I've been working with Pilks recently. Japanese company NSG bought Pilks and have lumbered them with all their financial problems, plenty people over here losing their jobs rather than dishonouring some poor fellas over there...

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 ).

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.