Page 93 - Glass Machinery Plants & Accessories no. 4-2019

cold hardening systems, LfG a calorific value of 8060-8100
(Germany) - glass container kcal/m as fuel for glass melting.
annealing furnace, Emhart Lex In order to reduce energy costs
(USA) - Veritas iM control and carbon dioxide emissions, the
machines, Steklopak (Russia) - plant applies a combined heating
equipment for transportation and method to heat the glass furnaces
packing of glass containers. with electric flame where heat is
introduced by burning torch fuel
Glass Container Workshop No. 2 and additional electricity from
ZIPPE (Germany) - dos- electrodes.
ing and mixing line, SORG The quality of the finished
(Germany) - 320t/day glass products is determined by its
furnace, Emhart (Switzerland) - components, their preparation,
three glass - forming machines, method of storage, as well as dos-
Imaco (Netherlands) - hot hard- ing and mixing methods. For this
ening system, Antonini (Italy) - purpose PGP uses reliable and
cold hardening system, Antonini high-quality technological equip-
(Italy) - glass container annealing ment in the composite shop. Raw
furnace, MSC&SGCC (France) materials are stored in the bulk
- control machines, Optische silo, which ensures high quality
Prüfsysteme Dr. Günther storage. Transportation of bulk
(Germany) - optical control materials is carried out by pneu-
machines (finish control - con- matic transport systems, which
cavity and parallelism), Zeccetti almost completely prevent dust-
(Italy) - equipment for trans- ing, also achieving more gentle
portation and packing of glass movement of substances, ensur-
containers. ing minimal substance structure
deformation, without delamina-
THE MELTING PROCESS tion. The main advantage of the
Glass melting and production composite shop is the ZIPPE
is fully automated and strictly line of dosing and mixing of raw
controlled, using natural gas with components.