If you plan on investing in a new glass production line, or updating your existing equipment, you will want to rely on professionals who understand your process and commit themselves to delivering high-performance and reliable Prium® equipment.

High-performance solutions

In Glass, Fives is the Glassmakers' solution provider to enhance your plant performance, your competitiveness and to support you in the optimization of your investment: we design, manufacture, install and commission glass equipment according to your needs. With 60 years of experience in a wide range of Glass processes and applications all over the world, Fives is the most demanding Glassmakers' partner in Automotive, Architectural, Ultra-thin, Container, Pharmaceutics, Perfume, Fibre, Crystal and many other special glass processes. Fives offers a dedicated range of services; including the training of your teams on our equipment and assisting them for the full-scale glass production are offered to support you all along your lines life cycle.

History: a long expertise in the glass

• 1947: Fives designs its first melting furnace for the glass.
• 1954: Fives provides its first flat glass furnace.
• 1977: Fives builds its first annealing lehr.
• 1989-2014: Fives, formerly Stein Heurtey and Fives Stein (2007-2013), developed its glass activity with the acquisition of several companies: Fourment- Ladurée (1989), specialising in medium-capacity glass melting furnaces and silicate furnaces; BH-F (1993), specialising in hollow glass forming equipment since 1917 and specialists in glass conditioning equipment for all glass types; BGE - Belgium Glass Equipment (1997), specialising in tin bath equipment for float glass; Penelectro (1999), specialising in electric melting furnaces for glass and crystal.
• 2000: first hot end designed by Fives.