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The 1.4 m
capacity Rotary
Glass Batcher CASE HISTORY
(main body
behind the drive
chain), receives
ingredients ANCHOR GLASS
from the
hopper chute
above Case history
same mixer for one million glass
containers/day since 1980
In this article,
t Anchor Glass Container “The location has two furnaces,
Michael Gesek, Corporation, a Rotary one for amber glass and one for
AGlass Batcher brought on flint glass –– the industry term
Engineering Services line in 1980 still mixes the ingre- for clear glass,” he explains. The
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dients that produce over a million 1.4 m capacity GB-50 Rotary
Manager at Anchor glass containers per day. Over Glass Batcher supports the flint
38 years, that’s about 14 trillion glass line that produces bottles
Glass’ Elmira, New containers and 3.6 million tonnes and jars made of clear sodium
of material. silicate glass.
York plant, speaks One of the largest US manu-
facturers of glass bottles and jars PURPOSE-BUILT FOR
about a part of the for the food and beverage indus- ABRASIVES
try, Anchor Glass is headquar- Manufactured by Munson
machinery used tered in Tampa, Florida and oper- Machinery Company, the Rotary
ates production facilities in New Glass Batcher was installed in
to manufacture its York, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, 1980 on a new glass production
Minnesota and Oklahoma, as line, and was rebuilt in 2011.
glass containers
well as a mould manufacturing It consists of a horizontal ves-
plant in Ohio. sel that rotates on external trun-
– the Rotary Glass
“Glass containers have been nion rings at both ends, elimi-
Batcher – which, manufactured at the Elmira, New nating internal shafts or bear-
York location since 1912 when ings that would be unable to
after 38 years, is still Thatcher Glass Manufacturing withstand constant contact with
operated the factory,” says highly abrasive materials. Internal
going strong. Michael Gesek, Engineering vanes, or ‘flights’, create a four-
Services Manager, who has been way tumble-turn-cut-fold mixing
with the company for 24 years. action as the drum rotates. “The
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