Everyone at Kopp Glass takes pride in their meticulous attention to detail. It begins the moment you share your idea with us. Every step of the way we’re focused on producing your glass parts as efficiently and as reliably as possible in our fully integrated manufacturing facility. In the end, our decades of experience in glass manufacturing results in custom glass solutions that conform to your rigorous dimensional, performance, and optical specifications. Our strengths include:
Early in the custom development process, the experience of our mold makers and engineers is called upon to optimize your glass part for production. Using industry-leading 3D CAD/CAM software, we analyze the configuration and moldability of your design, create complete master drawings and 3D model assemblies, program and complete all CNC machined production of your tooling in-house. Our machinists not only produce high-quality precision glass molds, but they also have years of experience making the fixtures, formers, gauges, and tools that are used throughout the finishing process of your product.
To ensure optimal material selection, we thoroughly review your application requirements and recommend ideal glass solutions. We can provide you with glass samples to complete validation testing or evaluate properties like light transmission and absorption.
Once your tooling set is complete, we can produce prototypes and pre-production samples for your approval prior to completing full production runs. Many of our customers require a First Article Inspection (FAI) report in accordance with their industry standard to verify that prescribed production methods have resulted in a product that meets their outlined requirements.
Because Kopp specializes in custom, small-lot glass manufacturing, we always have numerous types of glass in melt. This enables you to explore a variety of glass options with minimal lead times. Some clients also choose to work with us in a contract manufacturing capacity – supplying their own proprietary glass cullet or glass composition for Kopp to melt.
Depending on your specifications, we can perform additional fabrication to your molded glass parts, such as precision polishing, improve their mechanical strength through a heat strengthening process, and even add a performance coating. We can further differentiate your product with the following surface treatments and coating:
All of our products pass multiple inspection points to ensure that we meet your dimensional specifications. Many of the products that we manufacture require performance testing to meet an industry specification or requirement. Our in-house team can perform testing to validate:
Kopp Glass regularly reviews our Quality Management System to ensure we consistently deliver exceptionally high-performance glass products to our clients on-time and in-spec. Click here to download the ISO 9001:2015 Certificate.