News Archive
13.09.11 General News
BATCH3 Another EME-NEND success story.
13.09.11 General News
Sorg Wishes Thai Glass Industries a Happy Anniversary
14.09.10 General News
SORG enters the float glass market
14.09.10 New Technology
SORG Integrated Concept promises to optimise batch preheating advantages
14.09.10 General News
New SORG optical glass level detector
14.09.10 General News
INVITATION to visit Erkelenz
09.12.09 New Technology
340S – the new forehearth system from SORG
09.12.09 Exhibitions & Conferences
9 – 10.03.2010 SAO PAULO – SORG at Glassman South America
09.12.09 General News
All-electric forehearth heating article
09.12.09 General News
15 years and 1.6 m tons – even more records ?
09.12.09 Latest Installations
Second basalt furnace for Russian customer
05.08.09 Latest Installations
Dubai – new SORG furnace reduces energy consumption by > 30 %
04.08.09 Exhibitions & Conferences
2 -. 4 December 2009 SORG at Glasspex India 2009
04.08.09 Exhibitions & Conferences
8 – 9.11.2009 DUBAI – SORG at Glassman Middle East
04.08.09 General News
Another SORG number – this time 3300
04.08.09 General News
CHINA - forehearth contrasts
04.08.09 General News
SORG Burner article in GLASS INTERNATIONAL
13.05.09 General News
SORG and Praxair join on oxy-fuel technology
17.04.09 New Technology
New SORG oil burner available.
17.04.09 General News
600 years of experience in the SORG design office
17.04.09 Latest Installations
SORG furnace for manufacturer of famous German preserving jars
17.04.09 Exhibitions & Conferences
18 – 20 May 2009, SORG duo giving papers at the annual meeting of the German Society of Glass Techno
17.04.09 Exhibitions & Conferences
4. June 2009 – Richard Sims at the Furnace Solution meeting in Stoke, UK
15.04.09 General News
Batch charging of all-electric furnaces – a technology review
04.02.09 Exhibitions & Conferences
8 – 11 June 2009, SORG at Mir Stekla in Moscow
04.02.09 General News
Herbert Lutz - 40 years with SORG
04.02.09 General News
Systems to improve and simplify forehearth operation
04.02.09 New Technology
Forehearth mixture control system patented
04.02.09 Latest Installations
Largest SORG end-fired furnace yet
01.12.08 Latest Installations
THAILAND - Quad gob success for Emhart Glass forehearths
01.12.08 General News
Personnel changes in the Emhart Glass forehearth programme at SORG
01.12.08 Exhibitions & Conferences
13 – 14. May 2009, SORG at Glassman Europe 2009 in Lyon
01.12.08 Latest Installations
GERMANY - > 800 kcal/kg = excellent results
11.11.08 General News
Welcome (back ?)
16.06.08 General News
SORG expands Chinese presence
10.06.08 Latest Installations
Vitro leads on 340 forehearths
26.05.08 Exhibitions & Conferences
21 – 25 October 2008 : SORG at GLASSTEC 2008
26.05.08 General News
Bubbler or booster – which is best ?
26.05.08 General News
Girl’s Day at SORG
17.03.08 General News
Record furnace lifetime – 2 furnaces at once
17.03.08 Latest Installations
GERMANY - SORG all-electric furnace goes on and on.
17.03.08 General News
Emhart Glass forehearth numbers good
30.01.08 General News
Important changes in the SORG organisation
30.01.08 Latest Installations
USA - Hot lab project starts
30.01.08 Latest Installations
UNITED KINGDOM - Oxy-fuel again for C glass
30.01.08 New Technology
New version of SORG forehearth CONTI-DRAIN® available
30.01.08 Exhibitions & Conferences
18 - 20 MARCH 2008 - GULF GLASS EXPO in Sharjah, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
30.01.08 Exhibitions & Conferences
12 - 15 FEBRUARY 2008 - IRAN GLASSTEC in Teheran
16.11.07 General News
The future ?
16.11.07 Exhibitions & Conferences
7 - 8th MAY 2008 - SORG at GLASSMAN America 2008
16.11.07 General News
JOBS – a new service on the SORG web site
16.11.07 General News
Keith Ellaby retires (well sort of)
16.11.07 General News
Russian version of the SORG web site goes on-line.
01.08.07 Exhibitions & Conferences
4 - 5th SEPTEMBER GLASSMAN MIDDLE EAST
21.03.07 Exhibitions & Conferences
13 – 16th June 2007 - MIR STEKLA in Moscow
21.03.07 Exhibitions & Conferences
9 – 10th May 2007 -. GLASSMAN EUROPE in Prague
21.03.07 Exhibitions & Conferences
14th June 2007 -. Furnace Solutions in Stoke-on-Trent, England
21.03.07 Latest Installations
CZECH REPUBLIC – oxy-fuel melter for C glass fibre
21.03.07 Exhibitions & Conferences
4 – 6th June 2007 -. German Glass Society (DGG) technical conference
20.03.07 Latest Installations
RUSSIA – new SORG furnace producing mineral fibre for insulating wool
20.03.07 General News
Helmut Sorg elected to Fellowship of Society of Glass Technology
20.03.07 General News
100th forehearth CONTI-DRAIN® system goes to India
25.09.06 General News
Boosting technology review
25.09.06 General News
Electricity in the glass industry in a changing world
25.09.06 Exhibitions & Conferences
24th – 28th OCTOBER 2006 : Glasstec 2006
25.09.06 General News
SORG golf day at Bangkok Glass
04.07.06 General News
Emhart Glass transfers its glass conditioning business to SORG
05.05.06 Exhibitions & Conferences
Forehearth control paper at Glass Trends meeting
05.05.06 Exhibitions & Conferences
SORG at Mir Stekla
05.05.06 Latest Installations
CHINA - Latest SORG E glass furnace is world’s largest
05.05.06 General News
Herbert Grauer retires
28.11.05 General News
Jochen Matthes has died
23.11.05 General News
Thermal Homogeneity Index – the truth revealed.
23.11.05 General News
28 countries in 9 months
22.11.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
25 – 28th APRIL 2006 – CHINA GLASS 2006
22.11.05 General News
Glass industry expansion with SORG furnaces - SORG Q3 2005 review
21.11.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
10 – 11th JANUARY 2006 – GLASS INDIA 2006
21.11.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
5 – 6th April 2006 GLASSMAN SOUTH AMERICA 2006
29.08.05 General News
Forehearths and CONTI-DRAINS lead in Q2 2005
29.08.05 New Technology
11, 1 000 and 1 100 000 – the Drebkau figures
27.07.05 General News
Ministerial visit to SORG offices
22.06.05 Latest Installations
AUSTRIA - 8 years and more than a quarter of a million tons for electric furnace campaign
22.06.05 General News
SORG at Glassman Europe 2005
22.06.05 General News
Mathematical modelling award for Matthias Lindig
20.06.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
14 – 16.9.2005 XX ATIV Conference in Parma
17.05.05 Latest Installations
RUSSIA - Production facility upgrade features SORG ST SERIES technology
17.05.05 Latest Installations
THAILAND - Bangkok Glass expands again
17.05.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
19 - 20.5.2005 - Matthias Lindig explains the problems
17.05.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
7 - 10.6.2005 : SORG at Mir Stekla 2005 exhibition in Moscow
06.04.05 Latest Installations
IRAN – large tableware furnace running well
06.04.05 Latest Installations
RUSSIA – new bottle plant capable of producing more than 250 million bottles per year
06.04.05 New Technology
Looking behind the scenes - the THERMON system
06.04.05 General News
Welcome to a hot day in Lohr
06.04.05 General News
INSIDER 14 – oxy-fuel, electric boosting, E glass and more
01.03.05 General News
An old friend with a new job
01.03.05 Latest Installations
CHINA : Another large SORG E glass furnace commissioned
01.03.05 Latest Installations
NETHERLANDS : New Rexam furnace hits energy and NOx targets
28.02.05 New Technology
Short is bad – therefore ELM
28.02.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
23 - 25th May 2005 - German Society of Glass Technology annual conference in Würzburg
28.02.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
17.3.05 German Society of Glass Technology Technical Committee 4
28.02.05 Exhibitions & Conferences
24 - 25.05.2005 Glassman Europe 2005
27.01.05 General News
Another first for SORG – CD in GLASS INTERNATIONAL
27.01.05 New Technology
Stirring things up - especialy zircon cords ?
27.01.05 General News
1 centimetre of paper or 15 grams of plastic – it’s your choice
05.11.04 General News
INSIDER - Lucky 13 ?
17.06.04 General News
14 forehearths in 3 months - SORG activities in Q1 2004.
17.06.04 New Technology
Large E glass furnace 4 years on
17.06.04 General News
INSIDER issue 12 now available
17.06.04 Latest Installations
GERMANY - Cross-fired rebuild successfully completed
16.03.04 General News
Issue 11 of The INSIDER is now available.
16.03.04 Latest Installations
GERMANY - Furnace rebuild in 21 days ?
16.03.04 General News
Five furnaces on four continents – SORG installations in Q4 2003
16.03.04 Exhibitions & Conferences
25th – 28th April 2004, Athens, 7th ESG conference
16.03.04 Latest Installations
BULGARIA - new installation features SORG technology.
16.03.04 Exhibitions & Conferences
10 – 11. May 2004 – Zwieseler Fachschul-Glaskolloquium 2004
26.01.04 Exhibitions & Conferences
9. - 13.11 2004 - Its GLASSTEC time again
26.01.04 Latest Installations
CHINA - All electric furnace for borosilicate tubing commissioned
26.01.04 General News
SORG component catalogue now available on CD ROM
26.01.04 Exhibitions & Conferences
6. - 7.2 2004 - GLASS INDIA 2004
26.01.04 Latest Installations
SOUTH AFRICA - Sasol gas fired furnace rebuilt
08.12.03 General News
New Technical Services Centre for SORG
08.12.03 Latest Installations
IRAN - New fireproof ovenware production facility
08.12.03 Latest Installations
SOUTH AFRICA - Largest VSM all electric furnace commissioned
08.12.03 Exhibitions & Conferences
7. - 11.06.2004 --- MIR STEKLA 2004
01.12.03 Exhibitions & Conferences
6. - 7.02.2004 --- GLASS INDIA 2004
01.12.03 Exhibitions & Conferences
11. - 14.04.2004 --- CHINA GLASS 2004
11.11.03 General News
Thüringer Behälterglas celebrates 150 years of glass manufacture.
11.11.03 New Technology
50th forehearth CONTI DRAIN® ordered
03.07.03 General News
Major changes afoot at SORG main office complex
02.07.03 General News
Return of The INSIDER
01.07.03 New Technology
Five all electric furnaces at one time