At the beginning of this year a large international customer commissioned furnace specialist ULG with the hot repair of the waste gas channel in one of its glass melting plants in Europe.

After a thorough inspection of the exhaust system the ULG team prepared works by cutting a slit into the side with the chainsaw and set up a water jacket into the port neck.

Following a slow cool down, the old material was broken down. ULG then rebuilt the new channel with modules filled with refractory concrete. Once the new bypass was installed, heat-up of the new and old channels was started.

The repair took place at the running furnace and required production to be reduced only minimally. ULG welcomes the opportunity to help reduce environmental impact with its operations.

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View ULG’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