Johns Manville Restarts Fiberglass Furnace in Slovakia

Published 18th April, 2023 by Greg Morris

Johns Manville has restarted its Slovakian glass manufacturing furnace after a rebuild.

Johns Manville will restart a glass melter next week at its Slovakian facility after it was taken out of service for a routine rebuild.

The furnace had previously reached the end of its service life after a record campaign of 10 years.

“This is an outstanding achievement from a technology perspective,” said John Vasuta, president of Johns Manville Engineered Products.

"The teams from Trnava and our Johns Manville Technical Center in the US worked together extremely well and did a fantastic job to achieve such a long life for the furnace. The rebuild also went remarkably smoothly."

This furnace rebuild also affirms Johns Manville’s commitment to continue serving the industry in Europe with regional production.

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.