Horn Glass secures Azerbaijan deal

Published 20th December, 2016 by Greg Morris

AzerFloat has concluded with German company Horn Glass an agreement for the construction of a glass sheet manufacturing site in the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park, Baku (SKSP/SCIP).

The Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan (MOE) said the €89 million factory will manufacture 8 million m² of sheet glass a year.

"The enterprise will be commissioned before the end of 2018," the MoE said in a statement.

The AzerFloat factory will meet domestic demand and export under the brand name Made in Azerbaijan and employ 125 people.

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.