Johns Manville restarts Slovakian fiberglass furnace

Johns Manville (Denver, Colo., U.S.) announced on April 17 that it will restart a glass melter in Trnava, Slovakia on April 25, after it was taken out of service for a routine rebuild. The furnace had previously reached the end of its service life after a record campaign of 10 years.

“This is an outstanding achievement from a technology perspective,” says John Vasuta, president of Johns Manville Engineered Products. "The teams from Trnava and our Johns Manville Technical Center in the U.S. worked together extremely well and did a fantastic job to achieve such a long life for the furnace. The rebuild also went remarkably smoothly."

This furnace rebuild, says Johns Manville, also affirms the company’s commitment to continue serving the industry in Europe with regional production.

Also this month, Johns Manville will exhibit at JEC World in Paris, France, April 25-27. “It’s exciting to exhibit in Paris when at the same time one of our furnaces is launching a new campaign,” Vasuta says. “We look forward to sharing all of the good things happening at JM with our current and future customers.”

At JEC World, Johns Manville will feature its StarRov single-end rovings, MultiStar multi-end rovings and ThermoFlow and StarStran chopped strands, as well as its Neomera PA-6 organosheet products.