Opening of the New Training Center in Sundsvall, Sweden

Cham, Switzerland — On December 13, 2007 the Emhart Glass’ new Hot End Training Center in Sundsvall, Sweden will be officially opened during a small inauguration ceremony. With more than 230 sqm the size has been doubled and provides spacious classrooms on the 5th floor of the main office building of Emhart Glass in Sundsvall. The entire previous training facility has been transformed into an area for hands-on training on all the products lately developed by Emhart Glass.

This Hot End Training Center is part of a new initiative to provide the customers with modern and up-to-date theoretical and practical training on operation and maintenance of Feeders, NIS, AIS and IS machines including FlexIS, PPC, VertiFlow / InVertiFlow, FlexPusher, etc. In addition to training on the equipment, Mold Design and VertiFlow training courses will be provided. These trainings can be given in up to a dozen different languages.

As part of this initiative Emhart Glass has appointed Alf Lundström to World Wide Hot End Training Manager. In addition to the training center in Sundsvall Emhart Glass will establish satellite hot end training centers in Dego, Italy and Johor Bahru, Malaysia.