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February 2013
Welcome to the February 2013 issue of Glass International.
Features this month include an interview with AGMS Managing Director Emmanuel Rohart who discusses the French company's role as a glass melting specialist and how it has adapted to the changing world economic environment.
The Lightweighting section includes articles from Beatson Clark, which discusses design techniques to reduce the weight of containers, Ceram and Heye International.
The Refractories feature includes an article on designing furnaces for the long term from Allstates Refractory Containers as well as papers from Fused Cast Technologies and Sefpro.
Saint-Gobain Oberland discusses how it recently achieved an environmental standard while the issue also includes a focus on the Czech Republic.
All this plus the usual round up of news and a column from British Glass.
Front page courtesy of EME
2 Editor’s Comment
3 International News
Supplier Profile
10 Word of mouth keeps AGMS ahead
British Glass Column
12 GTS reshapes to meet the challenges of industry
Lightweighting
15 Lighter containers by design
17 Lightweighting: Untapped opportunities in glass
20 Use of NNPB means fewer energy costs
Energy efficiency
24 New standard raises environmental awareness
Refractories
27 Designing and operating furnaces for the long term
29 The end of fused-cast refractories in soda-lime
glass furnace superstructures?
32 Solutions for soda-lime furnace bottoms
Focus Czech Republic
36 Manufacturer withstands the test of time
Bending glass
38 Bending large glass plates with a flexible mould
Analysis and testing
40 Small spot analysis in glass production
42 Diary
Events World
43 Glasspex India
43 China Glass 2013
Website news from this issue
- Australian safety taskforce targets glass manufacturers
- Hong Kong considers mandatory glass recycling legislation
- Call for papers Living Glass 2013 Conference
- Glass packaging market to be worth $36.8BN
- Ceram launches materials blog
- Steklarna Hrastnik orders €7 million furnace
- AGC donates disaster-resistant glass to tornado-hit school
- Bormioli Luigi: A new inner lacquering process
- Ardagh set to buy Verallia North America for $1.7 billion
- Vesuvius appoints sales rep in Middle East
- Turkish glassmaker buys Indian stake
- Guardian UK coater is rising to the challenge
- PPG glass sales down
- AGC restarts N American float line
- Quinn Glass welcomes support for gas pipeline
- Magma Ceramics buys Vietnamese facility
- Wanted: Articles on recycling and Plant Utilities
- Glass container producers place repeat orders
- PGW Poland installs screen printing line
- Turkish soda ash site will be world’s largest
- Technical defect causes delay at RHI plant
- Glass Australia 2013 Call for Papers
- Pilkington to close two UK sites
- Emirates Float Glass receives environmental award
- Glass leak at PPG site
- AGC in anti-reflective glass partnership
- UK launches Glass Academy
- Auto plant faces health and safety scrutiny
- Furnace Solutions 8
- O-I reports full-year profit, but hampered by Europe
- New Engineer at Paragon Kilns
- Man dies in accident at glass manufacturer
- Glassblowers win national awards
- Gorilla Glass strengthens Corning
- European markets hamper NSG revenue
- Flat glass demand set to rise 7.1% a year
- Europe complains of solar glass ‘dumping’
- Glass containers remain the MENA choice
- New Vertech’ office in Mexico
- Lino Tagliapietra receives the 42nd Phoenix Award
- Court fines Allied Glass over worker injury
- Nampak to double glassmaking capacity
- Glaston secures long-term financing
- Ardagh unveils lightweight Becks bottle
- Glaston cautiously positive for 2013