Uzbekistan manufacturer invests in second furnace

Published 5th February, 2014 by Greg Morris

Asl Ojna, based in Uzbekistan, is to build its second glass furnace.

The project is scheduled to begin in 2014, and be completed by 2016. The US$12.5m project will enable the plant to produce an additional 80 million standard units of glass per year.

One of the leading manufacturers of glass in Central Asia, Asl Ojna started operations in October 2009 with an investment cost of €22m.

The supplier of industrial equipment was Germany's Heye International. The business can currently produce 150 tons of glass per day and 126 million units of finished products per year.

JSC ‘Asl Ojna’ produces glass containers of various colourless and coloured shades.

Source: UzDaily.uz

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.