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Pilkington Italia
COMPANY NEWS celebrates the firing
up of a new Float
glass furnace in its
historic Porta Marghera
plant in Venice
16
October is an im-
portant date for
Pilkington Italia,
the Venice community and
the entire Regione Veneto.
The first steps in the pro-
cedure for starting up the
new float glass furnace
were taken at a formal cer-
Starting up the furnace lighting procedure emony at the Porta Margh-
era plant. The plant is ex-
pected to produce its first
glass in November.
The new system is located
in the historic Pilkington
works in Porta Marghera,
Venice where glass was
first produced in far off
1932, and which saw the
introduction of the Pilking-
ton float glass technology
in 1987. Following a ma-
jor overhaul in 2002, work
continued until 2012 when
production was suspended.
The new plant will make
considerable use of exist-
ing facilities.
Christian Quenett Production will be approxi-
Head of Architectural Glass Europe - NSG Group mately 630 tons of float
Pilkington
glass per day and the new
furnace will be able to pro-
duce the innovative Pilk-
ington Optiwhite™.
This exceptional product
is an extremely clear float
glass obtained by the care-
ful selection of raw materi-
als with very low iron oxide
plant reborn content to give it particu-
larly high transparency and
light transmission, which
make it suitable to the cur-
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