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Paolo Panza, Manager-
COMPANY NEWS
Sales Area of Olivotto

Glass Technologies SpA

talked to Glass Machinery

Plants & Accessories about
his company’s recent

successes in India and of his

impressions of the markets company news

in India and China.

Olivotto Glass Technologies

SpA provides engineering,

manufacture, installation,
and commissioning

services of hollow glass

forming plants, systems and

machines. The company

was founded in 1946

and is headquartered in

Avigliana, Italy.
Indian

Tableware Success
Canice Murray

livotto has been involved egory and are acquiring Western recently signed two contracts, one
with glass production in consumption patterns and one was our first with Borosil for one
OIndia for more than 30 manifestation of this is a grow- spinning and a press, and the
years. Originally we were supply- ing demand for good quality glass other with La Opala for our fourth
ing technology for making glass tableware – which is new to India. expansion of their plant since they
funnels for TV tubes with the There is a preference for opal started with a furnace ten years
Lynch brand – but that has all dis- glass, indeed opal tableware from ago. This time again a spinning
appeared into the past – and now India is rightfully prized for its machine, so we can see there is
we are seeing a growing Indian quality, and in the eyes of the con- confidence in this growing sector.
interest in opal glass tableware. sumer it is probably seen as a sub- For La Opala, where the main
stitute for porcelain which has not production is plates, bowls and
CHANGING TASTES had a very strong position on the cups, spinning machines are prob-
Until very recently Indians pre- subcontinent. There was very little ably the most important, but we
ferred metal or even plastic table- domestic production, most of the have more than 25 years experi-
ware, but with the development glassware was imported so now ence in producing these machines.
of the economy, large numbers we expect considerable investment We are also working quite well
of Indians are moving up into in new plant to cope with the with machines for tubular glass for
the middle socio-economic cat- new growing demand. We have lighting and pharmaceutical appli-

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