Zippe builds batch plant for Mexico's IVC

Published 2nd February, 2016 by Greg Morris

Germany's Zippe Industrieanlagen is building a completely new batch plant for the Mexican container glass factory Industria Vidriera de Caohuila (IVC) in Nava, Mexico.

The IVC production plant is a 50-50 joint venture between Owens-Illinois (O-I) and Constellation Brands and produces container packages for Constellation’s neighbouring brewery.

The batch plant has a total capacity of 990 tons of glass per day and includes the batch and cullet transport system, the automatic cullet return system for new furnaces 3 and 4, and also the complete electrical control system.

The order was placed with Zippe on a turnkey basis.

Production is scheduled to start in May 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.