There are always small bits of interesting news in the Company, sometimes technical, sometimes not. The ones that are not directly connected with new installations or technologies appear here.
15 years and 1.6 m tons – even more records ? A SORG end-fired regenerative furnace at the Ardagh Glass Drebkau factory in the east of Germany has finally been stopped after a total campaign of 15 years and 2 months without a cold repair. During this period a total of more than 1.6 million tons of container glass was produced.
All-electric forehearth heating article We have published another of our technology reviews. This one covers all-electric forehearth heating, and has been published in the December issue of GLASS INTERNATIONAL.
SORG Burner article in GLASS INTERNATIONAL The latest SORG publication in one of the leading industry technical magazines is an article on burner technology.
CHINA - forehearth contrasts Two recent SORG forehearth installations in China demonstrate the range of applications that our Glass Conditioning Department deals with.
Batch charging of all-electric furnaces – a technology review Continuing the our series of technology review publications in the technical press, the February edition of GLASS INTERNATIONAL includes an article by Richard Sims on the various methods used to feed batch into cold-top all-electric furnaces.