Glass International News
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England recycles 40.3%
England’s household recycling rate now stands at 40.3%, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
01 June 2011 -
O-I opens Brussels office
O-I has opened a European governmental affairs office in Brussels, Belgium and appointed Nicolas Robin as its European Governmental Affairs Director.
01 June 2011 -
Sezal sells float unit
Glass processing company Sezal Glass has sold its float glass business to Saint-Gobain Glass India for 6.86 billion rupees ($152.4 million).
01 June 2011 -
GPI launches Ask For Glass campaign
In May 2011, the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) launched ‘Ask For Glass’, a social media campaign for consumers.
01 June 2011 -
Float line to be equipped with Fives tin bath
Fives Stein, through its Chinese subsidiary Fives Stein (Shanghai) Industrial Furnace Co and its Belgian subsidiary Fives Stein Belgium, is implementing a contract for Chinese glassmaker AVIC (Hainan) Special Glass Materials Co.
31 May 2011 -
Report predicts PET packaging to eclipse glass by 2020
Plastic bottles and jars are forecast to experience strongest growth in the European larger packaging sector to 2015 and are likely to overtake glass containers within a decade, says a report by research company Pira International.
30 May 2011
