The Glass-Alliance is the name that groups together four leading suppliers in the hollow glass manufacturing industry – Zippe, Horn Glass, Emhart Glass and MSK – providing targeted know-how regarding the manufacture of container glass or individual projects and production steps.
The Glass-Alliance works with clients starting from the mixing and cullet processing stage from Zippe, the planning and production of glass-melting furnaces from Horn Glass, hot-end and inspection machines from Emhart Glass, right through to the cold-end area of lehrs and packaging from MSK.
The members of the Glass-Alliance, all long-term leading suppliers in the production of glass, and true experts in their fields, have one major focus – providing cutting-edge technology in glass production - which is, thanks to the Glass Alliance, now available from a single source.
All four companies are financially stable, have enjoyed long-term success on the market and supply the highest level of innovation, service and quality standards directly developed in-house.
Direct communication and experience within the Glass-Alliance enables projects to be viewed from different perspectives, as well as a complete package, thus guaranteeing the optimum overall efficiency of glass plants.

The Glass Alliance members
Zippe – competence in batch and cullet preparation
Founded in 1920, Zippe has dedicated all of its activities to the international glass industry, focussing on requirements in the field of melting materia...

The Glass-Alliance is the name that groups together four leading suppliers in the hollow glass manufacturing industry – Zippe, Horn Glass, Emhart Glass and MSK – providing targeted know-how regarding the manufacture of container glass or individual projects and production steps.
The Glass-Alliance works with clients starting from the mixing and cullet processing stage from Zippe, the planning and production of glass-melting furnaces from Horn Glass, hot-end and inspection machines from Emhart Glass, right through to the cold-end area of lehrs and packaging from MSK.
The members of the Glass-Alliance, all long-term leading suppliers in the production of glass, and true experts in their fields, have one major focus – providing cutting-edge technology in glass production - which is, thanks to the Glass Alliance, now available from a single source.
All four companies are financially stable, have enjoyed long-term success on the market and supply the highest level of innovation, service and quality standards directly developed in-house.
Direct communication and experience within the Glass-Alliance enables projects to be viewed from different perspectives, as well as a complete package, thus guaranteeing the optimum overall efficiency of glass plants.

The Glass Alliance members
Zippe – competence in batch and cullet preparation
Founded in 1920, Zippe has dedicated all of its activities to the international glass industry, focussing on requirements in the field of melting material preparation, design, manufacturing, installation and commissioning of plants on turnkey basis, meeting customers’ needs in performance and technology.
Zippe engineers and supervisors install and commission plants worldwide.
Comprehensive documentation informs the customer about all plant functions and delivers technological details, providing easy solutions to problems by means of telecommunication dialogue.
 With regards to the vast experience and know-how regarding its field of activities, and an impressive number of references about plants built worldwide, Zippe is a sought-after competent partner for the glass industry.
Product range:
•    batch plants;
•    refurbishing and upgrading of existing plants;
•    modernizations of electronic control and weighing systems;
•    factory cullet processing plants;
•    ecology glass recycling plants;
•    processing plants for special glass waste;
•    batch chargers;
•    glass level controllers;
•    batch and cullet preheating systems;
•    engineering;
•    maintenance and service.

HORN Glass Industries AG – innovation engineered in Germany
HORN Glass Industries AG has a wide range of experience in the design, manufacture and supply of different furnace types, such as regenerative-, recuperative continuous tank furnaces, float furnaces and electrical tank furnaces for production of lighting ware, tableware, containers, cast glass, float glass, solar glass and technical glassware.
HORN is, thanks to more then 125 year experience in glass melting, a competent and flexible supplier for melting tanks, distributor channels and forehearths for container glass production. HORN’s end fired furnace, used in combination with the forehearth system GCS Series 100, 200 and 300, guarantee the most effective conditioning of glass.
HORN’s range of equipment includes combustion systems, control and safety equipment, electrical boosting and colouring systems, to name but a few. HORN Glass Industries AG also offers hot- and cold-end coating equipment for containers, as well as the highest standard of modern process control with SCADA systems.
HORN covers the full range of requirements of the glass industry and has a wide range of experts available to install and commission all melting tanks worldwide. The company’s service personnel can provide assistance during glass production.
HORN’s most important reference is the more then 20,000 tonnes of glass per day coming from its furnaces.
Product range:
•    glass melting furnaces;
•    distributors and forehearths;
•    burner and combustion stations;
•    electric control equipment;
•    SCADA systems;
•    electric boosting;
•    bubbling;
•    batch chargers;
•    glass level control – OPTIBEAM.
Facts and figures:
•    190 employees;
•    DIN EN ISO 9000:2001 certified;
•    AMS BAU certified;
•    Awarded by Entrepreneurs for Growth belonging to “Europe’s Top 500” companies.

Emhart Glass – a century of experience
Emhart Glass, part of the Bucher group, is a long-established market leader in forming machines, inspection machines and parts to the glass container industry, with almost a century of experience.
The company’s modular glass forming machines are at the heart of any glass container production line. In 1924, the Hartford Empire Company, later renamed Emhart Glass, patented its first individual section (IS) machine. This breakthrough established the standard – which still exists – for reliable high-speed automation of glass container manufacturing and now, Emhart Glass is continuing its pioneering role with innovations in IS machine technology. The new and world’s first servo-electric glass forming machine, the NIS machine, is, in fact, setting new standards in glass forming and process control.
Emhart Glass’ Inspection business offers the most comprehensive selection of inspection solutions on the market, carrying out a huge range of critical inspection tasks at production line speeds. The FleXinspect, introduced in 2008, is one of the best-performing inspection devices on the market.
Emhart Glass offers full support with customer service, training, production assistance and process support. Its S-Class service offers shipping of 5,000 essential parts within 48 hours.
Product range:
•    complete end-to-end range (container forming and inspection);
•    NIS machines;
•    AIS machines;
•    IS machines;
•    SIS machines;
•    inspection systems;
•    gob forming;
•    cooling;
•    process and control systems.
Facts and figures:
•    875 employees;
•    13 international subsidiaries;
•    headquarters in Switzerland.

MSK Covertech Group – the cold end partner
More than 30 years of experience at the cold end have made MSK one of the leading equipment suppliers from lehrs to warehouses with different level of automation, with its software and automation competence, as well as unique and innovative systems.
The modular construction of MSK bottle conveying technology guarantees a high degree of flexibility, best possible layer pre-forming and a fully automatic flowing of bottle transport.
MSK’s palletizing systems offer solutions whatever performance and flexibility is required. MSK robots and palletizers can handle bulk and cases and, thanks to patented innovations, down-times for job changes are minimized.
MSK shrink wrapping solutions feature user-friendliness, availability and safety, along with efficiency and profitability. More than 500 reference projects or proven efficiencies of more than 99.5 per cent underline MSK’s leading position in the industry.
MSK EMSY visualization system controls the complete cold end with a uniform international interface. Thanks to complete in-house development and enhancements, MSK can tailor the system to individual needs and is independent from third parties for adaptation.
With subsidiaries and representations MSK is located close to its customers, and provides 24-hour emergency and online service for fast and economic assistance.
Product range:
•    complete cold ends;
•    inspection equipment;
•    bottle conveying;
•    palletizing systems;
•    pallet shrink wrapping;
•    pallet conveying;
•    software systems.
Facts and figures:
•    400 employees;
•    6 international subsidiaries;
•    headquarters in Germany.