Electrical melting specialist Bock Energietechnik has developed a new risk-free process to install bottom electrode holders up to three inches in size.

The company’s service team has already employed this new method “with great success” on a 600 ton melting tank during ongoing operations (see photo).

Inserting or exchanging side electrodes is part of daily business for the team. Bock has a ‘tried and tested’ procedure for side electrodes and its equipment, which was developed in-house, is also unique in the glass industry.

Active in the glass industry for over 40 years, the family-owned company based in Floss, Germany is keen to highlight the advantages of integrating of electrodes in existing furnaces and operating an existing furnace with electrical energy, which include helping to reduce CO2 emissions.

Bock Energietechnik offers complete systems and support for boosting systems through to fully electric melts. “Service is also a very important factor for us” states the company, and in addition to the modelling, technical design and manufacture of all the required system components as well as the assembly, it guarantees “hand in hand” support.

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View Bock’s presentation in the Virtual Marketplace: www.glassworldwide.co.uk/virtual-marketplace. The full version of the above news has been published in the May/June issue that has been posted globally and is available to read free of charge in the Digital Archive (sponsored by FIC) at https://www.glassworldwide.co.uk/Digital-Issues