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COMPANY UPDATE

OLIVOTTO GLASS

TECHNOLOGIES

entering the Polish market

Glass Machinery Plants & Accessories

recently spoke to Elia Rizzi, Sales Area

Manager at Olivotto Glass Technologies,

to get an updated situation on the recent

developments that the company is

experiencing, with special focus on its most

recent important contract – with Trend Glass.

lass Machinery Plants & with manual production and
Accessories (GMP&A): What was transformed into an auto-
Gcan you tell us about this matic production unit. In 2017,
recent big job for Trend Glass? they carried out an important
Elia Rizzi – OGT: The company, investment, going from 50 tons
which has three big production to 150 tons.
units, is based in Poland, where it The production unit previously
started with manual production… had three lines and from there they
The company’s main produc- decided to install two high-speed
tion is pressed glass – so glasses, lines and – of course – rebuild
vases, etc. they also have two the furnace. And this is where we
press-blow lines where they man- enter the story – as the two high-
ufacture vases and glasses. speed lines are from OGT.
The biggest glassworks is in This is an important step for
Radom, about 100 kilometres OGT but also for Trend Glass
from Warsaw, where it has com- as all their other machinery is
pletely automatic production, German-made. We are the first
with 12-13 production lines. non-German company to have
There is also a second production its forming machinery installed
unit dedicated entirely to manual there.
production.
The third production unit is GMP&A: Which machines have
at Szydlowiec, which started been used in these lines?