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ANNIVERSARY
Anniversary

COMPLEX UPGRADE PHASE
The recent 18-month upgrade
also proved to be a complex
task. In addition to a cold fur-
nace repair, it involved expand-
ing and integrating the cullet
plant, including the belt loading
station. The cullet plant was inte-
grated into the batch-house con-
troller during operation. “It was
sort of like open-heart surgery in we were also able to expand our California, using 50 per cent
which additional controllers were capacities. As an added bonus, recycled glass in its batch.
embedded,” says Mashinchi. the technologies were developed t 5IF CPUUMF NBLFS SFVTFT
“There were no major interrup- in such a way that it’s theoreti- per cent of its daily service
tions during the upgrade. We cally possible to add two more water. O
were able to continue producing melting furnaces.” Meanwhile,
millions of bottles a day. And Gallo Glass was able to achieve
now, for the first time, we’ll be higher annual production volume
able to prevent future failures – with no end in sight. So every-
through predictive maintenance thing’s ready for the anniversary.
– that was extremely important Raise your glasses!
for us.”
FOR THE SAKE OF THE
THE DESIRED EFFECT ENVIRONMENT
“We’re extremely satisfied t (BMMP (MBTT XBT UIF mSTU JOEVT-
with Siemens and have excel- trial enterprise to rely on oxy-
lent relationships with our col- fuel technology in container
leagues there,” Mashinchi adds. glass production, reducing
“The implemented solution is its NOx emissions by 80
environmentally sustainable and per cent. GALLO GLASS CO.
has given us the desired increase t 5IF DPNQBOZ JT UIF
in efficiency and availability. And largest user of 605 South Santa Cruz Avenue
thanks to system redundancy, recycled glass in Modesto, CA 95354 - USA
Tel.: +1 - 209 - 3413411
Fax: +1 – 209 - 3414963
E-mail: liz.curtin@ejgallo.com
www.gallo-glass.com
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