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We have been working closely with forest, construction, and agricultural machine manufacturers for nearly four decades. We have supplied plastic products and glazing for various work machines, such as forest machines, tractors, and skid steer loaders. Now we are offering completely new opportunities for the safety glazing of your machine.
Aikon Full Solution contains everything from product development to automated production. We value partnerships and want to be involved in your product development, so we can manufacture custom solutions and small series based on your needs. Our production capacity and high degree of automation enable the cost-effective delivery of large production batches.
Forest and agricultural machines as well as heavy equipment are designed to perform in demanding conditions. Implement manufacturers must be able to guarantee machine operators a safe working environment and durable machine. For this reason, plastics are an excellent glazing material for work machines.
High-performance plastics offer many advantages over other materials and one of their main advantages is lightness. Lightweight materials increase the energy efficiency of heavy machines and can diminish their carbon footprint.
Aikon Full Solution is an excellent way to produce safe and lightweight windows for the cabins of work machines to replace heavy glass. We recommend manufacturing windows from laminated and coated high-performance plastics to improve their durability and performance. Innovative smart solutions, such as shading films, heating or transparent displays, can be integrated into the window glazing in the laminating process.
Automotive industry approval processes (ECE R43, ANSI Z26.1) are often complex, but we have them as part of a product development service. Our experts are happy to help you in product development to find the best solution for your application. Aikon Full Solution covers everything from material selection to plastic coating, laminating, printing, thermoforming and machining. The high quality of windows is ensured by machine vision and quality control tests.
We use extremely impact resistant and lightweight polycarbonate in work machine windows. Polycarbonate weighs half the weight of glass but is 200 times more impact resistant. Hard coated polycarbonate, Aikon® PC Hard is a superior material for the glazing of forest or agricultural machine as well as heavy equipment.
Hard coating significantly improves the physical properties of polycarbonate. Hard coating creates a scratch and chemical resistant surface for PC. The coating also improves weather resistance providing resistance to UV-radiation and preventing yellowing of the material.
The following approvals are available for the forest, construction and agricultural machine safety glazing we manufacture:
Laminated plastic sheet is a structure where polycarbonate or acrylic sheets alternate with TPU films. The layered structure improves the plastic sheet’s impact strength without compromising the transparency of the material. Plastic laminating is an excellent method to produce safe and durable windows to various work machines. Optical quality of laminated windows is ensured by quality control tests. In the laminating process smart technologies such as shading films, heating, or info displays can integrated into the sheets.
Polycarbonate windows or acrylic sunroofs can be laminated with shading films, which allow the window shade to be ajusted with the touch of a button. Shading films allow you to adjust the direct light that passes through the machine windows and creates comfort as well as an optimal shading choice for exterior windows. They are an excellent solution for machines operating in direct sunlight or hot conditions.
Laminating enables integrating transparent displays into the windows. They create more space in the cabin as they reduce the need for instrument clusters. Transparent displays can be laminated into windshields, side windows, sunroofs, and doors. They can show dynamic information of a machine and help the operator of a machine focusing on the work. The technology enables manufacturers to build safer machines that improve ergonomics, situation awareness and user experience of operators.
Laminating method can be used to produce heated polycarbonate windows with excellent transparency. In the method, an electrically conductive film is laminated between two PC sheets, creating a heated surface when an electric charge is applied to it. This allows the visibility of the cab to be improved by keeping the windows transparent in inaccessible locations.
Tomas Djupsund
Key Account Manager
+358 20 779 0045
tomas.djupsund@aikolon.fi
