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For anyone looking to stay up-to-date when it comes to sustainable glass packaging, the British Glass one-day event promises insightful talks, engaging discussions, and invaluable networking opportunities. In partnership with Glass Technology Services, this event is set to take place on the 13 September at Tankersley Manor, Sheffield.
To commemorate the International Youth Day, The All India Glass Manufacturers’ Federation (AIGMF) organised its annual contest for Youth on ‘Green Energy via Solar Glass’.
The FunGlass Centre in Trencin, Slovak Republic has become a partner of a successful project with the title EverGLASS (The New Role of Glass in a Sustainable Society. The Horizon Europe program under the call European Innovation Council Pathfinder Open 2023 is coordinated by the School of Engineering of Universidad de Vigo, Spain.
Vidrala has begun the launch of its photovoltaic plant of Castellar Vidrio with the energisation of the new facilities in the factory located in Castellar del Vallés, Barcelona. In this way, the company completes the construction which started in March. The new plant has the capacity to produce approximately 8,000 MWh per year of energy. This will mean reducing more than 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere per year. The new plant has more than 1,900 photovoltaic modules up to a power of 6 MW.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) recently granted to FASTNET, a collaborative project between Microsoft and the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton. Prosperity Partnership grants support business-led research that arise from an industrial need by establishing research at low technology readiness levels (TRL) between businesses and academia.
The community of Rossford was founded by glass pioneer Edward Ford, who named the city Rossford by combining his last name with that of his wife, Caroline Ross. From its beginnings in 1898 as a new “company town” focused on glass making to today, Rossford has been known as a community that families and businesses have proudly called home. From Libbey-Owens-Ford to Pilkington to NSG Group today.
Steklarna Hrastnik appointed the SORG Group to complete the reconstruction of their furnace B, which was also built by SORG in 2014 as a melting furnace for the production of high-quality flint glass. The new furnace B represents the expansion and modernization of the plant, particularly in terms of environmental and energy aspects.
The regenerative end-port furnace was expanded to increase performance, the furnace design was brought up to the latest state-of-the-art standards and the boosting system, in the form of barrier and melting boosters, was designed in such a way that the electricity share in the melting energy can be increased to 40%.
Şişecam has announced its financial results for the first half-year of 2023. The company’s consolidated net sales totalled TRY 58 billion (US$2.9 billion) in the period. International sales – comprising the total of exports made from Türkiye and sales from out of Türkiye production – accounted for 64% of its consolidated sales. Total investment in the first half of the year amounted to TRY 7.1 Billion (US$357 million). In the first half of the year Şişecam produced 2.5 million tons of glass, 2.3 million tons of soda ash, and 1.8 million tons of industrial raw materials.
The integration of MCM into the Verre Industrie Group has allowed the company to directly carry out the following coatings in small and medium series: anti reflective; hydrophobic; dichroic; mirror and semi-reflective; and anti infrared.
Created in 2012, MCM has five employees and as well as three coating lines.
Verre Industrie has also begun a type qualification campaign for embedded aerospace applications using Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The company is one of the two European glass processors with approval to process the thin glass: cutting, machining, chemical strengthening, screen printing, bending, lamination and coating.
