Our locations

Glass containers, preforms and containers made of PET, logistics and recycling at Wiegand-Glas

Wiegand-Glas is represented by various business units at eight locations. At these we manufacture and sell individual products made of glass and PET and offer additional services for decoration, logistics and recycling. We produce more than 8 million glass containers, 8 million preforms and 850,000 PET containers per day. We round off the range of services for our customers with our coating plant, our service centre and transport and logistics services. And we also have our own recycling facilities. Around 1,950 employees at our locations are committed to ensuring that our customers receive products and services that meet their requirements and expectations.

Glass locations

Locations of the glass division

Wiegand-Glas Standorte Steinbach am Wald

Steinbach am Wald:
Recycling, production and distribution of glass containers

  • Manufacturing: 4 furnaces, 9 production lines
  • Production volume: 3.5 million glass containers per day
  • Decoration of glass bottles
  • Waste glass processing: 600,000 t per year
  • Own railway connection
Wiegand-Glas Standort Großbreitenbach

Großbreitenbach:
Production of glass containers

  • Manufacturing: 2 furnaces, 5 production lines
  • Production volume: 1.2 million glass containers per day
  • Logistics center
Wiegand-Glas Standorte Schleusingen

Schleusingen:
Production and distribution of glass containers

  • Manufacturing: 2 furnaces, 7 production lines
  • Production volume: 3.5 million glass containers per day
  • Forehearth colouring
  • Specialist for food jars
  • Service centre: Assembly of swing stoppers, crate packing, boxing
  • Own railway connection
Wiegand-Glas Standort Ernstthal

Ernstthal:
Production of glass containers

  • Manufacturing: 3 furnaces, 9 production lines
  • Production volume: 1.3 million glass containers per day
  • Forehearth colouring
  • Specialist in individual and small series production
  • Logistics center "Am Herrnberg"

  • Own roof-top photovoltaic system with 649 kWp 

Wiegand-Glas Standort Drei Gleichen

Drei Gleichen:
Recycling of used glass

  • Used glass processing with a throughput of 130,000 tonnes per year
  • 20,000 tonnes storage capacity for used glass and cullet
  • Fine sorting of residual materials from other processing plants
PET location

Location of the PET division

Wiegand-Glas Standort Großbreitenbach PET

Großbreitenbach:
Production and distribution of preforms and (large) containers made of PET

  • Manufacturing: 17 injection moulding machines for the production of PET preforms (including 3 multilayer machines), 9 lines for the production of PET containers, production of KeyKeg® and UniKeg® PET non-returnable containers, production of technical injection moulded parts
  • Production volume: 8.3 million preforms and 850,000 containers per day
  • PET recycling plant
Logistics locations

Locations of the Logistics division

Wiegand-Glas Standorte Neuhaus am Rennweg Lager Herrnberg

Steinbach am Wald – Großbreitenbach – Schleusingen – Ernstthal – Neuhaus am Rennweg

  • National and international transport services
  • Focus: Road and rail transport
  • 47 trucks
  • Specialist workshops for vehicle and industrial truck repairs
Areas of expertise

Our business group at a glance

Wiegand-Glas Unternehmensgruppe
Glass product expertise

Our Glass division

We develop and produce jars and bottles for a wide variety of products. Our customers receive everything from a single source – from design to the delivery and beyond.

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PET-Behälter von PET-Verpackungen GmbH Deutschland
PET product expertise

Our PET division

We manufacture PET bottles, preforms and KeyKegs according to customer-specific requirements. We offer tailor-made plastic packaging for your products.

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Logistik bei Wiegand-Glas
Transport and logistics

Our logistics division

Not only do we take care of the development and production of your products, we also make sure that they arrive safely at their destination.

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