our history
2022
Currently
Now Kostopil Glass Works is a modern export-oriented enterprise with two furnaces with a total capacity of more than 250 tons per day and five new IS glass-forming machines from Swiss and Italian manufacturers (Bucher Emhart Glass, BDF Industries, and Bottero Glass Technologies). In 2020 more than 450 million glass products were produced, 60% of which were delivered to the European market
2019
A large-scale reconstruction of production facilities was carried out: refractories were dismantled and replaced; the combustion station and the temperature control system were modernized; technological equipment and glass-forming machine line No. 5 were replaced; annealing furnace and furnace control system were replaced; equipment for cold strengthening of glassware was replaced; the line of transportation and control of glassware was replaced; the Mcal 4 and Emhart DHG control machines were installed and put into operation; the packaging line for glass products was modernized
2016
Several million euros were invested to improve the product quality: a new IS glass-forming machine 10 sections 4 "¼ DG from BDF Industries was installed, a new MULTI 4 inspection machine, which allowed to improve the glass containers quality control and a new product control line from the leading French manufacturer Tiama
2014
In October a cold repair of the bath furnace No.2 was carried out, the capacity of which amounted to 115 tons per day
2011
A new IS 8-2 4 ¼ '' glass forming machine of the Italian manufacturer BDF Industries was installed
2010
A new IS 8-2 5" glass forming machine of the Italian manufacturer BDF Industries was installed
2007
The enterprise carried out a cold repair of both furnaces with the installation of new equipment, after which the total capacity of the plant amounted to 250 tons of glass melt per day, five IS-type machine lines (one IS-10-2, one IS-8-2, three IS-6-2). Also in the year 2007 the IS-8-2 machine line was put into operation, which can operate both in a double-gob mode and in a single-gob mode
2003
The assembly workshop was reconstructed and a modern batching line was put into operation. With the aim of efficient use of the furnace No.2 within 2003 the third feeder with an IS-6-2 glass-forming machine was built
2002
As at the beginning of the year the production output amounted to more than 70 million units. Such well-known trademarks as "Soyuz-Viktan", "Rosynka" became the consumers of the enterprise. Perfume containers are delivered to the following perfumery plants "Supermash", "Alyie Parusa", "Efekt", "Rosso". Since 2002 the production capacity has been expanded, a bath furnace No.2 with a design capacity of 115 tons of glass melt per day has been built and two more IS-6-2 5” glass-forming machines have been installed
2001
The first products - medical glass containers - were received on January 8. During this year the enterprise mastered the production of new types of medical glass containers, the consumers of which were the joint-stock companies "Halychpharm", "Farmak" and other pharmaceutical factories. Simultaneously the third feeder and IS-6-2 glass-forming machine were designed and installed. Taking into account the trends of the medical glass container market, the process of glass repainting in the bath furnace No.1 from brown to colorless was taking place. In August the plant switched to the production of perfume glass containers. With the introduction into operation of the third IS-6-2 glass forming machine, the company began to master glass containers for beverages
2000
The new life of the enterprise began in August, when two glass factories JSC "Gostomel Glass Factory" and JSC "Kostopil Glass Works" joined their forces and founded the PJSC "Kostopil Glass Works". Since August 2000 till January 2001 the construction of a glass furnace with a capacity of 55 tons of glass melt per day and the installation of two IS-6-2 glass-forming machines continued on the premises of the workshop No.6 of the Kostopil glass works
1995
In May the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine confirmed the decision to privatize the glass plant
1972
In the workshop No.3 mechanical processing of glass and polycrystalline glass has been mastered. With the development of knowledge-based industries a need arose for the new types of products, and the workshop No.4 was built for the production of glass backing for integrated circuits. For this purpose a workshop for the production of fiber-glass composite materials was purchased in the USA
1962
The plant was subordinated to the Lviv (Radnarhosp) council of national economy, the head office of the electronics industry. It was then that the construction of workshop No.2 with two glass furnaces began, which produced glass-insulators and flasks for vacuum tubes
1946
After World War II, the glass factory resumed its operation, starting to manufacture the same range of products
1913
The history of Kostopil Glass Works dates back to the beginning of ХХ century. In the middle of 1913 the Polish landlord founded glass foundry that manufactured vessels of different volumes and glass for hurricane lamps
history continues
Currently, KZS is a modern export-oriented enterprise with two furnaces with a total capacity of over 250 tons per day, and five new glass-forming machines from Swiss and Italian manufacturers (Bucher Emhart Glass, BDF Industries and Bottero Glass Technologies). In 2020, more than 450 million glass products were produced, 60% of which were put on the European market. The history of PJSC "Kostopil Glassware Plant" has more than 100 years of dynamic development. During this eventful century, the plant was under military occupation three times, employing 90 to 3,500 workers at various times, and producing a variety of products, from insulators and utensils to medical, perfume and food packaging.
