Over 1000 Tomoe valves at new glass plant

Tomoe Valve recently secured a contrct to supply all the mechanical service butterfly valves on the furnace and filling hall pipeline links at the new Quinn Glass manufacturing plant near Warrington.

Tomoe Valve, a world-leading supplier of butterfly valves to industrial manufacturers, recently secured a significant order to supply all the mechanical service butterfly valves on the furnace and filling hall pipeline links at the new Quinn Glass manufacturing plant near Warrington.

The new plant is built to manufacture 5 million bottles a day and has 58 filling vessels for various alcopops and beer filling operations.

Working closely with consulting engineering contractor, Lawrence Mechanical , 820 wafer and lugged rubber lined 700 Series Tomoe butterfly valves covering the size range DN50 - DN600, were supplied on a rapid response, call off basis over a 2-3 month period.

Since then a further 210 valves have been supplied, again on a rapid response, call off basis, during the past two months.

Willie Duncan, sales and marketing director at Tomoe Group, commented, "Tomoe's reputation for service and delivery performance was crucial in winning this deal, backed by our ability to support the exacting, fast turnaround project demands.

Thanks to the combined efforts from our Inside Sales and Operations Departments who worked closely with the site and liased with Lawrence Mechanical in Ireland, the Tomoe team delivered the goods - successfully and on schedule - and each time".

Quinn Glass services the food and beverage industry in Ireland and the UK and is building a new state of the art 70,000 sqm container glass manufacturing plant with filling lines and an automatic warehouse on a 100 acre site at Ince, Cheshire.

This plant will provide a unique comprehensive glass packaging and filling service for the drinks industry.

The plant will operate 13 glass production lines and 5 filling lines boasting a production capacity in excess of approx 4 million containers per day or 1.2 billion per annum, with a filling capacity in excess of 600 m units.

Its automated warehousing will handle 281,300 pallets and end-customer production commences in summer.

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