Forward thinking and innovative dimensions for glass and the glass supply chain.Glass Focus 2013 will be held on 23 May 2013 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Manchester Airport, United Kingdom. Themed "Forward thinking and innovative ...
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Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 9:52:04 AM By Larry Dworkin, director, government relations, PAC-The Packaging Assn. EDITOR'S NOTE: Packaging Digest's recent webcast "Food Safety & ...
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Defra, the Environment Agency and British Glass are also working on the project. According to the trade bodies, the key drivers for this project are to gain a better understanding of the volatility experienced in the market in 2012 and ...
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They are among the new faces to join Ireland's richest 250 this year. Dowling is worth £74m and Fry is worth £59m. Metal and glass packaging giant Ardagh Group is chaired by Paul Coulson, who earned £965m. Coulson earned ...
The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), the trade association representing the North American glass container industry, today unveiled its new website. The updated site offers useful content for consumers, public policy officials and ...
Glass packaging company Allied Glass Containers has completed an investment program at its Knottingley site in the UK, which involved the rebuild of a complete melter and forehearth. The project was initiated in January and resulted in a ...
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It’s been a hot and thirsty summer with a big demand for beverages at events around the country. That means a lot of glass bottles which can be collected and recycled into new wine, beer or soft drinks bottles ready for next summer! ...
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Legislation before the Maryland Senate would significantly increase recycling rates, while reducing energy use and emissions, noted Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), in testimony offered today before the Senate ...
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The latest declared glass recycling rate in South Africa is now, according to The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC), 40.1%; a 230% growth in annual volumes recycled since the inception of TGRC six years ago. Evidence of a shift in consumer ...
Italian producer of pharmaceutical glass packaging Stevanato Group has invested around €22m to double the size of its manufacturing plant in Mexico. The Mexican plant, which was opened in 2008 to serve the needs of the US market, ...
Recycling glass is easy, and glass containers returned for recycling help to make new glass bottles and jars. Recycling glass has big environmental pay offs. It saves raw materials, lessens demand for energy, and cuts CO2 emissions. ...
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Asia Glass has begun construction on an innovative glass plant in the southern Kazakh city Taraz, the company’s director said on Wednesday The company agreed to invest in Taraz during an investment forum in the southern city held in ...
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Around the world almost without exception in the hollow glass field, cullet is used to supplement raw materials in the batch. In fact nearly all modern furnaces require cullet to be present in order to function at all. Cullet is therefore ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a new method to make package Left to right: Dr Hugh Potts, Ian Muirhead and Dr Declan Diver d food safer for consumers and more long-lived on the shelf by ...
An independent survey conducted by Asian Glass magazine, of 47 selected consumers from across the MENA region, has revealed glass packaging is the overwhelming first choice of consumers for preserving the quality, purity, and taste of ...
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