I spent the last 8 years of my working career as an electrical designer at a company that designed and manufactured the electrical controls for bottle plants like the one shown here. The people I worked with there were some of the most talented people I ever worked with in 60 years of being involved in electrical controls.
That’s really fascinating insights. 60 years is an incredible time, well done. I bet you have so some amazing stories over that time. Thanks for comment and thanks for watching.
Bubble gum was 1/2 a cent each and I used to pick these bottles up from the side of the road as I walked to the store about 2 miles from my house. I usually made enough money for a paper bag filled with candy. I remember young adults would just toss them out of their cars knowing the kids in the neighborhood would have extra money by picking them up. A crude recycling process but it seemed to work.
@@randygreen007 Where im from there was a discount system instead of straight up payment, so you were incentivized to bring your bottles with you and keep them clean and undamaged for a discount. i think it was 20%
I work in glass, I'm laughing at the use of Automated. People who don't work in glass don't realize just how much of this is not automated. There's hundreds of employee's tending everything constantly adjusting to the moving variables.
Thanks for your feedback. Like a lot of automated processes, there are definitely still humans involved to keep it working smoothly and adjusting it. The automated aspects are the parts humans aren’t directly involved in, like moulding the glass by hand or moving the products down conveyers etc. We will try to be more clear about this in the future. Thanks again for watching and commenting.
A lot depends on your plant and your management. The company I worked for took more than one marginal glass plant and turned it into a money maker. I felt privileged to work with the people there. They were some of the sharpest people I ever met.
Different glass plants would have different ways of manufacturing glass for windows, tables, bottles, drinkware etc. This particular video only showed the automation part of it. I’m sure there are people at the ends of the line filling and receiving.
Oh that's really interesting, what sort of heat levels was it getting up to when you worked there? Do you get to take a lot of breaks to deal with the heat and noise? Thanks again for watching and commenting, we really appreciate it.
This was in 1980. It was like a hot summer day every day. I did work on the hot end one day where the glass is formed and the heat there was real bad and the noise was real bad. It was located in south east Wisconsin and we made beer bottles for Miller in Milwaukee. I did not like that job at all. @@HowItsManufactured
@@HowItsManufactured At our plant where I work temperature infront of the IS-machine will reach about 60 °C during summer. And while that surely is uncomfortable, the real pain is the radiation heat coming from the freshly shaped bottles. Depending on bottle size it can make working right on the machine an almost impossible task.
@@HowItsManufactured I mean, we wear thicker coats over our T-shirts, gloves and we have access to special gauntlets that protect the forearm additionally. Apart from that, deal with it. :D
The presentation was ok, but during the process of molten glass being shaped into bottles, there wasn't enough clarity of exactly each step of the molding process. It would have been better to have a illustration, a drawing, of each step of the molding process.
Once the molten glass is cut into gobs by the shears, as shown, they pass thru the distributor to each section of the machine. Incidentally, the machine is called an Individual Section Machine or simply, IS machine. This particular machine is an 8 section, double gob machine, meaning that there are eight identical sections, each section producing two bottles at once. The gobs enter the back side of the machine, which is called the Blank side. The gobs enter the blanks and are upside down at that point. In the blanks, the gobs are partially formed - i.e the neck and thread are completely formed, and the rest of the bottle is semi-formed. At this point, it is called a Parison - the glass is cooled down enough to retain it's shape. When the Parison is formed, the blanks open up (everything is in two halves), and the semi-formed bottles then swing over to the front side of the machine on the invert arm. Now they are right side up, and they are presented to the molds which close on them. The invert arm releases them into the molds and flips back to start the process over again on the blank side. In the meantime, on the front or mold side, a blow head comes down on to the semi-formed bottles and blows them out into their final shape. Then, the blanks open and the take-out arms grab the completed bottles and take them out of the molds, as another set of newly-formed blanks come in behind them. Notice that the take-out arms suspends them briefly before setting them down in front of the push out jaws - this allows them to cool a bit. Then the push out jaws push them out on to the conveyor belt and they head into the annealing ovens or Lehrs. Now here is where it gets to be fun: every 10 minutes or so, depended on whether it is Summer or Winter, the blanks have to be swabbed (coated) with thick, high sulfur oil - called blank dope. This is necessary to keep everything running smoothly. This is done by the operator by hand while the machine is running. The operator must swab the both blanks in the brief time that they are open during transfer and before they close again to receive new gobs. He also has to swab the bottom plates of the molds, again while the machine is running. Timing is everything! Every 10 minutes or the machine will start to jam. In the Summer, the temperature in the front of the machine can be approx. 180 degrees. An operator wears long underwear under his work clothes to protect him from the heat and thick cotton gloves. It is not uncommon to lose 5-8 lbs weight during a shift. Glass machine operators have to watch their electrolyte balance! I hope this gives you better explanation as to what is going on.
I worked many years in a glass factory. I was a mold maker. The entire process of making those bottles is a lot more complex than shown here. Oh well, it's only a 16-minute video.
I worked at Brockway Glass Plant 8, Rosemount MN till it closed in December 1984, hard and hot work but the pay was good and I enjoyed working there. Too bad plastics came in and glass went out.
I was hoping to see actual Coca-Cola bottles made. I am curious how they get their shape. I guess when they blow it in the mold...that was not explained very well. Other that that a very interesting piece.
Sorry we didn’t explain it better. The first part of the moulding process forms the bottom of the bottle, it’s then moved to the next mould that makes the shape. It’s in this shaping mound that air is introduced to blow the bottle into its shape.
I have been looking for the name of these machines and where they can be purchased do you know what the model name is and a place where i could aquire it?
@@HowItsManufactured I was a Mechanic in Ergonmeccanica from Savona (North Italy) ther's a district of glass producers and we use to repair and reshape the Emhart Glass machinery of various client. I did there the last 10 years of my job before retirement and I can tell that there is no work dirty and hard as this one, it's impossible to stand heat and fatigue for long time, but incoming money are slightly more than others blue collars work!
This factory does a mixture of different brands and their various shapes. The process is the same it’s just that the mould is different when making the distinctive Coca Cola bottle.
I was speaking of supermarkets. No one wants to carry 8 or 10 2-liter bottles in glass. Glass can be impractical, as the bottling companies have to pay more to ship them.
@@HowItsManufactured I don't drink soda. The only bottled thing I drink, in 2-liter bottles, is seltzer. And, no, bottling them in glass would be very impractical.
Interesting I worked is a Glass bottle house in in the 1960s the one thing is the HEAT and the NOISE not a place to work in the Summer and this is real old tech. the problem is no one wants to do the work making the labor cost high and those machines have to go nonstop leading to high Employee turn over
Great fascinating awakesome process industry projects but need to be cost effective for sustainability in mkt demand as pet bottle are alternative swapped out large mkt share. So it needs to be cheaper solution light weight for 1liter bottle glass or 500ml or 330 to 250ml bottle for CSD Plant's cola plant project
That irritating, annoying, and distracting crappy-ass background "music" totally ruined the video making it unwatchable and earning this poster a big "thumbs down"!
the voice over is way too enthusiastic and fascinated by glass bottles manufactured en masse, and the music wasn't the right choice (something more robotic/industrial would do), and maybe talk about more technical details than ogle at the impressive "advanced manufacturing technology"?
Kudos to the millwrights who made these machines !!!!🙂
The engineering behind all this is mind boggling. Although the machines are impressive, the minds behind this dance are nothing short than brilliant.
Yeah it’s old tech but it’s so well engineered that nothing really needs to change
Thank You Mike Owens
I spent the last 8 years of my working career as an electrical designer at a company that designed and manufactured the electrical controls for bottle plants like the one shown here. The people I worked with there were some of the most talented people I ever worked with in 60 years of being involved in electrical controls.
That’s really fascinating insights. 60 years is an incredible time, well done. I bet you have so some amazing stories over that time. Thanks for comment and thanks for watching.
These are the ultimate green products. Anyone remember doing returns??
Bubble gum was 1/2 a cent each and I used to pick these bottles up from the side of the road as I walked to the store about 2 miles from my house. I usually made enough money for a paper bag filled with candy. I remember young adults would just toss them out of their cars knowing the kids in the neighborhood would have extra money by picking them up. A crude recycling process but it seemed to work.
@@randygreen007 Where im from there was a discount system instead of straight up payment, so you were incentivized to bring your bottles with you and keep them clean and undamaged for a discount. i think it was 20%
How refreshing, a molten bottle of Coca-Cola
Kudos to the maintenance workers that need to work on that machinery when it breaks.
Yeah it’s a very hard job. Thanks for watching
The manufacturing process is amazing
It truly is. Very hot also :)
Thanks for watching
I used to work in bear bottle factory,highly technology,wonderful work process
That's great to hear. What did you like about the job?
You worked with bears??
5:15 *No, it’s a way to prevent lawsuits when people are injured by exploding bottles.*
Well done, you got everything right. So often, people get it wrong at some point. Joe, Ceramic Engineer
That’s great to hear. Thanks for the feedback
I work in glass, I'm laughing at the use of Automated. People who don't work in glass don't realize just how much of this is not automated. There's hundreds of employee's tending everything constantly adjusting to the moving variables.
Thanks for your feedback. Like a lot of automated processes, there are definitely still humans involved to keep it working smoothly and adjusting it. The automated aspects are the parts humans aren’t directly involved in, like moulding the glass by hand or moving the products down conveyers etc. We will try to be more clear about this in the future. Thanks again for watching and commenting.
It is a good video, only wanted to point out how much there is to due in the human aspect as well! @@HowItsManufactured
A lot depends on your plant and your management. The company I worked for took more than one marginal glass plant and turned it into a money maker. I felt privileged to work with the people there. They were some of the sharpest people I ever met.
Big facts 🩷🩷🩷
Different glass plants would have different ways of manufacturing glass for windows, tables, bottles, drinkware etc. This particular video only showed the automation part of it. I’m sure there are people at the ends of the line filling and receiving.
I used to work in a beer bottle factory and just like this video it is interesting. It is a very hot and noisy place to work. Things move real fast.
Oh that's really interesting, what sort of heat levels was it getting up to when you worked there? Do you get to take a lot of breaks to deal with the heat and noise?
Thanks again for watching and commenting, we really appreciate it.
This was in 1980. It was like a hot summer day every day. I did work on the hot end one day where the glass is formed and the heat there was real bad and the noise was real bad. It was located in south east Wisconsin and we made beer bottles for Miller in Milwaukee. I did not like that job at all. @@HowItsManufactured
@@HowItsManufactured At our plant where I work temperature infront of the IS-machine will reach about 60 °C during summer.
And while that surely is uncomfortable, the real pain is the radiation heat coming from the freshly shaped bottles.
Depending on bottle size it can make working right on the machine an almost impossible task.
@@Bigcubefan That sounds rough. Do you have protective clothing that makes it more bearable, or do you have to just deal with it?
@@HowItsManufactured I mean, we wear thicker coats over our T-shirts, gloves and we have access to special gauntlets that protect the forearm additionally.
Apart from that, deal with it. :D
Coke in a glass bottle 👍🏻 also brings back childhood memories when all sodas were in glass bottles. They tasted a whole lot better
technology at it's best
Totally is! Thanks for watching
how about a video on how the machines that make the bottle are designed and made
Great suggestion. Thanks for watching
A MUST WATCH!!!!
Thank you for the support.
Work fascinates me ! i can (sit) and watch it all day long 😂
This is really interesting. well done. Thank you.
That’s great to hear. Thanks for watching and commenting
Bravo......when I was a kid we had glass bottles......they recycle for 10 cents.......cheers
Yeah they are great for recycling. Far, far better than plastic
Used to clean Embark Glass off Day Hill Rd. years ago. They made machines that make glass bottles and stuff.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
You're welcome!
Nice
Thanks for watching and commenting
Facinating process. 👍
Yeah it really is. Thanks for watching
My uncle way back in the 60's/70's worked at a bottling plant in Henderson, NC. I miss my uncle. He was a very good man. Shalom
Thank you for sharing the story about your Uncle. I’m sure he was a great man!
The presentation was ok, but during the process of molten glass being shaped into bottles, there wasn't enough clarity of exactly each step of the molding process. It would have been better to have a illustration, a drawing, of each step of the molding process.
Thanks for the feedback. We will try to have more illustrations etc in the future.
Once the molten glass is cut into gobs by the shears, as shown, they pass thru the distributor to each section of the machine. Incidentally, the machine is called an Individual Section Machine or simply, IS machine. This particular machine is an 8 section, double gob machine, meaning that there are eight identical sections, each section producing two bottles at once. The gobs enter the back side of the machine, which is called the Blank side. The gobs enter the blanks and are upside down at that point. In the blanks, the gobs are partially formed - i.e the neck and thread are completely formed, and the rest of the bottle is semi-formed. At this point, it is called a Parison - the glass is cooled down enough to retain it's shape. When the Parison is formed, the blanks open up (everything is in two halves), and the semi-formed bottles then swing over to the front side of the machine on the invert arm. Now they are right side up, and they are presented to the molds which close on them. The invert arm releases them into the molds and flips back to start the process over again on the blank side. In the meantime, on the front or mold side, a blow head comes down on to the semi-formed bottles and blows them out into their final shape. Then, the blanks open and the take-out arms grab the completed bottles and take them out of the molds, as another set of newly-formed blanks come in behind them. Notice that the take-out arms suspends them briefly before setting them down in front of the push out jaws - this allows them to cool a bit. Then the push out jaws push them out on to the conveyor belt and they head into the annealing ovens or Lehrs. Now here is where it gets to be fun: every 10 minutes or so, depended on whether it is Summer or Winter, the blanks have to be swabbed (coated) with thick, high sulfur oil - called blank dope. This is necessary to keep everything running smoothly. This is done by the operator by hand while the machine is running. The operator must swab the both blanks in the brief time that they are open during transfer and before they close again to receive new gobs. He also has to swab the bottom plates of the molds, again while the machine is running. Timing is everything! Every 10 minutes or the machine will start to jam. In the Summer, the temperature in the front of the machine can be approx. 180 degrees. An operator wears long underwear under his work clothes to protect him from the heat and thick cotton gloves. It is not uncommon to lose 5-8 lbs weight during a shift. Glass machine operators have to watch their electrolyte balance! I hope this gives you better explanation as to what is going on.
❤Super I Am work at a glass factory ,in sri lanka ,this video helps grow my knowledge
That’s great to hear.
I JUST LOVE ICE COLD COKE IN A GLASS BOTTLE. MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!!!
Yeah its the best!
Amazing equiment to make bottles!!!
It really is! Thanks for watching commenting.
Unbelievable machine
Yeah it’s incredible
I drink coke i have all my life. I remember when coke bottles were made of glass.
They still are made of glass in some countries/regions. But plastic sadly does dominate most of the world for Coca Cola these days
Interesting 🤔
Yeah it really is
Amazing.
Thanks for watching!
Im old enough to remember the milk man dropping off glass bottles of milk to your door along with your bill 😊😊😊 dang im old
Move over on that bench, pal.
Yup I’m in tooo😂😂😂😂🙏🙏🪬🪬🇬🇧🇬🇧
I worked many years in a glass factory. I was a mold maker. The entire process of making those bottles is a lot more complex than shown here. Oh well, it's only a 16-minute video.
My very first employment - at a glass container manufacturing facility in Ohio. Worked in both the forming and packing departments for 18 years.
Wow 18 years is a good stint there! Thanks for watching and commenting
Our school was taken on a tour of Coke bottle manufacturing…over 75 years ago…yesteryear 😢
Wow that’s a long time ago! This technology has been around quite a while :). Thanks for commenting and watching
I worked at Brockway Glass Plant 8, Rosemount MN till it closed in December 1984, hard and hot work but the pay was good and I enjoyed working there. Too bad plastics came in and glass went out.
A brown bottle sounds pretty good 😂😂😂
Show who designed the machines. 😊
I was hoping to see actual Coca-Cola bottles made. I am curious how they get their shape. I guess when they blow it in the mold...that was not explained very well. Other that that a very interesting piece.
Sorry we didn’t explain it better. The first part of the moulding process forms the bottom of the bottle, it’s then moved to the next mould that makes the shape. It’s in this shaping mound that air is introduced to blow the bottle into its shape.
@@HowItsManufacturedHow do the bottle manufacturers add the colored Coca Cola lettering?
I miss Royal Crown Cola in 16oz glass bottles.
I have been looking for the name of these machines and where they can be purchased do you know what the model name is and a place where i could aquire it?
www.glassfurnaceengineering.com/supplier-392329-glass-bottle-production-line
I watched a video earlier where in the Mekong Delta, people do all of this without any real technology. They were making perfume bottles.
good luck finding a soda bottle to take a last sip out of.
Yes
Yes indeed
@@HowItsManufactured Yes indeed I have stopped and thought about how glass bottles are made
I made those at Jeannette Glass
Hey when did you work at Jeannette glass? I worked there in mid 60ies. I worked in the factory then shipping.
@@cooldog60 yes. I worked for frankie laich, I ran 42 doubled headder
It seems the quality control stage creates quite a bottleneck in the process.
What is company name and where it located
You show a lot of movement, but none of the actual shaping, which is the interesting part.
The shaping happened in moulds, not visible to cameras. You see the moulds openings d closing, but sadly we can’t capture the actual moulding process.
Emhart glassa machine?? Use to repair that kind of machinery. Huge dirty and hot work bro, but someone have to do it!!
Oh wow you used to work on these machines. How long ago were you doing that?
@@HowItsManufactured I was a Mechanic in Ergonmeccanica from Savona (North Italy) ther's a district of glass producers and we use to repair and reshape the Emhart Glass machinery of various client. I did there the last 10 years of my job before retirement and I can tell that there is no work dirty and hard as this one, it's impossible to stand heat and fatigue for long time, but incoming money are slightly more than others blue collars work!
.. Bottero?
@@jebbamin4109 No, Ergonmeccanica work with Blucher and Emhart...Bottero isn't very popular among us!
Isn't plastic more affordable 😮😮😮
But who figured this all out??!
Genius engineers :)
Michael J. Owens invented the automatic glass blowing machine over 100 years ago.
No coke in glass bottles here in Australia. Such a shame, we lost the nice taste and replaced it with plastic! Shame on Coca Cola!
Well, i have visited this kind of glass factory... noisy experience😅
These "iconic" bottles look pretty generic to me.
HAMBURGER, FRIES, AND A COKE. (IN A COLD GLAS BOTTLE).
Love it!
The bottle costs more than what's in it.
Although the manufacturing process looks impressive. Those are Coca Cola bottles being manufactured.
Still did not how the bottle got the COKE shape.
With the mold
Coke taste so much better in a glass bottle. And I would rather have real sugar!
Yeah it really does.
Always COCA -COLA😂
The best right?
@@HowItsManufactured Best drink of world.
@@HowItsManufactured Best drink of world.
@@NDREW2024yeah by far
Not all of the bottles in this video look like Coca-Cola bottles. What gives?
This factory does a mixture of different brands and their various shapes. The process is the same it’s just that the mould is different when making the distinctive Coca Cola bottle.
They're glass in some other countries, but not here in the US, where they're plastic.
Do you get imported coke like from Mexico in glass bottles still? The coke made with sugar instead of corn syrup?
I was speaking of supermarkets. No one wants to carry 8 or 10 2-liter bottles in glass. Glass can be impractical, as the bottling companies have to pay more to ship them.
@@HowItsManufactured I don't drink soda. The only bottled thing I drink, in 2-liter bottles, is seltzer. And, no, bottling them in glass would be very impractical.
Interesting I worked is a Glass bottle house in in the 1960s the one thing is the HEAT and the NOISE not a place to work in the Summer
and this is real old tech. the problem is no one wants to do the work making the labor cost high and those machines have to go nonstop leading to high Employee turn over
Thanks for sharing your personal experience. I had wondered about employee turnover as it seems quite a tough job.
By the time you get to the forming department, your making pretty good money!
Great fascinating awakesome process industry projects but need to be cost effective for sustainability in mkt demand as pet bottle are alternative swapped out large mkt share. So it needs to be cheaper solution light weight for 1liter bottle glass or 500ml or 330 to 250ml bottle for CSD Plant's cola plant project
Yes, you are right
Wow, the music made this video tolerable...
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That irritating, annoying, and distracting crappy-ass background "music" totally ruined the video making it unwatchable and earning this poster a big "thumbs down"!
A beverage that is complete garbage.
معلاش ان كوكا هى اصل السودان
the voice over is way too enthusiastic and fascinated by glass bottles manufactured en masse, and the music wasn't the right choice (something more robotic/industrial would do), and maybe talk about more technical details than ogle at the impressive "advanced manufacturing technology"?
Thanks for the feedback. Thanks for watching
Theyre made with rage and alcohlism.
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