Corning Joins Glass Futures
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.
“It’s through this membership, and by connecting global industry with academia and our ability to pilot new solutions at scale, that we can disrupt production methods and innovate low-carbon processes in carbon heavy industries worldwide,” Glass Futures chief executive Richard Katz said. “Corning understands the need to integrate sustainability into the innovation process with new products and is increasingly focused on reducing embodied carbon while continuing to invest in emerging technologies. We hope our research into natural gas replacement and biofuels will support them, and our wider membership, to use low-carbon fuel options.”
“Corning’s in-depth knowledge of glass science and materials processing will deepen Glass Futures’ existing expertise and enhance its ability to pilot low-carbon glass solutions that could be vital to our future,” said Dr. Dawne Moffatt-Fairbanks, director, thermal and materials engineering, Corning. “In addition, the organisation’s knowledge base will support Corning’s own efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Glass Futures is planning on officially opening its new Centre of Excellence in June and is working to fire the first open-access 30-tonne per day experimental furnace, leveraging sustainable fuel sources, in early 2024.
