The development of the domestic glass machinery industry in terms of import substitution

Eighth in December 2016 in Orel based on the new production site of JSC Steklopak held a conference on the theme: "Development of domestic glass machinery industry in terms of import substitution."

Conference was organized by the StekloSouz Russia, JSC Steklopak (Orel) and LLC Stromizmeritel (Nizhny Novgorod).

This topic is particularly relevant in the current economic conditions and the level of interest in it says the number of guests attending the event.

The conference was attended by representatives of 29 companies, including 21 - the first glass plant, among them: Grodno Glassworks, Republic of Belarus, Glassworks Elizovo, Republic of Belarus, Rusjam RASCO, Dmitrii Rovsky glass factory, Sergiev Posad glass factory, glass Technologies, Chegem NW, CSY-Lipetsk, Balakhna glass, Novosibirsk plant Ekran, Glassworks January 9, Glassworks TORC, North Glass Container company, Seversksteklo of Light, Prommash, Nikolsky crystal Studios, Dagestansteklotara, Kamensky NW.

Eight companies have submitted domestic sector production equipment and services for the glass industry, including: CJSC Steklopak, LLC Stromizmeritel, Domodedovo plant electrofusion products, Teplostroi, Plant Flux, Metal Eagle Orёlglasskomplekt and the company Stork.

The official partner of the conference was made by the world-renowned manufacturer of glass-blowing equipment - company Sklostroj (Czech Republic).

The conference was held showing the latest generation of equipment JSC Steklopak, including a new furnace forms of heating, annealing furnaces, applying a protective coating on the cold end, all types of conveyor equipment "cold end" production lines, automatic equipment palletizing and shrink packaging of glass.

One of the main problems, which was announced at the conference is that until recently, the glass factories were only two possible choices of technological equipment on the one hand - high-quality, but quite expensive equipment European producer groups, on the other hand - cheap, but not always high-quality Chinese equipment. This did not suit the glass container manufacturers.

However, at the moment, domestic glass container enterprises singing-wound can save serious financial resources with the purchase of European quality equipment, such as in the construction of complete new lines or even entire plants and the modernization and reconstruction of existing ones.

What was presented at the conference is one of the first examples of successful cooperation within the new group of companies offering the highest quality equipment at reasonable prices.

Almost all the equipment of JSC Steklopak, which was shown at the conference have already been shipped to the NW Chegem (Kabardino-Balkaria), where it will work in line with the glassware forming machine company Sklostroj (Czech Republic).

The main conclusion of the conference was the fact that at the moment almost all main process equipment, systems and services for glass plants, except glass-forming machines can be found in Russia. However, this gap in the import substitution help close the Czech partners - company Sklostroj.