Glass International Issue
June 2019

Contents

2 Editor’s Comment

2 International news

10 Company profile: Phoenix Award Winner

Phoenix Award celebrates Spanish Research Professor’s 40 years

14 Electric Glass Fiber UK

Transformation of UK fibre glass plant

19 The Silica Chronicles

A new way to raise funds to enhance recycling

23 Batch Plant

EME: Cutting edge technology for modern batch and cullet systems

27 Batch Plant

Zippe: Zippe’s Control System Technology goes B-ZMART

30 Company profile: Newport Industries

Newport Industries unveils £8 million soda ash handling site

32 Company profile: Vicrila

Vicrila plots largest ever expansion

36 Forming

Heye: Safety benefits of IS machine lighting

38 Cold end

MSK: Complete cold end for Turkish glass plant

36 Forming

Vimec: Vimec introduces inspection for moulded glass sealing surface

45 British Glass: Milk bottles are cream of the crop

46 History In the pink

47 Henderson Unbreakable glass