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CEO and R&D Manager at Video Systems Srl

Managing Director at APEGG Ltd.

Sales and Marketing Manager at LUBEN GLASS

Supplier of choice to leading glass factories worldwide, Hogley Brothers are specialists in designing and manufacturing standard and bespoke I.S machine spares for the glass container manufacturing industry. Hogley Brothers offer a vast range of products, underpinned by a breadth of experience and t...

APEGG Ltd is an independent service company, that is providing assistance for glass container - manufacturers, fillers and brand owners. We support the new generation of glass makers and fillers around the world. Along with the trouble-shooting services, we are engaged in research and near-scient...

Video Systems is a company specialized on tailor-made solutions for product quality and process control in manufacturing industries. In hollow glass market we operate with our Imago brand, division that produces high tech quality control systems based on machine vision and Artificial Intelligence te...

LUBEN GLASS has been in the hollow glass market since the Eighties, it has established itself as a leading company specialized in the supply of spare parts, special equipment, plants, machines and chemicals, adding engineering and energy consulting services to the sales department. Over the ye...

LUBEN GLASS preheating kilns are designed and manufactured with the highest quality insulating materials and a structure designed to maximise energy savings. The combination of advanced technologies and targeted construction solutions guarantees high performance, reliability and ease of maintenance....

Continuous glass colour monitoring. Arcus is the first system in the world designed for continuous glass colour monitoring directly online. Arcus allows to reduce the glass colour analysis time to zero, eliminating sample analyses on containers taken by an operator from the production line. By e...

Geometric contactless control. Vertigo is a system for laboratory sample checking of containers that can also be used directly on production lines (cold-end) and in hot-end area for checking: • Measuring and calibrating diameters • Container verticality deviation • Crooked neck deviation • Contain...

This sandblaster is designed for use with a wide variety of abrasives and a broad range of applications. Typical tasks include:   ✔️ Descaling and cleaning of molds ✔️ Satin finishing and smoothing ✔️ Finishing of metal and non-metal products ✔️ Deburring and edge rounding   It is particularl...

Mould design review can save the glass bottle and jar producers a lot of time and money. By reviewing a mould design it is possible to discover why the equipment is not performing as expected. In some cases, it is possible that the mould design is correct, but the forming process parameters are not....

This APEGG training course is for production personnel who need to know how to prepare the “perfect” gob for glass container production (bottle & jar). During this course students learn the fundamentals of gob shaping and how a “bad” gob influences the quality.   This training course is split into...

In glass container manufacture mould design is an essential part, without it there will be no moulds to produce bottles & jars on the forming machines. Four factors must be considered, Parison Layout, Mould Gear, and Top Tool design, all of these must be correct to achieve high efficiency at low cos...

NNPB forming process The five-step programme from APEGG will ensure a smooth introduction of the Narrow Neck Press & Blow (NNPB) process within any glass plant operation. Following the APEGG way the customer can expect to produce successfully bottles in NNPB within months, rather than spending pote...

Ring size calculator This Gob / Orifice Calculator allows glass makers to determine the required refractory orifice ring size (diameter) based on the ideal glass gob for the production run. Enter the glass container weight (bottle or jar) and select the desired length/diameter ratio of the gob - th...

The world’s first Gob Forming Simulator that simulates the forming of a glass gob under real industrial conditions. This simulator can be used to understand the gob formation on any type of feeder equipment, no matter if servo or mechanical feeder mechanism are being used. With this simulator glass ...

DES, the world's first independent system to use smart algorithms for eliminating glass container forming defects. This system gives clear step-by-step instructions to the glass forming machine operator, memorizes actions taken, analyses decisions made and distributes them to all production lines, p...

The Glass Container Forming Defects App (GCFDA) is a digital glass defects manual that provides information about common glass defects, including glass defects pictures, standard names, and cause & remedies. This App contains information about the source of defects in glass bottles and jars for any ...