The way of Glass Bottle Forming for Beverage Bottler from factory in China

Today, the most likely places to see the classic glass beverage bottle made and filled are outside of the United State. Beverage original container, the glass bottle is still used outside the US borders. In the other market around the world, director of sustainable packaging, we use around 13 percent of our volume, is being delivered in glass. Packages that are made from glass are able to refilled, washed, and used again and again. One factory that make the beverage glass contour bottle is located in Xuzhou, China. Xuzhou Qixing makes bottles for other wine manufacturer throughout China, but beverage bottlers are major client. The factory can make almost two million glass containers a day.

Firstly, the glass starts its granular raw ingredients. Silica sand makes up 70 percent of a bottle, 10 percent comes from other materials like soda ash and limestone. The remaining 20 percent is made of recycled glass, known as cullet. Behind the factory is a mountain of broken glass bottle, waiting to be transformed into new bottles. Glass bottle are compeletly and endlessly recyclable. The bottles come both from outside recyclers and rejected bottles inside the factory. As can be seen, it is turning to recycling cullet to put inside the silo, and then put inside the furnace to melt one more tiem. A worder pick out debris like paper to keep it from contaminating the glass. Cullet requires less energy to melt and using it reduces the emissions the plant release into the atomsphere. The glass that remains joins raw granular ingredients mixed from their storage silos.

Secondly, they are pushed into the furnace. One of the key challenges is actually the manufacturing of glass itself. It is the energy that’s required through furnace. To be able to make it takes a lot of energy. The furnace is natural gas powered. It burns at almost 3,000 degree Fahrenheit. A heat-resisted camera provides a view inside, as row materials enter and get melted into liquid. The furnace is on the top floor of the factory. It never stops. Because it takes so much time and energy to get it up to temperature. And if the molten glass inside cools, it will turn solid and make the furnace unusable. So the furnace will run continuously for about 10 years.

Thirdly, the furnace pump its molten glass down to the next floor, where there is a maintenance challenge. Workers have to make an adjustment with molten glass cascading down around them. With the adjustment made, normal operation can resume. As the molten glass drops down from the furnace, it is cut into shapes, known as gobs. Each of these gobs is destined to become a contour bottle.The gob distributor chooses which chute the gob will take. As they slide down to the ground floor. And land in the preform mode. This is what the first mode looks like. They are periodically changed as preventative maintenance. Once a preform emerges, it is transferred to the second mold. A high pressure air nozzle clams down and blows the glass into the mold. To keep the glass from sticking, the mold has to be lubricated with graphite. As the bottle emerge, they may look solid, but they are not.

Lastly, now the challenge is finding a way for the bottle to cool gradually. If bottle cool too quickly, they will shatter. The trick is keeping them warm. One way to do it- heat the converyor. The bottles are 1,000 degree Fahrenheit as they are conveyered toward a critical piece of machiney.The annealing lehr Inside, the bottles are cooled in a controlled way. They go from 1,000 degree to degrees in an hour. Once outside, warm bottles will cool even more on the conveyer before they reach the palletizer. Now these beverage glass contour bottle are ready to be filled with juice by a bottler in China.