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March, 2015 ACL REFRACTORIES for GLASS INDUSTRY Vol. 2, No. 4, January - March, 2015 ACL REFRACTORIES FOR GLASS INDUSTRY REFRACTORYTOTTOM FOR GLASS INDUSTRY - GLASS TANK GLASS TANK BOTTOM BOTTOM BLOCKS, BLOCKS ARE DIAMOND CORUNDUM HIGH ALUMINA MILLED ALL SIX FACES TO BRICKS, INSURE GLASS TIGHT JOINTS TABULAR ALUMINA BRICKS ANDALUSITE BRICKS, FUSED AND SINTERED MULLITES, ZIRMUL, ALUMINA CHROME BRICKS CHIMNEY BLOCKS FOR REGENERATORS FOR PETCOKE FIRING ALL GRADES HIGH FIRED ASTM/BIS GRADE TOP COURSES – ACL -80AC INSULATING BRICKS TOP LOWER COURSES – ACL- 99SD SHARAD - 23 MEDIUM TOP COURSES – ACL-72D SHARAD – 25 MEDIUM LOWER COURSES – ACL-65AD SHARAD -26 LOWER COURSES – ACL 45D SHARAD - 28 SHARAD - 30 MONOLITHIC REFRACTORIES PATCHING MASSES BLOCK LEVELLING RAMMING MASSES BASIC REFRACTORIES PRE-CAST SHAPES FROM ULTRA LOW CEMENT ACL – MGB 85% TO 98% CASTABLES AIR SETTING MORTARS ACL – MAGZIR GRADES SEALING MASSES ASSOCIATED CERAMICS LTD, P.O. CHIRKUNDA, DIST: DHANBAD, JHARKHAND 828202, INDIA TELEPHONE: +91-6540-273061, MOB: +91-93333-25000, E-MAIL: [email protected], WEBSITE: associatedceramicsltd.com Saving Energy and Fuel Lubisol Engineering Offering significant savings of energy and fuel by efficient thermal insulation of glass furnace crowns. The Lubisol crown insulation design is based on the principle that the usual light silica bricks insulation is partly replaced by the Lubisol insulation, applied over the light silica bricks. It is tfol- lowed by a layer of Lubisol Cover Coat on the top. The thickness and the total cost of the insula- tion remain almost the same, but the heat losses from the crown are reduced by about 800-1000 W/m². The amount of the saved fuel is around 1300-1500 m³/m²/year natural gas or 1200-1400 kg/m²/year heavy oil. The cost of the saved fuel is significant. The insulating material Lubisol 2-SL has a very low specific density of 0.3 kg/dm³, a high working temperature of 1500 °C and a very low thermal conductivity of 0.11 W/m.K at 500 °C. The cost for one cubic meter of this insulating material is lower in comparison with the cost of the light silica bricks, and in the same time it is about 3 times more efficient. The Lubisol crown insulation package is suitable for application on all types of glass furnaces producing any type of glasses, including float glass, container glass, tableware or technical glass. It is very suitable for insulation of silica crowns as well for AZS and alumina fused cast crowns. It has been applied recently on 80 glass furnaces all over the world. The efficient Lubisol insulation package brings significant energy and fuel savings without any additional material and labor costs. It is just a very good technical solution and a better option for the glass industry. M/s Lubisol Engineering Co. Mladost 1, bl. 27, et. 16, ap. 120, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lubisol.com 812 New Delhi House, 27, Barakhambha Road, New Delhi - 110001 India Telephone : 23316507 Fax :23350357 E-Mail : [email protected] Website : www.aigmf.com www.aigmf.com - ./01 2 -3 - -030 00 0 4 5 2 6 30/ 2 33* * !"#$%&''()!*#!" +!+#,%&''()!*#!" Kanch | Vol 2 | No. 4 | January-March 2015 1 www.aigmf.com President SANJAY GANJOO Sr. Vice President ARUN KUMAR DUKKIPATI Vice President RAJ KUMAR MITTAL Hon. General Secretary BHARAT SOMANY Hon. Treasurer SANJAY AGARWAL Member Editorial Board A K BANDYOPADHYAY Quarterly Journal of THE ALL INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ FEDERATION Former Principal, Govt. College oF Engineering & Ceramic Technology-GCECT, Kolkata DEVENDRA KUMAR ProFessor, Department oF Ceramic, Indian Institute oF Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Vol. 2, No. 4, January - March, 2015 K K SHARMA President, NIGMA and Plant Head, HNG Neemrana, Rajasthan MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS EASTERN INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (EIGMA) c/o La Opala RG Ltd. Contents Chitrakoot, 10th Floor, 230 A, A.J.C. Bose Road Kolkata - 700 020 From President’s Desk 5 President - Sushil Jhunjhunwala NORTHERN INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (NIGMA) c/o Hindustan National Glass & Industries Limited Glass News India 7 Post Office - Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar, Haryana-124507 President - KK Sharma Vice President - Jimmy Tyagi Glass News Worldwide 11 Honorary General Secretary - NN Goyal Secretary & Treasurer - JB Bhardwaj SOUTH INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (SIGMA) Prime Movers for Sustainable Solutions 15 c/o AGI Glasspac (An SBU of HSIL Ltd.,) Glass Factory Road, Off. Motinagar Journey from Guidelines to Indian Standard 16231 (Part 4): 18 PB No. 1930, Sanathnagar, PO Hyderabad -500018 President - Sandip Somany 2014 – A CCPS Initiative UTTAR PRADESH GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ SYNDICATE (UPGMS) c/o General Traders A Perspective on Renewable Energy and Solar Photovoltaic 21 A-10, Industrial Estate, Firozabad – 283203 (UP) Power Plants President - Raj Kumar Mittal Vice President - Dharmendra Mohan Gupta Key Features of Union Budget of India: 2015-2016 27 Vice President - Santosh Agarwal Hony. Secretary - Sanjay Agarwal Treasurer - Deepak Gupta Advertise in Kanch 29 Jt. Secretary - Pramod Kumar Garg WESTERN INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (WIGMA) c/o Pragati Glass Works (P) Ltd. E-Glass as an Important Component of Building 32 111, Damji Shamji Industrial Complex, 9, LBS Marg, Kurla (W), Mumbai - 400070 Construction President - H R Bhandari Honorary Secretary - G K Sarda NNPB: Less Weight – Less Energy – Less Environmental 39 Impact Quarterly Journal of glass industry, published & printed by Vinit Some Perspectives of Software Solutions for Integrated 41 Kapur on behalf of the All India Glass Manufacturers’ Federation from 812, New Delhi House, 27 Barakhamba Road, New Delhi – 110001 Development of Glasses: A Case Study and printed at New United Process, A-26, Ph-II, Naraina Indl. Area, New Delhi-110028 dk¡p dk bfrgkl 51 T: +91 11 23316507 F: +91 11 23350357 E: [email protected] Editor MOHAN LALVANI Gold Standard for Safe Food Packaging 55 Complimentary copy for Members/Government/NGOs and those connected with Glass Industry Others: Price (Excluding Bank Charges): List of Advertisers 55 Indian Companies : ` 125 per Copy Annual Subscription ` 450 Membership of AIGMF 56 Foreign Companies : US$ 25 per Copy Annual Subscription US$ 80 www.glassworldwide.co.uk Kanch | Vol 2 | No. 4 | January-March 2015 3 4 Kanch | Vol 2 | No. 4 | January-March 2015 www.aigmf.com From President’s Desk I am thankful to Messe Dusseldorf India Private Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Messe Dusseldorf GmbH-organizers of the world’s leading glass exhibition “Glasstec Düsseldorf for the efforts put in by them to bring together companies from different parts of the world in GLASSPEX INDIA 2015. I hope that GLASSPEX INDIA 2015 will receive good support from the industry in India and other parts of the world. AIGMF is organising parallel conferences on flat and container glass with renowned speakers from India and abroad on March 13 & 14 who would be talking on ‘Cost Effective Technology in Container Glass’ and ‘Use of Glass in Buildings wrt Regulations relating to Human Impact, Fire Safety & Energy’. I am sure deliberations will enable delegates to understand global technological advancements in glass industry. GLASSPEX INDIA 2015 will also be a forum for glass fraternity to come together for closed interaction among themselves. I extend warm greetings and felicitations to organizers and participants and best wishes for success of the event ■ Sanjay Ganjoo President, AIGMF and COO, Asahi India Glass Ltd., Taloja (Maharashtra) Kanch | Vol 2 | No. 4 | January-March 2015 5 www.aigmf.com GLASS News India AIGMF ASSURES PHARMA shows total disregard for human Saint-Gobain General Delegate for COMPANIES OF UNHINDERED health especially of women and India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, SUPPLY OF GLASS BOTTLES children. Anand Mahajan told reporters. FOLLOWING BAN ON PET BOTTLES Glass industry in India has a capacity “We believe that we can play of over 10,000 tons of glass per day an important role in shaping the In the light of the proposed ban on use which will convert to yearly capacity future by designing, manufacturing of PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) of almost 3.7 million tons. If it is and distributing building and high- for packaging medicines, the All India required immediately industry has the performance materials, which Glass Manufacturers’ Federation capacity of over 1 million tons, which provide innovative solutions to (AIGMF) has approached the is more than sufficient to cater to the meet the challenges of growth, Union Health Ministry to reiterate requirement. As a matter of fact, the energy efficiency and environmental glass industry’s capabilities for pharmaceutical industry currently protection,” Mahajan said. unhindered supplies of glass bottles uses glass bottles to fill its 40-50 per to pharmaceutical companies. The company is celebrating its cent requirement. The conversion 350th anniversary this year and In a written submission, the AIGMF from glass to PET/plastic packaging aims to strengthen its commitment informed the Health Ministry that started only 8 to 10 years back for by becoming the reference for ‘we would like to assure you that our the sake of convenience, purely sustainable habitat in India and members will ensure the availability commercial benefits and due to lack doubling the business in the country of glass bottles to the liquid filling of awareness. in the next few years, he said. pharmaceutical units on priority basis AIGMF also opines that the impact throughout the year’. Mahajan further said the company will of cost of packaging on the MRP is focus on inventing products, solutions The industry invested more than not so significant that the switchover and systems for the buildings of the Rs. 5000 crore in the last 5 years to from PET to glass should be of any future. create capacities. This will enable the issue to any manufacturer especially glass industry to cater to the additional considering the huge health advantage “We will be reducing environmental demand from pharma industry.
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