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The manufacture of float glass is among the most expensive continous manufacturing processes in the world. It costs approaching $100m to build a new float glass plant, and a float glass line beginning with batching operations and continuing through melting, the tin bath, the annealing lehr, mass air cooling, cutting, and packing may be as long as 300 metres. Once a float line is started up, it will run continually for about 12 years until it is shutdown for a major rebuild. Typical throughput is 500-700 tons per day and yields run in the range of 85-95%. Losses are attributable primarily to equipment downtime and quality problems.