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Heating up the furnace to
Horn art GM1.indd
operating temperatures and get-
ting the first glass in the glass
forming machines took 14 days.
Production started with 0.33ml
and 0.5ml bottles. After that the
glass-forming machines were
adjusted to produce saleable
quality products. From the fur-
nace fire-up till the achievement
of continuous packing of saleable
products on two lines, company
Horn’s specialists were coordi-
nating the work of their subcon-
tractors while at the same time
training local personnel.
At this stage, the optical prop-
with a capacity of 50 tonnes erties of the produced glass
per day has been erected as per already achieved European qual-
company Horn’s design using ity standards, which will allow the
state-of-the-art engineering solu- plant’s products to sell quickly at
tions. The furnace is equipped the local market.
with an electrical boosting sys-
tem, which enables an additional post sAlEs And stArt-up
15 tons of glass per day to be Due to the fact that until now
melted. A system for measuring there has been no local glass con-
process parameters and control- tainer production in Turkmenistan,
ling them in automatic mode the newly started plant will allow
plays a key role in organizing Turkmenistan to significantly
the technological process. This reduce imports of glass containers
system maintains a stable glass for the food industry. Horn’s work
melting process. does not end with the successful
start-up of the container furnace
Container forming machines at the National Glass Complex in
The installations further down Turkmenistan: over a period of
the process chain have been engi- one year company Horn’s process
neered and delivered by com- engineers will assist with the pro-
pany Horn’s partners. Six-section duction, so that the local person-
glass container forming machines, nel can adopt their experience,
capable of producing glass con- thoroughly master the new tech-
tainers in 15 different shapes and nology and have the ability to run
volumes, have been delivered by the production on their own. �
company Bottero S.p.A. At the
line’s cold end, behind mainte-
nance-friendly annealing lehrs
from company Car-Met S.r.l.,
products are transported, quality-
checked and packed using the Horn Glass
equipment from such European
manufacturers as Emmeti S.p.A., IndustrIes aG
Heye International GmbH, Bergstrasse 2 - Postfach 62
Sipac S.p.A and Iris Inspections D-95703 Plössberg - Germany
Tel.: +49-9636-92040
Machines. All the process equip- Fax: +49-9636-920410
ment of the container line is as E-mail: info@hornglas.de
silent, efficient and safe for opera- www.hornglas.de
tors as possible.
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