Glasfabrik Lamberts, in Wunsiedel-Holenbrunn, is a family concern first established in 1887 by Laurenz Lamberts, an 
engineer,and ever since then has been dedicated to the creation of cast glass. A look over  the 110 years of company 
history provides very striking evidence of the enormous  changes which have taken place over the last century in pro-
duction processes,  and the development of the product range also bears witness to the shifts in consumer tastes and 
the changing demands which this has imposed on cast  glass as a product. In the early years, the glass was still manu-
factured by using the traditional casting process. 

The molten glass was removed from the  furnace with a ladle, and cast on the casting table, where it was rolled into 
glass sheets. If the intention was to manufacture safety glass instead of  ornamental glass, a wire mesh was inserted. 
The sheet was then laid in the annealing furnace, which allowed it to be cooled off in stages, so making  it capable of 
being worked. The name used nowadays, "cast glass", derives from that period. 

In 1960 this production process was replaced by a continuous technique using roller technology, and, apart from a num-
ber of modernisation  modifications to the individual machines and systems, this remains the basic produc- tion principle 
to this day. The glass was no longer cast on a table, but instead moved on a modern conveyor belt through the annealing 
furnace, likewise of a new design, to the packing station. From that year onwards, a large number of changes took place 
thanks to the adoption of a wide variety  of new ornamental glass and wire glass patterns into the existing product range.