 Sao Borna and welcome back to the YouTube channel to your boy Mr. Ghana baby right here in the kingdom of Eswantini I mean this country is the second smallest country in Africa And I never knew that this country has a lot to offer We are here at the glass factory in Eswantini. You know what we always do? We always travel to discover, learn, educate ourselves and also educate you But as the story goes changing the narratives by telling our own story We always have to find someone who knows more about a glass factory to educate me and you come with me and enjoy this amazing episode Hi Thank you so much Okay, all right Okay Enguena Enguena means crocodile Wow so in Eswantini you guys say in your language Enguena means crocodile. So what is written over there is crocodile glass What come to the crocodile glass in Eswantini? The mountain over there. Yes Beautiful So you can see it from that side from the mountain, from the mining. Yeah, so that is the chain up to here But even the mountain looks like a crocodile That is beautiful Enguena glass, thank you so much We have to go in and educate us So this is Enguena glass Enguena glass was established in 1979 by the swedish people So they came with the idea of recycling all bottles So our all the idea of what? Recycling all bottles old bottles So all our products here as you can see them there are recycled products Yes, we're using all buckles the coca-cola buckles the ginger the mayonnaise buckles and the Tomato buckles tomato sauce buckles all the clear buckles that you can think of we're using all those buckles for Producing our product. We break them into small paddle ships. We put them into the finance They are melted at a temperature of 1,300 degrees Celsius a day. So we use old oil to Furnace for the furnace we use old oil. We use paraffin We use handicrafts and we use electricity and we also have gastronomical panels We're trying to cut the cost of electricity because it consumes a lot of electricity Because it's on Throughout the day we don't switch it off. All right. Yes. So Who is the owner now because you said it was established by the swedish people And who is the owner right now? Is it the same people? No So it was established by the swedish people For two years. They trained the swedish people with the idea. They trained them from there Our government ran it through but unfortunately it has to sit down Production because they couldn't afford to continue. So they closed it down But it was reopened by the fruity John family in 1987 Pretty John family Yeah, no Actually from their from South Africa Basically from the eastern came they came here. It was in Kulu, Gok and their son chess fruity John But unfortunately Kulu passed away. So now it's chess who's running the company Can we see how the presence of the manufacturer? Yes, we go inside and see how it's done Then I'll explain everything to you So we go to switch So this is the old our old measurement that we use That is what I was talking about We take this Why is this So like this are broken bottles that you get from the city Or from anywhere you buy the broken bottles You bring it here So in there It's the panel. It's the melts of broccoli that we get. We call it emulsion class. Okay So the temperature is very very high one thousand three hundred to three sessions. Okay Wow The molten bottle they blow it into a mold it depends on what product They want to make at the moment At that time our production we write it over the board over there. This is what we call juice Everything we write it over the board Then we start making we start working from 10 to 7 in the morning. We end at 4 30 in the afternoon So we have 30 minutes 30 minutes lined and we have 10 minutes So basically the people who work here are all Swans Yes, all of them are Swans All of them are Swans Yes, the training is done here while we work Oh, okay. All right Can we see some of them making the thing? Okay, okay, we can start here Boy is making a wine glass So we call it He shaped and he broke Had this For a wine stalker This one who put it on the top of the stalker. We call it a wine dish From the fire from the ovens we take it out you put them into the different traits like this So when they come in the morning from 10 to 7 they start grinding it and polishing things So they polish Yes, because when it comes out from the oven it comes out wobbly. It doesn't stand properly Oh, okay, because it's happy Yes They have to do it the same day or maybe the same day The same day after this people finish They're gonna It goes into that. They'll do it tomorrow Oh, okay So what we're doing is what we need yesterday Yesterday, okay So they polish something that has been done yesterday They go to the Wow, can we just see their polish process? Yes This wine is Andrea's Cosa This grinding and extra light elephant So this one is a kangaroo It's an elephant kangaroo Elephant what? Kangaroo Oh, okay, wow, it's beautiful This one It's now finished It's now polished because when I took it for the first time It was not that smooth But now, after a few minutes I'm not even gonna say a few seconds Oh, sorry, I'm not even gonna have to say a few minutes But after a few seconds, it's already polished Wow So on this side, on this part We do the polishing of the glasses On this side The sandpaper Yes, that's the sandpaper. We use it for polishing the glasses You see, they're still rough They're still not yet done Yeah I don't have to wait for them to polish it This is the one who does the polishing So is this already polished? It's done already Can I touch it? Yeah, you can touch it But it's still not finished It's still not finished Almost finished Almost done So when it is done They take the clay, they put it in here That's right Then she washes it From the washing We take it to the quality controller On this side That's all the glasses, when it is washed We take it back Now it's finished We have to melt it with a dryer And So now it's a finished product Before you see He's the main guy to finish everything So you see, before It's just fine It's still not yet natural Still not yet finished So now you can take it and melt Because now it's finished It's smooth, you cannot cut it You can't finish it Where do I? What do I do? That's amazing People in this country are so lucky to have their own glass coffee Beautiful We are so proud of when it is washed So this is our finished product Our shop Where we sell our The finished product from the factory We take them through here So this is our animals The pig five animals These are our glasses The drinking wine, the drinking glasses We have a variety of drinking glasses This one You put your wine in here You put your ice in here It doesn't tell you which one Like this And this is our famous glass as well Our whiskey tamela You can use it for juice You can use it for whiskey You can use it for beer This is our new invention So you put your ice in here It doesn't tell you It just keeps your drink cool So this one if you want to buy present I would search that I'll definitely buy it I'm out there I want to say thank you so much for taking us around We really appreciate your time I also appreciate your visit Coming to Switzerland Coming to visit our company I wish you Stay in Switzerland to be very well You are most welcome As well as the people are most friendly people So I wish you stay for long Thank you so much It was nice meeting you You said your name? Maya Thank you so much Thank you so much I hope you guys enjoyed this amazing episode Don't forget to like share And let the world know that Glasses have been made here In S1 TV I am Maya