Problems at Owens-Brockway: Retrofit Solves Glass Quality Owens-Brockway - Brockport, Pennsylvania The Need Owens-Brockway Glass Containers, a unit of Owens-Illinois, produces flint and green glass in three regenerative furnaces, each of which has four chargers. When the plant was built, an overhead monorail system was used to ferry mixed batch in 4,000 lb. cans from the batch house to the furnace feeders. This system was designed so that a series of four cans could be positioned over the chargers, with one can feeding each charger. Operators had to constantly adjust the feed rate of each charger so that all four cans would empty at the same time. As production increased, it became more and more difficult to maintain a constant delivery of batch to the furnaces. After the bins were inst

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