The HiSHIELD SmartLine has been developed as an inspection and sorting machine for the hollow glass production industry
Heye International GmbH, based in Obernkirchen, Germany, is one of the foremost suppliers of glass technology, high performance solutions and know-how to the container glass industry worldwide and, since 2003, has been part of the multinational Ardagh Group.
The latest figures from Heye International include sales volume in 2011 of about EUR 71 million, and 350 employees, with hiring ongoing.
Quality and innovation in production
Over the years, the company’s team of expert engineers and technicians has built an enviable reputation for quality and innovation, gaining extensive knowledge of the day-to-day issues of glass manufacturing. Heye is continuously involved in a variety of projects concerning both new and existing glass factories and has concentrated its skills on the successful completion of numerous projects throughout five continents.
One of Heye’s particular specialities is the design, engineering and construction of complete greenfield container glass manufacturing plants. The company’s expertise and experience in the field of technology transfer is recognized globally.
Quality and innovation in glass engineering technology
Heye International’s vision is to help make glass the most successful, healthy and environmentally friendly packaging solution for food and beverages in the world.
Its mission? To be the leading supplier of expert services and solutions and high performance equipment to the container glass industry worldwide.
For more than 50 years, Heye Intern...
The latest figures from Heye International include sales volume in 2011 of about EUR 71 million, and 350 employees, with hiring ongoing.
Quality and innovation in production
Over the years, the company’s team of expert engineers and technicians has built an enviable reputation for quality and innovation, gaining extensive knowledge of the day-to-day issues of glass manufacturing. Heye is continuously involved in a variety of projects concerning both new and existing glass factories and has concentrated its skills on the successful completion of numerous projects throughout five continents.
One of Heye’s particular specialities is the design, engineering and construction of complete greenfield container glass manufacturing plants. The company’s expertise and experience in the field of technology transfer is recognized globally.
Quality and innovation in glass engineering technology
Heye International’s vision is to help make glass the most successful, healthy and environmentally friendly packaging solution for food and beverages in the world.
Its mission? To be the leading supplier of expert services and solutions and high performance equipment to the container glass industry worldwide.
For more than 50 years, Heye Intern...
Heye International GmbH, based in Obernkirchen, Germany, is one of the foremost suppliers of glass technology, high performance solutions and know-how to the container glass industry worldwide and, since 2003, has been part of the multinational Ardagh Group.
The latest figures from Heye International include sales volume in 2011 of about EUR 71 million, and 350 employees, with hiring ongoing.
Quality and innovation in production
Over the years, the company’s team of expert engineers and technicians has built an enviable reputation for quality and innovation, gaining extensive knowledge of the day-to-day issues of glass manufacturing. Heye is continuously involved in a variety of projects concerning both new and existing glass factories and has concentrated its skills on the successful completion of numerous projects throughout five continents.
One of Heye’s particular specialities is the design, engineering and construction of complete greenfield container glass manufacturing plants. The company’s expertise and experience in the field of technology transfer is recognized globally.
Quality and innovation in glass engineering technology
Heye International’s vision is to help make glass the most successful, healthy and environmentally friendly packaging solution for food and beverages in the world.
Its mission? To be the leading supplier of expert services and solutions and high performance equipment to the container glass industry worldwide.
For more than 50 years, Heye International has set the standard in container glass technology, being involved in from complete glass plants to technical assistance during production, from high speed equipment in the hot end, to secure inspection in the cold end.
HiPerform
A bottle is only as strong as its weakest spot – or you can make a bottle heavier but it would not be stronger if it still has a thin wall somewhere. Heye International’s Lightweight Technology – HiPerform – provides the following advantages for glassmakers:
• less raw material and energy per bottle;
• machines run faster – more bottles produced;
• lower unit costs per bottle;
• better quality, higher value products;
• advantage vs. competitors.
Advantages for fillers include:
• better quality, less breakage on filling lines;
• less weight of the packaging, lower transport costs;
• filling machines run faster, therefore more bottles filled;
• lower unit costs per bottle;
• improved appearance, better marketing;
• advantages vs. competitors.
All this results in higher output, revenue and margin, combined with a decrease in costs.
Press duration control
Reproducible quality
Until recently, the Heye Process Control used sensors to adjust the plunger position in relation to the neckring tool. This prevented incomplete or over-pressed finishes.
A new feature now enables to control press duration.
For the first time ever, with Heye International’s Automatic Press Duration Control it is now possible to control the individual phases of the pressing process. The patented procedure records how long the plunger stays in the glass and then regulates the pressure and time accordingly.
Control of the press duration, i.e. the time the plunger remains in the glass, ensures reproducible wall thicknesses, a critical quality feature in hollow glass production.
If the press duration is too short, too much glass flows to the base after delivery of the parison to the blow mould.
The result is a thin neck and a thick base. If the press duration is too long, the outer surface of the parison gets too cold. The parison cannot then reheat sufficiently in the blow mould, so too much glass in the neck and shoulder area and a thin base are inevitable.
In extreme cases, if the outer surface is too cold, the glass container can even burst open during the final blow.
The new Automatic Press Duration Control from Heye International makes these article defects a thing of the past.
Control principle
The piston surface of the plunger cylinder is pressurised with compressed air via a proportional valve:
• during plunger motion time (t1 to t2) with a controlled pressure (P1); and
• during press duration (t2 to t3) with a constant pressure (P2).
After each pressing process the difference between the press duration set-point value and the press duration actual value is determined.
If the set point and the actual value deviate, the controlled pressure (P1) is either increased or decreased a little, as required.
This control principle ensures that the press duration actual value
gradually approaches the set-point value. By controlling the pressure (P1), it is possible to compensate the different motion times of the plungers from the loading position to the beginning of the pressing process. Consistent press duration times for all plungers within the machine are therefore achieved. The constant pressure stage (P2) determines the force, which is used to press the parison against the blank mould profile during the press duration. A pressure stage (P3) can be set to cushion the plunger downward movement.
Optimal usability
The Automatic Press Duration Control is an optional component of the Heye Process Control, and provides the following:
• a job database, which enables fast and convenient job changes;
• pressure and time values, which can be preset on the monitor;
• a bar graph of the pressure stages, which shows potential differences between individual cavities;
• limit value excesses displayed in plain text;
• a pressure sensor in the proportional valve showing the pressure course as a line diagram over time;
• extensive diagnostic tools included in the package.
Retrofit
The Automatic Press Duration Control can be integrated into many existing IS Machines (including those of other manufacturers).
HiSHIELD SmartLine
Expertise in quality control
Quality continues to become more and more important. Producers of consumer goods care about the quality and consistency of their brand on a global level. Product safety and purity are major issues. The HiSHIELD SmartLine has been developed as an inspection and sorting machine for the hollow glass production industry.
The ongoing integration of the newest technology, combined with robust electrics and an electronic control system, are characteristic of the SmartLine. Additional features include a graphic interface with touchscreen, servo drive technology and machine speed of up to 400 items per minute.
Integration into the Heye Information System
The SmartLine can be integrated into the HIS, which gives the user real-time data about the production process. Article defects can be attributed to mould numbers or IS-section numbers, giving the user detailed information on weak points and potential improvements. Of course, the HIS offers the option of remote maintenance.
Additionally, it is possible to integrate control systems from other manufacturers. There is also the option to connect line information systems, jam sensors and additional outfeeds.
Flexible inspection options
Cold-end inspection lines can be configured in different ways. Depending on customer requirements, various qualities of the product can be controlled:
• planarity (flatness) and tightness;
• height/inside and outside gauging;
• checks of the finish;
• checks of the bottom;
• checks in the body
(with LED white light or laser);
• wall thickness inspection (with contact and optical-non contact);
• external wall thickness inspection (optical-non contact);
• defects of the finish (LOF - line over finish);
• ovality in the body (with contact and optical-non contact);
• mould number reading (dot code);
• mould number reading (digital code);
• external mould number reading (dot code).
Speed and flexibility
The application of servo technology results in a high degree of flexibility. Fast and easy changes of the item number and optimal use of the servo torsional movement for up to four rotation stations are possible. Optimized motion sequences allow faster reactions to changing process parameters.
Fast article change
The infeed screw parameters are saved in a master data file and are therefore always reproducible. The changeover time is shortened as the calibrations are carried out by the software; very few additional mechanical adjustments are necessary. The maximum article height is 400 millimetres; angular, oval and round containers can be processed.
SmartLine sets the market standard thanks to these numerous combinations. The positioning of the infeed screw allows precise delivery of the article into the pocket of the starwheel, resulting in significantly higher machine speeds.
Quality and usability
Innovations have to stand the test of time. This is achieved by use of robust industrial electronics and a climate-controlled electrics and electronics compartment, together with high quality components.
Operational usability is enhanced by a 17-inch touchscreen monitor, easy access to all electronic components and an extricable mounting plate for frequency inverters and servo controllers. The operator is protected by a microprocessor-controlled safety module.
Heye Modular Servo Technology
Heye Modular Servo Technology (HMST) is the successful control concept for the servo drives in the IS Machine and their periphery. The standard systems consist of an infeed cabinet and a module cabinet, as well as PC-based process visualization. Other advantages are easy access to all parameters and their setting during the motion, and article administration.
The highly flexible control is based on Siemens multi axis drive system Simotion® D. Excellent reliability of the electronic components guarantees interference-free operations.
Assortment production
Using the Heye International servo drive control unit, in conjunction with the servo plunger and dual motor shear, gobs of different weights can be produced on a single IS machine simultaneously.
Heye Process Control for IS machines
The Heye Process Control for IS machines is designed to monitor the pressing processes of all plunger mechanisms of an IS machine, providing real time display and supervision of all pressing processes. An article database containing all article-depending parameters facilitates job changes.
Gob forming
Heye International offers the latest servo technology combined with process intelligence and precise assembly of equipment. Assortment production can be integrated to increase flexibility in production.
Servo Plungers from Heye International can be used on all feeder sizes and types, ensuring reproducible motions for up to 250 cuts per minute, while assortment production is possible in combination with servo motor shears.
Heye International’s Servo Gob Distributors have control based on the Simotion® Servodrive concept, automatic synchronization with system pulse of IS-Machines, and operations by touchscreen.
Dual Motor Shears from Heye International have pre-selectable motion profiles; blade motion at right angles to the centre line at the time of the cut; long lifetime of shear blades and mechanisms; and virtually maintenance-free operations.
Heye International’s H92 Delivery System ensures smooth gob run and long coating intervals. The gob leaves the deflector vertically and can easily be adjusted to the blank mould. Almost no readjustment is needed and it can be used for different machine types.
HIS - Heye Information System
The Heye Information System is an information technology system especially developed for container glass production. Integration with the HIS provides users with real-time data regarding the production process.
It is made up of three main areas:
• process monitoring;
• quality assurance; and
• production output determination.
During the process, monitoring data resulting from the production process (quantities, inspection results, tool changes, messages etc.) are evaluated and presented in a clearly laid out way. To assure quality, measuring data are collected by automatic or semi-automatic random sample inspections, either in the laboratory or online.
Consultancy, project management and service
Heye International has experience of many and varied projects of every type all over the world. This knowledge is gathered together in HiTRUST, a complete solution for the container glass industry managing each and every aspect of turnkey or semi-turnkey project, ranging from turnkey greenfield projects, to modernization of existing production lines, all with high performance equipment.
New technical solutions are tested at Heye International’s own facilities first, using its own staff wherever possible. As result, the company has a 360° view of the world of container glass production, unique in the global market.
Know-how transfer super speed start-up in China
In recent years, the Chinese glass market has grown at a rate of more than 10% per annum. Tongchan Packaging Group, a public owned group producing high-quality glass containers, is enjoying this growth trend. Well-known local and international fillers are among Tongchan’s key customers, reflecting the company’s philosophy to produce superior quality in glass containers.
In the new plant in Gaoyao the company runs now two furnaces with five lines. Heye International was selected as the Group’s technology provider and technical partner for this project, realized in two stages in 2010 and 2011. In the second project stage, end of 2011, three IS-Machines (one triple gob and two double gob machines) were put into operation in a single shift. How could this fast start-up be achieved? Several reasons contributed to this success.
Professional project management: Large-scale projects require experienced project managers, both from the supplier side but also from the local partner. Heye and Tongchan managed to bring top experts together in highly productive project teams. Local experts from China worked together with experts from European suppliers.
Knowledge-transfer: Extensive theory trainings on-the-job formed a team with process knowledge and knowledge on the equipment used. Only a combination of both guarantees a fast start-up. The best equipment is nothing without the trained and motivated staff.
Proven equipment: Tongchan is using high-end equipment in Hot End and Cold End which is already running successfully in many other plants. For example the Servo Plunger in combination with the Dual Motor Shear from Heye International are combining precision with reliability and ease-of-use. In addition, also the IS-machines, the Ware Handling equipment and the Cold End inspection machines integrate innovative technology with stability and robustness.
TAA – Technical Assistance in Production: Tongchan has reached and outstanding efficiency at a high speed. Together with Heye, even more ambitious efficiency benchmarks are targeted. This requires continuous improvement of even the smallest detail in the production process. The basis for all this is a long-term technical assistance agreement (TAA) where external experts are permanently working with the local production specialists.
Heye International is proud to be in this partnership, providing technology to this specialist manufacturer of high-end container glass, and both companies look forward to continuing their cooperation in the future.
Sustainable Packaging – One tree per order
All manufacturers talk about the environmental sustainability of their production methods, transport policies and packaging solutions. But it is very difficult to know whether these are really ‘good’ or ‘better’ for the environment than others. However, it is difficult to argue with facts about carbon footprints and CO2 emissions – and there is a German company that is very passionate about that: Exportverpackung Sehnde GmbH, Heye International’s supplier of transport packaging solutions.
Expanding on an innovative national forestry management initiative dating back to the 18th Century, Exportverpackung Sehnde GmbH is committed
to minimizing and, ultimately, completely offsetting the carbon footprint of its products – wooden packaging palettes. You might say that the obvious way to conserve the environment is not to use natural resources like wood as raw materials; after all, plastic palettes are widely available. But the simple fact is that a plastic palette has a carbon footprint of 40kg of CO2, whereas that of a wooden palette is only 27.51kg – a potentially world changing difference.
So, Heye International supports Sehnde's initiative to plant at least 13,000 new trees – one for every single packaging order.
The latest figures from Heye International include sales volume in 2011 of about EUR 71 million, and 350 employees, with hiring ongoing.
Quality and innovation in production
Over the years, the company’s team of expert engineers and technicians has built an enviable reputation for quality and innovation, gaining extensive knowledge of the day-to-day issues of glass manufacturing. Heye is continuously involved in a variety of projects concerning both new and existing glass factories and has concentrated its skills on the successful completion of numerous projects throughout five continents.
One of Heye’s particular specialities is the design, engineering and construction of complete greenfield container glass manufacturing plants. The company’s expertise and experience in the field of technology transfer is recognized globally.
Quality and innovation in glass engineering technology
Heye International’s vision is to help make glass the most successful, healthy and environmentally friendly packaging solution for food and beverages in the world.
Its mission? To be the leading supplier of expert services and solutions and high performance equipment to the container glass industry worldwide.
For more than 50 years, Heye International has set the standard in container glass technology, being involved in from complete glass plants to technical assistance during production, from high speed equipment in the hot end, to secure inspection in the cold end.
HiPerform
A bottle is only as strong as its weakest spot – or you can make a bottle heavier but it would not be stronger if it still has a thin wall somewhere. Heye International’s Lightweight Technology – HiPerform – provides the following advantages for glassmakers:
• less raw material and energy per bottle;
• machines run faster – more bottles produced;
• lower unit costs per bottle;
• better quality, higher value products;
• advantage vs. competitors.
Advantages for fillers include:
• better quality, less breakage on filling lines;
• less weight of the packaging, lower transport costs;
• filling machines run faster, therefore more bottles filled;
• lower unit costs per bottle;
• improved appearance, better marketing;
• advantages vs. competitors.
All this results in higher output, revenue and margin, combined with a decrease in costs.
Press duration control
Reproducible quality
Until recently, the Heye Process Control used sensors to adjust the plunger position in relation to the neckring tool. This prevented incomplete or over-pressed finishes.
A new feature now enables to control press duration.
For the first time ever, with Heye International’s Automatic Press Duration Control it is now possible to control the individual phases of the pressing process. The patented procedure records how long the plunger stays in the glass and then regulates the pressure and time accordingly.
Control of the press duration, i.e. the time the plunger remains in the glass, ensures reproducible wall thicknesses, a critical quality feature in hollow glass production.
If the press duration is too short, too much glass flows to the base after delivery of the parison to the blow mould.
The result is a thin neck and a thick base. If the press duration is too long, the outer surface of the parison gets too cold. The parison cannot then reheat sufficiently in the blow mould, so too much glass in the neck and shoulder area and a thin base are inevitable.
In extreme cases, if the outer surface is too cold, the glass container can even burst open during the final blow.
The new Automatic Press Duration Control from Heye International makes these article defects a thing of the past.
Control principle
The piston surface of the plunger cylinder is pressurised with compressed air via a proportional valve:
• during plunger motion time (t1 to t2) with a controlled pressure (P1); and
• during press duration (t2 to t3) with a constant pressure (P2).
After each pressing process the difference between the press duration set-point value and the press duration actual value is determined.
If the set point and the actual value deviate, the controlled pressure (P1) is either increased or decreased a little, as required.
This control principle ensures that the press duration actual value
gradually approaches the set-point value. By controlling the pressure (P1), it is possible to compensate the different motion times of the plungers from the loading position to the beginning of the pressing process. Consistent press duration times for all plungers within the machine are therefore achieved. The constant pressure stage (P2) determines the force, which is used to press the parison against the blank mould profile during the press duration. A pressure stage (P3) can be set to cushion the plunger downward movement.
Optimal usability
The Automatic Press Duration Control is an optional component of the Heye Process Control, and provides the following:
• a job database, which enables fast and convenient job changes;
• pressure and time values, which can be preset on the monitor;
• a bar graph of the pressure stages, which shows potential differences between individual cavities;
• limit value excesses displayed in plain text;
• a pressure sensor in the proportional valve showing the pressure course as a line diagram over time;
• extensive diagnostic tools included in the package.
Retrofit
The Automatic Press Duration Control can be integrated into many existing IS Machines (including those of other manufacturers).
HiSHIELD SmartLine
Expertise in quality control
Quality continues to become more and more important. Producers of consumer goods care about the quality and consistency of their brand on a global level. Product safety and purity are major issues. The HiSHIELD SmartLine has been developed as an inspection and sorting machine for the hollow glass production industry.
The ongoing integration of the newest technology, combined with robust electrics and an electronic control system, are characteristic of the SmartLine. Additional features include a graphic interface with touchscreen, servo drive technology and machine speed of up to 400 items per minute.
Integration into the Heye Information System
The SmartLine can be integrated into the HIS, which gives the user real-time data about the production process. Article defects can be attributed to mould numbers or IS-section numbers, giving the user detailed information on weak points and potential improvements. Of course, the HIS offers the option of remote maintenance.
Additionally, it is possible to integrate control systems from other manufacturers. There is also the option to connect line information systems, jam sensors and additional outfeeds.
Flexible inspection options
Cold-end inspection lines can be configured in different ways. Depending on customer requirements, various qualities of the product can be controlled:
• planarity (flatness) and tightness;
• height/inside and outside gauging;
• checks of the finish;
• checks of the bottom;
• checks in the body
(with LED white light or laser);
• wall thickness inspection (with contact and optical-non contact);
• external wall thickness inspection (optical-non contact);
• defects of the finish (LOF - line over finish);
• ovality in the body (with contact and optical-non contact);
• mould number reading (dot code);
• mould number reading (digital code);
• external mould number reading (dot code).
Speed and flexibility
The application of servo technology results in a high degree of flexibility. Fast and easy changes of the item number and optimal use of the servo torsional movement for up to four rotation stations are possible. Optimized motion sequences allow faster reactions to changing process parameters.
Fast article change
The infeed screw parameters are saved in a master data file and are therefore always reproducible. The changeover time is shortened as the calibrations are carried out by the software; very few additional mechanical adjustments are necessary. The maximum article height is 400 millimetres; angular, oval and round containers can be processed.
SmartLine sets the market standard thanks to these numerous combinations. The positioning of the infeed screw allows precise delivery of the article into the pocket of the starwheel, resulting in significantly higher machine speeds.
Quality and usability
Innovations have to stand the test of time. This is achieved by use of robust industrial electronics and a climate-controlled electrics and electronics compartment, together with high quality components.
Operational usability is enhanced by a 17-inch touchscreen monitor, easy access to all electronic components and an extricable mounting plate for frequency inverters and servo controllers. The operator is protected by a microprocessor-controlled safety module.
Heye Modular Servo Technology
Heye Modular Servo Technology (HMST) is the successful control concept for the servo drives in the IS Machine and their periphery. The standard systems consist of an infeed cabinet and a module cabinet, as well as PC-based process visualization. Other advantages are easy access to all parameters and their setting during the motion, and article administration.
The highly flexible control is based on Siemens multi axis drive system Simotion® D. Excellent reliability of the electronic components guarantees interference-free operations.
Assortment production
Using the Heye International servo drive control unit, in conjunction with the servo plunger and dual motor shear, gobs of different weights can be produced on a single IS machine simultaneously.
Heye Process Control for IS machines
The Heye Process Control for IS machines is designed to monitor the pressing processes of all plunger mechanisms of an IS machine, providing real time display and supervision of all pressing processes. An article database containing all article-depending parameters facilitates job changes.
Gob forming
Heye International offers the latest servo technology combined with process intelligence and precise assembly of equipment. Assortment production can be integrated to increase flexibility in production.
Servo Plungers from Heye International can be used on all feeder sizes and types, ensuring reproducible motions for up to 250 cuts per minute, while assortment production is possible in combination with servo motor shears.
Heye International’s Servo Gob Distributors have control based on the Simotion® Servodrive concept, automatic synchronization with system pulse of IS-Machines, and operations by touchscreen.
Dual Motor Shears from Heye International have pre-selectable motion profiles; blade motion at right angles to the centre line at the time of the cut; long lifetime of shear blades and mechanisms; and virtually maintenance-free operations.
Heye International’s H92 Delivery System ensures smooth gob run and long coating intervals. The gob leaves the deflector vertically and can easily be adjusted to the blank mould. Almost no readjustment is needed and it can be used for different machine types.
HIS - Heye Information System
The Heye Information System is an information technology system especially developed for container glass production. Integration with the HIS provides users with real-time data regarding the production process.
It is made up of three main areas:
• process monitoring;
• quality assurance; and
• production output determination.
During the process, monitoring data resulting from the production process (quantities, inspection results, tool changes, messages etc.) are evaluated and presented in a clearly laid out way. To assure quality, measuring data are collected by automatic or semi-automatic random sample inspections, either in the laboratory or online.
Consultancy, project management and service
Heye International has experience of many and varied projects of every type all over the world. This knowledge is gathered together in HiTRUST, a complete solution for the container glass industry managing each and every aspect of turnkey or semi-turnkey project, ranging from turnkey greenfield projects, to modernization of existing production lines, all with high performance equipment.
New technical solutions are tested at Heye International’s own facilities first, using its own staff wherever possible. As result, the company has a 360° view of the world of container glass production, unique in the global market.
Know-how transfer super speed start-up in China
In recent years, the Chinese glass market has grown at a rate of more than 10% per annum. Tongchan Packaging Group, a public owned group producing high-quality glass containers, is enjoying this growth trend. Well-known local and international fillers are among Tongchan’s key customers, reflecting the company’s philosophy to produce superior quality in glass containers.
In the new plant in Gaoyao the company runs now two furnaces with five lines. Heye International was selected as the Group’s technology provider and technical partner for this project, realized in two stages in 2010 and 2011. In the second project stage, end of 2011, three IS-Machines (one triple gob and two double gob machines) were put into operation in a single shift. How could this fast start-up be achieved? Several reasons contributed to this success.
Professional project management: Large-scale projects require experienced project managers, both from the supplier side but also from the local partner. Heye and Tongchan managed to bring top experts together in highly productive project teams. Local experts from China worked together with experts from European suppliers.
Knowledge-transfer: Extensive theory trainings on-the-job formed a team with process knowledge and knowledge on the equipment used. Only a combination of both guarantees a fast start-up. The best equipment is nothing without the trained and motivated staff.
Proven equipment: Tongchan is using high-end equipment in Hot End and Cold End which is already running successfully in many other plants. For example the Servo Plunger in combination with the Dual Motor Shear from Heye International are combining precision with reliability and ease-of-use. In addition, also the IS-machines, the Ware Handling equipment and the Cold End inspection machines integrate innovative technology with stability and robustness.
TAA – Technical Assistance in Production: Tongchan has reached and outstanding efficiency at a high speed. Together with Heye, even more ambitious efficiency benchmarks are targeted. This requires continuous improvement of even the smallest detail in the production process. The basis for all this is a long-term technical assistance agreement (TAA) where external experts are permanently working with the local production specialists.
Heye International is proud to be in this partnership, providing technology to this specialist manufacturer of high-end container glass, and both companies look forward to continuing their cooperation in the future.
Sustainable Packaging – One tree per order
All manufacturers talk about the environmental sustainability of their production methods, transport policies and packaging solutions. But it is very difficult to know whether these are really ‘good’ or ‘better’ for the environment than others. However, it is difficult to argue with facts about carbon footprints and CO2 emissions – and there is a German company that is very passionate about that: Exportverpackung Sehnde GmbH, Heye International’s supplier of transport packaging solutions.
Expanding on an innovative national forestry management initiative dating back to the 18th Century, Exportverpackung Sehnde GmbH is committed
to minimizing and, ultimately, completely offsetting the carbon footprint of its products – wooden packaging palettes. You might say that the obvious way to conserve the environment is not to use natural resources like wood as raw materials; after all, plastic palettes are widely available. But the simple fact is that a plastic palette has a carbon footprint of 40kg of CO2, whereas that of a wooden palette is only 27.51kg – a potentially world changing difference.
So, Heye International supports Sehnde's initiative to plant at least 13,000 new trees – one for every single packaging order.
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