This unit is having excellent facilities and expertise for design, development, fabrication and repair of scientific glass and quartz glass apparatus and equipments. It undertakes scientific glass instrumentation work for in-house as well as other institutions, industries and organisations. During the year Glass Technology Unit completed 176 jobs for NPL and 15 jobs for outside agencies and earned Rs 97898/- ( Rs. Ninety seven thousand eight hundred and ninety eight only ) as ECF.

Different types of machining facilities have been established in NPL’s Central workshop to extend support to laboratory R&D needs and to undertake external contract jobs. In addition to normal milling, lathe and welding machines etc. for normal fabrication jobs, work-shop is also under-taking a wide varieties of jobs of die making, sheet metals, plating and polishing and high quality carpentry works etc.