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saving. At that time, the com-
tem so as to guarantee maximum
pany invested in triple gob cool- redundancy and enable predic-
ers, designed smaller bottles, and tive maintenance. At the same
converted from mechanical to time, Gallo ordered new melting
machine-aided time control. The furnaces from EME’s sister com-
next milestone occurred in the pany Nikolaus Sorg, meaning
1990s, when Gallo Glass became that the core technology was sup-
one of the first glass packag- plied from a single source – with
ing companies to install natural all the advantages in terms of
gas/oxygen furnaces to mini- quality and interfaces.
mize NOx emissions. An auto- Gallo Glass also decided to use
mated electrostatic filter unit was melting furnaces with the latest
installed to significantly reduce oxy-fuel technology.
particulate emissions.
PREMIERE OF SIMATIC PCS 7
AT FULL CAPACITY “Thanks to the integrated
The lack of redundancy was solution and the expertise of the
problematic for Gallo, because batch systems engineering com-
high availability with a simulta- pany, the Simatic PCS 7 pro-
neous increase in capacity was cess control system also found
essential. Operating the two its way to Gallo Glass,” recalls
batch plants also required a rela- Mo Mashinchi, project manager
tively high deployment of staff. for the bottle maker. This was
The first immediate action on no small feat, given that it was
the part of the company was to the US market. Another first:
consolidate its two raw-material The control system’s standards,
silos. standardized libraries, compre-
Then, in 2014, Gallo Glass hensive functionalities, and mod-
commissioned EME GmbH to ular engineering enabled EME to
plan and upgrade the batch plant implement an end-to-end auto-
and parts of the cullet-return sys- mation solution at the hot end.
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