Dacon Corporation was the design-builder for the site and shell construction of Emhart Glass’ recently completed 60,000-square-foot R&D, pilot plant for a bottling equipment research and development facility in Windsor, CT. Emhart Glass manufactures glass bottling forming machines and has constructed this pilot plant for ongoing manufacturing research.

This unique manufacturing facility is constructed integrally with a massive firing oven capable of reaching 3,200-degrees Fahrenheit used for preparing glass ingots that are then directed to forming machines and cooling apparatus. The oven is located at the “hot end” of the building, which consists of about 30,000 square feet and is a three-story space with a 55-foot deck height intersected with various process mezzanines. Exterior walls and roofing systems contain intake and exhaust louvers for gravity ventilation, and are specially designed for expansion and heat exhaust. The “cold end” of the building is a more typical space and is about 24-feet high to the roof deck to accommodate bottle cooling equipment. This area also houses the company’s quality control laboratories.

Throughout this project, Dacon Corporation utilized the services of its in-house architectural affiliate, PDA Associates Inc., and worked closely with the owner’s representative, Pinnacle One, of Middletown, CT. and the owner’s process engineer, SSOE, of Toledo, OH.

About Dacon Corporation
For more than 20 years, Dacon Corporation — a fully integrated design and construction management firm that provides single-source solutions to clients’ most challenging facility requirements – has provided exceptional design, engineering and construction services for hundreds of office, medical/life science, manufacturing and warehouse/distribution facilities.

Dacon takes great pride in delivering end-results — on time and on budget -- that meet each client’s specifications down to the smallest detail. Dacon’s clients include nationally based Fortune 500 companies, international European-based companies, local developers and private corporations.