Production

The glass sector is one of the industrial fields that provides input to many sectors such as automotive, construction, white goods, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and tourism with its products and has a very important position for our national economy with the employment, production and export it provides. Energy use is also intense in the glass industry, which requires high fixed capital investment. Economies of scale create the necessity of working with high capacity. The fact that glass production is based on smelting (melting) technology requires that glass furnaces are constantly in operation and production is uninterrupted. This need for uninterrupted production makes the glass industry a sensitive sector that needs to be observed. The stages of glass production are as follows;