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Crystal and crystal glass products

Welcome to our online shop for crystal and crystal glass products, where you can quickly and clearly find products for various uses. Stemmed glasses, decorative bottles, candlesticks, all of this can turn any dining experience into a celebration.

Delight your loved ones with an original and practical glass gift. Vases, bowls, jars will please mothers, wives, grandmothers, or girlfriends. Whiskey sets for siblings, colleagues and acquaintances. Treat yourself to glass crystal products from Crystal Bohemia.

A tradition since 1876

The glass factory in Poděbrady was founded near the Poděbrady station in 1876 by the brothers Ján and Augustin Gerhardtová. The modern glass factory, which started operations in June 1877, was the first glass factory in Central Bohemia. Production was transferred here from their older glass factory in Pavlov near Světlá nad Sázavou. Their friendship with the owner of the Poděbrady manor, Prince Arnošt Filip Hohenlohe from Schillingfürst, also had an influence on the fact that they opened a glass factory in an area with a lack of mineral raw materials and cheap labor.
At that time, the glass factory produced not very high-quality potassium glass, intended primarily for lamps, bottles and various small objects. The glassworks did not succeed economically and in the years 1886-1893 production was stopped.
The dilapidated glassworks were bought in 1893 by businessman Josef Inwałd, who restored and modernized the production. Under his leadership, the company began to prosper (an etching plant and a sanding plant were also established here). In 1911, light bulbs became a novelty in the production program. During the First World War, the company’s production was limited, but during the First Republic, the glassworks awaited a boom.

 

Glass factory

BOHEMIA CRYSTAL products come from Czech glassworks that have more than 50 years of tradition. Glass production in the area of ​​glassworks has been known since the 16th century. A revolutionary change occurred in 1975 when the automatic production of machine-blown glassware was introduced. In order to keep up with world production, the company installed presses on two melting units with unique parameters for products up to 43 cm in size and 6 kg in weight. In 2009, the company was taken over by a new owner and currently has 5 melting units with a daily capacity of 96 tons of enamel processed into products, which annually represents 17 million machine-blown glassware and 5.5 million products of the gift assortment in top design from new ecological enamel in first-class quality. Products are exported to 52 countries. Important customers are businessmen from Russia and the Arab world. The glassworks have approximately 700 employees in two production plants

Material

Historically, the best quality glass products were made from lead crystal. The main advantage of this material was better refraction of light through the passage of the material. Lead crystal has better properties even in the processing of the material itself, thanks to a lower melting temperature and viscosity. The disadvantage of this material is the just mentioned lead, which is currently being replaced by other metal oxides. BOHEMIA CRYSTAL products contain modern, ecologically clean CRYSTALLIT enamel in a specially refined consistency, which is comparable in parameters to 24% lead crystal and surpasses it in many properties.

Collections

In the categories you can find collections of products and ready-made sets, from the most successful we choose the collection KLARA, BARBARA, CLEOPATRA, LAURA, GASTRO and KLAUDIE. From the gift sets, there is a special demand for QUADRO, SAFARI, MAGMA, FALCO and JESSIE. The most popular of the ready-made sets are QUADRO WHISKEY SET, AREZZO WHISKEY SET and NEPTUNE WHISKEY SET.

Stores

In Slovakia, glassworks are represented by BOHEMIA CRYSTAL brand, which has several stores in the capital.