£4million invested in energy
saving float line
10th November 2015

GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES Glass Group has invested more than £4 million to develop and implement a customized Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) at its Goole glass manufacturing plant.

The new system will provide half the electrical energy needed to operate Guardian’s full float line, which in turn will reduce its dependency on the grid and effectively reduce its CO2 emissions by some 6,000 tons per year – the equivalent of taking nearly 2,200 cars off the road.
Running a furnace at about 1,600ºC around the clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year, consumes a lot of natural resources and the nature of the float glass process means that heat inevitably escapes the furnace. Guardian’s new WHRS uses a complex method of capturing waste heat from the furnace without disrupting the delicate convection currents, which continually flow inside the furnace as the batch material is turned to molten glass.

Pablo Isasmendi, Plant Manager for Guardian Industries UK said: “This is another great example of Guardian striving toward operational excellence. “We constantly look for new ways to innovate and improve the float glass process and this demonstrates to the entire industry that there’s a viable way to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions from the float glass manufacturing process.”

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