Stainless Steel Insulation For Glass Contact Duties

Specialising in the development of ware handling equipment, D A Oldfield Ltd has been working with glass bottle producers throughout the world for many years. The company's expertise has been applied equally for large, slow products and unstable delicate ware, on everything from average speed runs to high speed lightweight runs on quad gob 12-section machines. The importance of insulation materials between glass and metal has long been recognised as key to decreasing bottle rejection through thermal shock or contact marks. In this article the author puts forward a case for using stainless steel insulation materials in glass production, from the machine wipe out to the stacker push bar loading the lehr.