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01/22/2021

HEGLA expands its customer and service activities in the Asia/Pacific and MENA regions

The German HEGLA Group has announced in January 2021 that it will expand its customer and service activities in the Asia/Pacific and MENA regions.

[Translate to English:] HEGLA Repräsentation Asia/MENA

10/30/2020

New HEGLA Corp. location opens: expanded resources with first local production facility

After a construction phase of about one year, HEGLA Corp. has officially opened its new headquarters in Stockbridge, Henry County in the State of...

10/13/2020

Industry 4.0 as an approach to developing the value chain of the future

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...

07/27/2020

HEGLA app: Close digitalisation gaps, improve processes

The glass production of the future will be fully networked and digitalized. Alongside digital support for employees, it will provide quick insight...

HEGLA-HANIC Digitization and Industry 4.0

06/04/2020

Digitalisation and the smart factory as an integrated concept for glass-processing companies

Many companies in the glass-processing industry have enough machine and system capacity to process their customer orders.

06/02/2020

glasstec postponed

Distance rules, travel restrictions, and the still unpredictable dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic make Messe Düsseldorf's decision to postpone...

05/06/2020

HEGLA V-H 150 seculift with safety check function for smart, secure glass handling

With the new V-H 150 seculift, HEGLA and the HEGLA New Technology present a new generation of the V-H suction device.

02/11/2020

Storage, handling, logistics, and digitalisation: the focus at Fensterbau

It’s usually the habitual, mundane or unremarkable procedures that take too much time or make life at work more difficult. For HEGLA and HEGLA...

02/04/2020

Laser-treated glass suitable for wireless communications

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...

01/31/2020

HEGLA bids farewell to retirees and honours longstanding employees

The yearly event held to honour longstanding employees and say farewell to staff entering their well-earned retirement is always a highlight of the...

Glass finishing Laserbird HEGLA boraident

12/04/2019

Custom laser glass finishing

Laser finishing can be used to produce custom, functional and decorative glass products. The trend towards new applications in this segment has not...

11/29/2019

Partnership between HEGLA and Bystronic glass terminated in mutual agreement

HEGLA and Glaston Corporation have decided to terminate their cooperation agreement due to changes in the companies’ competitive positions. The...

10/02/2019

New heating technology: HEGLA shortens cycle time in LSG cutting

Scoring, breaking, heating and separating is the tried-and-tested rule of thumb used to describe the mechanical separation of laminated glass. The...

09/06/2019

HEGLA now has a majority stake in TAIFIN Glass Machinery Oy, the manufacturer of tempering furnaces for safety glass

The German HEGLA Group announced that on 5 September 2019 in Nokia, Finland, it signed a sales agreement with the current stockholders of TAIFIN Glass...

08/09/2019

HEGLA Corp. New building: Ground-breaking ceremony for the first HEGLA production site outside Germany

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,...

08/08/2019

Three times the expertise: The HEGLA Group focuses on performance in its exhibition at Vitrum

Under the trade fair slogan “Three times the expertise”, the HEGLA Group presentation at Vitrum 2019 in Milan will focus on solutions for the...

07/30/2019

HEGLA invests in innovation centre for new technology

The requirements of future markets, the opportunities of digitalisation, and new processes for the surface functionalisation and structuring of glass...

04/19/2019

Laser Marking: the Smooth Permanent Tracking Method

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....

02/07/2019

HEGLA celebrates long-standing current and retired former employees

“In today’s fast-paced times, people rarely work for the same company for decades. It is therefore extremely important to us that this year, we are...

11/21/2018

HEGLA: Puts spotlight on automation, process optimisation and cutting laminated safety glass at glasstec

This year, Glasstec (2018) once again surpassed its reputation as the leading trade fair for glass - this is the verdict of Bernhard Hötger, Managing...

08/16/2018

HEGLA appoints additional Managing Director and authorised signatories

The HEGLA Group, based in Beverungen, has made changes to its management team to further the consistent and long-term development of the company in...

06/27/2018

HEGLA-HANIC GmbH places focus on digital future and Industry 4.0

The opportunities, possibilities and potential of the digital future are at the centre of the HEGLA-HANIC GmbH vision, the founding of which was...

08/23/2018

HEGLA presents solutions for the present and future of glass processing

The HEGLA Group, HEGLA-HANIC and HEGLA boraident will be exhibiting jointly at the glasstec trade fair in Düsseldorf under the motto “Shaping the...

10/06/2017

Expertise in glass and laser applications: Newly founded HEGLA boraident secures jobs and know-how in Halle (Saale)

Following a very brief period of insolvency after the company fell into financial difficulties, the 17 employees of boraident in Halle an der Saale...

09/04/2017

HEGLA Beverungen: Manfred Vollbracht steps into retirement

After more than 41 years of active involvement, HEGLA Managing Director Manfred Vollbracht has retired shortly before his 66th birthday. “At some...

07/21/2017

HEGLA places Vitrum focus on LSG model-cutting and linear drive technology

With solutions and concepts for the scoring of shapes in laminated glass, HEGLA will play a part in the international rendezvous of the glass industry...

12/12/2016

Hegla jubilarians and pensioners

“The success of a company is always dependent upon its employees working together for a common objective”, says HEGLA’s Managing Director, Manfred...

11/21/2016

Laminated safety glass cutting by HEGLA – new-generation ProLam meets our vision of the future

In the spirit of Glasstec 2016, HEGLA introduced a new generation of the ProLam laminated glass cutting system while at the same time providing a...

11/09/2016

40 years of HEGLA from toolmaking workshop to globally recognised specialist supplier

750 guests accepted the invitation of the Beverungen-based HEGLA Group to attend their 40th birthday celebrations in the Stadthalle in Beverungen. A...

05/10/2016

Language certificate rewards leisure time commitment

Twelve pupils at the secondary school in Beverungen in North Rhine-Westphalia

step up to participate in the telc European language certificate. For...

12/10/2015

HEGLA honours long-standing employees

The good mood was clearly visible to the HEGLA managing directors Manfred Vollbracht and Bernhard Hötger when they were able to congratulate six...

11/11/2015

Process automation in glass cutting — the potential of robotic technology

Robots appear in any science fiction story. For many, they are synonymous with technical progress. In glass cutting, however, they are seldom used —...

10/26/2015

Glass transfer automation raises competitiveness

Automation is increasingly the trend in the insulating glass sector. Technology is being used to improve the quality of the products and processes,...

09/02/2015

HEGLA celebrates official opening of Plant 3 - an extra 10,000 m² of production space

The addition of almost 10,000 m² of production space marks yet another investment by HEGLA in the Beverungen site. On Friday, 28th August 2015, the...

02/06/2015

RAPIDCUT KT – Standalone Cutting Table with Linear Drive

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...