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	Float glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alastair Pilkington, who was in fact no relation, joined the firm of Pilkington Brothers in St Helens near Liverpool as a technical officer in 1947.
		Pilkington could have decided to use the patents to keep the countries in which the process was protected to itself as export markets.
		Alastair Pilkington became Sir Alastair in 1970, and died in 1995.
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	Group Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pilkington plc is one of the world's largest manufacturers of glass and glazing products for the building and automotive markets, with annual revenues of £2.7 billion (3.96 bn), manufacturing operations in 24 countries, sales in over 130 countries and employing around 23,800 people.
		Pilkington Automotive is one of the world's largest suppliers of automotive glazing products, representing 49 per cent of Group sales, and is sub-divided into two major units supplying original equipment and aftermarket (replacement) glass.
		Pilkington is a technology leader in the global glass industry, spending around £29 million a year on research and development, focused on product development and manufacturing efficiency improvement.
	www.pilkington.nl /careers/graduate/group+overview (374 words)

	Gl@ss Resource.com
		Alastair Pilkington was educated at Sherborne School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
		The ribbon is then cooled down while still on the molten tin, until the surfaces are hard enough for it to be taken out of the bath without rollers marking the bottom surface: so a glass of uniform thickness and with bright, fire-polished surfaces is produced without the need for grinding and polishing.
		One in five of all the cars made in the world use Pilkington glass, and the company is now developing a range of glass auto components, from engine parts to body panels, which are so tough and shatter-proof that within the next decade they could replace much of the steel used in the industry.
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	Glass On Web - PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
		Alastair Pilkington hit on the brilliant idea of changing the way glass was made as he watched his wife washing the dishes at their St Helens home.
		Pilkington Group chief executive, Stuart Chambers, said last night: "This award is really a credit to all those Pilkington engineers, and production employees, who worked on the Float Glass project ove years without ever knowing whether it would be a success.
		Sir Alastair Pilkington (no relation to the glassmaking family empire) was honoured with a knighthood in 1970.
	www.glassonweb.com /news/utils/print.php?id=3083 (702 words)

	Pilkington Glass History thru 1970's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pilkington plc originated in 1826 as the St. Helens Crown Glass Company, founded with the technical knowledge and ability of John William Bell and capital from three of the most influential local families, the Bromilows, the Greenalls and the Pilkingtons.
		Pilkington gradually increased its shareholding in Triplex until by 1965 it was the majority shareholder.
		Pilkington announced the float glass process in 1959 but further development work was necessary before the process could be fully exploited commercially.
	www.glasslinks.com /newsinfo/pilk_history.htm (2262 words)

	Float glass - TheBestLinks.com - Pilkington process, Annealing, Glass, Iron, ...
		Float glass is made by melting glass and feeding a thin layer onto a tank of molten tin in a nitrogen atmosphere.
		Float glass was invented by Alastair Pilkington of Pilkington Brothers in the United Kingdom in the mid 1950s and announced to the world in 1959.
		Prior to the development of float glass, larger sheets of plate glass were made by casting a large puddle of glass on an iron surface and then grinding and polishing both side to smooth clarity, a very expensive process.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Pilkington_process.html (336 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Alastair Pilkington (1920 - 1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Second World War interrupted Pilkington's studies at Cambridge; he was captured on Crete in 1942 and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
		This part of the process rubbed away around twenty per cent of the glass, and the machines were very expensive.
		Pilkington had been experimenting with improving the melting process by floating the molten glass on a bed of molten metal before delivering it to the rollers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/pilkington_alastair.shtml (601 words)

	Old in Ascendant 4/4/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Paolo Scaroni joined Pilkington as chief executive in May 1997 he knew he had a vast job in trying to restore the company to its former glory.
		The technique was invented in 1952 by Sir Alastair Pilkington, a very distant cousin of the original Pilkington family which started the business back in 1826.
		Many analysts argue that Pilkington's downfall was that it rested on its laurels for too long and then found itself seriously under-performing in what had become a highly competitive marketplace.
	www.hemscott.com /hstoday/focus/pilkington_2610.htm (683 words)

	Alastair Pilkington - TheBestLinks.com - Bank of England, Trinity College, Cambridge, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a ...
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		Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington known as Sir Alastair Pilkington (1920-1995) was the inventor of Float_glass.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Alastair_Pilkington.html (115 words)

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		Pilkington was founded in 1826 and remained a privatecompany until 1970 when shares were issued on the London Stock Exchange.
		At the heart of Pilkington's business is the float glass process - invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952 - which manufactures clear, tinted and coated glass for buildings, and clear and tinted glass for vehicles.
		Pilkington makes products to help control energy usage, to protect against fire, to insulate against noise, to provide safety and security, to afford decoration and privacy, and to build all-glass facades.
	company.monster.com /pilk (769 words)

	TMF: FRE v PILK - Response / Freeserve / Wanadoo (WAN)
		At the outset it should be made clear that I have nothing against Pilkington either as a company or as a share - indeed, I am a beneficiary of it's wonderful Pilkington K glass that helps reduce energy bills, reduce condensation, reduces greenhouse gases and saves the ozone layer - all very Foolish.
		Of course, under Paulo Scaroni's direction, Pilkington seems to have recognised some of it's major issues by changing it's top management and cutting costs and, as such, if you had bought at it's low point in Jan 1999, you would have seen a rise of close on a 100%.
		Patent Protected........YES.............NO The Pilkington Float Glass Process (that is at the heart of it's manufacturing operations) was invented in by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952.
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		Sir Alastair was described by the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, Professor Sir David Williams, 'as the most influential lay man in the history of the University since the Middle Ages'.
		He was not a member of the glass-making family but he spent his entire career with Pilkington Brothers Ltd, joining in 1947 as a technical assistant and serving as Chairman from 1973-80 and subsequently as President.
		Sir Alastair believed in the importance of teaching and it was through a generous donation from him that the Cambridge Foundation was able to establish annual Teaching Prizes last year.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /univ/newsletter/1995/newsletter-6-4/people.html (1066 words)

	Talk:Glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ancient Egyptian glass (circa 1500 BC) is a soda-lime-silica glass that is not that different compsitionally from modern container and plate glass manufactured today.
		Well Alastair Pilkington is famous for the invention of float glass.
		I'm pretty sure it used to be called Pilkington Glass and it now seems to be just Pilkington, but there is a good chance that it was called Pilkingtons with the extra 's' some time in between (not that the article on Pilkington Glass tells you much).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Glass (4618 words)

	God save the CEO
		The inventor of float glass was Sir Alastair Pilkington, who went on to succeed Lord (Harry) Pilkington as chairman of the company.
		It was when he described his investigations into early Pilkingtons to the St Helens family that the glassmakers had the happy idea of offering a job to a Reading Pilkington: a whim that was to prove the best decision they ever made.
		But Pilkington long ago became a public company and the days of such serendipity are over.
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	ChIN's Summary Page: Pilkington
		Pilkington is one of the world's largest manufacturers of glass and glazing products for building, automotive and related technical markets.
		Founded in 1826, Pilkington is recognised as the world's technological leader in glass.
		The Float Process, invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1959, is used throughout the world to produce high quality glass for buildings and vehicles.
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		Pilkington was founded in 1826 and remained a private company until 1970 when shares were issued on the London Stock Exchange.
		Pilkington is one of the world's largest suppliers of toughened and laminated safety glass for cars, trucks and buses - one in four of the world's cars contains Pilkington products.
		Pilkington also makes a range of technical glass products including very thin float glass for the electronics industry, automotive mirrors and solar panels for energy generation.
	www.chinabmi.com /company/baiqiang/english/1998/2.htm (1779 words)

	Alastair Pilkington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, better known as Sir Alastair Pilkington (1920-1995) was the inventor of Float glass.
		He was chairman of Pilkington Glass from 1980 - 1995, prior to which he had been the company's technical director.
		Pilkington PLC biography, from the Pilkington Glass website
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alastair_Pilkington (94 words)

	Precinct - Article 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was an internationally-renowned scientist, industrialist and business leader but here in the University of Liverpool we will remember him best as a marvellous friend and supporter of our University during his many years as a member of our Council and during his all too brief Chancellorship.
		He was not a member of the glass-making family but he spent his entire career with Pilkington Brothers Ltd., joining the company in 1947 as a technical assistant and serving as Chairman from 1973-80 and subsequently as President.
		He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969, knighted in 1970 and received doctorates and fellowships from 13 academic institutions, including the University of Liverpool, as well as numerous scientific awards.
	www.connecthosting.biz /precinct/June95/Jun95_Art_1.html (341 words)

	INKYTEXT 82 - VE Day Edition
		Sir Alastair, this being his own choice of forename, was a research scientist, engineer and former chairman of Pilkington's plc (although, curiously, he was not related to the Pilkingtons who own the company).
		Sir Alastair, the inventor of float glass, was, like his predecessor as Pro-Chancellor, W D Opher of Vickers, deservedly respected.
		Rather than seeking to teach them something which his company could do better, he urged, departments should produce sound general scientists who were whole people: sane, literate, wordly-wise, able to collaborate and communicate in their own and other languages.
	www.maths.lancs.ac.uk /~rowlings/Inkytext/InkyPrev/msg00087.html (4802 words)

	Portrait Unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A portrait of the late Sir Alastair Pilkington was unveiled at the meeting of Court, in November, 1998.
		The portrait of Sir Alastair, Chancellor of the University from 1994- 95, was unveiled by the present Chancellor, Lord Owen, in the presence of Mrs Rosalind Christian, Sir Alastair's daughter, and members of her family.
		Mrs Christian said that it gave her family great pleasure to see the portrait of her father in the University, adding that Sir Alastair himself, because he was a surprisingly modest man, would have seen it with a mixture of pride and embarrassment.
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	Caithness CWS - Front Page Bulletins - June 2002 - Northlands Glass
		On July 4th H.R.H. The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, will officially open the ‘ALASTAIR PILKINGTON STUDIO’, the latest addition to Lybster’s now renowned international centre of excellence in glass making situated in the Scottish Highlands.
		The studio is housed in a handsome newly refurbished limestone building, once the old school and dating from 1877, which has been transformed into a fully equipped modern glass workshop and studio.
		The building was purchased by proceeds from the sale of Sir Alastair Pilkington’s collection of contemporary glass after his death in 1997, generously donated by his widow Lady Pilkington.
	www.caithness.org /fpb/june2002/glass.htm (329 words)

	Hetherington, Alastair -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Scottish journalist who served as editor of the Daily Record from 1946 to 1955 and of the Scotsman from 1956 to 1972 and turned the latter paper from dull to lively and vital; he was also active in the arts and public affairs and in 1972 became an oil industry executive (b.
		When Kenneth Grahame's small son Alastair went on a vacation, he asked his father to continue his bedtime stories by mail.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342325?tocId=9342325 (392 words)

	Madhukar Shukla, XLRI, Creativity, Stories, Online Book
		The discovery of float glass technology by Sir Alastair Pilkington was major breakthrough in solving this problem.
		When he joined the company, Pilkington Brothers, Sir Alastair started dreaming of combining the continuous flow, fire polish, and inexpensiveness of sheet with distortion-free quality of polished plate.
		Sir Alastair assembled a team of engineers, foremen and workers to start working on the project.
	www.geocities.com /madhukar_shukla/crebook/63.html (417 words)

	H2Gen - Float Glass Manufacturing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The flat, clear glass panes commonly used in windows are produced using the "float" process.
		Invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in the mid-twentieth century, the method involves "floating" molten glass on a bed of molten tin.
		Tin is highly susceptible to oxidation in this state, making it necessary to carry out the process in a reducing atmosphere of approximately 10% hydrogen and 90% nitrogen.
	www.h2gen.com /applications_glass.htm (109 words)

	Press Centre Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Over half of Pilkington's sales are in Europe, just under a third are in North America and the rest in South America and Australasia.
		The Float process, invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952 - now the world standard for high quality glass manufacture.
		Pilkington is recognised as the world's technological leader in glass, spends £29 million a year on RandD.
	www.pilkington.nl /press+centre (194 words)

	Technical Information
		The float process - invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952, is now used to make 90% of the worlds window glass.
		The easiest way to achieve the new U values, will be to use double glazed sealed units with be a minimum of one pane float glass, one pane Pilkington K, with a spacer of at least 12mm and these must be Kite Marked as a quality assurance guarantee.
		Our systems extruder, Synseal, have assured us that their products when used with sealed units incorporating Pilkington K will comply with Document L. Secondary glazing to an existing frame is exempt from Document L and offers a way of lowering U values to existing windows.
	www.leicesterglass.co.uk /Technical/Technical.htm (2507 words)

	School Works Developments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the time of writing, the building has been handed over to the School and we are going through the inevitable snagging process.
		This fine building, of which the School can be proud, was formally opened on Saturday 13 May and named the Pilkington Laboratories by Mrs Rosalind Christian, daughter of Sir Alastair Pilkington (g 33-38), an eminent scientist.
		Present at the opening were Sir Alan Campbell (a 32-37), a past Chairman of Governors and a contemporary of Sir Alastair's, and the architect, Sir Michael Hopkins (h 49-52).
	www.bonshaw.demon.co.uk /os/2000/dev.htm (529 words)

	Ten awarded Pilkington Teaching Prizes for excellence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ten members of staff from the University of Cambridge have been recognised for their excellence in teaching at the annual Pilkington Teaching Prizes.
		Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University, presented the 2004 Pilkington Teaching Prizes to the ten winners last night (July 8) at the Cass Centre at Cambridge University Press.
		The awards were set up by the late Sir Alastair Pilkington, former Chairman of the Cambridge Foundation and inventor of the 'float' method of glass making which revolutionised the industry in the 1960s.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2004070801 (240 words)

	Teaching excellence rewarded with Pilkington Prizes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eleven members of academic staff at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Pilkington Prizes for 2005 in recognition of their excellence in teaching.
		Dr Paul Siklos, a winner this year, joins his brother, Dr Stephen Siklos of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, who was awarded a Pilkington prize in 1999.
		The Pilkington Prizes were set up by the late Sir Alastair Pilkington, former Chairman of the Cambridge Foundation.
	www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_166261 (263 words)

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