Items which are available faster are marked by * in the catalogue. Though it does not indicate any definate period of delivery, these items can be manufactured faster than the other items of its range. For example, Pipe section PS18/1000 can be supplied faster than any other pipe section of 450DN. This is because of following reasons:

• Semi finish goods or row material for these items will be always avilable.
• Method of production of these items are set.
• Being fast moving items, these items may be available ex-stock with us.

Though any damaged glass equipment can be repaired, mostly it is not economical to do so. Generally the repair which involves less than a third of its original work, is worth to carry out repairing. Repair work is costly because:

1. It generally require greater skill than making a new one.
2. Since it involves high risk of total breakage, the risk of total loss of time spent on its repairing goes alongwith.
3. The work involved in receiving a damaged equipment, identifying it throughout the handling, cleaning it, estimating its repairing charges, re-estimating the repairing charges in case damage extends etc are relatively expensive.
4. Each job require individual attention throughout the execution.

In this catalougue, dimensions, weights and other specificaions are taken more or less in accordance with Corning. This is to keep the flexibility of maximum interchange ability. However, some difference are unavoidable due to local manufacturing conditions. All the odd dimensions are rounded off.

All the dimensions and weights are approximate. The specifications given in the catalogue are intended to present a general description of the items. Since manufacturing of glass equipment involves all manual operations, certain tolerances are obvious and permissible while passing the items through quality control.

To avoid querries and delays in delivery, please always quote the catalogue reference in your order.

We reserve the right to carry out technical modifications of products and data mentioned in this catalogue as and when require.

Tapered glass joints are predominantly used in industrial glass equipments. This design has a high ratio of radial to axial force, which frequently leads to breakage while tightening the flange joints.

XTRONG joints are parctically many times stronger then conventional tapered joints, As far as tightening of joints are concern, it is tested that a  XTRONG joint does not break even at a torque of 20Nm, as against tapered joints, which starts breaking at 6-7 Nm torque. At times it may happen that because of over tightening, a metal backing flange breaks or the threads of nut-bolts give way but XTRONG glass joint remains intact.

Most of the old glass installations in general contain equipments with tapered glass joints. XTRONG joints are fully compatible with these tapered joints i.e. an XTRONG equipment can replace another tapered equipment and vice versa in any existing unit. This interchangeability makes XTRONG design more adaptable in general conditions and change over cost is negligible .

XTRONG joints have been developed, to arrest the frequent breakage and leakage problems. The XTRONG joints are so designed that the harmful radial stresses are dramatically reduced. For a given axial force the radial forces are 14 times lesser than that in tapered joints.

In addition to reducing the stresses, the XTRONG joint has the following advantages :