John Key unbolted Glass Furnace

Date: 6 December 2010
Source: O-I New Zealand

Date: 6 December 2010

John Key, the New Zealand Prime Minister today formally unlocked O-I New Zealand´s latest US$85 million glass manufacturing furnace to hold up the nation’s well-known beer and wine business.

O-I NZ is New Zealand´s solitary regional glass wrapping producer and has been providing the regional food and beverage business ever since 1922. The savings at O-I NZ´s Auckland factory formed 38 latest jobs and shall augment industrialized production by 90,000 tons of glass wrapping per annum.

The new-fangled furnace will in addition make possible O-I NZ to approximately twofold its reprocessing of post consumer glass which is known as cullet starting to 154,000 from 84,000 tons per annum.

This offers a noteworthy lessening in carbon release and waste moving to landfill. Steve Bramlage, O-I NZ General Manager, expressed that the latest furnace might augment the accessibility of in the vicinity - completed glass wrapping, make sure safety of supply, and offer smaller lead times and cargo competence for clientele.
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