Spreading the word: China's overseas flat glass revolution. [2 tables in original article].

China's flat glass and float glass industries are having an increasingly global influence, in terms of technology and equipment applied mostly in the production lines. The country's flat glass sector, with its first-rate technical equipment, premium technical service and reliable commercial competence, facilitates an expanding overseas general-contracting share and a growing export of its flat glass technology and technique, as well as that of float glass with own intellectual property. China made its first overseas delivery of a float glass production line, with a capacity of 300 tonnes/day, to Indonesia in 1991. Since that time, Chinese export of float glass lines, with increasing …