玻璃窯爐設計的進步不僅僅拓展了馬蹄焰窯爐的適應范圍，而且取得了顛覆性的結果。在傳統的觀念中，馬蹄焰窯爐僅能用于玻璃質量要求不高的小規模生產線上。而近年來我公司在馬蹄焰窯爐設計和使用方面進行了大膽的嘗試，為浮法玻璃行業設計了400噸級馬蹄焰窯爐浮法生產線，并且取得了非常理想的結果，它不僅生產出用于深加工的合格浮法玻璃，而且成品率能穩定在86%以上。根據400噸級馬蹄焰窯爐的實際生產經驗，我們已經勾畫出了更為大膽的設想，我們完全有把握實現500噸，甚至600噸級的馬蹄焰窯爐浮法玻璃生產線。馬蹄焰窯爐不僅本身投資省，土建費用以及輔助設施的配套也減少很多，尤其是不到1000大卡的能量消耗使得這種玻璃生產線很具市場競爭優勢。

玻璃與化工、鋼鐵、水泥、火力發電以及陶瓷一樣，是高能耗、高污染產業。大量的能量消耗，不僅帶來非常可怕的環境污染問題，同時也導致企業生產成本居高不下，使企業舉步維艱。燃料消耗是玻璃企業非常大的一塊成本，即使是管理的玻璃企業，也要占玻璃生產成本的40～50%，普通企業甚至高達60%。因此，節能降耗不僅是社會問題，也是企業能否得以生存的關鍵所在。 十幾年來，我公司在進行玻璃技術服務的同時，在玻璃窯爐節能方面也進行了大量的嘗試和不懈地努力，并成功開發了一系列投入資金省、能耗低、有效果快的節能型玻璃窯爐，并獲得多項國家發明專利。該節能型玻璃窯爐拋開了傳統玻璃窯爐設計理念，從玻璃窯爐內部運行規律入手，采用獨特的結構形式和實際的操作理念，使玻璃窯爐的節能降耗達到了一個新高度。這種窯爐不僅節約能源，減少污染，同時大大地減少了玻璃窯爐的建設費用。通過近幾年在浮法、光伏以及微晶玻璃生產線的實際運用，得以逐步完善和提高，技術日趨成熟，已達到非常理想的效果。浮法玻璃每公斤玻璃液實際單耗已降至1200kcal，超白玻璃較傳統窯型節能約40%(250噸級生產線每天消耗天然氣5萬立方米，成品率高達82%)，同時在玻璃的質量和生產穩定性方面也得到大幅提高。 Similar to those for chemical engineering, steel, cementing, thermal power and ceramics, the industry for glass is also well-known for its high-energy consumption and high-pollution, which brings us with the very frightening problems of environmental contamination, simultaneously, results in the production cost at such a higher level that the company has to confront with difficulties for daily managing. Fuel consumption is usually the largest cost for a glass company, occupying about 40-50% production cost for those with excellent management; it could also be even approaching 60% for a common company. As a result, energy-saving and consumption-reducing is not only a social problem, but also the key factor essential for company’ s survival. In the last two decades, our company has paid great efforts on the research for energy-saving glass furnace while offering the glass technical service, and has successfully developed a series of energy-saving furnace with particular advantages including economical investment, low energy consumption and fast profit returns, and now several national patents have already been authorized regarding to the inventions on the glass furnace technology. Away from the traditional idea for glass furnace design, the energy-saving one employs the unique architecture modes and practical operating ideas on the basis of its inner working law, leading to the energy-saving of glass furnace arrived at a higher summit. Moreover, this one can save energy consumption, decrease pollutions and significantly reduce the construction fee of the glass furnace. Over a few years of the practical application of the production lines for the floating, photovoltaic and microcrystal glass industries, the latest energy-saving furnace technology has been gradually optimized, improved, and matured; accordingly, the practical application effect has already been extraordinarily ideal. The cost for floating glass has been decreased to 1200kcal/kg glass liquid, about 40% energy saved as compared with the traditional super-clear glass furnace (50,000 m3 natural gas was daily consumed for a 250 tons production line with 82% of the finished product rate), and the quality and production stability of glass is capable of dramatically enhanced.