Glass Open Book

The gob influences the container quality by up to 90%, without the “perfect gob” it is not possible to produce the “perfect container”. This course deals with the fundamental principles of gob formation, starting from the orifice ring size right through to all feeder parameters and glass temperature.

This service if for glass manufacturers who are considering to produce bottles with the NNPB forming process for the first time. APEGG make the NNPB forming process introduction easy, by ensuring that the glass producer is having the right know-how and technology.

Forming defects must be avoided during glass container production. The production and quality team must know how to handle defects by understanding how to inspect a container for defects, and finally how to fix it. This training course covers the fundamental knowledge about glass container forming defects.

Producing a container at its optimal weight capacity ratio is essential when looking at manufacturing costs and consumer benefits. For the food and beverage industry it is often required to have a packaging that is light, so the consumer does not have to carry heavy bottles or jars. The APEGG 7-step principal makes light weighting an easy task.

The APEGG mould design service is for brand owners and glass manufacturers, this service covers the creation of a container specification, parison layout, and mould equipment manufacturing drawings. Companies who are looking for new design ideas are welcome to challenge our design team.

There are different forming processes and each of them has its defined stages. This course deals with the fundamental principles of each process (BB, NNPB & PB), and the influence the heat exchange has on the glass. The forming process selection for a bottle and jar will be discussed.

This Premium Bottle Design service is for Brand Owners who are looking to have a premium glass packaging for their product. Our team is ready to take your dream or vision and come up with a bottle design that will blow your mind. We will design the bottle for you.

This is a unique trouble shoot service offered by APEGG, to assist glass manufacturers to understand why production is not able to reach a high quality and efficiency level. By analysing the parison layout, mould equipment drawings together with the quality report, and machine set-up parameters APEGG can advise the customer what is possibly wrong on the design or machine set-up.

The mould equipment must be repaired during and after a production run to a high standard, as this will ensure a stable production and reduces forming defects. This training course is about mould equipment repair, covering all the different aspects, such as welding, turning and polishing.

All mould equipment used on an IS machine must be 100% inspected to enable successful glass container production. This training course is about what and how to inspect the different mould equipment parts, before, during and after a production run.