Pilkington OptiView Ultra, an anti-reflective and highly transparent glass by the NSG Group, has launched in the UK to support architects specifying for the retail and leisure sectors. The high performance glass can reduce visible light reflectance to less than 1%, compared to 8% typically provided by standard glass. The neutral colour of the coating provides a more natural view through the glass, improving clarity and preserving the true colours of the viewed area.

The EU average collection of glass packaging for recycling was 80.1% in 2021, according to the latest data released by Close the Glass Loop. The multi-stakeholder partnership aims to reach a post-consumer glass container collection target of 90% by 2030, and to ensure that this is recycled back into glass containers.

In anticipation of and while celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Song Festival and the XXVII Nationwide Latvian Song and XVII Dance Festival, Valmieras Stikla Šķiedra are truly proud and pleased to announce that the company’s Atex textile membrane was used in the creation of the Mežaparks Grand Stage "Sidraba Birzs" (Silver Grove). This technological solution will protect festival participants from the sun, wind and rain, while ensuring high-quality acoustic specifications. This, of course, is especially important so that the sounds of the festive choir during the grand concerts are magical and positively charged.

AGC Flat Glass Ibérica, in collaboration with Helexia España, have announced the commissioning of a 4,600kW photovoltaic plant for self-consumption on an industrial site at the Port of Sagunto, Valencia. The plant has 8,800 photovoltaic modules covering 48,400m2 of the rooftop, the equivalent of 10 football fields. With an annual production of 7GWh, this project will help to avoid the emission of more than 800 tons of CO2 equivalent per year.

Glass Futures will continue to find solutions for decarbonising energy intensive industries thanks to £7m funding and £11m for its members from the UK government's Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero. The £54m Global Centre of Excellence in St Helens will be involved in three projects to pave the way for the glass and ceramic industries to drastically cut carbon emissions.

The result of continuous experimentation and the search for new solutions that can satisfy an ever more demanding market, Giotto Duo is Zignago Vetro’s first container to offer an integrated and functional glass separator: a new feature that makes it more sustainable compared to alternatives that use multi-materials.

Thanks to the separator, this glass packaging can contain two products in one: a feature that not only provides a benefit in economic terms but also great efficiency for consumers, who will conveniently be able to have two perfectly separate products in a single container, that they can then mix directly at the time of application.

At the 18th Congress of Croatian Exporters, the Golden Key Awards for the best exporters in 2022 were presented. Vetropack Straža was awarded best exporter to the Slovenian market for the second time.

AGC is expanding its range of solar control glass products to meet growing demand for enhanced-neutrality solar control glazing. With climate change leading to more frequent and longer periods of heat and customers increasingly demanding higher levels of light transmission in order to more effectively and efficiently harness natural daylight, AGC Glass Europe has responded by releasing three new Stopray products that focus on delivering high selectivity, a colour-neutral appearance and low reflection.

AGC has announced that it recently succeeded in the world's first demonstration test of glass production using ammonia as fuel in an actual production furnace under the project entitled “Technology Development for the Utilization and Production of Ammonia as Fuel” which is being undertaken as a commissioned project by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).