Ardagh Glass Packaging - Europe (AGP - Europe) has recently completed its newest greenfield project in Poland with the latest available suite of sustainable technology for reducing emissions and improving energy and resource efficiency.

Forglass delivered to Ardagh the batch and cullet plant as a turnkey system – from design and engineering, through fabrication of all components in Forglass’ own facility, to installation and startup. The plant includes storage for raw material and five types of external cullet, all of the dosing, mixing and transport equipment, as well as a complete cullet return system for both cold and hot end.

Halewood Artisanal Spirits has asked glass manufacturer Beatson Clark to update the bottles used for its JJ Whitley range of flavoured vodkas and gins. The new 70cl white flint glass bottles will be used on numerous products across the company’s spirits line up, including existing products such as Artisanal Vodka, Raspberry, Blood Orange and Vanilla.

Halewood says one of the reasons it has returned to Beatson Clark, a trusted supplier over many years, is for reasons of sustainability – the new bottles are made in the UK using 45% recycled material.

Heineken has begun in Spain the worldwide distribution of its first million circular drinking glasses for company’s Star branded hostelries made with more than 99% recycled glass. A batch that has already begun to reach the selected points of sale in our country through 350 distributors.

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have developed a chemical process that can disassemble the epoxy composite of wind turbine blades and simultaneously extract intact glass fibres as well as one of the epoxy resin's original building blocks. The recovered materials could potentially be used in the production of new blades.

After six days of catalysis in the laboratory, a piece of wind turbine blade was dissolved into intact glass fibres and bisphenol A, which can be used in the production of new blades, in addition to a fraction of various oligomers, which cannot be recycled.

ExxonMobil subsidiary Materia, NEG-US and GatorBar have formed a strategic alliance committed to increasing the market share of composite rebar within the concrete reinforcement sector.

Energy-intensive industries such as steel, cement and glass emit high emissions and they must decarbonise to get to net zero. The Energy Institute has launched the Energy Essentials guide that provides an easy way into understanding some of the challenges and opportunities presented as the UK’s energy-intensive industries move towards eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.

Sections outline the context and challenges for the foundation industries, the changes that will be needed, give advice for those working in, buying from, and living near energy-intensive industries, and further sources of information. The resource intends to inform conversations about the environmental, business, policy and social dynamics of the transition to net zero industry.

Vitro, through its Vitro Architectural Glass business headquartered in Cheswick, PA, has entered into an agreement to manufacture float glass for First Solar’s advanced thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. The company will invest a total of $93.6 million to rebuild and modernise a production line at its Meadville Plant located in Cochranton, PA. Production is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2025, resulting in the creation of approximately 130 full-time jobs.

Knauf Insulation have achieved GOLD status at the Supply Chain Sustainability School (SCSS) assessment, demonstrating the company’s commitment to sustainability.

As part of the Knauf Group, a €12.5 billion turnover multi-national family-owned manufacturer of building materials and construction systems, Knauf Insulation employs more than 6,000 employees and has 28 manufacturing sites in 15 countries, with a turnover of €2 billion. In the UK, the company employs approximately 600 people at its manufacturing plants in Cwmbran, Queensferry and St Helens. 

SCHOTT has appointed new shareholder representatives to the Supervisory Board of SCHOTT Pharma, bringing a broad range of expertise and industry experience to its recently carved-out subsidiary. The new shareholders’ representatives of the Supervisory Board are Peter Goldschmidt (Chairman, 58), CEO of Stada; Dr. Wolfgang Wienand (Vice Chairman, 51), CEO of Siegfried Holding; Eva Kienle (55), CFO KWS Saat SE & Co.; and Ann-Kristin Erkens (47), Corporate Senior Vice President Financial and Business Controlling at Henkel Adhesive Technologies. The remaining Supervisory Board members include Christine Wening (43) and Mario Just (57) representing the employees of SCHOTT Pharma.