Soda lime glass is basically colorless. Metals and oxides can be added to glass to change its color during the glass blowing, molding or machine production process. The following additives make the distinctive colors: •Red glass: ...
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US-based Premium Waters has extended its product portfolio with the launch of a new Mountain Valley Spring Water in glass bottles. According to the company, the new brand features a pristine, naturally high pH water that contains a nice ...
It is estimated that a staggering 11.6 million average size bottles* were made using over 775 tonnes of recycled automotive waste glass from Auto Windscreens between January and June this year. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, September 15, 2013 ...
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Rawlings has developed a lightweight glass bottle for mineral water client Belu in a bid to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint. Through new techniques and innovation, Rawlings, in partnership with sustainability focused glass ...
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Mmmm, a frosty cold glass bottle of Coca Cola on a summer’s day. The cool, solid feeling of the glass as you raise it to your lips, the satisfying heft of the bottle in your hand. What could be better? A plastic bottle? I don’t ...
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A world record was broken last weekend at Elsecar Heritage Centre when an old glass bottle sold for more than £12,000. The sale took place during BBR's annual summer national specialist collectors' weekend and the bottle involved a ...
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As the leading pack type globally in alcoholic drinks, retail sales of glass reached almost 200 billion units in 2012. The beer category largely determines the fortunes of glass packaging within this industry, accounting for a 74% unit ...
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Soda sold in glass bottles, a package generally phased out decades ago, is providing a rare spot of growth in a declining soft-drink industry. Over the past two years, sales growth of soda in glass bottles has outpaced that of soda in the ...
Soda sold in glass bottles, a package phased out of everyday use over the last several decades, is providing a rare spot of growth in a declining soft-drink industry. Over the past two years, sales growth by soda in glass bottles has ...
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Ardagh Group has created a 33cl glass bottle for Luxembourg-based Bofferding Brewery’s beer brand. The new bottle for Bofferding Pils with intricate full body engraving features the Bofferding 'B' and its weight has come down to ...
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Schott North America has announced the availability of the latest size of its DURAN Laboratory Bottles, of 10ml. According to the US-based company, the new 3.3 borosilicate glass bottles are suitable for a range of uses, from storage ...
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Glass manufacturer Beatson Clark has collaborated with Grace Foods UK to create a new bespoke bottle for the company's Caribbean Choice range of sauces. Grace Foods' Caribbean Choice Hot Pepper Sauce and Sweet Chilli Sauce were previously ...
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Hong Kong (HKSAR) - A roving exhibition organised by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) with the aim of encouraging public participation in glass bottle recycling moved to the ground floor of Telford Plaza in Kowloon Bay today ...
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French company Saverglass, a world leader in manufacturing luxury glass bottles for perfumes and cosmetics, has launched a facility in Ras al-Khaimah in the UAE. Ras al-Khaimah ruler Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi opened the ...
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Cheaper imports and the persistently high cost of production have soda ash manufacturers worried. Demand in the country in 2012-13 showed healthy growth of 10-11 per cent, led by healthy growth from the detergents and chemicals segments ...
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