Re: O/T Pilks factory to close : Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:25 pm  

edon10 wrote:

IIRC most of the float process went to Pilks other factory at Kirk Sandall Doncaster.They shifted employees there to man the process there,like they did when Pilks first went to Kirk Sandall in 1934 i think.

The only float tanks currently in the UK are UK5, UK6 (Mothballed ), CH1 ( Mothballed ) and CH2 which will be mothballed shortly. The only other glass furnace producing glass, in the Uk, is at Watson street which produced rolled patterned and wired ( Being phased out ).

Re: O/T Pilks factory to close : Sat Nov 30, 2013 9:53 pm  

ch1 is not mothballed it got knocked down years ago. I have been working on ch2 for 10 years and it's never been there while I have

Re: O/T Pilks factory to close : Sun Dec 01, 2013 3:50 pm  

saint_loz wrote:

ch1 is not mothballed it got knocked down years ago. I have been working on ch2 for 10 years and it's never been there while I have

Apologies. Didn't realise it had been demolished.