Vitro Architectural Glass has announced the launch of Vitro X™ Innovation Partnerships, a new strategic partnership programme focused on identifying and developing inspired solutions to existing and future challenges in the glass industry.

As an incubator for innovation, Vitro X enables collaboration with future-focused companies as an early investor to support their work and shepherd groundbreaking ideas, including new functionalities and services to building owners and homeowners, from the drawing board to the production line, installation, maintenance and beyond.

The International Commission on Glass Workshop for New Researchers in Glass returns to Montpellier on 2–7 July 2023. New PhD or Masters students, or anyone who recently started research in the glass industry will receive an overview of the fundamentals in glass science emphasising structure–property relationships, experimental techniques, material simulations and tools that probe structure. Specific properties and applications will be discussed, for example optical behaviour, transport phenomena, nucleation and crystallisation and strength. The lecturers are all world experts in their fields.

Şişecam plans to make a port investment in California together with Ciner Group to meet the logistics needs of its natural soda ash investment in the USA. Şişecam Chemicals USA will become a 50% shareholder of Denmar US, an entity that will operate the Stockton Port Management Project.

The investment is scheduled to start operations in 2027, in parallel with Şişecam's natural soda ash investment, which is planned to be gradually commissioned by 2028. It will help secure sustainable growth by establishing a supply chain structure to achieve the company's natural soda ash export targets.

The European Container Glass manufacturing industry supports the intention of the European Commission’s Green Claims proposal to ensure that consumers and businesses have access to reliable, comparable, and verifiable information to make sustainable decisions and avoid the proliferation of misleading green claims.

FEVE are pleased the European Commission proposes a legal framework to enable companies to substantiate their green claims based on reliable assessment. The methods used for calculating sustainable impacts though still have large gaps and it is welcome that the proposal takes an open approach to prescribing methods that can be used to ensure credibility, reliability, transparency, robustness and clarity of the claims being made.

The green energy will be utilized to run SCHOTT’s operations at its glass tubing factory in Jambusar, Bharuch, Gujarat. This agreement comes under the aegis of the company’s commitment to becoming climate neutral across its production by 2030. A 20 year power purchase agreement (PPAs) has been made with CleanMax Enviro Energy Solutions an operator of wind or solar farms.

CleanMax will set up and operate a hybrid power plant with a capacity of 3.6MW wind and 1.9MW solar and supply power to SCHOTT’s glass facility in Jambusar.

The Masi Bottle is a result of collaboration between Piero Lissoni, architect, designer and art director and glassmaker Verallia. The innovative project is based on a production ethic in the name of sustainability, creating a light bottle to generate a "virtuous circle": reducing the amount of glass means reducing the raw material needed for production and decreasing the amount of energy needed during processing, transport and handling. The Masi Bottle, specifically, has a weight 33% lower than the average of wine bottles of similar positioning.

The search for lightness was accompanied by aesthetics and design, pursuing maximum efficiency and quality, to obtain a thin, elegant and at the same time robust bottle.

NSG Group is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as a Supplier Engagement Leader, the highest rating in the Supplier Engagement Assessment by CDP, an international non-governmental organization that works to disclose information on environmental impacts, for the second consecutive year.

By 2050 the container glass industry aims to achieve a major revolution in the way glass is produced that is fit for a circular and climate-neutral economy. The container glass industry is strategic to the European economy because it services the essential European food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors as well as cosmetics and perfumery. The industry serves these sectors in domestic markets and is an enabler for the export of high-end products across the world. Products likely to be packed in glass contributed €250 billion to EU external trade in 2019.

Knauf Insulation’s ground-breaking recycling plant at Visé in Belgium is celebrating its first anniversary by playing a key role in pioneering partnerships to drive the future of the circular economy in Europe while supporting the company’s aim to send zero waste to landfill.

Since opening in March 2022, the €15 million facility and recycling service, known as RESULATION to celebrate its innovative approach to recycling insulation, has been exploring ways to collect glass mineral wool scrap from de-construction and construction sites to transform it into the glass cullet needed to create new product.