Jarmo Kammonen discusses how the co-ordinated efforts of equipment suppliers led to the creation of a lehr loading solution for a glass container producer operating a high performance quad gob NIS machine.

Bucher Emhart Glass' involvement with refractories dates right back to the firm's early years. In 1926, Hartford-Empire, the forerunner of today's Bucher Emhart Glass, formed Corhart Refractories, a joint venture with Corning Glass Works to design, engineer, and manufacture refractory systems.

The company was formed in 1912 by a small group of engineers and entrepreneurs. Soon, their experiments led to the technique of feeding molten glass into moulds in gobs, rather than by suction. Withint a a few years, they developed the IS technology, which quickly established itself as the industry standard.

On 30 September 2013, Emhart Glass announced its new name, Bucher Emhart Glass, along with a new logo and visual identity. We spoke to senior executives at the company to learn more about the repositioning of the brand and the company’s current commercial and technical priorities.

Andreas Helfenstein describes recent advances at Bucher Emhart Glass in the field of process control and closed loops for the glass container production process.

Think of glassmakers together, presenting, discussing and solving problems related to the present and future of glass packaging, and you get an idea of what took place in May this year during a conference for the glass industry hosted by Emhart Glass, in Switzerland.