MANUFACTURE

Everything begins with the careful selection of raw materials.

The primary components for the high art of glassmaking are quartz sand, lead oxide and potash.

The careful and precise mixing of components is performed here by machine.

The ingredients are melted at approx. 1500°C in a tank.

At the machine, the liquid glass can either be pressed in a mould?

... or blown in a mould

Machine pressed Crystal

The products goes through a number of production steps

Fire polishing gives the product an even surface and shine.

After machine pressing resp. blowing the items are eventually cooling down at approx. 500°C.

Modern technology ensures success and a high quality.

The delicate work of the glass cutter makes glass an object of craft and art.

The stained layers are removed and cutting areas lightened with the modern mirror finish polish. All traces of acid are removed and processed.

Heart and soul have been invested into every piece of lead crystal from Nachtmann - and it is treated accordingly.

Inspection is important - every piece is subject to precise quality control.

Whether goblets, cups, vases, bowls or lightning glass, all the different pieces have one thing in common: their perfection.

Up to 70 different product series are packaged each day and sent on their way to glass lovers throughout the world.

The future has already begun at the Weiden plant. The lead crystal plant was the first in Europe to use the enviromentally friendly polishing method with fluorosulphuric acid. Nachtmann has been awarded numerous ernvorimental prizes for this procedure.