The provisional conference schedule for Glassman Latin America in Mexico City is now available.
The conference will take place on May 20-21 at the Expo Santa Fe Mexico alongside the Glassman trade show.
The event focuses on the glass manufacturing process and ways in which the industry can improve its production efficiencies.
See the below for the current programme.
You can also register for your free ticket here.
DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY MAY 20
12:20 – Glassform.ai
Speaker: Federico Monegaglia, R&D Manager.
Presentation: Automating hot-end through physics-AI digital twins: can we increase yield while reducing costs?
12:40 – Iris Inspection Machines
Speaker: Armando Enrico Brusamolino, Area Sales Manager.
Presentation: Advanced digitalisation in inspection for predictive defect detection.
13:00 – Xpar Vision
Speaker: Paul Schreuders, Xpar Vision.
Presentation: System intelligence through collaboration
13:20 – LUNCH
15:00 – Shanghai Precision
Speaker: Harry Sha, Managing Director.
Presentation: Batch house: the best learnings from practices.
15:20 – Stara Glass
Speaker: Giorgio Minestrini, Chief Project Officer.
Presentation: How to save money and extend furnace lifetime: advantages of a periodic anamnesis of glass furnaces.
15:40 – Glass Service Italy
Speaker: Emanuele Donati, Sales Manager.
Presentation: Decarbonising glass forming: synergistic advances in oxy-gas combustion and electric forehearth technologies.
16:00 – K2-CO2
Speaker: Giorgio Di Lascio, Sales Manager.
Presentation: Decarbonising the glass industry by using waste flue gases: the case of self-produced electricity in a hollow glass manufacturing plant in Italy.
16:20 – Interglass
Speakers : Manuel Patraca, Technical Consultant, and Aldo Chanón, Strategy Co-ordinator
Presentation: Maintaining process stability in glass forming, and managing friction under operational pressure.
DAY 2 - THURSDAY 21 MAY
11:30 – Refractarios Especiales León
Speakers: Gloria Oswelia León Álvarez, Founder & General Director, and Miguel Ángel Espinosa León, Sales Manager.
Moderator: Dr Heberto Balmori-Ramírez, Professor at the National Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.
Presentation: Closing the loop: industrial recycling of high-alumina refractories in the Mexican glass industry.
12:00 – TME Engineering
Speaker: Raphaël Malvezin, CEO.
Presentation: Blankontrol: from 6 to 2 months ROI – how precise blank temperature control unlocks safe lightweighting and maximum productivity.
12:20 – Land (Ametek)
Speaker: Phillipe Kerbois, Global Industry Manager – Metal and Glass.
Presentation: From fire to insight: AI transforming glass furnace operations with NIRB technology.
12:40 – Pneumofore
Speaker: Andrés Marcelo Gómez Ramones, Latin America Area Sales Manager.
Presentation: Pressure points: hidden savings in pneumatic solutions.
13:00 – RHI Magnesita
Speaker: Ignacio Ramírez Lozano, Technical Marketing Manager
Presentation: Supporting glass melting sustainability with refractory innovation.
