Hangzhou bottle kiln: Glass bottle companies take root

After the glass kiln is formed, it is polished with a flame. The production personnel carefully check the product quality. ▲In Pingyao Middle School, the “Old Kiln Kiln Site” was protected by a monument. ▲ Furnace automated bottle forming. ▲A variety of exquisite glass bottles are produced for cosmetic packaging. A few days ago, Hangzhou Zhenhua Daily Chemical Glass Co., Ltd. in Pingyao Town invested money to expand the factory building to expand the scale of production, focus on the development of wine bottle packaging, and extend the bottle-making industry.

Bottle kilns, the modern bottle-making industry and the ancient bottle-kiln bottle-making industry have inadvertently become a coincidence. Bottle kilns have become the "kiln basket" for making bottles.

Bottle kilns built kiln bottles and get their name

Bottle kiln is called Pavilion City. According to relevant historical records, there is a hill in the north of the town, which is called Tingshan Mountain in the ancient times, and the village under the hill has its name. In the Song Dynasty, the mountain kiln in the south of the city of Ting City was used as a kiln to make clay pots. The kiln was originally called, and Tingshi Village was named after the bottle kiln. However, from the Gutao Kiln site found in Jichangshan, Maoyuanling, Yaobei Village, Wuxi Town, Wuxi Town, according to research, it was in the middle period of the Western Han Dynasty to the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The site of the ancient kiln under the long life village Shishan was verified as the celadon kiln site in the Western Jin Dynasty. The pottery kilns have always been well-developed since the beginning of the Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

Folklore There are 18 kilns in Yaoshan, connecting 18 lanes, each with a well and a total of 18 wells. In the folk song “Thirty-six Piers”, which were handed down from word of mouth, there are lyrics from the “Good Ukrainian in a Bottle Kiln”.

Bottles inadvertently became a coincidence

Hangzhou Zhenhua Rihua Glass Co., Ltd. manufactures glass bottles for packaging various cosmetics. It forms a modern bottle-making industry in bottle kilns. Although it is not directly related to the history of ancient bottle-kiln bottles, the principle of bottle-making in kilns is classified as At the same time, this accidentally became a coincidence.

More than 10 years ago, Xia Xiongfeng was responsible for the company's business, producing enamel and supplying it to manufacturers producing enamel products. As the economic benefits are not very good, he went to Guangzhou and other places to investigate and learned that the market demand for glass bottles has broad prospects. He used the existing furnaces to make firings through batching, melting, forming, annealing, printing and other scientific processes. Glass bottles, which are supplied to cosmetic manufacturers for cosmetic packaging, have embarked on the road to the new bottle-making industry.

Persevering enterprise Jedi development

After the successful development of the glass bottles, Xia Xiongfeng sought a way out in the international market because the demand in the domestic market was not very satisfactory. Initially, a European merchant asked for a bottle of more than 100,000 yuan, and there was no audio after delivery. After contact, the original merchants were not satisfied with the packaging of the product, and the glass was broken due to the lack of partitions inside the box, causing great losses. As a result, Xia Xiongfeng immediately modified the products according to the requirements of merchants. Once Xia Xiongfeng learned that merchants were in Yiwu, they rushed to negotiate with merchants overnight. The merchants were touched by Xia Xiongfeng's dedication and said: "I do not have a glass bottle business, but I will introduce you to a big customer in the future."

Three months later, a French businessman got in touch with Xia Xiongfeng, who placed orders for more than 2 million yuan in large quantities and asked for bottles of various types of cosmetics, including bottled French perfume bottles. Since then, the company has opened up the international market. The first year's supply amounted to 10 million yuan, and the second year reached 20 million yuan, and this year it is expected to exceed 30 million yuan. The company has achieved rapid development. The company has expanded its production scale by relocation and construction. It has used horseshoe-type regenerative thermal insulation glass and glass kiln energy-saving stoves to realize automated process production. The amount of materials used has increased from 3 to 4 tons per day to three. Forty tons, the production efficiency increased by a full 10 times.

Enthusiasm to expand the scale of the extended bottle-making industry

A variety of beautifully shaped glass bottles are full of rich cultural connotations. Inside the company's product showroom, there are thousands of glass bottles, just like a “glass bottle museum”, which conveys a strong culture of making bottles. At present, the company has invested a lot of money to further expand the scale of production, focus on the development of bottle packaging, extending the bottle-making industry.