HORN has completed its biggest end fired furnace project in the company´s history with Turkish glass manufacturer Baştürk Cam.
In June 2021, glass melting technology specialist HORN was contracted to build a furnace for Bastürk Cam in Malatya, Turkey. The order for Furnace B was placed in 2021, but due to the tragic earthquake in 2023, the project had to be delayed for a while.
With a melting surface of 185.4 square metres, the furnace is designed for melting capacity of 560 tonnes-per-day and includes six forehearths for the production of container glass. The furnace will be heated by natural gas or back-up diesel oil burners.
In this greenfield project, HORN’s scope of supply included the engineering of the refractory and steel structure, the combustion system, boosting system, measuring and control equipment, a HVR® 600F batch charger developed by HORN, NIR furnace camera, supervision of erection, heat-up and commissioning.
In June 2024, the new urnace, which produces flint coloured container glass, was finally successfully commissioned and on June 2, 2024, was celebrated the first glass.
