Features 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 and there is a regional focus on the glass industry in the Czech Republic.
All this plus the usual round up of news and a column from British Glass.
Glass International has been running for more than 30 years and is the leading journal for the worldwide glass manufacturing industry as well as the official media partner for the global Glassman events. In addition to 10 English language issues per year, it is published once a year in Chinese and once in Russian, in order to reach non-English speaking markets.
The magazine offers comments and articles from industry experts, as well as informative technical articles discussing the latest developments and challenges in glass production. Its regular features include global news and events, company and country profiles, and previews and reviews of important industry conferences and exhibitions.
The magazine is circulated to subscribers and targeted readers worldwide, including:
Manufacturers of container, float and specialty glasses Glass processors Suppliers of equipment and services to the glassmaking industry Research organisations Technical consultants Academic institutions End users of glass.
