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volatize the binder and fuse the tiny glass particles into a non-porous, vacuum-tight structure. Multiform allows intricate shapes, close tolerances, holes and smaller radii to be formed economically in glass. By its use the desirable characteristics of glass can be incorporated in designs having physical shapes and sizes impractical for molten glass technique. Its future value in saving time and labour seems boundless, and it may well uncover new production methods. Other recent discoveries new ways of coating glass with an electrically conducting surface layer, are suggesting adventurous possibilities in many branches of electrical work and already resistors, capacitors and heating tubes in glass are nearing the production stage.
Imaginative research plus close co-operation
with industry and science
From fairly modest beginnings in the industrial and scientific field, Pyrex has grown to a dominant, and still expanding, position. Its success has been due not to the unique virtues of Pyrex glass, but to imaginative research and continual co-operation with those industrialists and scientists whose needs Pyrex helps to satisfy.
The world-wide use of Pyrex
Scientific and Industrial Glassware
The Pyrex tubing, the Gripseal joints, the test-tubes and beakers many of the 800 or so varieties of Pyrex scientific and industrial apparatus made by the men in the Jobling factory are exported. The scientists in medicine and industry in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Yugoslavia, are almost as familiar with Pyrex glassware in their work as are our own. Most of the Scandinavian countries Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland are increasing their demands for Pyrex for scientific use. Further afield in the Commonwealth New Zealand and Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Burma, Malaya, Hong Kong and the West Indies Pyrex is helping to fight disease and to aid and improve industrial development. China, Egypt, West Africa, Iran and Iraq Pyrex is used by them all. It should indeed be a source of pride to the men who make Pyrex that the glassware they fashion is exported by Britain to each of the five continents.
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