Glass International News
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Initiative to convert CO2 into fuel could assist glassmakers
A new initiative could significantly assist energy intensive industries to become more environmentally friendly while reducing operating costs.
12 January 2011 -
Success for new doghouse, reports Sorg
Melting furnace and forehearth systems specialist Nikolaus Sorg has reported a successful start-up for its latest doghouse concept, the Sorg IRD, which is designed ‘primarily to alleviate the inevitable problems caused by batch carry-over into the regenerators’.
11 January 2011 -
Gerresheimer draws on growth in glass syringe market
Pharmaceutical glassmaker Gerresheimer is stepping up its production capacity and investing approximately €20 million in a fourth production line for prefillable syringes, in a bid to capitalise on the double-digit rates of annual growth seen by the sector.
04 January 2011 -
O-I in new acquisition agreement
Owens-Illinois (O-I) has entered an agreement to acquire the glass container manufacturing business of Hebei Rixin Glass Group Co, situated in northern China.
04 January 2011 -
Intelligent computation in glassmaking
A book has been published on the application of fuzzy logic, decision trees and neural networks in glass manufacture.
04 January 2011 -
Report predicts long-term growth for glass packaging
A report entitled ‘Glass Packaging: A Global Strategic Business Report’ (Source: Companiesandmarkets.com) has forecast the glass packaging market to exceed US$36 billion by 2015.
03 January 2011
