Glassman Italy 2026

SEFPRO will be attending Glassman Italy, sharing a booth with Glass Service, F.I.C. and FlammaTec. This collaboration brings together leading expertise to showcase innovative solutions that support the glass industry’s transition toward electrification and sustainability.

At our booth, visitors will discover a comprehensive package of solutions designed to meet the evolving challenges of modern glass production:

• XeBOOST™ solution and electrode holder: Enabling efficient electrification in your furnace.
• Locally produced refractory solution: Manufactured in Mezzocorona, Italy, ensuring quality and proximity.
• SEFPRO GUARD© digital monitoring tool: Helping you maintain furnace efficiency through smart data-driven insights.

This event is a key opportunity to engage with customers, discuss future challenges, and explore how our technologies can optimize performance, extend furnace life, and support sustainable glass melting processes.

Join us at Glassman Italy to learn more about how SEFPRO and our partners are shaping the future of glass manufacturing, and don’t miss our two conference presentations at 2:30 PM and 2:50 PM.

Abstract 1: GFM – the only software you need to understand your furnace 

Glass Furnace Model (GFM) is an internally developed software in Glass Service, a.s. for understanding the processes in glass melting furnaces. It uses the CFD mathematical modelling approach and is perfect for evaluation and visualization of the most important parameters within the furnace (e.g. glass and combustible flows and temperatures, etc.).

Examples of some furnace optimizations will be shown during the presentation as well as a cooperative approach to fulfill customer’s task – examine a throat corrosion by means of simulations. 

Abstract 2: XeBOOST™ & SEFPRO GUARD®: A powerful alliance for decarbonization 

Reducing the carbon footprint of the inherently energy-intensive glass making process is a major challenge. It will require a progressive technology transition, starting from incremental improvements of existing technologies, and heading towards groundbreaking innovation in the long term.  

Hybrid & Electrical furnace technologies are progressively being adopted as the first step along this journey toward decarbonation. Nevertheless, these new technologies bring many technical challenges, refractories behaviour and corrosion in the melting zone being among the most critical ones.  

In the first part, this presentation will address the improvement of corrosion resistance through XeBOOST™ material installation in the most critical areas. Then, the benefits of SEFPRO GUARD® monitoring system to assess the corrosion profiles of refractory blocks and to correlate them to furnace operating conditions will be highlighted. Finally, the benefits of combining new SEFPRO materials with advanced monitoring technologies will be illustrated through a complete solution approach.