Steklarna Hrastnik is nearing the end of the construction phase of the new glass furnace in Hrastnik, Slovenia.
The company is looking forward to the day when the furnace will glow in all its beauty, and the glass-making machines will be fully operational.
With this project, Steklarna Hrastnik will demonstrate a first-of-a-kind hybrid end-fired regenerative furnace with a more than 40 percent electrical melting share and throughput capacity of 170 tonnes of glass per day. The hybrid furnace will replace the existing end-fired regenerative furnace for extra-white flint glass production, thereby resulting in a more than 50 percent reduction in natural gas consumption and up to 33 percent in greenhouse gas emissions avoidance over the first ten years of operation.
This investment in sustainable production technologies is expected to have a great impact on the local economy by retaining current jobs and creating new ones. Furthermore, with its coupling of innovative technologies and local RES, the project will serve as a model for the decarbonization of other energy-intensive industries in the region.