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Forehearth Services was formed in 2008 and incorporated into a UK limited company in January 2009.

Founder and current managing director John McMinn has 41 years experience in the glass industry. John’s career began as a research physicist within the forming section of British Glass Industry Research Association (BGIRA) where he studied heat transfer in glass as well as practical research projects including the physical modeling of the Emhart Vertiflow system.

John joined the research department of BHF (Five Steins) but became responsible for forehearth troubleshooting worldwide. In 1989 John joined PSR (Parkinson Spencer Refractories) where he designed and patented the PSR System 500 Forehearth and associated combustion and control systems. John held the role of PSR Technical Director and was subsequently invited to join Emhart Glass to redesign the Emhart suite of forehearth products. John designed and successfully introduced the Emhart 340 forehearth (now marketed by Nikolaus Sorg). John joined Sorg as part of the technology transfer of Emhart forehearths to Sorg in 2006 and left to form Forehearth Services in 2008.