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 ...
Tags: glass, Glass International, February 2013
The glass and materials industry of China is presently faced with various difficulties while developing, such as uncoordinated and unsustainable development, weak ability for scientific and technological innovation, unbalanced industrial ...
Slovenian group Steklarna Hrastnik is to undergo a scheduled two-month refit. Technologists at the Vitrum-owned business unit shut down the G melting furnace earlier this week, and will shut the H melting furnace on February 1. Furnaces ...
Steklarna Hrastnik is to undergo a scheduled two-month refit. Today, the technologists in the Vitrum business unit will shut down the G melting furnace, and as of 1 February also the H melting furnace. This year's refit is extremely ...
Tags: Melting Furnace
The 74th Conference on Glass Problems invites engineers, educators, students, and solutions providers working on various aspects of glass manufacturing to submit an abstract for an oral presentation at this premier industry conference. ...
Tags: Glass Problems, Glass, Construction
The 74th Conference on Glass Problems, scheduled for October 14-17 in Columbus, Ohio, currently is seeking abstracts for the event. Topics of interest are glass melting, refractories, process control and modeling, safety and emission, raw ...
Tags: conference on glass problems, abstract submission, glass melting
This month marks the 60th anniversary of Corning Incorporated's precision glass plant in Harrodsburg,Kentucky.It's a special occasion not only for the people who work at this storied facility,but for all of us at the company.The plant ...
Tags: Corning, precision glass, 60th anniversary, history
Optimal use of the energy in glass melting through waste gas heat recovery. The challenge in terms of sustainability: Due to process constraints,25%of the energy used to melt glass escapes with the waste gases.Our goal was to recover ...
Tags: glass melting, heat recovery, Optimal
Athena Engineering & Construction (AEC) and AGMS (Arc Glass Melting Solutions) are joining their sales structure by appointing Klaus Pöting as the representative also for AGMS. Since 2010 Pöting is representing AEC in the glass ...
Tags: AEC, Arc Glass Melting Solutions
Glass manufacturer O-I is set to build an R&D innovation center in the US. The company plans to break ground on the 18,000ft2 facility in Ohio in the fourth quarter of 2012. The company will invest $35m over three years on the facility, ...
Tags: Glass manufacturer, new concepts and qualify emerging technologies
PERRYSBURG,Ohio(September 26,2012)-A research and development center capable of melting and forming glass in a small-scale manufacturing environment will be the centerpiece of a new facility at the Owens-Illinois,Inc.,(NYSE:OI)global ...
Tags: Innovation, Glass, Decoration
research and development center capable of melting and forming glass in a small-scale manufacturing environment will be the centerpiece of a new facility at the Owens-Illinois Inc.global headquarters in Perrysburg,OH.This new R&D center ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Sustainability