July / August 2008 — Vision ring inspection is now available for the Emhart Inex Veritas iM multi-station inspection machine. Designed to be installed at any of the machine’s three rotate stations, vision ring inspection uses a high-resolution camera with LED backlighting to measure finish T and E dimensions as the container rotates in place.

May / June 2008 — The Multi-Cam Feeder software for the FlexIS control system creates the possibility for a customer to produce containers of various weight on different sections of the same NIS, AIS or IS machine. When using the multi-cam mode, users are not limited to running the same cam/height/stroke combination for each running section. In a multi-cam configuration, the cam/height/stroke can be set individually. Multi-cam jobs can be created, controlled and monitored from a single screen.

March / April 2008 — Ware Handling is part of the Hot End Production where you can only lose! The forming is completed and the container is standing on the dead plate after the release of the take out. The challenge now is to bring the containers into the lehr without any loses and without creating defects on the containers.

January / February 2008 — The historical touch of a button occurred on Sunday, September 30, 2007 when Steve Pinkerton, VP RD&E, switched on the 40 ton furnace in our new research center located in Windsor, CT, USA. This event marks another milestone in the strategy of Emhart Glass: to provide automation solutions to our customers, which goes far beyond the delivery of machines.

November / December 2007 — The increasing need among glass manufacturers to produce high quality containers at lower costs and greater speeds has heightened the demand for a fully automated process control system. The success of an integrated control solution, such as the FlexIS Process Control System, is dependent on the need for a robust communication network in order to offer fast response times, high dataflow and data security.

September / October 2007 — The need for an ever increasing container production performance drove the introduction of the new quadruple gob configuration at the Servo Electric NIS machine family. It offers even more flexibility and a higher productivity to the glass container industry.

July / August 2007 — Emhart Glass is pleased to announce the acquisition of ICS Inex Inspection Systems, a privately-held company, located in Clearwater, FL, USA. With the acquisition of ICS Inex, which took place March 20, 2007, the Emhart Glass Cold End business unit has been renamed Emhart Inex.

May / June 2007 — The benefits of the VertiFlow blank mold cooling system, as introduced in 1988, have been well accepted throughout the glass industry. This system uses plenum chambers on top of the blank molds, passing cooling air through vertical holes to the bottom of the blank molds.

With the new InVertiFlow blank mold cooling system the airflow has been “inverted”, passing the air from plenum chambers at the bottom - or lower end - to the top of the blank molds. This new cooling system offers numerous features and benefits.

March / April 2007 — The Plunger Process Control (PPC) provides, for the first time, a complete visualization of the parison forming process for Narrow Neck Press and Blow (NNPB), as well as for Wide Mouth Press and Blow.

January / February 2007 — The year 2006 was a good one for Emhart Glass. We were successful in gaining new customers, and we achieved a record turnover. The further growth in sales of our flagship NIS machine, which proved its attractiveness through repeat orders, is especially encouraging. Finally, we introduced successful, new products. One, the FlexPusher, was warmly received by initial customers.