Zippe commissions batch preheater at Nampak

Published 19th May, 2015 by Greg Morris

A 400t/d batch preheater was successfully commissioned by Zippe Industrieanlagen at South Africa’s Nampak Glass in April this year.

The batch preheater was installed at a new regenerative container glass furnace with a melting surface of 120m².

The preheater was installed together with a new 400tpd batch house, also supplied by Germany’s Zippe.

The whole system is integrated within PCS7 automation software, which realises the Plant-Wide-Automation (PWA) concept.

The preheater has shown double-digit energy savings and has been safely running since installation.

Pictured A photo of the installation works

Greg Morris

Glass International Editor

Greg Morris has been editor of Glass International and organiser of the Glassman conferences since 2012, specialising in glass packaging. Prior to this he spent five years working in newspaper journalism.