Vetri Speciali orders batch plant from Zippe

Published 3rd November, 2016 by Greg Morris

Italian container glassmaker Vetri Speciali based in Trento has ordered a new batch plant from Zippe Industrieanlagen.

The batch plant will serve a furnace that produces more than 150 tonnes a day.

The batch plant will feed one furnace and includes an addition for different external cullet. From the production lines the factory cullet is lead back to the plant. One feature of the plant is the automatic premix plant for colouration/decolouration.

A Siemens S7 type electronic control system will be installed.

The Trento-based glassmaker makes containers for the special glass sector.

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.