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Upcycling
April 1, 2026
What is Upcycling?Recent years have seen a rise in what’s being called ‘upcycling’, a new and improved form of recycling. Recycling generally involves taking one item and reducing it to its raw elements and then building it into something ...
How to work out the diameter of your patio top hole
May 22, 2025
How to work out the diameter of your patio top holeTo ensure a perfect fit got your replacement glass, it’s important to accurately measure the central umbrella/parasol hole in your patio table. Follow these simple steps:
What you’ll need:
A ...
LED Lighting to display food in glass display cases
January 29, 2025
Increase Coffee Shop Sales with Well-Lit FutureGlass DisplaysLighting plays a crucial role in driving sales in coffee shops. FutureGlass display cases use high-quality LED lighting to make food items more visible by eliminating reflections. This ...
The history of Bullet proof glass
July 22, 2020
Futureglass bring you another educational video on the applications and the history of bullet proof glass.
How glass is made
July 22, 2020
How glass is made. An informative video into the production methods of glass.
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How to clean your glass table top most effectively
July 21, 2020
How to clean your glass furniture safely and effectively to improve the look and performance of your products. This includes educational tips on how to improve hygiene and prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses.
Will it break? - Episode 2 Wine bottle vs Glass table
July 20, 2020
Episode 2 of Will it break - Bottle of wine vs Glass table
Will it break? - Episode 1 Coffee mug vs Glass table
July 20, 2020
Episode 1 of 'Will it break?' - We test the durability of a standard Futureglass product to improve our knowledge of our product capabilities whilst having a little fun.
Things you may have never known about glass!
July 1, 2020
Things you may have never known about glass!
Packaging and Transportation of Glass
May 8, 2020
Delivery ServicesOur delivery services are varied. We offer a variety ofdelivery services so you can choose the best balance of reliability, cost,safety, and the environment. We strive for 100% in all.... but are realisticthat although we work hard and ...
Glass Furniture Cleaning and Care
May 8, 2020
Glass furniture shares the need of all furniture for basic maintenance.Specific details are provided with the product and pdf care sheets can be downloaded on the relevant product page, but here we hope that we can give a few tips on cleaning and ...
FAQ's Ordering, Delivery and Ownership
April 19, 2020
Order FulfillmentAs a quality-led manufacturer, we recognise that we must be flexible enough to deliver to exacting requirements and short lead times, yet have strict processes to ensure industry- leading quality. We work to ISO9001 procedures, ...
Office Boardroom Table Removal
April 19, 2020
If we have made the furniture or not, we are happy to use our experience and will relish the challenge to help you get the furniture safely in its new surroundings.Working with large panels and in delicate surroundings, we would love to hear of your ...
Glass and Mirror Furniture Repair Services
April 19, 2020
Futureglass carries out glass repairs for a number of European glass furniture manufacturers, insurance companies and the trade. We design and manufacture our own products using in house machinery which makes us uniquely positioned to repair faulty glass ...
Metal Polishing details
April 19, 2020
To achieve the level and consistency of finish we set for our products, we needed to invest in machinery and expertise. In house finishing allows us to innovate in production techniques.We take care in designing and making fixtures, jigs, and processes ...
Manifestation on Glass
April 19, 2020
Please contact us for information on your project so that we can show the most appropriate processes and finishes whilst ensuring compliance with the laws of the installation.We will, of course, work to architect designs and have access to relevant ...
Mirror and Safety
April 13, 2020
Mirror is annealed glass that has silver applied to the reverse side.Annealed glass is produced without stress so the glass can be cut, drilled, polished and worked.
Toughened glass is heated to point of softening - around 620 °C (1,148 °F). The entire ...
Safety & Glass Tempering
April 13, 2020
Unlike ordinary glass, the glass used in Futureglass products offers the reassurance of conformance to British Standard BS 6206A for maximum safety. Ordinary glass or annealed glass is a brittle material. This is due to the microscopic cracks that exist ...
UV bonding
March 20, 2020
Futureglass designs its products with adhesive joints which offer significant benefits over traditional construction methods. An adhesive joint distributes loads and stresses over the total joint area to give a more even distribution of static and dynamic ...
Why have tables been exploding!
March 20, 2020
Many people wonder, when debating whether or not glass furniture is really for them, if glass furniture is safe. Glass has a reputation for being quite weak and prone to dangerous breakages which, whilst not entirely undeserved, isn’t strictly true. ...
Motion Glass Repair
March 20, 2020
We were approached by a client looking for a motion glass table repair, something we were only too happy to help with. We worked with the client in order to design a table that would best suit his needs. The table we returned to the client was an innovative ...
Printed Glass
March 20, 2020
Futureglass has a wide variety of processes to answer a great number of requirements, one of these is our ability to print on glass. Printing onto glass allows us the ability to create intricate, detailed and unique patterns which then gives you the ...
Seating Arrangements: FAQ
March 20, 2020
Tables come in a wide range of heights and sizes and so it can be confusing trying to work out how many people you might be able to fit around your table, so we thought we would put together this handy guide to shed some light on the situation and hopefully ...
What Is Toughened Glass?
March 17, 2020
Here at Futureglass we use toughened glass as standard on our products, however we appreciate that it might no be immediately obvious what that actually means and so within this article we thought we would explain it.Annealed or ‘standard’ ...
Caring For Your Glass Products
March 17, 2020
Caring for Futureglass contemporary glass furniture is easy and doesn’t take long, so you can spend less time on maintenance and more time on the important things. For clear or unfrosted glass we recommend that you use the soon to be commercially available ...