Sir Alastair Pilkington
(1902-1995)

Knight Bachelor (from 1970)

Died aged 93

Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington OBE FRS (7 January 1920 – 5 May 1995), known as Sir Alastair Pilkington, was a British engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass.

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Float Glass Process Invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington and his team of engineers, scientists and production workers in 1953 at Pilkington Brothers, St Helens. This process has revolutionised window and automotive glass production throughout the world since the 1960s.

Pilkington Group Limited, Prescott Road, St Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom where they worked and invented the Float Glass Process (1953)