After getting the equipment ready, OCIL worked with an Indian joint venture partner and other Indian companies to help find workers and to import, install, and operate the equipment. Here is a look at how the plant batches dry ingredients to the furnace. The glass fibers are made from four major ingredients and several minor ingredients. The major ingredients include silica, clay, and limestone. Bulk bags were a new approach for many of OCIL's vendors.
Workers transfer the bulk bags from the trucks to the bulk bag unloaders.
WOrkers then untie the bottom of the bag, allowing the contents to drop through a chute into a pneumatic conveyor that transports the ingredients to the correct bin. Workers in the batch house wear protective masks, but dust isn't a problem. When you're handling that many bags, the dust could be a problem. Our batch houses perform well. We have very little dusting.