Bottles and Jars is a market of mass production, highly competitive and therefore generating a need for strict supervision of overall costs.

Improved visual quality of the finished items is an increasingly important criterion in customer choice.

In order to maximize earnings from a given furnace, 4 main requirements are to be considered :

• Improved Productivity
  
• Longer Life - Increased Daily Pull
  
• Better glass quality
  
• Minimized environmental impact

 

Saint-Gobain SEFPRO provides glass makers with materials and solutions answering to these new constraints.

These solutions include for instance :

• A full range of unshaped materials
• The "Dalles-Ersol-Ermold" concept for melter bottom pavings
• Sintered chrome materials, either ZIRCHROM 85 or  C1221 for reinforcement of high wear areas (throat, submerged walls)
• Super Low exudation fused-cast AZS ER 2001 SLX for superstructures, minimizing the risk of glass pollution
• Low porosity Alumina sintered product BPAL and HPAL for feeder channels, eliminating the risk of cat-scratches
• Cruciform Regenerator Packing solutions, allowing the highest levels of thermal efficiency, high resistance to corrosion and reduced risk of plugging.