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May 2013

Glass International May 2013

Welcome to the May 2013 issue of Glass International.

This month's features include articles on Annealing, Furnace Design and Operation, Inspection and Plant Utilities.

The feature-length articles begin with a profile of the Owens-Illinois (O-I) Harlow plant written by Assistant Editor Nadine Firth.

CNUD-EFCO's R&D Manager Hans Strauven discusses The Benefits of Annealing Lehrs while E.W Bowman's John Hann talks about Annealing of Glass Containers and Holloware.

The Furnace Design articles are provided by Glass Service and Bock, who examines the question Should Regulating Transformers or Thyristor Controllers be used in the Glass Melt.

This plus plenty more including contributions from regular columnists John Henderson and British Glass as well as the usual global round up of news.

Front cover pic courtesy of Sorg

2 Editor's Comment
5 International News
12 Technical Topics
14 British Glass Column

Glassworks Profile: Owens-Illinois
16 Harlow plant is part of the package

Annealing
19 The benefits of annealing lehrs
22 Annealing of glass containers and holloware

Furnace Design and Operation
29 Predicting the batch preheating effect on a container furnace design
32 Should regulating transformers or thyristor controllers be used in the glass melt?

Inspection
34 French inspection provider under the spotlight

Plant utilities
36 Monitoring system prevents drain on water resources

Surface Treatment
38 Surface refiners to help cut costs

Energy Efficiency
42 Turning flue gas into cash

Events World
43 ICG/GlassTrend: Innovation in Glass Production
46 23rd International Congress on Glass preview
47 Furnace Solutions 8
48 Glass Performance Days Finland
51 Mir Stekla celebrates 15 years
51 Diary

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