Thomas Armstrong Group are soon ready to start installation of the production equipment at their new foam glass gravel plant in Great Heck, North Yorkshire. This production facility will be the first of its kind in UK.

It will use recycled glass as raw material and will have a yearly production capacity of more than 240,000m3. The major proportion of the foam glass gravel will be used in own production of lightweight aggregate concrete blocks for the construction industry.

Schaumglas Global Consulting is supplying four foam glass gravel production lines including two batch plants within a few weeks’ time.

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Saint-Gobain has signed a binding agreement for the sale of its glass processing business Glassolutions in Switzerland to the privately-owned German group AEQUITA. The business generated sales of around €25 million in 2022 and employs approximately 70 people at its production site in Kreuzlingen.

The transaction, expected to close by the end of May 2023, is part of Saint-Gobain's continued business profile optimization strategy, in line with the "Grow & Impact" strategic plan.

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Austria Glas Recycling, a non-profit organization in Austria, provided approximately 270,000 tons of waste glass to the glass industry as raw material in 2022. The Austrian glass industry, including Vetropack Austria and Stoelzle Oberglas, utilized 90% of the cullet.
The collection and recycling system was established in Austria in 1977. Since then, almost 8 million tons of used glass have been recycled.

Corning Incorporated, one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science, has joined Glass Futures to advance efforts to decarbonise the glass manufacturing industry. The company joins the non-profit at an opportune time, with the organisation currently moving into its new £54 million Global Centre of Excellence. Glass Futures will use this glass melting facility to transform current manufacturing processes through trials to help decarbonise the global glass and ceramic industries.

Cut glass is said to have come across from Europe to Japan in early 19th century, when local craftsmen became fascinated by its technique and unique design. It became a part of Japanese culture, called Kiriko: Kiri means “cut” and Ko meaning “powder” expressing the glass shaving from craftsmen using the abrasive wheel. Edo Kiriko from castle town of Tokyo, and Satsuma Kiriko from Kagoshima, are the representatives of Japanese traditional Kiriko Glass. Edo Kiriko has strong contrast between coloured and clear glass layer, on the other hand Satsuma Kiriko tends to have soft gradation with using thicker layer of coloured glass.

Construction has begun on a 39m flood defence wall in Kendal, located in southern Cumbria, UK. Using high-performance glass within a stainless steel frame, this feature of the flood scheme is designed to protect homes and businesses from flooding, without spoiling the town’s historic beauty and retaining riverside views. The glass used as part of the innovative flood wall is a bespoke creation developed in collaboration with Pilkington United Kingdom, part of the NSG Group, and chemical and materials manufacturer Kuraray.

Şişecam has received the 'Best Organization in Training and Development' award at the BEST Awards. Organized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), a globally renowned authority in its field, the BEST Awards recognized the activities of Şişecam Academy, where the company conducts employee training and development activities.

To date the Academy has delivered a total of 2,750,000 hours of training to over 52,000 persons. It operates with the vision of being the leading development centre that trains value-adding employees. ATD recognizes Şişecam Academy as one of the largest corporate academies in the world today.

Of the 100,000 bottles in recycled green glass, made by CoReVe for the "Acqua di Roma" campaign organized with the Municipality of Rome, to date, over 60,000 have been delivered. with the aim of raising awareness among citizens on the issues of environmental sustainability and the importance of individual behaviour.

The bottle is a symbol of how the correct separate collection of waste, starting with glass, allows their recovery and recycling, limiting the consumption of raw materials and energy with consequent reductions in CO2 emissions. Glass can be recycled, 100% and infinite times; separate waste collection avoids waste and saves valuable raw materials; and drinking public water is good for the environment and beyond.

Corning has formally opened its newest optical cable manufacturing campus in Hickory, North Carolina. The new manufacturing centre will help accelerate US buildouts of high-speed fibre broadband networks and connect the unconnected. The advanced manufacturing facilities will add hundreds of jobs to Corning’s existing North Carolina workforce of more than 5,000. The new campus is part of a series of investments totalling more than $500 million since 2020.

US Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo, whose agency is spearheading the national “Internet for All” initiative, joined the facilities’ opening ceremonies along with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Stephen Milner, CEO of Planters Broadband Cooperative, on behalf of NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association.