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Country profile: Chinese Tableware Tableware sector continues to thrive

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The dreaded B word

I was going to devote an entire leader article to Brexit and its impact on the glass industry.

But that would have bored you - commentators have complained of Brexit fatigue as a result of the continued media coverage. Instead there is another, more positive, B word discussed later in the column.

As you have no doubt heard, the UK is due to leave the EU at the end of March.

While politicians have bickered, the clock has ticked and, at the time of writing, just weeks before the March 29 deadline, a nodeal Brexit is likely.

This has caused unease among those UK suppliers that export. Will they have to pay extra tariffs to freight goods overseas?

Will it take longer for relevant documentation to be processed through European ports?

What does it mean for those who export to countries outside the EU which have a trade agreement with an EU that includes the UK. Will goods that arrive there shortly after March 29 be subject to an extra tariff? There are insufficient answers for what awaits the industry after March 29.

So, to end on a high, the Brazilian glass industry appears to be heating up with Vidroporto and O-I restarting operations and rehiring staff, with 340 people given jobs at the two sites.

O-I stated it had reopened its site due to increased domestic demand.

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O-I in €50 million Reims upgrade

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Owens-Illinois (O-I) is to invest more than €50 million in the modernisation of its Reims plant in Marne, France.

With all-new high-tech equipment, a new overall layout, and additional technical innovations, the plant will increase flexibility, capabilities and energy-efficiency.

The project includes a complete renewal of one of the plant’s two furnaces as well as new industrial equipment on the attached production lines.

The upgrade is expected to be completed by mid-2019.

“This is a strategic investment to strengthen our position in the Champagne business,” said Francois Pierrot, Country Group Executive, Southwest Europe, for O-I. “We will be able to serve our customers in the premium segment even better with improved flexibility at the plant and within O-I’s overall manufacturing network in

France.”

O-I will also hire approximately 30 new employees in Reims to further strengthen the capability of the plant.

Following extensive training, they will join the more than 200 employees already working in the plant in areas such as production, supply and procurement, and maintenance.

“This €50 million project is a major long-term commitment to the Reims area. It represents one of the biggest investments in the region during the last few years, further bolstering O-I’s reputation as a strong player in the region and making the plant an even more attractive employer,” said Dallah Mekki, O-I’s plant manager in Reims.

It also serves premium wine customers located in the other regions of France such as Burgundy, Alsace and the Loire Valley.

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Gomel Glass opens modernised plant

Zippe has supplied Siam Glass in Thailand with a post-consumer glass recycling plant.

Siam Glass is a long-term and valued customer for which Zippe has designed and commissioned several batch plants in the past.

The scope of delivery of the recent order includes a recycling plant including metal and non-metal separation, organic separation, ceramic, stone, porcelain separation (KSP), as well as colour sorting.

The capacity amounts to 30t/h whereby the plant can be

extended up to 45t/h at a later date.

Zippe designed and delivered the complete plant control systems, all main components such as the screen and magnet technology as well as the optical sorting machines.

The customer supplied the conveying belts as well as the steel construction.

Commissioning took place last month (February 2019). *Zippe has also secured an order with Tanzanian glass manufacturer Kioo Glass.

The new order comprises the

modernisation of the batch and cullet transport to furnace 2 at its Dar es Salaam plant as well as a new mixer.

The scope of supply includes the reconstruction of batch transport to furnace 2, two conveying belts for the cold end, several vibratory tray feeders, a BRV crusher, an elevator, as well as diverse small components.

These will be effected during a cold repair in the second half of 2019 with a furnace capacity increase. Kioo was founded in 1963 and has been a loyal Zippe customer for years.

Vitro Automotive Glass makes $60 million technologies investment Automotive glass manufacturer Vitro has approved a $60 million investment in new technologies.

The investments will be focused on North America to reinforce Vitro’s market position in automotive glass, supplying original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers.

Adrian Sada, CEO of Vitro said: “The auto industry is being disrupted and our investments include a series of technologies aimed at aligning our capabilities to become the supplier of choice for advanced auto glass solutions in windshields, coatings, laminated sidelites and sunroofs.”

Over the past four years,

Vitro Automotive has invested more than $78 million across operations in process capabilities.

It will work over the next 18 months to implement the investments according to the Board’s guidelines.

Site locations for new investments are being finalised.

Vidroporto acquires Sergipe site Vidroporto Embalagens has acquired the Glass Industry of the Northeast (IVN) glassmaking facility in Estância, Sergipe, Brazil.

The site had been closed for two years before the acquisition in January.

Production is expected to

reach 60,000 tonnes of glass packaging per year.

The site has hired approximately 200 people, with most of these former workers at the IVN site.

Vidroporto has a 22% market share in Brazil. It expects its share to increase to 25%

with the acquisition.

Edson Rossi, CEO, said: “This acquisition means that Vidroporto is a player that believes in the Brazilan market and invest all the time to improve its participation in the market and improve its technology processes and service.”

Linde and Praxair complete merger

The Linde-Praxair merger has been completely finalised and both companies can now operate as a single company.

The gas suppliers have joined together to create a new Linde.

It will now fully integrate its business globally.

Forvet launches line with Siemens

Specialist machine builder, Forvet, has launched the Combiflex modular line based on Siemens technology.

Combiflex can perform tasks such as grinding, polishing, drilling, notching, countersinking, water jet cutting, corner rounding, engraving, mitering, washing and drying.

It combines 11 glass processing steps into 33m2 and is based on Siemens control and drive technology.

O-I starts in Pernambuco

O-I has started operations at its Vitória de Santo Antão plant in Pernambuco, Brazil.

The production of packaging in the unit had been deactivated in March 2016 and since then only decoration and logistics services remained in place.

In 2018, it reactivated the plant to expand its national capacity. The staff now has more than 160 employees.

The investment has increased the sites’s production capacity to 65,000 tonnes, equivalent to 300 million containers a year.

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Zippe supplies glass recycling plant to Siam Cullet

Gomel Glass has opened a container plant after a reconstruction in Gomel, Belarus. The plant will produce glass container packaging for baby food, milk juices and canned food.

Valery Chekhovsky, Director of the glassworks, said: “Glass packaging is lacking in Europe, Russia and Belarus. About 300 million bottles a year are produced in Belarus; the need is about 700 million.”

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Top 10 stories in the news Our most popular news over the past month, as determined by our website traffic All full stories can be found on our website, www.glass-international.com/news � 1. O-I to invest €60 million in Gironcourt plant � 2. A digital consultancy for glassmakers � 3. Vitro Automotive Glass makes $60 million technologies investment � 4. O-I in €50 million Reims container glass plant upgrade � 5. Demand for container glass boosts Emhart sales � 6. Zippe supplies post-consumer glass recycling plant to Siam Cullet � 7. Sklostroj Turnov partners with Siemens on automation solutions � 8. Furnace Solutions conference welcomes international speakers � 9. Vidroporto acquires Brazilian glassmaking site � 10. Verallia selects Thimon packaging machinery

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Gerresheimer orders air purification system Gerresheimer has commissioned a partial-flow exhaust air purification system at its Essen, Germany plant.

This will ensure that the glass manufacturer’s existing system complies with the more stringent clean gas values that apply after a glass tank replacement – for half the investment cost of conventional methods.

The solution is based on the new Ecopure CCF developed by Dürr.

Gerresheimer is a pharmaceutical and cosmetics glass manufacturer that

uses two melting tanks at Essen.

The planned modernisation of one of the furnaces and the higher production capacity associated with this means the existing exhaust air purification

system may no longer be able to achieve the clean gas values for dust and nitrogen oxide (NOx).

The Ecopure CCF ensures that the exhaust air as a whole complies with all required clean gas values.

Kioo Glass commissions P-D Refractories for its furnaces Tanzanian container glassmaker Kioo Ltd has commissioned a second Sorg furnace at its plant.

The first furnace, called K1, in its Dar es Salaam plant was commissioned in 2018 following successful refractory installation of P-D Refractories’ prod-

ucts. Kioo has now commissioned P-D Refractories to also supply the Sorg K2 furnace with its refractory products.

These will be manufactured at P-D Refractories’ Bochum, Germany; Wetro, Germany; and Czech Republic sites ready for

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Kioo is East and Central Africa’s largest manufacturer of container glass and makes bottles in a variety of colours.

It supplies global beverage suppliers such as AB InBev, Coca-Cola and Heineken, among others.

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Sklostroj Turnov partners with Siemens

Sklostroj Turnov (Sklostroj) is an international manufacturer of container glass machines.

The company has relied on Siemens drive and control technology for 12 years.

Together, the two companies have developed the Drive and Timing Control System, utilising Siemens drive and control technology.

The high degree of associated plant automation makes it easier for customers to change over production, increase flexibility, and simultaneously reduce operating errors.

Dominion completes Saint-Gobain furnace

Dominion Industry has completed the reconstruction of a glassmaking furnace at Saint-Gobain’s Dabrowa Gornicza plant in Poland.

Dominion said it was awarded the work because of its experience with complex construction processes for float furnaces, its specific knowledge of SaintGobain’s technology, and its established reputation in Poland.

Dominion installed more than 10,500 tonnes of refractory.

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AGR International launches dimensional gauging system

The supplier AGR International has launched the DSG400 high-precision Dimensional Gauging System for glass containers.

The Dimensional Sampling Gauge Series 400 (DSG400) has been designed by AGR for glass container measurement. It is the latest generation in a line of high-precision dimensional gauging systems.

While the DSG400 retains much of the look and feel of previous versions, this version incorporates new hardware, features and capabilities.

These features expand the handling, throughput, precision, communication and measurement functions.

Binder+Co to recycle container glass in Norway The processor Binder+Co was recently commissioned by Sirkel Materialgjenvinning for the delivery of a recycling plant in Fredrikstad, Norway.

The installation will be able to process 45 tonnes of collected glass and metal per hour. The glass will be sorted by a size of 5mm into different coloured products, including clear, green and brown glass.

The metal will be sorted into ferrous and non-ferrous

fractions.

Jörg Roseggar, Member of the Executive Board of Binder+Co, said: “This order substantiates our market leadership in the recovery of waste glass and, at almost €14 million, it is the biggest order awarded to Binder +Co in the recycling area.”

Acceptance of the waste glass recycling plant is slated for the end of September 2019.

British Glass warns of ‘no tariff’ damage to £1.3 billion industry Representative body British Glass has warned that the £1.3 billion UK glass industry could be damaged by rushed Government proposals for zero tariffs if there is a no-deal Brexit.

British Glass and the Manufacturing Trade Remedies Alliance (MTRA) are fighting a proposal from Liam Fox, the International Trade Minister, to introduce ‘most favoured nation zero tariffs’ on all goods imported into the UK, and called for Parliamentary scrutiny before the measure goes ahead.

Dave Dalton, Chief Executive of British Glass, said: “From a manufacturing position, this is a dangerous intervention, which is likely to see the UK flooded with consumer goods priced at a market advantage against domestically manufactured goods here in the UK.” The UK’s high volume glass manufacturing sector currently employs over 6,500 workers directly and another 115,000 in the supply chain.

Mr Dalton (pictured) continued: “As a proposed unilateral move, this will also affect our

ability to export, as our goods will still attract the same tariffs they currently experience in overseas markets.”

Demand boosts Emhart sales Increased demand for container glass helped boost Bucher Emhart Glass sales by 17.1% in 2018.

It said the state of the global economy and the trend in society towards more use of recyclable glass had led to manufacturers of glass containers expanding their production capacities.

In a statement it said: “Buch-

er Emhart Glass benefited from this exceptionally positive market environment and increased its sales significantly.”

Its cooperation with O-I, strong business in inspection machines and the complete takeover of the Sanjin joint venture in China had also contributed to its improved result.

In its statement for the financial year 2018 it reported

net sales of CHF 447 million ($443.4 million) compared to CHF381 million ($378 million) in 2017.

The company added: “The very pleasing operating profit margin of 10.1% was due to good capacity utilisation, the optimisation programmes that were launched in recent years and the improvement at Sanjin.”

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Lattimer wins Northern Powerhouse award

Lattimer has won the ‘Small Exporter of the Year’ award at the PD Ports Northern Powerhouse Awards at the National Railway Museum in York.

Mark Hallwood, Managing Director at Lattimer said: “This is another terrific endorsement for the Lattimer team and their immense effort over many years.

“The road to exporting can be tough and full of challenges. However, it is hugely rewarding, helping raise ambitions and broaden horizons.”

BV Glas: Positive trend for German glass industry in 2018

The German glass industry experienced a positive trend in 2018, states BV Glas.

Total sales for the German glass industry increased by 2.2% to around €9.88 billion (€9.66 billion in 2017).

Frank Heinricht, BV Glas President, said: “The positive trend in the glass industry continues, as shown by both sales and the rising number of employees.

“We are still looking for qualified junior staff.”

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Forglass acquisition

Polish engineering company Forglass has acquired design and fabrication specialist Ekopol.

Forglass is a supplier of production solutions for glassmakers while Ekopol specialises in the design and fabrication of equipment for the glass industry.

Forglass CEO and cofounder Piotr Knast said: “It’s not just furnaces or batch houses or hot repairs.

“We have the ability, the engineering know-how and the logistical base to support our clients’ glass production from engineering and design through start-up to getting the perfect product every time.”

The transaction was formalised at the end of 2018.

Masitek introduces testing tool to O-I Glass MMAAZZ by Masitek has introduced ShockQC to O-I Glass to test the cause of breakage on its new glass line.

The glass manufacturer was searching for a tool to mediate issues when the root cause of breakage was called into question, as well as accurate data from the real world testing of new designs.

ShockQC by MMAAZZ is a smart replica of glass containers, cans or other fragile

containers to measure IPS and G-Force to identify the root cause of damage with 99% repeatability.

Its location tracking with wireless Bluetooth beacons pinpoint the origin of damage and opportunities for improvement.

Without a true measure of IPS on the glass line, O-I could only speculate about the cause of breakage.

ShockQC was deployed as

a testing tool to measure the performance of new glass bottle designs on the glass line and to mediate issues such as excess breakage.

When clients claim the glass supplied does not meet the specified ratings, technicians insert the system onto the line to compare the impact that the container is receiving directly on the line to the IPS rating of the container.

Emmeti merges to create EMS Emmeti has merged with Mectra, Sipac and Logik to create the EMS Group.

The supplier has partnered up with Xenon Private Equity, a Luxembourg-based investment fund, to create EMS Group at the end of 2018.

Its aim was to re launch the market presence of industrial firms, starting from a common expansion strategy supported by an ambitious plan

of acquisitions.

The EMS Group includes 290 employees, a revenue of more than €130 million in 2018 marked by a strong export drive (75% turnover) and 25% of production for its Italian customers.

The top managers at Emmeti, Mectra, Sipac and Logik have remained to safeguard continuity of operations and productivity. Giovanni Ron-

coni (Chairman and Managing Director at Mectra) has been appointed CEO of the EMS Group. Corrado Azzali (Chairman and Managing Director at Sipac) will be appointed COO of EMS and Paolo Biondi will be Sales Director of the group.

The engineers, technical team and further employees who worked at the four firms have been confirmed.

O-I in €60 million French plan

Owens-Illinois (O-I) will invest $60 million to expand its plant in Gironcourt, France.

Plans include building a new furnace for a total of three furnaces at the plant when the expansion project is completed in early 2020.

The expansion at Giron-

court (pictured) will focus on the premium beer segment, which is differentiated and uses unique bottle shapes to build strong, premium brand equity. O-I CEO, Andres Lopez, said: “Our customers recognise that glass brings brand building capabilities.

“It delivers what consumers want - premium, healthy and sustainable packaging.”

“The expansion at Gironcourt is an important part of O-I’s investment strategy to support the growing demand for glass in premium segments.”

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Bernd HĂśrauf, Managing Director of Gerresheimer in Tettau (pictured far right) discusses the decoration expansions at its Momignies, Belgium and Tettau, Germany facilities that specialise in cosmetic glass.

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n hardly any other market is the glass packaging, i.e. the bottle, such an important design tool as in the cosmetics industry.

Be it for care (cream jars, make-up, or dyes) fragrances (perfumes, eau de toilettes, after shaves), the glass packaging is always the styleforming element in the marketing concept, the external ambassador of the valuable content.

This all starts with a special glass recipe to underline the crystalline and awless character of the valuable contents through the glass packaging.

The special safe-like characteristics of the glass

packaging mean that none of the content can get out and nothing from the outside can get in.

This means the contents are protected in the best possible way and there is no fear of any interaction whatsoever with the outer packaging.

Even more important are the vast possibilities when it comes to decorating a glass bottle.

Various different decoration techniques help to shape an expressive brand message, ensuring variety in appearance and feel.

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Company profile: Gerresheimer Decoration

how flacons get their brand face affordable even in market segments that have only partially used them up to now, such as lasering, metalisation or other effects.

Less complexity for customers Traditional areas such as silk-screen printing, colour spraying, acid matting or pad printing should be mentioned, although these options are no longer sufficient today.

We at Gerresheimer see decoration as added value. By this, we mean everything that we can offer our customers as an extra to reduce the cost of goods, i.e. the overall production costs of a cosmetic product and also to streamline the complexity in terms of process throughout the entire value chain.

Based on this school of thought, a new overall concept was born at our cosmetics factories in Tettau and Momignies, which not only forms the ‘Centre of Excellence’, but also illustrates the same production and process structure.

This allows us to offer each customer the perfect solution. We will also continue to work with a network of external suppliers that are all integrated into our quality system.

This covers order peaks and expands our product portfolio, such as in lasering, metalisation, sublimation or digital printing.

Digital printing for the glass bottle, a relatively new process with which completely different printing effects and also different effects in terms of feel are possible, could expand the range of products on offer in the future and will be at the heart of our work.

Rapid development There are no limits to creativity when it comes to decoration.

The same basic bottle is often used to create all kinds of brands through individual decoration or a variety of different ones.

In glass decoration in particular, development is progressing rapidly in terms of technological possibilities as well as in process technology and automation, which is hugely important for customers in the cosmetics market.

This makes complex decoration options

Environmentally friendly UV printing To start the new concept, we have overhauled, standardised, and expanded our silk-screen printing structure in the Tettau and Momignies factories with the addition of high-performance CNC single- and multi-colour printers.

Environmentally-friendly UV printing will form the basis in the future and the new generation of machines has been designed with this in mind.

UV printing is a form of digital printing that uses ultra-violet lights to dry or cure ink as it is printed.

As the printer distributes ink on the surface of a material (called a substrate), specially designed UV lights follow close behind, curing - or drying - the ink instantly.

The drying and firing capacities will also allow ceramic and organic printing to continue to be possible on all of the group’s machines, even for precious metal printing. This also applies to padContinued>>

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printing and will also be available in combination with other decorative steps, such as floor printing combined with surface printing.

� The new decoration unit in Tettau is spacious and clearly arranged.

Structure of a labeling line At the Tettau plant we have gone one step further in terms of added value. As part of a silk-screen printing process, we can now also offer further process steps, such as the use of plastic inserts in the bottle mouth, and all in the same machine run.

This saves money and reduces complexity, and is an example of our partnership with customers.

Another is the development of a labeling line that, in addition to standard applications such as dynamic carrier strip labeling, also enables special cases such as static labeling, i.e. labeling horizontal bottles in recessed areas. This is a substantial process improvement that would otherwise mean delays on customers’ filling lines. Another concept has been developed which involves sticking different materials onto bottles, i.e. directly applying material such as metal, wood, and more. The concept has already been put to the test and constitutes a coming together of hotmelt and UV bonding.

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Enhanced inspection concept Accompanying this innovation is an extension of our inspection concept by inline inspection cameras placed directly in the printing machine.

This provides the basis for further process automation. The paint-spraying capacities at Tettau will be expanded, as will those at Momignies, which is our Centre of Excellence for spraying technology. The Tettau plant also offers acid matting – a process that generates an unrivalled silky matt glass surface for cream jars and perfume bottles.

By expanding the Tettau and Momignies decoration we have achieved a further milestone in continually optimising the partnership with international customers. Based on this school of thought, a new overall concept has been born at our cosmetics factories in Tettau and Momignies, which not only forms the Centre of Excellence, but also illustrates the same production and process structure. It will cover order peaks and expands our product portfolio, such as in lasering, metalisation, sublimation, or digital printing. �

� A look at the work of the UV printing machine.

�The labeling line for dynamic carrier strip labeling.

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Personality profile: Phoenix Chairman

Phoenix Chairman privileged with the role Jean-Luc Logel, CEO of Iris Inspection Machines, is this year’s Chairman of the Phoenix Award Committee.

� Mr Jean-Luc Logel at last year’s Phoenix banquet

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How do you feel to be appointed Chairman of the Phoenix Award Committee for 2019?

It is a great honour to serve the Phoenix Award Committee and to be recognised in this way by my peers, all influential suppliers to the international glassmaking industry. I am following in the steps of many prominent individuals as Chairman and I am privileged to continue their excellent work to identify, acknowledge and promote the achievements of some remarkable pioneers within the global glass community.

What is the role of the Phoenix Award Committee?

Every year, the committee’s collective responsibility is to select a living person who has been active in and made a noteworthy contribution to the glass industry in their career.

This may be in the field of glass science, production or education and includes role models who have been responsible for innovations relating to glass containers, electronic glass, fibre glass, flat glass, scientific glass and tableware.

It is not easy to select just one candidate but I am confident we will agree on someone who embodies the forward-looking, passionate and innovative characteristics of previous winners.

� Each recipient is given a Phoenix bird

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Who are the members of this committee?

The committee brings together leading personalities from the international supplier community; prominent individuals who represent all aspects of the glass industry.

Committee members serve for a period of four years and six new members are elected each year to replace those whose terms have expired.

Membership is on an individual and not on a corporate basis. It is a stipulation, however, that members must be employed by a company that is a supplier to the glass manufacturing industry.

How would you like to see the committee evolve in the future?

The Phoenix Award Committee is going global and this is the correct approach for the future.

When created in 1971, the committee’s 19-strong membership was exclusively USA-based but it is now a truly global institution, including leading suppliers from Asia and Europe, as well as the Americas. It is only right and proper that PAC should be representative of the international glass community it serves.

You are the CEO of IRIS Inspection machines.

What is your personal background and glass industry involvement?

Having previously served as an officer in the French navy, I have enjoyed an immensely fulfilling career associated with the global glass industry. After two

� Last year’s winner, Oliver Wiegand, with members of the Phoenix committee

“The Phoenix Award Committee is going global and this is the correct approach

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for the future.

years working for a French equipment supplier to the glassfiber sector, I joined the BSN Group to participate in its development of specialist cold end glass container inspection equipment. BSN’s decision to make this technology available to competitive glassmakers turned the business into a highly successful profit centre, one that still continues today, albeit under different ownership and management.

In 1999, I was part of a consortium with former colleagues that acquired an embedded electronic

systems business in Lyon called Centralp.

And two years later, we also established IRIS Inspection machines, marking our return to working with the glass container industry.

The development of Evolution camera-based inspection machines at IRIS was strongly influenced by the knowledge and experience gained at Centralp.

Serving many other industries provided different software solutions that we could also integrate in our glass container inspection equipment.

Stepping away from the glass industry for two years with Centralp provided many benefits to the ultimate success of IRIS Inspection machines.

When can we expect details of the 2019 Phoenix Award winner to be announced?

Once committee members have concluded their deliberations and reached a decision, this year’s nomination will be approached to confirm their acceptance of the award.

We will be delighted to announce this year’s Glass Person of the Year as soon as possible. You can be certain that the 2019 Phoenix Award winner will embody the worthy characteristics of the previous 47 recipients! �

Phoenix Award Committee www.phoenixawardcommittee.org Iris Inspection Machines, Lyon, France www.iris-im.com

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Recent recipients of this Glass Person of the Year accolade reflect the genuinely global nature of glass expertise, for example with nine different nationalities represented since 2009.

The list features Oliver Wiegand (Germany), James O’Callaghan (UK), Cho Tak Wong (China), Surasak Decharin (Thailand), G Clinton Shay (USA), C K Somany (India), Lino Tagliapietra (Italy), Juan Raphael Silva Garcia (Mexico), Delbert E Day (USA) and Javier Gutierrez Martinez de Companon (Spain).

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Country profile: Chinese Tableware

China’s tableware glass sector continues to thrive The Chinese glass industry in the three major sub-segments - flat, container and tableware - has increased in scale and scope of its operations. Seema Gahlaut discusses the tableware sector.

Anti-dumping Two of the largest markets - Brazil and India have imposed anti-dumping duty on tableware glass imports from China in recent years, depriving Chinese producers of a sizable market.

Brazil initially imposed an anti-dumping duty on tableware imports from China in 2009 and has extended it intervening recent years.

In December 2016, the Brazilian authorities extended the definitive anti-dumping duty on the glass tableware imports from China following the conclusion of the sunset review (Camex Resolution No. 126 of 2016). The rate of duty on imports from China remains at $1.70 per kilogram. The duty is in force for a period of five years and will continue to December 2021.

Argentina imposed anti-dumping duty on

Chinese tableware glass producers in September 2014, after conducting a sunset review. Antidumping duties are $2.62 per kilogram for vases, $3.46 per kilogram for bowls and of $2.32 per kilogram for jars. The original anti-dumping duty was imposed in the year 2008.

Indian authorities imposed anti-dumping duty on imports of glass tableware from China in March 2018 for a period of five years. Indian authorities imposed anti-dumping duty of $955.27 per tonne of glass tableware.

During the period of investigation (April 2016March 2017), Chinese producers exported about 22,000 tonnes of glass tableware products to India.

Major Chinese producers Anhui Deli Household Glass Company Established in 1996 at Nantong city of Jiangsu province, Anhui Deli Household Glass Company is among the largest glass tableware producers in China.The company was relocated to Bengbu city of Anhui province around the turn of the century.

After a major expansion in 2002, the company also started producing tableware glass at Fengyang. In recent years, the company established a number of production hubs in China.

Anhui Deli currently operates nine subsidiaries, which are directly involved in tableware glass production, trading and supply of necessary equipments for tableware glass production. These subsidiaries are Fengyang Deri Mining Company, Anhui Lyne Mould-made Company, Chuzhou Deli Crystal Glass Company, Anhui Shige Houseware Company, Shanghai Shige Industry Company, Beijing Deli Shige Trading Company, Shanxi Shige Trading Company, Shenzhen Shige Houseware Company and Guangzhou Deliang Ya Houseware Company. The company has 12 furnaces and more than 70 production lines to produce about 580 tonnes per day of tableware glass.

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omprising of 200 large, midsized and smallscale producers, the Chinese tableware glass industry has registered steady growth in the past two decades.

Represented at a national level by the China Daily Use Glass Industry Association, which accounts for tableware and container glass, the industry registered a total output of 28.67 million tonnes (both container and tableware glass) in 2017. On a year-on-year basis, the industry registered a growth of 3.15%. According to association figures the industry recorded total revenue of ÂĽ164.72 billion, a growth of 5.95%. * Separate figures for tableware glass production in China are not available from the China Daily Use Glass Industry Association because a large chunk of the total comes from an uncoordinated sector.

According to the most reliable estimates, China has an installed capacity to produce about 3.67 million tonnes of tableware glass from these 200 producers. Like other sub-segments of the industry, Chinese tableware glass is facing consolidation.

The Government’s focus on implementing new environmental regulations is making it difficult for small glass tableware producing factories to survive. In the past ten years, a number of larger tableware producers have acquired smaller tableware producing companies in different regions of the country.

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to be among very few organisations in the sector which have passed the three ISO certifications: 9001- 2000, 14001 and 18000.

enterprises in daily-use glass industry of China.

Shanxi Dahua Glass Industry Located in China’s glassware export base of Qixian, Shanxi Dahua Glass was formed in 1992.

The company operates through four subsidiaries - Shanxi Dahua Glass Co, Shanxi King Glass Company (daily output of 85 tonnes per day) and Shanxi Glass Automation Equipment Co, and Qixian Hua Hao Art Glass Company Limited.

Total installed capacity of the three companies (the fourth is a technology provider) is about 210 tonnes per day of tableware glass.

The company received a ¥30 million grant from the China Clean Development Fund in 2016 to transform its four direct-flame coal-fired furnaces to a clean coal gas three-channel tank furnace. This has enabled it to increase production efficiency by reducing energy consumption and carbon emission.

It has established foreign sales channels in Europe, America, Middle East and Africa. The company has also established cooperative relationships with international companies such as Pepsi, Carrefour and Martha, and has become a supplier to retailers such as IKEA, Macy’s, Target, Tesco, Next and Marks & Spencer.

Taiwan Glass Industrial Corporation Taiwan Glass’s Hsiangshan tableware factory was established in 1969 in Hsinchu. The company operates one furnace, three production lines and two printing lines with an installed capacity of 14,000 tonnes per annum.

In 1977, it entered in a technical cooperation with German company Veba-Glass for stemware, blowing glassware, and press glassware. In a similar cooperation, the company signed a technical cooperation agreement with Japanese company Ishizuka in 1995, for irregular shape glassware and press glassware. In addition to catering to tableware glass demand, Taiwan Glass exports 60% of its output with South Korea and Japan accounting for about half of this.

Shandong Heishan Glass Group Located in Zibo city of Shandong province, Shandong Heishan Glass Group has carved a niche for itself in the sector. It has been engaged in tableware production since the 1980s and has a capacity of 150 tonnes per day. The company exports to more than 30 countries in Asia, Europe and America. It counts retailers such as IKEA, Tesco and Metro among its clients.

Kunshan Yongxin Glassware Kunshan Yongxin Glassware Company was established in 1993 by the Hong Kong Huacheng Investment and Kunshan Xinzhen Village Glass Factory. Located in Kunshan City of Jiangsu Province, its products include heat-resistance glassware and microwave oven trays. In 2001, South Korean company Han Glass acquired a 100% interest in it. In another acquisition, Saint-Gobain acquired the South Korean company in 2005.

Saint-Gobain infused $10 million for capacity expansion. Its production lines increased from

Shandong Huapeng Glass Shandong Huapeng Glass comprises of Huapeng Glass (Heze) Co, Liaoning Huapeng Guangyuan Glass Co, Anqing Huapeng Changjiang Glass Co, and Shanxi Huapeng Shuita Glass Co. which specialise in the R&D, production and sales of all medium and top grade products. With technology from Zacchetti and Forma Glass, the company has received numerous awards including, top ten

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Henan Anhua Glassware Group

Henan

The company is a group of four tableware producers

240 TPD

Hebei Xingchen Glass Technology Company Limited

Hebai

6 production lines

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Shanggao Huayuan Glass-tech Co., Ltd.

Jianxi

80 TPD

Qixian ( Shanxi)

140 TPD

Honghai Glass Company Huafu Glassware Company

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Chengde

2.5 million pieces per month

Zibo City, Shandong

160 TPD

Rongcheng, Shandong

120 TPD

Shijiazhuang Hua Ying Glass Products Limited She Ji Jhuang City

70 TPD

Wenxi Xinmin Glass Products Company

Shanxi province

110 TPD

Henan

140 TPD

Shanxi province

120 TPD

Henan Yujing Glass Company Shanxi Hongyi Glass Company U & Me Elegance Houseware Manufacturing Company Xian Yong Xing Glassware Factory Foshan Nanhai Xiaotang Liansheng Glass Co., Ltd Xuzhou Yuhua Glass Products Company

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Qingdao, Shandong

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Youyi Road, Xi’an

110 TPD

Foshan Gunagdong

90 TPD

Xuzhous City, Jiangsu province

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three to nine, and daily output of heat-resistance glassware increased from 18 tonnes to 100 tonnes.

Its main products are supplied to microwave manufacturers at home and abroad, such as Galanz, Midea, LG and Samsung.

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Qixian in Shanxi province is an important centre of tableware glass production. It has been producing glass tableware products since the start of the 20th century.

The sector’s development in the county has gone from small individual workshops, to state-owned businesses, before the entry of private companies and a total transformation thanks to increased foreign trade. The county has 43 glassware companies and some 200 related companies producing more than 6,000 kinds of tableware products.

Producers such as Dahua Glass Company, Jingpeng Glass Company and Hongyi Glass Company are located here.

The output of hand-blown goblets accounts for about half of the national production and is exported to more than 80 countries and regions. Around 70% of glassware products produced in Qixian County are sold overseas.

At the end of 2017, the annual output value of Qixian’s glassware sector was estimated at ¥4.2 billion.

About 45% of hand-blown glassware produced in China comes from Qixian, indicating how important the county is to China’s tableware sector. �

A sister concern of container glass producer, Hwa Hsia Glass Company, Wuxi Huazhong Glass Company has an installed capacity of 165 tonnes of tableware glass. Its production facilities are located at Wuxi city in Jiangsu province.

Its parent company Hwa Hsia Glass has an installed capacity of more than 400,000 tonnes per day of container glass from its Taiwan and mainland China-based production facilities.

Anhui Faqiang Glassware Company Anhui Faqiang Glassware Company is located in Huainan in Anhui province. The company, founded in 1981, operates four glass furnaces with an annual output of 150,000 tonnes. The company employs 1450 people, including 420 technical and management staff and has a provincial level technological centre.

Libbey Glassware China US tabelware manufacturer Libbey has operated in China since 2007 and has its manufacturing facility at Langfang city, Hebei province. It has a 50,000 tonnes per annum capacity.

The French glass tableware producer entered the domestic market by establishing a manufacturing facility at Nanjiang city, Jiangsu province in 2003.

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Tableware sector embraces Xpar Vision technologies Paul Schreuders* outlines how, after its successful introduction in the container sector, InfraRed camera technology is being used in the tableware glass manufacturing industry.

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he innovative InfraRed (IR) camera technology for inspection and process monitoring is proving to be a standard for each production line for the production of glass containers.

Moreover, combined with closed loop direct interaction with major IS-timing systems, the IR-technology is ready to meet Industry 4.0 standards.

New market entry In 2018 Xpar Vision also introduced this technology to tableware production.

In cooperation with one of the major players in the tableware industry, the IR-D system has been optimised for pressblow tableware production lines for the production of drinking glasses.

Application and benefits

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Typically the tumblers are inspected for similar defects and misshapes (such as dents, bulges, fins and eccentricity) as with container glass production.

Within the tableware environment this is proven to be particularly effective before the cutting machine where the finish part is detached to create the smooth and even rim of drinking glasses.

When avoiding misshaped ware entering into the cutting machine, breakage of glasses and unwanted stoppage of the cutting machine is prevented, raising the efficiency of the production line by more than 5%.

The detection and rejection of critical defects such as bird swing, fins, thin walls and stones are detected early in the process. Even aspect defects such as stains and black spots are made visible with a special IR-filtration technology.

Eliminating these defects before visual inspection after the annealing lehr reduces the risk of providing sub-standard products to the customer.

In addition the detection of defects and variations in wall thickness provides valuable process information in real time for the operator to adjust the forming machine setup for early correction.

Automated gob weight control In addition to the IR-D system, Xpar Vision has also applied the IGC system to the tableware industry to allow automatic and closed loop control of the weight of the gob. With gobs not being visible for optical cameras because views are blocked

by the press-blow machine, the Xpar Vision solution to control the gob weight is based on the IR-measurements in the glasses on the conveyor belt.

This principle, proven in container glass application, reduces variation of gob weight to less than 0.5% of product weight as shown in the screenshot on the right.

The IGC system automatically regulates the tube height in the feeder without intervention from the operator.

With both IR-D and IGC in place, the operator can focus on optimising the performance of the forming machine, rather than paying attention to unwanted events because of weight variation and product anomalies.

In summary, applying hot end technologies from Xpar Vision in tableware production results in fast payback and opens the door for higher efficiencies by increasing the focus from operators on further process improvements. ďż˝

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� Fig 1. Glass container half year production for food and beverages in Europe.

– are increasingly aware of the impact their daily lifestyle can have on the environment: ‘plastics pollution’ has been amongst the most searched topics on Google in 2018 in UK (Fig 3).

Sustainability is no longer a ‘buzzword’; Consumers now see a direct link between their purchasing behaviour and major environmental issues, and they want to know more about the products they buy,

and the way brands behave.

According to a Unilever survey carried out in 2017, more than one in five (21%) of the people surveyed said they would actively choose brands if they made their sustainability credentials clearer on their packaging and in their marketing (1). A recent Europe-wide survey carried out with the Friends of Glass community states 78% of Europeans pay more attention on the environmental impact of their daily life and actions (2).

Due to the level of media and political attention on ‘marine littering’, not only plastics but all packaging materials have come under the spotlight, and consumers are more attentive to the way products are packed. This can drive product choice: the Friends of Glass research reveals that 73% of Europeans rate glass as the most ocean-friendly packaging; 78% rank it among top packaging choices when buying their food and beverage products; and one in two consumers say they use more glass than three years ago (Fig 4).

� Fig 2. Glass container year production for food and beverages in Europe.

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lass packaging production in Europe grew by 1% in volume (tonnes) and 1% in unit terms in the first half of 2018 compared to the previous half year, according to data published by the European Container Glass Federation, FEVE (Fig 1).

The growth is in line with the Full Year 2017 data, which recorded a growth of 2% in weight terms and 2.4% in units and compares favourably with the historical trend since 2012.

Between 2012-2017, production increased by almost 1.7 million tonnes (8.3% increase) or 6.4 billion units (8.9% increase) (Fig 2). Generally, all food and beverage market segments experienced a demand in growth for glass, and the outlook is also positive for the flaconnage sector for perfumery, cosmetics and pharmacy.

Adeline Farrelly, FEVE Secretary General, said: “We are encouraged by this positive trend which confirms our belief that brands and consumers are switching to glass for environmental reasons.”

This positive market dynamic for glass reflects an increasing consumer engagement with environmental causes.

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Adeline Farrelly said: “This increased trust in glass from consumers is heartening for our industry.

“We are constantly making efforts to optimise the recycling properties of glass into a business model that is an authentic example of a Circular Economy.

“We work hard to improve our production technologies and product characteristics, to reduce energy use and minimise any environmental impact by using recycled glass.”

She added that glass is the leading packaging material for spirits, wines and beer, while it is increasingly gaining share in the food, water and dairy sectors. It is the second leading packaging material in Europe in terms of volume. The industry is strongly committed to champion glass as packaging of the future. �

� Fig 3. Google Search Trends on ‘Plastic Pollution in UK” in the past four years.

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atest industry data on glass recycling confirms that more than 12 million tonnes of glass bottles and jars are collected and recycled in Europe, with an average glass recycling rate in the EU28 of 74% (1).

Glass remains the best performing food grade closed loop in the world. The latest industry data has a two-year time lag dating from 2016.

This figure should be set to rise. With the Circular Economy now at the forefront of the political agenda, EU Member States have committed to ambitious targets on municipal waste reduction and glass packaging recycling. This signals a renewed investment in separate collection for glass packaging in the coming years, which will engage consumers, municipalities, Extended Producer Responsibility schemes, recyclers and manufacturers in a collaborative effort to collect, sort and treat the glass that is currently leaking from the system.

“As an industry we commit to actually recycle all collected glass of sufficient quality in the closed loop. An estimated 90% of what is collected goes into creating new bottles from old ones, offering brands and consumers a food grade quality recycled material. Today, recycled glass is our most important raw material, which brings us major environmental benefits, and energy savings,” said Adeline Farrelly, FEVE Secretary General.

Its recent study on glass packaging recycling (2) demonstrates that countries such as Austria and Sweden have gone beyond 90% collection for recycling rates by installing bottle bank systems and investing in consumer awareness.

Tailored solutions will need to be found locally, but separating glass from the other materials is the best investment for public authorities to meet the new glass recycling targets. Recent consumer

� Fig 1 Container glass recycling rate in Europe. research suggests that particularly for millennials, environmental credentials drive their product choice, and that the take-back culture for glass packaging is very strong where there is bottle bank infrastructure in place (3).

“Consumers have a strong connection with glass packaging, which is for them more than just a packaging”, she continued. “Over ten years ago, the industry decided to invest in consumer communications (www.friendsofglass. com) to raise awareness about the importance of glass recycling and the other key assets of glass packaging.

“We want to help bridge the collection gap, but clearly cannot do so on our own.

Efforts across the value chain are needed.”

The average 74% EU glass collection for recycling rate masks a variety of situations between countries. If we look at performance rates, on the one side, we find countries in the ‘Over 90%’ top

league: Belgium, Finland, Austria, Sweden and Slovenia where separate collection schemes for glass perform very well and provide a high quality secondary raw material for the industry.

On the opposite side are countries in the ’Under 40%’ league: Greece, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Malta and Romania where the collection culture and, consequently the glass collection schemes have important potential for growth.

Looking at overall volumes of glass collected, the picture in larger countries such as France, Italy, the UK, Poland or Spain is different.

In conclusion, each country is different and will need its own focused and tailored strategy to ensure top class glass recycling.�

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A service built on customers’ needs Thomas Jeanblanc* discusses the Tiama Services development strategy and how he wants to keep adjusting offers to customers’ demands.

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hile the glass market is moving towards the Smart Factory implementation, glassmakers are still facing growing challenges in their plants.

More than ever they need to count on the highest level of performance from their equipment 24/7 and keep controlling their operating costs. They also must be very flexible by answering demands for more sophisticated articles and mixed production runs while still providing the highest level of quality.

Plus, they have to achieve all their productivity targets while controlling their financial framework at the same time. This is why they need to feel they can count on their suppliers’ support.

A modern strategy

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Tiama can help glassmakers face their daily challenges by implementing a modern operating and support strategy and by acting on three key parameters: 1. Inspection performance optimisation: by improving machine settings to operate them to their full potential.

2. Reliable and continuous equipment running: with Tiama guidance, support, training and the appropriate documents, customers will have tools to ensure continuous operation and minimal downtime in the event of an incident.

3. Job change optimisation: as the job change is always a key moment on a glassmaker’s production line, Tiama aims to optimise programmes to give the operator full control over parameters which will cut down time.

� Fig 1. Machines simulators, a modern training programme.

regular training, and with Tiama’s expertise and follow up, machines are fine-tuned which allows a decrease of false rejects of at least 0.1%.

“The impact for the customer is a saving of more than €150K. And it is not only about money. Our service contract allows customers to effectively reduce their customers’ claims, which is an important part impacting their image.”

Tiama Service range Tiama benefits from a global coverage with more than 70 experts all dedicated to customer support activity covering 21 countries and working in 15 languages for a close relation with the customers and a better reactivity.

Its specialists are trained in fields such

as electronics, optics and automatism.

As an international market player, Tiama supports glassmakers with a full set of services to capitalise their initial investment in its equipment and minimise the cost of ownership. Together with such solutions as 24/7 hotlines, audits, maintenance programmes, rampup support, warranty extensions, article tests and spare parts stock management, the company decided to structure a solid training offer two years ago.

Machine simulators Tiama completed its machines’ learning programmes with modern alternatives.

For example, glassmakers can acquire machine simulators and benefit from the possibility of practicing any time,

� Fig 2. Tiama’s global services.

Thomas Jeanblanc states: “One of the more interesting parts of the service support is to highlight to our customers how a service contract can benefit them by drastically improving their indicators and profitability.

“For example, when we are able to reduce resorting by 30% on average in a plant, it corresponds to a saving of more than €300K. “By improving customers’ skills during

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anywhere and whenever required.

This new tool for customers has a realistic environment, as the glass plant can choose to work on its own pictures. User profiles are customised for multiple training possibilities and Tiama can provide, on appointment, expert support.

A machine simulator is a training tool that allows operators to work on practical exercises to train on settings for different detections. It is also an interesting tool for customers to optimise the production by testing settings on their real images without risking interfering on the current production. Once their results of settings are better than the current ones on the production line, they can then duplicate them on the ongoing production.

SPOCs Another example of the training possibilities offered by Tiama are the Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs), or the ability to benefit from video, online courses.

This knowledge consolidation tool, composed of five hours of videos spread across 28 courses, can be accessed 24/7, to an unlimited number of trainees for optimal use. Each video concludes with a knowledge validation quiz, in order to consolidate users’ skills.

The company’s strategy is to work alongside glassmakers to secure and improve their lifecycle costs and performance levels.

Service contracts The service contracts are still satisfying the growing demand of customers. All the 2018 contracts have been renewed and for most of them, with more credit days planned for the year to come, it means that more than 1000 days will be sold this year.

At the end of January, Tiama had already signed 12 contracts with new customers convinced by the interest of the support that can be provided.

A service contract is created according to the Tiama fleet of machines in the customer’s plant to determine the size of the contract with an adequate number of days.

Depending on the wishes of customers, we can make audits, provide expertise or simply take care of daily operations for our customers who want to concentrate on their core business. With our multiple service contracts around the world, we have been able to develop a solid experience of service to our customers in the last few years. The main objective of this activity is to give our customers solutions to make the most of their investments in Tiama equipment.

If customers are interested in audits, the contract can start with a tailored audit to give him an overview of the plant situation based on strong expertise, with a technical audit to check in the state of Tiama machines, a performance audit to check machines settings and a knowledge audit to validate the team’s expertise.

The objective is to build a strategy based on facts. The results of these audits will allow Tiama and the customers to prepare a specific action plan for the duration of the service contract.

At the end of the contract Tiama will evaluate the results of the contract and the progression of benefits and KPIs to give recommendations to the customer for the year to come.

Confident in achieving the goals set with the customers Tiama commits to the final results with a return on investment of eight months on average. �

*Services Manager, Tiama, Lyon, France t.jeanblanc@tiama.com www.tiama.com

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CHINAGLASS 2019 Hall E1 Booth 244 Sales Manager Mr. Costantino Pecciarelli

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The constant and continuous improvement, which is a d "must"; the care in the choice of raw materials and ke components, the customer oriented philosophy make ALL GLASS stand out as a leader, a highly efficient and alized and fully reliable company in the development of industrialized integrated systems for the Glass Industry.

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Swabbing

Novaxion hails success of swabbing Robot SR200 With 56 of its Swabbing Robot SR200 installed so far all around the world, Novaxion is a major actor of the automation process in the glass container manufacturing industry suggests Christophe Duplan*. integrate an extra five Novaxion swabbing robots.

A new version 1.2 has just been developed (cf. Fig.1): - New design with a better integration of the oil tank and other devices, and protection of the cables.

- New Novaxion SwabTool software revision v4.0 gives friendly enhanced possibilities to users to view, edit and apply independent swabbing settings on each section. According to our customers needs and to support specific productions such as flexible multi-gob systems, this new revision allows the settings optimisation on one section before

applying them on all the machine. This offers flexibility to achieve better bottle swabbing efficiency.

Benefits According to the company, the installation of Novaxion Swabbing Robots enables benefits : - More product quality: constant swabbing and uniform lubricant application into the mould allow less reject of bottles and constant glass distribution.

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he glass container manufacturing industry aims at higher quality and productivity as well as a secure work environment.

With extensive experience and years of partnership with the major glass container manufacturers, Novaxion provides the solutions for swabbing blank moulds on IS Machines. For example the latest Swabbing Robot SR 200, was installed in Piramal Glass, one of the world’s largest and fastest growing glass bottle companies. It was integrated into an 8-section Emhart IS machine in Piramal Glass’s Missouri plant, USA. Piramal group is now willing to

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- Gain of time: quick installation, swabbing on the fly no section stops.

- Saving on swabbing oil by 85%.

- Saving on labour costs: two operators per 24 hours.

- Other savings concern swabbing sticks and waste treatment for used swabbing sticks.

- Better working conditions with better air quality and increased work safety.

These savings and benefits added to the increase of the ‘pack to melt’ ratio from 2% to 5% (depending on the factories and the type of production) enables a payback

within 12 to 18 months.

Testimonies Jason Alves, Project Manager Engineering of Gallo Glass Company in the USA, reports about Gallo Glass’ partnership with Novaxion. The company has already bought a Swabbing Robot, and just placed an order for a further three robots: “The installation of our first swabbing robot in 2017 was completed on an Emhart IS machine manufacturing blow and blow wine containers for the Californian market.

With the support and expertise of Novaxion engineers, Gallo has seen significant

benefits from the technology. Bottles quality has improved, while swab oil use has decreased by around 70% providing housekeeping improvements. Another key benefit of the technology is improved safety as employees do not need to interact with the forming machine to swab the blank side.

“During an upcoming furnace rebuild project, Gallo Glass will install three more Novaxion robots demonstrating its commitment to the technology.”

Erman Ülken, Production Engineer of Park Cam in Turkey, gives credit to Novaxion for its efforts depending on customer demands: “Park Cam has four swabbing robots in four Bottero 8+8 tandem lines. The robots proved their benefits just a few weeks after commissioning. If we would choose some key words to describe the robots we can simply choose safe movements, standard swabbing, thrifty oil consumption and clean environment.

“Novaxion robots assist Park Cam to keep high quality and high efficiency. We are happy to be a part of this partnership.”

Developments

THE INNOVATIVE STACKER FOR THE COLD END The new Tin-Air-Speed-Stacker (TASS) with a new type of double arm kinematics processes small size glass sheets with high efficiency. When combined with the accumulator, conveyor line and optional Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), it offers numerous advantages: Highly efficient, fast and flexible stacking for small glass sizes up to 2 m Stack and feed sheets in air side and tin side mode Glass handling of single sheets or pairs No indexing platform required Up to 20 cycles/minute for either air or tin mode For new glass production lines, replacement of manual glass handling and upgrading of old equipment

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In 2017, IS machine supplier Bucher Emhart Glass and Novaxion worked together to implement a new hangedup Swabbing Robot version V2.0.

This robot has been integrated into a Bucher Emhart Glass AIS machine at the glass plant of a European bottle manufacturer.

According to Novaxion, this version V2.0 hanged-up swabbing robot is already a success : - the integration of the robot on the blank side panel is good.

- the system is compact and easy to clean. No visible cables and no protection cage are required.

- the robot’s movements are smooth, operating without any vibrations.

A 2nd robot was installed at Vidrala’s Crisnova plant in Spain and is running successfully, and a 3rd one in the Philippines.

A further 10 robots are due to be installed in the near future. �

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Multi-weight production Wilfried Seidensticker* discusses the benefits of multi-weight production and how assortment production masters increased demands.

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he production of a small quantity of different products has always been an issue for the container glass industry.

The IS machine had to be completely stopped and reconfigured. The whole production run also had to be turned over to the other article and more moulds had to be purchased than necessary for these low-volume items. Downtime was costly and production efficiency suffered.

Today, gobs of different weights can efficiently be produced on the same IS machine simultaneously.

Since the development and the successful market launch of the Heye Multi Weight solution in 2008 (also called ‘assortment production’), market demands have continued to increase.

Heye successfully met the customers’ requirements by continuously developing this product. The multi weight solution masters a variety of scenarios applied by container manufacturers and makes production more efficient than what was possible prior to the introduction of this technique.

Consequently, multi weight technology makes production particularly interesting for the manufacturer. This is not only for sampling procedures but when it comes to the request of cost-effective production of smaller quantities.

Assortment Production

� Fig 1. A realized project of weight difference at 610g.

Which maximum weight differences can be handled?

This finally depends on the article that is to be produced and must be assessed in each individual case. In general, assortment production can be realized at a weight difference of 10% to 20%.

The lower the basic weight, the better it is to keep this figure. In the past, multi weight productions with 280g and 304g as well as 256g and 280g have successfully been realized. Today, due to constant development of the software in cooperation with different customers, assortment production with weight differences of over 200g are possible under certain conditions (e.g. 610g and 825g).

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Advantages The system finds practical application both in the sampling of new containers and in the production of smaller quantities, which are less expensive when running assortment production.

In the past, sampling procedures counteracted yields of an entire production line for hours or even an entire shift. With the use of this latest technique it is possible to carry out the sampling of the new article on one or two sections while keeping the remaining sections run in a normal production routine. Not one single gob is wasted or rejected.

The outstanding benefit of this multi weight technology: Efficiency of short job runs. In general, short job runs are produced when the consumer requests a high-end article, such as perfume bottles.

It is evident that common bottles for beer or water reach a much wider market in quantity compared to more luxury filling materials such as spirits or perfume.

� Fig 2. A realized project of weight difference at 825g.

� Fig 3. Different weights of glass bottles on one IS machine.

How can assortment production be implemented?

Heye specially developed a software solution for running multi weight production. Furthermore, manufacturers need the Heye servo drive control unit in conjunction with the servo plunger and dual motor shears to be able to accept those lucrative low-volume orders from the fillers. With the use of modern hardware technology in conjunction with intelligently designed software, it is today feasible to deploy resources and energy much more efficiently than it was possible with less sophisticated techniques in the past. �

*Hot End Product Manager Obernkirchen, Germany. marketing@heye-international.com www.heye-international.com

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FlexRadar system to reject defective wares Bucher Emhart Glass’ FlexRadar system allows glass container producers to reject defective wares as soon as they are formed, as well as using live production data to optimise conveyor spacing.

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old end inspection technology is improving all the time, using automation and sophisticated imaging to detect and reject wares that fall short of quality standards. But for all its accuracy, Cold End data can only be utilised after the annealing lehr which delays the feedback signal as well as the process correction.

To address this challenge, Bucher Emhart Glass (BEG) is constantly working to improve its control and inspection technologies throughout the production line. With its FlexIS Plunger Up Control, introduced six years ago, it took the first step towards closed-loop control, where ‘live’ production data is used to automatically adjust and optimise the production process in real time.

One of BEG’s most recent innovations in this area is FlexRadar, its Hot End Process Monitoring and Inspection system. FlexRadar uses high-resolution infrared cameras, positioned at angles either side of the conveyor, to measure the energy that radiates from newly formed glass containers as they leave the Hot End for the annealing lehr. The measurements are used to produce a thermal image of each container.

The system monitors and records each container’s shape, glass distribution and position on the conveyor. Any containers that fall outside the limits for the process are automatically rejected, and cavities or sections producing outliers are quickly reported to the operator, to allow the

problem to be fixed.

The versatile FlexRadar can also detect down and stuck ware, thin/wedged bottom, leaners, thin spots, bird swings, inclusions, freaks, fin defects, chocked bore and thin neck.

All details are recorded, including total reject numbers, causes and the characteristics and spacing of rejected wares. By reviewing long-term data, users can see the effects of swabbing, mould changes and event changes.

Live thermal images An overview on the control screen shows live thermal images of every container, giving operators a ‘window’ into production as it unfolds. However, FlexRadar never sleeps – even when the operators finish their shift, the system keeps on monitoring, rejecting and recording.

FlexRadar acts as a pre-filter for cold end inspection, and allows rapid corrective action on the root cause of the problem.

However, it can do even more. When allied with BEG’s closed-loop technology, the settings of its FlexPusher technology can be adjusted automatically based on FlexRadar data, optimising the spacing of bottles on the conveyor in real time. This

minimises interference on the conveyor and prevents jams at the ware-transfer stage.

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based on the control parameters for each section.

Once the integration is in place, the operator can make changes to FlexPusher parameters or the conveyor offset without risking any disruption. The system will respond intelligently to the new settings, keeping containers evenly distributed, just as the user would expect.

FlexRadar and bottle spacing control are available for all types of BEG machine. FlexRadar supports both tandem machines and forming lines that produce multiple items, and works with both round and non-round container shapes.

The system allows real-time data gathering, data archiving and integration with production reporting as well as remote monitoring for support.

“FlexRadar is a vital building block in our rapidly developing closed-loop production system,” says Martin Grönblad, Product Manager at Bucher Emhart Glass. “By checking containers before they even reach the lehr, it allows glass container producers to filter out unsellable wares and therefore spend less money taking them through the rest of production. Once manufacturers bring in bottle spacing control, they save even more, with smoother transit on the conveyor and fewer jams. Overall, this is a great way for manufacturers to streamline production and improve pack-to-melt ratios.”

“One of the main goals of having these type of sensors and robotic products under the Bucher Emhart Glass brand is to integrate them into our machine and control systems. By exchanging data between all of these systems, the operation of the equipment will become less operator dependent and allow increased performance”. �

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Anti-Deflection Bracket to Prevent Post Flex on Blank Side Hangers A taper lock anti-deflection bracket, which sits atop the hanger saddle, provides an added stability in the glass forming process. � Pyrotek makes the anti-deflection brackets at its Tulsa, Oklahoma plant in the USA.

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ometimes a small part can cause big problems in hollow glass production.

The post on the blank-side hanger on an individual section (IS) machine can flex and shift over time, which can lead to misaligned plungers and container defects.

“The biggest thing hollow glass producers want to do is reduce cost per tonne, that’s what they’re driven toward every day,” says Doug Stanley, Pyrotek’s Global Manager Glass Container Technology and Business Development.

“Reducing glass defects and machine downtime can help improve that.”

When the blanks close and pressure is

applied, deflection is caused. Pyrotek’s taper lock anti-deflection bracket, which sits atop the hanger saddle, provides an added stability compared to other brackets on the market. It holds the post in place and limits its movement, which improves bracket life and helps prevent defects. It can increase the life of the post, reduce baffle tears, blank tears, and keep traditional bushed or non-bushed brackets from wearing.

In addition, the bracket can lead to a lower press pressure setting on the hangers.

“The more press pressure on the glass, the more defects will result. The bracket helps keep everything in line with less friction,” Stanley says.

The taper lock anti-deflection bracket is designed for certain 8.5-inch tripe glob and 6.25-inch double gob IS machines.

It also is included in Pyrotek’s linkage system, which stays centered, maintains ideal closing angles, and ensures one side’s clamping force doesn’t overpower the other.

“We offer a complete linkage system,

everything from the toggle shafts, the linkage itself on the blank side, the blank saddle, and the hanger,” Stanley says.

“With the bracket, our linkage system has this advantage.”

Pyrotek makes the brackets at its plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Nearly 200 sections are in service, and it is conducting trials globally.

“We’ve done multiple trials, and we’ve never had one returned. Everyone who has done a trial has purchased the part,” Stanley says. �

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The 3D Smart Gob for forming control Richard Pike* introduces the latest generation of gob imaging and control systems.

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n today’s world of glass manufacturing, precise control of glass container forming is becoming more important, starting with gob formation, gob weight and stability of shape, which is a vital part of the forming cycle.

The ideal ‘Gob for the job’ has historically been determined by the skill of the glass forming specialist. It is a function of several elements: Tube height, orifice size, plunger height, plunger stroke and glass temperature.

With the advent of servo feeders and more efficient forehearth control, the repeatability of most of these mechanical functions has been mastered. However, it still requires the Forming Supervisor’s skill of matching the final trimming of gob shape to the Blank Mould profile in order to optimise Gob delivery into the IS machine. Achieving control and repeatability in this area has been difficult in the past, but a new control system has been introduced which addresses this and provides precise control and repeatability of Gob shape, Gob weight and Gob Temperature.

UK-based Graphoidal Developments - part of the Rise Group of companies – has introduced the 3D Smart Gob, a Gob imaging and control system which can be applied to all gob fed glass forming processes, for single, double, triple and quad Gob operation (Fig 1).

By using the latest high definition infrared digital cameras, the 3D Smart Gob produces an accurate real time 3D image of the gobs from which it calculates and records the relevant data and provides the following benefits for the customer: Accurate Gob Weight: providing cost savings by reducing waste. A controlled reduction of 1 gram in gob weight could equate to up to €90,000 per year in cost savings.

Accurate Gob Temperature: providing the forming team with the means to set Forehearth temperature control to achieve optimum glass exit temperature

and stability.

Accurate 3D Gob shape reconstruction: Accurate imaging and recording so that the optimum gob shape can be achieved and stored /recalled for future job set up repeatability.

Accurate Gob Delivery angle: providing visualisation of the falling angle of the Gob, allowing the operator to reduce delivery related issues.

Job Change time reduction: by storing, recalling and reloading all set up parameters for job repeatability.

Control at a glance After initial set-up and during normal operation the system HMI graphics provide the forming machine operator

with the following information: � Gob Length +/- 0.1mm � Diameter +/- 0.1mm, � Gob temperatures +/- 10°C. � Falling angle 3D +/- 0.1° � Shape Recognition of each gob � Volume calculation � Calculate and weight control +/-0.25%

Camera technology Because the intermediate platform area around the blank side of the IS machine is normally a crowded environment, with the shear sprays, Drip Tray, Gob Guide Funnels and Gob Distributor all in this area, space is at a premium and it Continued>>

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is sometimes difficult to get a full length image of the gobs. The 3D Smart Gob overcomes this problem by utilising Digital Infra-red Linear Cameras, which require a straight clear line of sight only 1cm high in order to take images and measurements. The cameras can be mounted at a distance of up to 1.5 metres from the gobs and they are only sensitive to infra-red light, thus avoiding disturbance from ambient lighting.

will be undertaken off line, without disrupting normal production and the commissioning and initial set up procedure can be configured during a job change. The system uses water cooling rather than more expensive air cooling for the cameras. After commissioning and achieving set point weight and shape, the operator simply pushes a start button to put the system into operation (Fig 2).

Control system and HMI The control system is housed in a 60 x 60 x 180 Rittal style IP65 enclosure and the control architecture is rack mounted PLC which will be located in the main forming area control room. The HD Colour HMI screen can either be located within the enclosure, or located on the control room operations desk. Remote access to the system data is also available

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The Smart Gob 3D has been developed primarily for glass container production.

However, installation of the imaging and cooling system can be made on any type of gob feeder. The installation

Over three years of technology and hardware development have been undertaken to prove the accuracy and reliability of the system, including long term test installations in day to

day operation at several European glass container plants to create an advanced system. All of these trial installations are still in operation, having been adopted as permanent installations. A testament to the quality of the system and thoroughness of the design engineers’ objectives.

Return on Investment The 3D Smart Gob has the capability to measure and control gob weight to +/0.25%, allowing the glass manufacturer to control within tighter container weight limits and save costs. Based on the figure quoted above for the â‚Ź90,000 annual saving of 1gm of glass per container, the financial benefits of the system are clear, and a payback of less than 12 months has been calculated, due to the competitive price of the system which is available in single, double, triple or quadruple Gob format. There are also a number of limited opportunities to test the system on a sale-or-return basis. ďż˝

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Glass gobs gathering robots Since its creation in 2004, Novaxion has developed a range of ball-gatherer robots, able to gather a few grams of gobs up to 6kg of glass.

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ovaxion formed a partnership with industrial robotics group Fanuc which allowed it to offer customers a 18-month guarantee with a stock of always-available spare parts and an aftersales service in every region of the world.

Novaxion General Manager, Christophe Duplan, has installed more than 160 robots in different glassworks around the world since he began to work in the field of robotics for the glass industry in 1989.

Novaxion provides glass gobs gathering robots to global glassware producers such as Rogaska in Slovenia, Iittala in Finland and Waltersperger in France.

Mr Duplan said: “After a challenging period between 2010 and 2015, glass gathering robots’ sales are now rising, meeting the demand for high quality robots.”

Novaxion’s leitmotiv is innovation and the company is always looking to innovate to provide robots that gather high quality glass gobs.

Three models of 6-axis ball-gatherer robots are currently available to gather small to big glass gobs, up to 6kg of glass, from all types of furnaces, from pots and day-tanks to continuous level furnaces.

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Flexibility Mr Duplan said ball gatherer robots are much more flexible than slow feeders.

“There are many advantages offered by ball-gatherer robots which balance the comparison with slow feeders.

“Slow feeder systems can be installed only on a constant level furnace that excludes day-tanks and pot furnaces.

From this first principle, the possibility of working with colour glass is limited.

Putting a feeder into operation is long and difficult to realise by an operator. It comprises ring clearing, gob regulation and thermal stabilisation of the feeder.

“This period practically does not exist with the ball gatherer robot. These feeder disadvantages are important when production is not done in three shifts.

“Each machine stop for maintenance, breakdown or production change causes

important glass losses. With a slow speed there is a necessity to flow down a glass trickle and to make a pre-gob before being able to get the right gob. So there is less flexibility with a gob feeder.

“The glass shape obtained is more limited due to passing through a ring.

This fact eliminates production of big flat articles, which requires the spreading out of glass in the mould.

“With a feeder people are obliged to work in the range of lower temperatures which is inconvenient for production of some glass articles and sometimes for glass technology since the phenomena of deglazing can appear on the feeder.

“The most beautiful glass articles have been hand-made until now. So, surface heterogeneity does not constitute a problem. A glass gatherer robot imitating human work enables articles similar to hand-made quality to be obtained.”

Novaxion 6-axis glass gatherer robots have soft movements reproducing the hand-gatherer way and are easily movable

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They can work at high speed combined with high precision and they can feed up to two forming machines simultaneously.

Concerning the gathering of glass from day-tanks and pots, Novaxion offers a glass gob weight control system to ensure a constant weight of the gob while the glass level is decreasing.

Simple programming methods are used: a new friendly gathering software has been developed, allowing more flexibility for the end-users and more possibilities of adjustments.

Novaxion also offers two models of pneumatic shears to cut the melted glass: - Shears with V blades (feeder type) to reduce the cut mark.

- Shears with transfer and long blades to cut glass down into the mould. �

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ďż˝ Mr Mani (centre right) with members of the Glass Scan Technologies team at glasstec last year.

Bringing glass recycling to the Middle East H

ow did you first become involved in this project?

The potential of glass recycling has been known to me for many years as I have headed glass industries over years and understand the importance of glass cullet availability on a consistent basis for a glass plant. I have always been intrigued to see the systems and initiatives taken towards glass recycling by many countries around the globe, particualrly in Europe where Belgium was a prime role model

and an act to follow.

My long-term association with my friends, Dieter Olschewski from Cibite and Andre Ommer from glassglobal started the path.

Here were three people with like minded thinking and a technology developed with the expertise of Cibite (exclusive technology partners to a global inspection machine manufacturer), glassglobal with its expertise towards data analysis, business planning and feasibility

studies, and finally myself coming from a rich glass technology background of 32 years in the industry.

While the technology is German and the equipment is from Binder, based in Austria; our company Glass Scan Technologies of Dubai, was born out of this collaboration to launch glass recycling within the GCC. We three complement each other with our expertise, knowledge Continued>>

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Ramesh Mani* discusses the plans behind the Middle East’s first dedicated glass recycling plant and the environmental benefits it will bring to the region.

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and experience.

I have been a resident of Oman since 2004 and an investor within the Sultanate for 10 years. I headed Majan Glass between 2004 until the end of 2016. With the support of the Omani government and then the existing Board of Directors, under my leadership we transformed Majan Glass from a bankrupt unit to the 49th best performing glass factory in the world (Ref: Plimsoll UK Ltd ratings). After I left Majan Glass, I have been associated with the Ministry of Oman in the capacity of Advisor and Consultant for various projects and investments coming into the country and it was natural for me to use my wide contacts within Oman to see the potential and introduce this within Oman. Let me also mention that the support, encouragement, infrastructure and investments extended to this project

by Sheikh Hilal Humad Al Hasani, CEO - PEIE has strengthened my belief that it was the correct decision.

What was the appeal of this project ?

Throwing away glass into landfill was throwing away money. Other than the business potential aspect, I knew about the varied benefits glass recycling would bring into the country and the glass producers within the GCC. A total of 2.4 million tonnes of glass is used and dumped annually and it is high time that we in the Middle East looked at it seriously and addressed it.

We currently have more than 90,000 tonnes of glass thrown into the landfill in Oman a year and an average of about 4000 tonnes per day dumped into the landfills between Oman, UAE and Qatar itself.

The demand for glass within the GCC has been perceived to have a consistent growth of 5% each year for the last few years. There is no efficient and organised glass recycling system within the GCC in operation and for me, my plan was to make Oman have the first state of the art unit to cater to varied ranges of glass manufacturers within the GCC and Asia.

Within the GCC, close to 40,000 tonnes per day is thrown into landfill. The PEIE, which comes under the patronage of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Sultanate of Oman supported me in my initiative and hopes to resolve this problem by facilitating this project as the first step. With this project, the annual savings in terms of costs incurred towards raw materials, natural gas and enhancement of furnace life by using

Ready to Use processed glass cullet from NGRC will benefit and save Omani glass manufacturers and is estimated to reduce their batch costs by about 30% and above under optimum production conditions.

3. Sheikh Hilal Humad Al Hasani has given the go ahead for this plant and was present at glasstec last year to discuss this project. How important is it to have his approval?

The credit for this project should rightfully go to Sheikh Hilal Humad Al Hasani, who has supported my project plans with his encouragement and most importantly infrastructure. He has facilitated with his wide contacts getting the right and likeminded investors for this project from the Government and private sectors. So without him, this project would not have been possible.

Did it take much time to persuade him to the benefits of this project?

We both have been associated with each other since 2004 as Sheikh Hilal was representing the Govt of Oman towards restructuring Majan Glass from bankruptcy. It was to my benefit that he was on our Board, which helped me in my efforts towards bringing back Majan Glass onto its feet once again. Here was a man, adept with the industry’s requirements and forward thinking in his outlook. Most importantly he trusted me totally with my decisions and this helped me to bring in the changes with the free hand given to me by him and the other like minded board of directors at that time.

The world is a result-oriented place and Sheikh Hilal saw for himself how we repaid all our debts much ahead of schedule and became a cash rich organisation once again. We expanded five fold over the years all with the help of internal accruals without any external loans. This successful association continued with me being nominated to Ministry advisory committees and panels such as Tanfeedh, Azeemati, etc as Advisor and Consultant after I left Majan Glass.

It did not take more than one detailed meeting with Sheikh Hilal for me to convince him about the project and its benefits to Oman. He is a man who constantly works hard towards bringing in new technologies and investments into the country.

What benefits will this project bring both to Oman and the GCC ?

The benefits of glass recyling are numerous

where every tonne of cullet replaces 1.2 tonnes of raw materials and melting recycled glass uses 10% less energy.

Statistically, glass recycling has saved 350,000 tonnes of CO2 in the UK. It also reduces emissions by 50%. In addition, there are a lot of other uses for this glass cullet such as abrasives, Glassphalt, Glasscrete, insulation, paint pigments, tiles and bricks and filtration. The biggest benefit of glass is that it is recyclable. It can be recycled endlessly without any loss of impurity or quality. Recycling glass can reduce emissions and the production of raw materials, as well as extend furnace lifespans by at least two years.

Will this project only recycle glass from Oman or from neighbouring countries as well ?

We have already signed long term agreements for the import of glass not only from within the GCC but also from Asia.

In all your years of glassmaking, how much do you rate the importance of this project?

The glass recycling project will be named the National Glass Recycling Co (NGRC) SAOC. The NGRC will be the first glass recycling facility open within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). It will have a 650t/day capacity and be a fully automated plant.

The glass recycling plant is particularly designed to meet the needs of varied glass manufacturers within the GCC region (container, float, sheet, perfume glass and many more) in terms of specifications, volumes and pricing.

I have seen unorganised sectors comprising of scrap collectors mainly operational within the GCC collecting mixed glass in small vans and manually trying to segregate them and later on try and offer it for sale to glass manufacturers.

These quantities used to be negligible, mixed glass with contamination and used to be avoided by glass manufacturers in order to meet their quality targets.

NGRC will be the first fully automated plant which guarantees glass cullet pertaining to each glass industry’s specifications without any contamination on a consistent basis. This is a boom for the glass manufacturers and will reduce their costs. �

*Managing Partner, Glass Scan Technologies, Dubai, UAE www.glass-scan-technologies.com

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Prof John M Parker* discusses why nitrogen is not a dull chemical element.

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remember thinking in my school days that nitrogen was rather dull and inactive. In the periodic table of elements, it sat between carbon, the backbone of organic chemistry, and oxygen, which is vital for living because it converts food into energy. Nitrogen didn’t seem as productive. It’s plentiful and the atmosphere we breathe contains four trillion tonnes of it, but its early name, adopted by famous scientists such as Cavendish, Priestley and Scheele, was azote, meaning ‘without life’. Their impressions seem to match those my chemistry teacher gave me.

I discovered later that it was not an accurate picture. Nitrogen is the stuff of proteins and vital as an agricultural fertiliser; explosives such as TNT require it. As my career leaned towards glass, nitrogen seemed irrelevant but time has also dispelled this misconception.

One reason why its chemistry seemed uninteresting was that it exists as strongly bonded molecules (N2), which are hard to dissociate. But its inertness has advantages; for example nitrogen can blanket furnace electrodes to prevent oxidation. In float glass processing, it provides a protective atmosphere above the tin bath, although a little of the more reactive hydrogen is needed to prevent oxidation. As the atmosphere inside autoclaves and hot isostatic presses, it can prevent combustion of the organic materials used to laminate glass products. The handling of cardboard used for product spacers is safer if oxygen is displaced by nitrogen.

Nitrogen boils at just -195.8°C and is separable from other atmospheric components cryogenically. If stored as a liquid its evaporation can generate an inert, chilled gas stream which can give consistent, controlled cooling of the outside and inside of containers, promising increased production speeds and faster pack rates. By taking advantage of differential thermal expansion

coefficients, liquid nitrogen can assist in liberating glass from polymers in laminates that would otherwise be difficult to separate.

While breaking the bond in nitrogen is hard, it is not impossible and once broken the nitrogen atoms are reactive and will bond with elements such as carbon and oxygen. When lightening forks through the atmosphere, nitrogen oxides result and play a role in creating the nitrates that plants need as fertilisers. Everyday life can sadly exaggerate this effect. Placing bunsen burners and lamp working burners for glass in poorly ventilated rooms can give NOx concentrations recognised several decades ago as potentially dangerous for breathing. Our city centres suffer from similar issues linked to the internal combustion engine (along with Nano particulates). Glass melting furnaces are also a potential source of NOx because of the high temperatures in the combustion space. The glass industry has worked tirelessly to reduce the NOx concentrations in exhaust gases leaving the chimney, for example; by using staged combustion or gas injection to maintain reducing conditions (low oxygen levels) and careful temperature control throughout the combustion process. The industry now uses oxyfuel firing to reduce the N2 concentration present.

The amount of nitrogen that normally dissolves in a glass melt is extremely small.

It is mostly a physical rather than chemical solution because of the chemical stability of N2. Nitrogen trapped in a melting batch can cause nitrogen rich bubbles, which are difficult to remove during refining.

When mass spectrometry is used for bubble analysis, nitrogen concentration is one of the first results examined. Nitrates have been added to glass batches and help to provide a more oxidising atmosphere during early melting, but they release oxygen at temperatures, which are generally too low for refining (<1000˚C).

The strong bonds that nitrogen forms have led to dreams of its incorporation into glasses, for example; to increase elastic moduli, hardness, strength, chemical durability and refractive indices.

A partially successful approach is melting under nitrogen, or the more reactive ammonia (NH3), and using nitrogenrich batch materials such as silicon nitride. This way glasses have been made with enhanced mechanical properties but typically only a quarter of oxygen atoms can be replaced by nitrogen in phosphate and silicate systems. Sialons are one example of nitride glasses (SiAl-O-N). Melting in a high-pressure, a high-temperature piston cylinder device prevents thermal decomposition into nitrogen gas and allows much higher concentrations. The manufacturing route means that oxynitride and nitride glasses are highly reduced and unavoidable impurities in the batch form intermetallic colloids that colour them black.

The improved mechanical properties arise because the nitrogens are coordinated to three silicon atoms, which is a less flexible arrangement than for oxygens which coordinate to just two silicons. The difficulty of making an oxygen free nitride glass has been attributed to the rigidity of these structural units which do not accommodate disordered arrangements.

An alternative way to gain the advantages that nitrogen can offer is to incorporate it into the coatings routinely deposited onto glass surfaces.

Coating processes using sputtering from compounds such as silicon nitride can increase the refractive index of the layers deposited. Perhaps the resulting enhanced reflectivity confirms that nitrogen is not so dull after all. �

*Curator of the Turner Museum of Glass, The University of Sheffield, UK www.turnermuseum.group.shef.ac.uk j.m.parker@sheffield.ac.uk

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Technical Topics

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Raw Materials Looking Ahead John Henderson discusses the future of raw materials in glassmaking.

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nspiration for these columns is sometimes hard to come by as is keeping the content fresh, appropriate and interesting.

A couple of things have happened or caught my eye recently that have prompted the direction this column has taken. Firstly I was at a SGT committee meeting wrestling with the details of the SGT Annual Meeting in Cambridge this September which will host a two-day Symposium on Raw Materials and their future supply and use.

Secondly FEVE has produced statistics showing that over the five years between 2012 and 2017 European glass packaging production has grown by 1.7 million tonnes, an increase of 8.3%.

Also just by reading the content in this journal one gets the impression this growth is being seen by the industry as a whole.

This set me thinking about raw materials and what they mean to a glassmaker.

It is self-evident (at least I hope it is) that one needs raw materials to make glass and that they play a vital role in producing good saleable glass. Not all materials need to be 100% pure but they do need to be fit for purpose and consistent across batches.

As an illustration let me tell you of an incident that happened a few years ago but may have disturbing echoes for some readers. We were making a barium borate based glass which was bonded to a soda lime glass as a barrier layer and the stress between the glasses at the interface was a closely controlled parameter.

Normally the barium was introduced as barium carbonate which was quite pure for an industrial material, and the batch mixers called it ‘Chinese barium carb’ as the writing on the bags was ‘Chinese’. Due to problems on the high seas this material from Asia was not available at one stage and our supplier found us an alternative

from Europe, assuring us that it was a direct replacement and they supplied a typical analysis to back up their assertion.

Well, things started to go wrong almost immediately with the stress levels between the two glasses going much higher than permitted under the established control specification. Heads were scratched, discussions had and several chemical analyses done. The result was that an increase in soda content of the barium borate glass had changed its properties sufficiently to cause the problem and the source of that soda was the ‘European’ barium carbonate.

That still left the question as to why the new barium carbonate had a soda content of 0.2% and the normal a soda content of 0.1%. After further investigation by our supplier it was revealed that the ‘European’ material was precipitated using sodium carbonate and the ‘Asian’ precipitated with carbon dioxide and no one, our selves included, had given much thought to those differing levels of soda which under normal glassmaking circumstances would have been considered insignificant.

I appreciate that this story does not relate directly to current mainstream glassmaking, although in its time the actual products had a huge global market, but I feel it illustrates the potential future problems that might be faced.

In broad terms we are never going to run out of raw materials for glassmaking.

Just consider for a moment the amount of sand (silica) that exists around the world.

Alkalis also exist naturally; as do most if not all the commonly used materials that the majority of glassmakers are interested in. However, what compromises will need to be made to the quality levels of those materials? If we insist on having the same specifications as we have now (or better, consider low iron clear for solar cells and

premium packaging), I am sure someone would be willing to supply. But what would be the cost? If not available locally then transport costs play a significant part and if contaminants are present then beneficiation costs play a significant part.

We cannot and should not discount the prospect of a geo-political dimension in raw material supply. There is enough evidence of countries declaring materials ‘strategic’ and restricting their supply by stockpiling or price.

By way of illustration, it was only a short while ago that the country that was the major global source of rare earth minerals did this very thing and made life a little edgy for many glassmakers. In true market fashion the price rises that followed allowed for the opening of other sources of supply from previously closed mines in other countries. However, the increased competition from electrical and electronic industries meant that prices stayed high and may continue to do so.

Factors such as the drive towards low carbon technologies may influence the choice of raw materials: Are there optimum materials for electric melting and is there an added cost which is justified? Does the current research of easier melting soda lime glasses require a rethink on raw material versus energy costs? And will mineral extraction costs be influenced by the wider sustainability debate and socio-political considerations?

We as glassmakers may not wish to dwell on these somewhat esoteric topics and get on with making glass but as we have seen in recent weeks, events have a habit of forcing us to think a little more deeply about what the future might hold.�

Society of Glass Technology, Sheffield, UK www.sgt.org

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Events preview: Furnace Design Seminar Environment

Discussing the future of furnaces Glass Service is organising its 15th seminar devoted to furnace design, which takes place in its home country of Czech Republic in May. Organiser Erik Muijsenberg* discusses the evolution of the event and the plans for this year.

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1. Congratulations to you and the Glass Service team for organising this event.

Can you describe the schedule and update on progress so far?

The event will start on Tuesday 21 May with the arrival of participants. In the early afternoon we will have a user meeting of the leading furnace simulation software package Glass Service- Glass Furnace Model (GS GFM). The users (35 licensees with more than 100 users) will receive updates about new features implemented in the simulation tool.

In the late afternoon we will have the ICG-TC15/21 meeting on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Glass Furnace Design & Operationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chaired

by Aaron Huber (John Manville). We will discuss about the new Round Robin simulation case on an all-electric melting furnace related to the future need of CO2 reduction. In the evening we will have a welcome reception.

Wednesday 22 May will be the regular conference session with main topics on furnace optimisation and in the evening a formal banquet with the Award ceremony for our 8th Modeling Award.

Thursday 23 May will be the conference session with main topics more related to control, forming and emission filters. We will close the event with a very enjoyable BBQ party on the hotel terraces.

We already received abstracts from renowned companies such as OCF, JM, Sisecam, 3B, University of Prague, FlammaTec, FIC and of course Glass Service.

2. What is the aim of the seminar?

The aim is to show attendees the latest developments and trends in furnace design and optimisation. We typically cover how modern CFD and MPC simulation and control technologies can help to bring those important savings in costs and emissions while increasing quality and yield. Today this is even more important with the pressure on everybody to reduce CO2 emissions. Most of the leading engineering firms attend this event every two years to give their vision on future furnace improvements.

3. Are there any particular themes this year?

Yes, as indicated above, we want to focus more on modern techniques to reduce CO2 emissions, e.g. going to more partial or all-electric melting using renewable green electricity. Industry 4.0 is also a popular topic for our conference.

conferences held in big cities, people stay in many different hotels distributed over the city and disappear after the event to make their own plans. In our event food and drinks are mostly included and it keeps people exchanging information in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere. The fresh mountain air and views make people think about how to save our environment even more.

6. This is the 15th seminar that has been held. What do you attribute the success of the event to?

The success of the seminar is the very social, informal personal atmosphere of the Glass Service organisation by our beautiful organisation team and the special and relaxed atmosphere of our event. Also holding it only every two years means that you really have new topics than if it would be held every year.

I am the only non Czech person that has attended the event 15 times until now. I attended it for the first time in 1991, just after the Czech Republic was freed from Communism.

4. Who do you anticipate will attend the event and where geographically do they come from?

We have typically around 150 attendees from all over the world including Europe, Asia such as Japan, South Korea and China as well as people from North and South America. Attendees are normally furnace managers, plant managers or people from (central) offices related to furnace design and optimisation.

5. The seminar takes place in a hotel in the Czech countryside. Is this a deliberate tactic?

Yes, very much. We purposefully host the conference in two beautiful wellness resorts next to each other. It means all participants stay in the same hotel and all events during the day and evening take part in the hotel. It makes the interaction between and after the lectures much more intense and useful. On regular

7. What do you enjoy about the seminar?

I enjoy the open feeling and side discussion during the event while enjoying a cool drink of beer or wine on the hotel terraces with a view of the mountains.

8. Can you describe the origins of the seminar? Why did you decide to organise this event?

Glass Service started it in 1990. Before then it had held regular meetings with other Institutes and Universities. In 1991 they decided to organise a meeting with an international flavour and invited my boss at the time, Frank Simonis of Dutch organisation TNO and myself to come and present some lectures on furnace optimisation. From that moment I fell in love with Czechs, Czechia and GS and decided I wanted to attend this event over and over again.

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Events review: Furnace Design Seminar

9. How do you anticipate furnaces evolving in future years?

I am convinced we will see more use of renewable resources in the melting of glass with ‘green’ electric energy as the most likely source. Using electric energy has a thermal efficiency for glass melting around 85-95% and combustion thermal efficiency is usually limited to 30-55%.

However I believe bio fuels and hydrogen (generated from green electricity) will also play some roles in the future.

So step by step most furnaces will use more electric boosting and some furnaces

will be converted to all-electric melting. It depends on the product, size, flexibility and other parameters such as what is the best choice for the mid term. Of course furnaces will be controlled 97% of the time by a smart Expert System control according to Industry 4.0 that can autonomously decide which energy source is the best in regards to economy, ecology, quality and efficiency.

strong and keeping the atmosphere relaxed while receiving our guests & participants with our beautiful organising team and hostesses. �

10. What will you do to ensure the future success of this seminar?

By keeping the programme of papers

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Conference Preview:DGG-USTV

DGG and USTV to host joint meeting in Germany The DGG-USTV joint meeting will be held on May 13-15th, 2019 at the Maritim Hotel in Nürnberg, Germany. Sheena Adesilu spoke to Dr Thomas Jüngling* about the upcoming meeting. � The DGG banners in front of the conference venue in Nürnberg ©Uwe Niklas

� Kaiserburg castle in Nürnberg.

3. What do you hope to achieve?

We hope to get a strong attendance, and as we have received more than 180 abstracts from 10 countries. We are confident that we can offer an attractive technical programme, covering all aspects of glass science and technology.

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2. What is the purpose of the meeting?

To bring together young and experienced scientists and engineers from academia and industry. It will provide a broad overview of the industry and new trends in Glass Science and Technology.

In addition, we want to provide a platform for students to become members of the glass community in an early stage of their careers.

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1. When did the joint meetings between DGG and USTV start?

The meeting in Nürnberg, Germany, will be the first joint meeting between DGG und USTV. In 2020, there will be a second joint meeting in Orleans, France.

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WHERE THE HOLLOW GLASS INDUSTRY MEETS SOUTH AMERICA 2019 TO DO BUSINESS 14-15 May 2019, Sao Paulo Expo, Brazil WHERE THE HOLLOW GLASS INDUSTRY MEETS SOUTH AMERICA 2019 TO DO BUSINESS 14-15 May 2019, Sao Paulo Expo, Brazil

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FUTURE GLASS FORUM

Glassman South America returns to Sao Paulo, Brazil on 14-15 May 2019 and this year’s event has more content than ever before.

Your free pass will allow you access to the international exhibition as well as two free-toattend conferences.

The Future Glass Forum is a live discussion of the issues surrounding Industry 4.0 with an emphasis on glassmaking and the digitalisation of the hot and cold ends.

The conference is free-to-attend and is applicable to both flat glass and hollow glass and will focus on the latest trends in the glassmaking process with experts from areas such as furnaces, forming and inspection providing topical talks.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BRAZILIAN GLASS COMMISSION (ABCERAM)

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION The international exhibition has over 50 companies already confirmed at Glassman South America. These include AGR International, EME, F.I.C UK, Horn Glass Industries, Pneumofore and Sorg.

You’ll be able to arrange meetings and do real business within this intimate networking event designed specifically for the hollow and container glass industry.

GLASSMAN CONFERENCE

Organised in partnership with the Brazilian Glass Commission, the Glassman conference will address the latest trends in glassmaking with high-level speakers. The conference will run alongside the exhibition and is free to attend for all visitors to the show.

TO FIND OUT MORE CONTACT: Ken Clark, Sales Director T: +44 (0) 1737 855117 e: kenclark@quartzltd.com Manuel Martin Quereda, International Sales Executive T: +44(0) 1737 855023 e: manuelm@quartzltd.com

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4. What are the benefits of the student’s special programme?

Students from various universities in France and Germany will get an opportunity to exchange their experiences and present their projects and topics to each other.

They will attend lectures on Glass Science and Technology and make contacts, such as representatives from the industry, as well as receive information about future career opportunities.

This programme received special funding from the FrenchGerman University (www.dfh-ufa.org).

5. How were the topics chosen for this conference?

As in previous conferences, sessions are covering various scientific and technological aspects that participants may be interested in. The session key words were chosen to mix both academic and industrial interests so that the public will get time to learn from each other.

6. Who usually attends the conference?

The audience usually includes professors, scientists and students from academia, managers, engineers and technicians from the industry, as well as delegates from non-profit technical organisations.

7. What would you like the delegates to take away from this conference?

Delegates should take away an update of Glass Science and Technology as well as new and renewed contacts in a strong glass networking community. We hope to convince them that collaboration is beneficial for all, German and French, young and old, Industry and Academy. Hopefully the delegates will desire to join the next meeting.

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8. How long have you been Executive Director of the DGG? I started my position as Managing Director of the HVG and DGG 1st of June 2018.

9. How long have you worked in the glass industry?

Before joining HVG and DGG in June 2018, I worked for more than 20 years in the powder metallurgy and technical ceramics industry. Since 2003, I was in various senior management positions as Business Unit Manager, CTO and Managing Director of medium-size private and public companies.

10. How will you develop the conferences in the future?

In 2020, USTV will organise the next joint meeting in Orleans, France.

In 2021, we will host our next regular annual meeting in Germany, which will reflect feedback and ideas regarding the topics and outline of the programme, which we hope to receive after our joint meeting this year.

The meeting in 2022 will be a very special one, as we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the DGG during the 26th International Congress on Glass (ICG 2022) in Berlin, Germany.

We will host guests from all over the world for a conference covering Glass Physics and Chemistry, Theory and Modelling, Properties and Applications, Glass Technology, Environmental Issues, Art and Heritage as well as Cross-Cutting Topics. In addition, the programme will offer technical, cultural and historical excursions around the Berlin area. �

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WHERE THE HOLLOW GLASS INDUSTRY MEETS TO DO BUSINESS

THE EUROPEAN HUB FOR THE HOLLOW & CONTAINER GLASS MARKET Join us in Lyon for the biennial Glassman Europe event focusing on this important market for hollow and container glass manufacturers. This regular, popular event gathers together leading suppliers to demonstrate their latest innovation, products and services.

In 2017, there were over 800 attendees from 25 countries, including representatives from O-I, Verallia and Ardagh. The press coverage from the event included a wide range of articles in national and regional business media.

TO FIND OUT MORE CONTACT:

We are looking for producers, manufacturers and service providers within the following fields to exhibit their products and services:

• Raw materials

• Processing machinery

• Batch Plants

• Laboratory services & analytical equipment

• Melting furnaces • Combustion equipment • Refractories • Feeders & forehearths • Hot end handling materials & systems • Annealing & decorating lehrs • Cold end handling materials & systems

• Decoration materials & equipment • Instrumentation/process control systems • Turnkey plant construction services & technical assistance & training • Software providers

• Tempering/laminating plants

Ken Clark, Sales Director t: +44 (0)1747 855117 e: kenclark@quartzltd.com Manuel Martin Quereda, International Sales Executive t: +44 (0)1737 855 023 e: manuelm@quartzltd.com

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