About company

The history of Merefa Glass Factory began in 1896. It was the time when Bortkevich, landowner of the Kharkov province, established the production of glass in order to provide his own distillery with the glass containers in the Artiomovka settlement. As for the location, Merefa city was suitable enough for that purpose – there were inexhaustible supplies of water and woodlands nearby the factory used as fuel material for energy-intensive glass manufacturing.

There was produced a wide range of glass products:

• ribbons and textiles made of twisted threads;
• large assortment of differently sized high-temperature glass containers;
• glass cotton;
• glass containers for food, liquor and soft drink industry.

In 1994 in Madrid (Spain) on the 24th International Forum (XXIV International Trophy), Merefa Glass Factory was rewarded for the business achievements.

Many changes have taken place since that time in our country and in the whole world, but the one thing has remained unchanged– the quality and excellent customer appeal of the products of Merefa Glass Factory.

In 2006, Merefa Glass Factory has reached the age of 110.

In 2005, the construction of a new production plant was started on the territory of Merefa Glass factory under the direction and technology of the company HEYE International GmbH, Germany. HEYE International GmbH is one of the leading world manufacturing companies of machinery and know-how in container glass industry.

There will be erected high-performance, state-of-the-art-type glass forming production lines, which consist of 10 section IS-machines for BB production (Blow-and-Blow process) and for NNPB production. In addition, there will be installed the precision guided electronic equipment of the company HEYE International GmbH. A new up-to-date furnace will be build up that meets the latest requirements of science and technology both in engineering and implementation. The furnace can be put in automatic operation with the complete monitor system. Quality control automatic lines will also be provided for the production quality control.

Lightweight container

NNPB technology (Narrow Neck Press and Blow) differs from the other technologies by the process of pressblowing. Usually Blow-and-Blow process is used for the production of narrow-neck containers (bottles), while for the production of wide neck glass containers (jars) – NNPB pressblowing process – the type of the pressblowing used for the narrow-neck production.
NNPB technology bottles have their own differential characteristics: an absence of so-called «settle wave» on a bottle body and an occurrence of «spots» (mostly – on a shoulder area of a bottle), which remain from a vacuum, applied in NNPB technology. The implementation of NNPB technology makes it possible to decrease the weight of glass significantly and to guarantee even distribution of glass over a bottle sidewall surface in the forming process. This makes a bottle stronger and minimizes breakage on the filling lines.