|
|
|
HORN®’s current status of knowledge is based on more than 135 years of experience, which enables the company to supply the highest quality products for the production of beverage bottles, food containers, drinking glasses, window panes, automotive glass, glass tubes, glass fibres or special glass. |
Employees : |
120 |
Year established : |
1894 |
Business : |
Manufacturer |
HORN researches forehearth firing
HORN researches forehearth firing
The firing system in a forehearth is a critical and very important tool for glass conditioning and thermal homogeneity. Targeted and controlled firing results in higher efficiency and flexibility in forehearths.
The firing system in a forehearth is a critical and very important tool for glass conditioning and thermal homogeneity. Targeted and controlled firing results in higher efficiency and flexibility in forehearths.
HORN not only theoretically develops its knowledge in this area but also through practical research. One of these practical research studies was carried out directly in HORN's workshop. The effects of different burner types on the thermal homogeneity of glass and the heating efficiency as well as the adverse effect of the flames on the refractory material were tested on a forehearth model.
In order to simulate a real forehearth, the same cross-section dimension of a typical forehearth and the same material was used. The forehearth model was heated to normal operating temperature. In addition, the model was filled with molten glass to the same depth as in a real forehearth.
Under these conditions, the heat exchange between the superstructure, the glass surface and the combustion products could be examined realistically. The temperature of the glass at five different points, the temperature of the super-structure, the burner blocks, and inside the combustion chamber, as well as other important parameters were recorded precisely and continuously. The analysis of these test results increased HORN’s know-how regarding forehearth firing.
Once again, HORN's research and development department has taken a positive step forward regarding forehearth development.
HORN®’s current status of knowledge is based on more than 135 years of experience, which enables the company to supply the highest quality products for the production of beverage bottles, food containers, drinking glasses, window panes, automotive glass, glass tubes, glass fibres or special glass.
With its abroad subsidiary companies in China, Malaysia, India, Croatia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Brazil, HORN® ensures short response time and proximity for its customers worldwide. Still, 90% of the products are exported from the HORN® headquarters in Plössberg (located in the Bavarian Upper Palatinate, Germany) to more than 75 countries worldwide.
At all times, HORN® offers its customers full support and a helping hand. Due to a very high level of vertical integration of all products, HORN® offers tailor-made solutions and, at the same time, has ventured into new areas, e.g. in the construction of proprietary tin baths and related equipment.
HORN® manufactures a wide range of products in its own workshops in Plössberg such as:
Gas, oxyfuel and heavy oil heating for melting furnaces Electric boosting systems Batch chargers Burners Stirrers Tin baths and tin bath equipment Tweels Dross boxes Waste gas reversing units Control cabinets and SCADA systems
HORN® is the service provider for the realisation of customer visions and projects in the field of glass and supports its customers from the first draught through the implementation process to permanent production support on-site.
| Cold top batch charger Cold top batch charger
Application:
For electrical furnaces with Cold Top for even batch distribution on the surface of the glass. |
| Cross Fired Furnace Regenerative cross fired furnaces are used for production capacities of above 220 t/d or because of space reasons also for smaller furnaces. |
| Heat Treating Furnaces and equipment Heat Treating Furnaces and equipment, annealing_lehrs. |
| Measurement and Controlequipment The technological condition of a glass melting plant´s control system determines the plant´s financial feasibility as well as the quality of the glass produced. | |
|
|