Vacuum Pump Spares for Glass
Vacuum pump spares for architectural glass coaters (low-E, anti-reflective, solar-control), automotive glass plants, VIG (vacuum insulating glazing) lines, and display-glass production. Edwards iXM/iXH, Leybold DRYVAC and MAG, plus large mechanical boosters in UK stock.
Vacuum pumps are used in the glass industry for thin-film coating of architectural and automotive glass (low-E, anti-reflective, solar-control), vacuum insulating glazing (VIG) manufacture, vacuum-assisted glass forming and lifting, cathode ray tube and display glass production, and large-scale PVD/sputtering chambers in glass-coating lines.
Where vacuum is used in Glass
We supply spare parts to support every vacuum-based process in this sector — from frontline production equipment to laboratory and quality-assurance instrumentation.
Architectural glass coating
Large-area magnetron sputtering of low-E, solar-control, anti-reflective, and self-cleaning coatings on float-glass production lines.
Automotive glass coating
Heated windscreens, head-up display reflective coatings, and IR-reflective solar coatings on vehicle glazing.
Vacuum insulating glazing (VIG)
Sealed double-pane glass with an evacuated cavity (~10⁻³ mbar) for super-insulating windows.
Display glass manufacturing
Coating and processing of glass substrates for LCD, OLED, and touchscreen displays.
Vacuum-assisted glass forming and bending
Mould-cavity evacuation during automotive windscreen bending and laminate manufacture.
Vacuum lifting of float glass
Suction-cup end-effectors on robotic glass handling — large-area vacuum cups for full sheets.
Solar PV manufacturing
Thin-film deposition on PV cover glass; vacuum lamination of crystalline silicon modules.
Glass fibre production
Vacuum-controlled fibre forming for insulation and composite reinforcement.
Which pump types are used and why
Different applications in glass drive different pump-technology choices. We support the full breadth of pump types installed in this sector.
Brand Affinities
- •Edwards GXS and iXH on glass-coating production lines
- •Leybold DRYVAC and SCREWLINE on architectural and automotive coating
- •Leybold TURBOVAC MAG on display glass high-vacuum chambers
- •Pfeiffer HiPace on display and optical coating
- •Pfeiffer OktaLine and Edwards GXS Roots boosters on large coating chambers
- •Busch and Atlas Copco side-channel blowers on glass-lifting end-effectors
Large dry screw pumps and dry roots multi-stage
Glass-coating lines need oil-free roughing to maintain coating quality — Edwards GXS/iXH, Leybold DRYVAC/SCREWLINE.
Mechanical boosters (Roots blowers)
High-throughput coating chambers — boosters in series with primary dry pumps to maintain pumping speed at low pressure.
Turbomolecular pumps
Display glass and high-end optical coating where ultra-low base pressure (10⁻⁷ mbar) is required.
Side-channel and regenerative blowers
Vacuum-lifter handling of float glass — high cycle, low vacuum level, oil-free.
The cost of vacuum downtime in glass
Float-glass coating lines run as continuous production — a single dry-pump failure on a coater stops the entire line, with downtime typically £50k–£200k per hour in lost output plus the cost of out-of-spec glass scrapped during ramp-down and re-establishment. Glass-coating chambers are temperature-cycled to clean, so a recovery from outage adds hours of re-establishment before quality glass restarts. JIT supply with held exchange stock for the largest dry pumps is a real differentiator.
Coating-residue powder accumulation in dry pump mechanism
Full mechanism overhaul kits, exchange units
Booster bearing wear under continuous high-duty cycle
Bearing kits, gear sets, timing-gear oil
Turbo bearing failure from particulate ingress on chamber vents
Bearing service kits or full pump exchange
Vacuum-lifter check-valve wear from high-cycle duty
Inlet check valve assemblies and seal kits
Standards and frameworks our supply must support
- ISO 9001 — quality management
- EN 1279 — sealed insulating glass units (including VIG)
- EN 14179 — heat-soaked thermally-toughened safety glass
- Automotive ECE R43 — safety glazing
- REACH / RoHS on coating chemistries
- Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC (UKCA)
Most-installed brands in this sector
Common questions about vacuum spares for glass
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