1974

Float line Gladbeck I

The new float line produced the first glass on 26th of March 1974.

Flachglas AG’s first float line came on stream in 1974. The first glass was produced on March 26 after only 18 months of construction.
On December 18, 1980, without interruption since its ramp-up, the line had produced an endless band of glass measuring 42,300 km – equivalent to once around the globe.