The cornerstone of what is HORN Glass Industries AG today was laid over 100 years ago, when August Horn founded in the year 1894 a small glass service industry in the Bavaria. HORN Glass Industries AG has carried this tradition further to join the ranks of leading international glass plant-equipment.
Today HORN is, for example, placed amongst the Top 500 of Europe’s Job creating companies by the Europe’s Award and employs about 120 people. Newly founded in 1999 HORN Glass Industries AG carries this tradition a step further to join the ranks of leading international glass melting plant manufacturers.
With its subsidiary company HORN Bau&Service GmbH HORN is able to supply beside the furnace equipment a full service for installation, commissioning and repair.
The HORN Bau & Service GmbH is the executive division on the construction site. The unique working conditions, such as the extreme temperatures, call for a team of highly qualified specialists and experts.
High precision bricklaying guarantees the customer a furnace with a long life span and many years of trouble-free operation. In addition to traditional furnace construction, HORN Bau & Service GmbH undertakes steel construction on an international scale, with experts in the Four Corners of the Globe.
Beside bricklaying and steel construction also the supervision by highly qualified experts belonging to the jobs of HORN Bau & Service GmbH.
At the end the furnace will be heated up and commissioned complete by the personnel of HORN.
HORN Glass Industries AG has a wide range of experience in the design, manufacture and supply of different furnace types, such as regenerative and recuperative continuous tank furnaces, float furnaces, electrical tank, pot furnaces , day tanks, electrical tank furnaces for domestic and lighting ware, tableware, containers, technical glassware, sheet glass and etc., in different glass types.
HORN’s range of utility equipment includes combustion systems, control and safety equipment, electrical boosting and mixings systems, to name but a few. HORN Glass Industries AG also offers all forehearth systems, supply stations for oil, gas, oxygen, water, regenerative and recuperative burner systems, combustion equipment, boosting systems and process controlling systems of the highest standard. HORN has developed products such as the OPTIBEAM; the internationally applied laser glass level control system.
Another business section of HORN is machinery for the thermal process of glass like annealing lehrs, roller annealing and decorations lehrs. Hot and cold end coating stations and much more.
Horn Glass Industries AG is internationally represented with a wide range of agencies all over the world.
The heart of the HORN Glass Industries AG is the engineering of glass melting furnaces for the glass industry. Numerous national as well as international companies have placed their entire plant engineering in the hands of HORN.
Plant planning and design are done on the most modern CAD stations and executed using equally modern construction methods. This has lead to HORN being the "innovation factory". Furthermore the whole peripheral equipment around the furnace is supplied.
Reliability and durability are the chief criteria for all equipment whether wholly or partly manufactured in house. Individual consultation in terms of the selection, adaptation and application of technically and economically sound solutions are HORN´s speciality.
The company is also able to tailor entire plant packages that include products outside of the standard range so that HORN is, so to speak, your one-stop-shop.
• Equipment for batch charging
• Equipment of Glass Melting
• Supplier of Roller annealing lehrs
• Tank Furnaces
• Feeder Technology
• Pot Furnaces
• Regenerative, Recuperative
• Electric Furnaces
• Combustion - Burner Technology
• Control equipment
• Boosting system
Contact Info
Company Horn Glass Industries AG
Address Bergstraße 2
95703 Plößberg
Country Germany
Phone 0049 9636 9204-0
Fax 0049 9636 920410
Email Email Contact
Internet http://www.hornglas.de
Employees 160
Year founded 1999
Name Mr. Max Sollfrank
Position Chairman
Phone 0049 9636 9204 33
Email sollfrank@hornglas.
Name Mr. Stephan Meindl
Position Managing Director
Phone 0049 9636 9204 52
Email meindl@hornglas.de
Name Mr. Christoph Jatzwauk
Position Director Technology
Phone 0049 9636 9204 13
Fax 0049 9636 9204 10
Email jatzwauk@hornglas.de
Name Mr. Julius Müller
Position Sales and Fabrication
Phone 0049 9636 9204 52
Fax 0049 9636 9204 10
Email mueller@hornglas.de
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