Page 17 - Glass Machinery Plants & Accessories no. 3/2018

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BA GLASS

INVESTMENTS

IN SPANISH CONTAINER

FACILITY

BA Glass is to invest EUR 45 million in its glass factory at
Villafranca de los Barros, Spain.
The Villafranca de los Barros site will be the group’s largest
upon completion of the investment, which will include the
construction of a new furnace.
In addition to this investment, another EUR 20 million
will be added to modernise two existing furnaces. The site
is located 150km north of Seville and its workforce will
expand from 300 to 380.
BA Glass President, Sandra María Soares, said it was a Yes, there is
strategic investment that would allow the group to cover
market demand, and at the same time, allow it to increase
exports to countries such as Portugal, France, Belgium, and intelligence out there...
others in Europe or North Africa.
In the long-term the company plans to set up a glass
training school at the site to ‘have people very well prepared lots of it
to work in any of the group’s 12 plants’, said Soares.
BA Glass manufactures 20 million glass containers a day
across Europe.

SORG

300TH X40

FOREHEARTH SOLD

SORG has announced that it has sold its 300th x40
forehearth, after having taken over the Bucher Emhart
Glass forehearth programme in 2006.
This programme included the 240, 340, 540 and 640
models. SORG combined the advantages of BEG
forehearths with its own design to come up with the 340S ®
and 340S+ forehearths.
In addition to the 300 x40 forehearths, the Glass
Conditioning department has completed the following
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Sales Director Fred Aker, head of the glass conditioning
Intelligence.
department says it is a pleasure having such a widely
accepted product. It makes his job in sales much easier:
“We now look forward to establishing the new improved
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SORG 340S+ forehearth in the market.”

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