Float line commissioned in Poland
Guardian Glass has completed its first ribbon pull at its second float glass facility in Czestochowa, Poland to help meet growing demand for high performance coated and fabricated glass products in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe.
The first pull of glass completes the plant’s start up, which began with ground-breaking in 2018 and led to the start of the plant’s technologically advanced glass coater on 6 July.
“The new float line is the largest in the Guardian family of float lines” explained Guus Boekhoudt, Guardian Glass Executive Vice President. “We’ve implemented an innovative new furnace design with high efficiency combustion systems in order to provide products that meet the stringent quality requirements of our customers, while minimising both the energy used for production and emissions from the process.”
The plant, hosting two float lines, two coater lines and a lamination line, produces Guardian ExtraClear float glass, Guardian ClimaGuard low-E and Guardian SunGuard solar control coated glass products, as well as laminated glass for residential and commercial applications.
By engaging suppliers to provide both proven and innovative solutions to meet production and quality requirements, the company took a progressive approach to the design for the new float line, underlining Guardian’s long-term commitment to its customers to be the preferred supplier of glass solutions.
“The Guardian Glass Czestochowa plant represents our biggest greenfield capital investment in Guardian’s history” Guus Boekhoudt added. “This facility is the company’s most efficient and operationally effective plant and houses our largest furnace and largest coater. The new float line has a nominal capacity of 1000 tonnes of glass per day, while the new coater represents the latest in technology for Guardian and we believe, for the industry.”
