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This article on scientific glassblowing, on the front of today's
Business section begins with this:<br>
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<h1>A Touch of Glass</h1>
<h2>A 60-year-old company keeps the fire going with custom-made
apparatus.</h2>
<h5>By Reid Kanaley</h5>
<h6>Inquirer Staff Writer</h6>
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alt="Master glassblower Bill Schmidt shapes a 100-liter reaction vessel with a carbon paddle as supervisor Rich Brainard watches at Chemglass in Vineland, N.J. the company produces custom-made precision glassware for chemical and biological laboratories."
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MICHAEL S. WIRTZ / Inquirer</div>
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Master glassblower Bill Schmidt shapes a 100-liter reaction vessel with
a carbon paddle as supervisor Rich Brainard watches at Chemglass in
Vineland, N.J. the company produces custom-made precision glassware for
chemical and biological laboratories.</div>
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<p>One in an occasional series of portraits of manufacturers in the
Philadelphia region.</p>
<p>No matter what the weather, the cavernous spaces inside Chemglass
Inc. in Vineland, N.J., warm to the glow of 2,100-degree molten glass.</p>
<p>The 60-year-old company, whose 220 employees include dozens of
specially trained glassblowers, turns out custom-made precision
glassware for chemical and biological laboratories.</p>
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(there is a very interesting 23-slide slide-show online which is not
found in the newspaper)<br>
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Tony Patti<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gaffer@glassblower.info">gaffer@glassblower.info</a><br>
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