Keynote speaker confirmed for Japan meeting
Erik Muijsenberg, Vice President of Glass Service Group, has been invited by the Ceramics Society of Japan to be a keynote speaker at the upcoming 12th AFPG 2020 meeting on 8 December. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this meeting has become an online event that can be attended worldwide.
Mr Muijsenberg has been asked to talk about ‘Recent trends in the European glass industry’. He will explain how Europe is handling CO2 reduction requirements with strong investments into renewable energy and how the first offered Horizontal Hot Top Electric Hybrid Melter (H2EM) presented by GS and FIC in 2018 can help the industry achieve those goals. GS sister company FlammaTec already has hydrogen burners available to add to this concept.
In the second part of his talk. Erik Muijsenberg will explain how Europe has embraced Industry 4.0 and how the GS Expert System ES III brings it into the forefront of applications for almost all major glassmakers in Europe.
In Germany, for example, about 50% of all glass furnaces have ES III in operation.
