Folding mobile phones equipped with flexible glass are reshaping the smartphone market. Although this legendary design concept existed long before the modern smartphone was invented, a stylish Galaxy Z Flip phone recently launched by Samsung has once again raised the concept of folding phones. High-end mobile phone manufacturers continue to pursue the best-performing components, including display materials. The excellent characteristics of flexible glass greatly enhance the sense of high-level equipment.
He Feng, director of product management and application for SCHOTT ultra-thin glass, said: "We are currently Samsung's ultra-thin glass supplier, which means we are ahead of other glass suppliers in terms of production capacity. We will officially launch the Sai Xuan Flex brand to the market Continue to enhance our supply of ultra-thin glass. "
SCHOTT Flex currently launched by SCHOTT is a highly transparent, ultra-flexible ultra-thin glass that can be chemically strengthened. SCHOTT uses sustainable processes to produce high-quality glass in Germany, which is then shipped to a processing partner in Asia.
Sai Xuan Flex: ultra-thin cover glass
Sai Xuan Flex ultra-thin cover glass is thinner than hair. Its bending radius is less than 2 mm, so it can be used for folding screens, paving the way for unprecedented device designs, such as foldable smartphones, laptops, tablets or brand-new product series.
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SCHOTT has more than 30 years of experience in the development and production of customized ultra-thin glass, providing glass solutions for various application scenarios, on the basis of which developed Saixian Flex ultra-thin glass. For decades, SCHOTT has been improving the ultra-thin glass down-draw manufacturing process. The draw-down process refers to pulling down a glass ribbon from above and cooling it by pulling with multiple rollers. Because of this environmentally friendly technology, SCHOTT can pull a layer of thin and stable ultra-thin glass directly from the molten glass according to the thickness requirements, without the need for thinning treatment with harmful acid etching process.
Sai Xuan brand: ultra-high performance, under control
For the increasingly demanding consumer electronics industry, SCHOTT has launched the Sai Xuan brand. The Sai Xuan series of products are developed for high-performance cover glass. Sai Xuan Flex has been proven to have high strength and can also be bent. Sai Xuan brand product series is very wide, so it can be used for unprecedented design, and it is in the industry leading position in the drop performance or strength of the whole machine.
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Sai Xuan Up is a high-performance cover glass designed by SCHOTT for tablet phone screens. It has excellent drop resistance, especially the drop performance of the whole machine. Based on the company's 130-year history, SCHOTT has developed Lithium Aluminum Silicon (LAS) cover glass, and is also the first company to adopt this LAS as a protective cover glass. After an extensive experiment, SCHOTT founder Otto SCHOTT recorded the addition of lithium to the glass mixture for the first time, and eventually led to the invention of special glass. Today, SCHOTT provides lithium aluminum silicon materials for its global partners. This special glass has high strength, high performance and high reliability.
Vivo, a leading smartphone manufacturer in China, is one of the important customers of Sai Xuan Up. Vivo high-end models include NEX 3S 5G waterfall screen mobile phone, iQOO 3 5G mobile phone, X30 Pro Alexander Wang joint limited edition 5G mobile phone and the latest vivo S6 5G mobile phone. The adoption of these models proves the market of Sai Xuan Up high-performance cover glass leading position.
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Since SCHOTT launched the first generation of Sai Xuan in 2011, SCHOTT has accumulated profound knowledge and experience in the field of smartphones. Saiyan cover glass promotes the revolution of large-scale display. With the launch of Saiyan 3D cover glass, SCHOTT became the world's first manufacturer to develop a lithium aluminum silicon mobile phone cover glass. Today, SCHOTT's high-intensity Saiyan Up and folding screen Saiyan Flex can provide special glass mass production solutions for various display technologies. SCHOTT manufactures glass blanks in Germany and currently supplies the global consumer electronics market.
