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Tubing lines

OGT
Tubing lines

ready for the

2020 world market

requirements

Fifty years of experience in the manu-

facture and supply of glass tubing

lines is the strength of the company in

this article – OGT – Olivotto Glass Technologies. And over the years, the

company has continued to improve, update and refine its machinery

using the most up-to-date and cutting edge technology to ensure the

Andrea Valle - Sales Manager best production for this specific market sector.
OlivOttO Glass technOlOGies

livotto Glass Technologies This is made possible thanks the majority of tubing lines OGT
(OGT) has been manu- to the direct experience of OGT’s sold from 2000 up to now are
Ofacturing and supplying engineers and technicians in the precisely for neutral glass.
Glass Tubing Lines to the world- field, as well as to the collabora- It is forecast that in 2020,
wide market for 50 years. tion of consultants coming from when the two large sub-conti-
Over the years, OGT Tubing top global manufacturers of glass nents China and Russia adapt
Lines have been used for differ- tubes. OGT is, today, able to sup- their standards for liquid drugs
ent type of glass, from sodalime ply the most advanced Tubing glass packaging to the European
to lead glass (both for the light- Lines for any type of glass, grant- Pharmacopoeia (in terms of
ing industry), from borosilicate ing its customers the maximum chemical and physical charac-
up to neutral glass, essential for performance in term of quality of teristics of glass containers), the
tubes to be used in pharmaceuti- the finished products (glass tubes), market dimensions for ampoules,
cal packaging. productivity of its lines and effi- vials, cartridges, syringes ... (con-
With more than 50 tubing lines ciency in production (provided sequently for glass tubes), will
installed all over the world, OGT that the glass and conditions in the double its dimensions compared
is definitely a world market lead- factory are following our requests to that of 2015-2016 period.
er in this field. and expectations).
During these years, OGT’s technOlOgy
technology in glass tube form- A bOOming mArket OGT can supply complete
ing and production has been Focussing on tubes for phar- Tubing Lines: from the collec-
improved and refined both at the maceutical packaging, where a tion of molten glass from the
hot end and at the cold end areas special type of glass – Neutral forehearth (or from the platinum
of the line, adopting cutting edge Borosilicate glass – is used, has feeder in more advanced configu-
technical and technological solu- been a key market for OGT in rations), to tube forming opera-
tion for this particular sector. the last 15 years, considering that tions (by precise air blow) up to

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