The FLACHGLAS Group, headquartered in Wernberg-Koeblitz, Germany, has been serving quality-conscious architectural and transportation sectors throughout Europe since 1938. The company’s three plants all have Glaston tempering furnaces producing a comprehensive range of glass split evenly between these two sectors.

“Our oldest Glaston tempering furnace has been producing glass for over 30 years, a good example of machine durability and quality!” says Martin Werner, Technical Manager at FLACHGLAS Wernberg.

Mr Werner and his team decided in the spring of 2022 to upgrade both the previously upgraded ProE and HTF equipment by modifying the blower drive with Glaston’s Variable-Speed Blower Control System and the Integrated Blower Vibration Monitoring System.

Variable-Speed Blower Control helps reduce energy consumption and there is no need to wait for the blowers to stop to reset the blower mode when changing from 4 to 8mm glass. The Vibration Monitoring system is to improve blower reliability and to avoid any crash of the blower wheels.

The furnaces were shut down in February 2023 for a total of five days. “We experienced a few small issues, like the chiller profiles being more precise, so we needed to change the programs. This was unexpected both for us and Glaston. Still, it was a very good project overall,” Mr Werner said. “We lowered the total annual amount of kilowatts we use in production with these projects – and now save money.”

FLACHGLAS already has its next upgrade project planned for January 2024, when an existing lamination line will be re[placed by a Glaston ProL-zone.

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