Our products for glass conditioning, glass forming, ware handling and inspection ensure that glass will remain the best packaging material for food, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Supporting customers around the world through offices in Europe, America and Asia, Emhart Glass generated sales of CHF 300 million in 2009 with some 900 employees.

Our modular glass forming machines are at the heart of any glass container production line. Way back in 1924, the Hartford Empire Company, later renamed Emhart Glass, patented its first individual section (IS) machine. This breakthrough established the standard which still exists to this day for reliable high-speed automation of glass container manufacturing. More than 80 years later, Emhart Glass is continuing its pioneering role with innovations in IS machine technology. The new and world's first servo-electric glass forming machine, the NIS machine, is again setting new standards in glass forming and process control.

Control technology from Emhart Glass provides the crucial interface between the hardware and software that direct the key processes. These range from conditioning of the molten glass stream to seamless integration of the complex mechanisms required for high efficiency, flexibility and consistently high production quality. Launched in 2004, the FlexIS product line provides the platform for automated systems incorporating advanced process control.

Emhart Glass offers a full spectrum of products and services for glass conditioning and gob forming using the latest technologies. Forehearth systems condition the molten glass to the optimum viscosity and thermal consistency, while feeders and shears ensure that the stream of molten glass is accurately formed into glass gobs for delivery to the forming machine.

Transporting the formed glassware is one of the most critical operations later in the process. The products made by Emhart Glass include a complete line of state-of-the-art servo-electric ware handling mechanisms that remove the formed, hot glass containers from the moulds and place them on a moving conveyor. Emhart Glass also manufactures conveyors and ware transfers to carry the hot containers from the forming machine to the annealing lehr.

To assure quality, glass container manufacturers must be able to depend on accurate and highly efficient inspection systems. Emhart Glass offers a comprehensive spectrum of inspection solutions, ranging from the new cutting-edge VERITAS series using the latest vision and sensor technology to simple electro-mechanical devices. These allow glass container manufacturers to meet the growing demands for ever higher production standards.

Emhart Glass has the world's largest range of mechanical and electronic parts, accessories, tools and refractory products for fast and reliable delivery. This service offering is supported by efficient logistics and a global network of offices in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, Sweden, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and the USA.

Backed by teams of experienced and highly qualified staff, Emhart Glass can provide a comprehensive portfolio of installation, training, maintenance, production and support services requiring a high level of expertise. This allows customers to concentrate fully on their core business of manufacturing glass containers.

Emhart Glass is dedicated to glass through and through. Being fully recyclable, a used glass container can be melted down and made into a new glass container, using less energy than it took to make the original product. And unlike materials such as plastic and metal, glass is also chemically and biologically inert. The future of our environment depends on glass, and the future of glass container manufacturing depends on Emhart Glass.