of the LEWAG Holding AG Executive Board, Jochen Hesselbach, Frank Schürmann, and Andreas Wiegran, HEGLA Group CEO Bernhard Hötger, and HEGLA Corp. CEO Elmar Zeidler laid the cornerstone of the new production site while Mayor Anthony Ford, the entire HEGLA Corp. team, and other officials and people involved in the project looked on.

It’s easy to describe the standard equipment for a glass and window transport van. If companies would like to take advantage of additional options they should seek advice on conversion in line with their specific needs.

There are as many good reasons to pin information or product data to a processed glass panel as there are for chalk marking or sticking down labels. As a new process with expanded functionality, laser marking with its enhanced features is becoming increasingly popular.

This year, Glasstec (2018) once again surpassed its reputation as the leading trade fair for glass - this is the verdict of Bernhard Hötger, Managing Director of HEGLA, who was in the midst of the action on behalf of the company for no less than the eighteenth time. The MD is certain that visitors hoping to gain inspiration from the latest trends and visions for the future found plenty to interest them, as did those who wished to learn about the latest machines, equipment and concepts.

The opportunities, possibilities and potential of the digital future are at the centre of the HEGLA-HANIC GmbH vision, the founding of which was agreed between the shareholders of machine and equipment manufacturer HEGLA and software specialist HANIC. Jochen H. Hesselbach (LEWAG Holding AG CEO) and Heinz-Dietmar Hantke (HANIC founder and shareholder) described the strategic background to this decision: “With HEGLA-HANIC GmbH, we will be able to combine and further strengthen both companies’ efforts in embarking on a course towards Industry 4.0 and the associated holistic view and optimisation of our customers’ value chain in an ideal manner.”

Following a very brief period of insolvency after the company fell into financial difficulties, the 17 employees of boraident in Halle an der Saale (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) can breathe a sigh of relief. The HEGLA Group, headquartered in Beverungen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (with approx. 550 employees worldwide), is taking over the site on 5th October, 2017. All current employees and patents will be incorporated into the newly founded HEGLA boraident GmbH & Co. KG.

“The success of a company is always dependent upon its employees working together for a common objective”, says HEGLA’s Managing Director, Manfred Vollbracht. This makes it all the more gratifying to honour six employees for having been with the company for 25 years. “There are two distinct advantages of their remaining loyal to the company for so many years. One is that these employees are a great fund of experience for a hi-tech company like HEGLA. And the other is the human factor that friendships and personal appreciation grow and develop in this time”.

Production processes are typically the first place companies think about when considering cost-saving potential and they often don’t look further. But a long-length storage system that is perfectly harmonised with the processes can help to increase any company’s flexibility and reduce costs.

The good mood was clearly visible to the HEGLA managing directors Manfred Vollbracht and Bernhard Hötger when they were able to congratulate six employees on their 25th company anniversary during a small celebration. "These people have been a part of HEGLA for so long and have been committed to the success of the company with their work. A wonderful occasion to celebrate together and to appreciate the time we spent together", explained Manfred Vollbracht.

At a big party last Friday (16 October), the employees and managers celebrated the 25th anniversary of HEGLA Kretzschau.

HEGLA presented RAPIDCUT KT, a new standalone cutting line, to coincide with glasstec 2014. At the same time, this replaces the Formline KT that is established in the market. Technically, the main difference between the two cutting machines is the electromagnetic linear drives used in the RAPIDCUT KT. The result of this drive technology, with which HEGLA has also initiated a generation shift to standalone lines, is even more precise cutting results and minimal maintenance.