Horn secures Turkmenistan furnace order

Published 28th July, 2015 by Greg Morris

Horn has secured an order for a 250 tonnes per day (tpd) float line and 50 tpd container line in Turkmenistan.

Horn received the order in April from TEPE Türkmen Insaat ve Ticaret for the National Glass Manufacturing Complex in Turkmenistan.

The project will be realised with TEPE Türkmen Insaat ve Ticaret as the EPC contractor and Horn as the technology supplier for the EPC.

Horn will be responsible for the supply of the complete main technology line including raw material treatment, the 250 tpd float glass furnace, the 50 tpd container glass line and downstream processing.

The contract also includes services such as engineering, procurement and commissioning as well as training of the personnel, production assistance and process project management.

Commissioning is scheduled for autumn 2017.

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.