Revimac have got a long-time engagement with one of the world’s biggest hollow glass manufacturers based in France, especially for its Italian and French plants, and last year was no exception with Revimac service crew deployed on the fields. During the furnace rebuild occurred last fall, Revimac took care of the reconditioning of many crucial components like feeders, forming mechanisms and ware handling equipment with many other upgrades to the plant.
As with any relationship with their customers, Revimac starts with understanding the real needs of the customer (specific for each plant) and proposing a few different options, connecting the dots and sharing experience to identify the most efficient way to achieve their goal.
In the specific case, this cooperation came to the decision to carry out the intervention divided in two separate periods. During the first period at the glass factory, Revimac’s crew removed all the mechanisms and parts subject to maintenance from the equipment. The whole lot was shipped to Revimac plant in Italy where everything was fully disassembled to be steam cleaned, inspected, machined, serviced and eventually tested until the full reconditioning was completed.
Once all that was done, to complete the operation the Revimac crew got back to the plant, where the re-installation of the mechanisms took place alongside a substantial electronic maintenance and modernization of many devices to comply with the most recent and stringent safety rules.
A furnace rebuild is such a stressful moment in the life of a glass factory, and doing it in the middle of the pandemic was a high mountain to climb for everybody. It has also been particularly difficult because of the new restrictions that the governments enforced to prevent the spread of the virus, forcing everybody to make changes on the go.
It has been hard, but all those difficulties are becoming a little less heavy when when the work is done with long-time customers, people you have a strong and reliable dialogue with.