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The Encirc brand was ENCIRC
created in 2014 following
the appointment of INVESTMENTS IN NEW FURNACES
a share receiver to
the Quinn group of Vidrala has agreed to with a contribution of because it does influence
businesses in 2011. invest GBP 50 million up to GBP 32 million heavily on the decisions
Within the re-brand, over the next four years in from the Northern we make,” he added.
Encirc Managing upgrading the plant and Ireland Executive, will The first furnace rebuild
Director Adrian Curry rebuilding the furnaces to see the construction of will take place in 2019
and his team of directors accept natural gas which approximately 200km and the second in 2021.
established the Encirc will be piped to Derrylin of pipeline linking Outlining the Encirc
360 sustainability model through the Gas to the Coalisland, Cookstown, 360 sustainability model
– whereby the company West initiative. Derrylin, Dungannon, in more detail, Curry
produces 2.7 billion “When Vidrala bought Enniskillen, Magherafelt, said: “We make bottles
bottles per year between us they were very clear Omagh and Strabane to in Derrylin that are
Derrylin and Cheshire; they wanted to keep the the existing gas network. transported to the plant
fills bottles with up to 200 Encirc business as it was; “Bringing gas in will help in Cheshire for filling. We
million litres of wine, beer same branding, same environmentally, it will ship wine, beer and soft
or soft drink; and takes management team etc. help with our emissions drinks in bulk from all
care of warehousing and Over the two-and-a-half and it also takes three over the world for filling
logistics. years we have learned a large road tankers [of oil] in Cheshire so we are not
The 360 model is “the lot from each other and off the road per day. But shipping glass from all
only one of its kind during that time we’ve it means we will produce over the world and we
in the world” and it become very strong,” said less glass because oil is can maximise the weight
makes Encirc more Curry, adding: “Vidrala more efficient at melting on the container. As it
sustainable, which is of have a lot of investments glass,” said Curry. “The comes in we fill it, we
great importance when across the group so we complication is that store 260,000 pallets on
attracting customers. have to demonstrate that we have to design our site and distribute directly
Encirc made a pre-tax we are the best return on furnaces differently. to the retailers.
profit of GBP 33 million capital.” We’ve worked very closely Customers include
last year; a 17% increase Encirc was part of the with Arlene Foster and Baileys, Guinness,
from 2015. In order to initial Gas to the West her team a number of Jameson, Bushmills,
sustain that performance, discussions with the years ago and more Britvic, Heineken, C&C,
it “has to invest heavily then Enterprise Minister recently with the gas McGuigan wines and
to stay at the forefront Arlene Foster and the providers to get to a point Gallo wines (formerly
in terms of technology, gas providers. The GBP where everyone is certain known as Ernest and Julio
quality and service.” 250 million project, this is going to happen Gallo).

SATINAL allowing frosted items (flacons, jars, small bottles)
to come out completely dry and ready for other
NEW GENERATION decoration processes or for being packed.
Leonardo Pirazzoli, general manager of Satinal, said,
OF GLASS FROSTING “Our main goal is to be always a reliable supplier,
producing high quality machinery and giving the best
MACHINERY IN FRANCE support to our customers. All our frosting machines are
designed for optimizing and minimizing consumption
Satinal, a supplier of glass frosting chemicals while always maintaining high quality performance.
and machinery , has delivered and installed a new Our glass frosting machines are the ideal solution
generation frosting machine for cosmetics in France. for all companies looking for efficiency, flexibility,
High flexibility, high performance and low durability and security.”
consumption characterize this new machine, but the Luca Bresciani, owner of Satinal, said,
most remarkable innovation is the automatic loading “I’m proud of our work and I’m glad to know
and unloading stations. Furthermore the automatic that this new generation machine will improve
unloading station is directly linked to the dryer tunnel, the production system.”

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