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glasstec 2020 postponed – New Dates: 15 – 18 June 2021

The effects of the Coronavirus have now also impacted glasstec 2020, which will be postponed to 15 to 18 June

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02.06.2020, (Glass International)

GlassTrend webinar gets underway

A webinar focused on raw materials processing and recycling is

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02.06.2020, (Steklarna Hrastnik d.d)

Steklarna Hrastnik focuses on glass packaging

Steklarna Hrastnik is cancelling its table glassware programme this September and focusing all of its production capacities onto glass

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02.06.2020, (Glass International)

NSG Pilkington site becomes fully decarbonised

NSG Pilkington’s automotive site in Settimo Torinese, Italy has become the first fully decarbonised site within the NSG

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29.05.2020, (VPInstruments)

VPInstruments supplies VP74 Flow Sensor to emergency ventilator prototypes of OperationAIR

VPInstruments has proudly supplied the VP74 Flow Sensor to the OperationAIR initiative to support worldwide the need for ventilators due to

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28.05.2020, (Schott AG)

The most flexible ultra-thin glass for foldable displays and flip phones: SCHOTT introduces Xensation® Flex – the foldable glass revolution

New Xensation® Flex is ultra-thin glass (UTG) that is flexible enough to bend around one’s finger after processing and available in mass production.

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Flat Glass Industry

28.05.2020

GMM Pfaudler Ltd to set up greenfield facility for Glass Lined Equipment in Hyderabad

The Board of Directors of GMM Pfaudler Ltd at its meeting held on May 23, 2020, has given an in-principle approval for the setting up a greenfield manufacturing facility for Glass Lined Equipment in Hyderabad, Telangana subject to the receipt of the

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27.05.2020, (Kuraray Europe GmbH)

Trosifol will not join “glasstec 2020”

Trosifol / Kuraray cancels participation in Düsseldorf because of corona

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27.05.2020, (Glass International)

US Department of Commerce Increases Duties on Chinese Glass Containers

The US Department of Commerce has imposed duties ranging from 25.46% to 320.53% on Chinese glass container

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26.05.2020, (Israel Glass Works Phoenicia Ltd)

Phoenicia America-Israel glass factory shuts down

The coronavirus crisis was the final nail in the coffin of the struggling company and also meant that the factory´s 300 employees lost their jobs without being able to put up a

Flat Glass Industry

26.05.2020, (Stewart Engineers)

AcuraCoat is Stewart Engineers innovative online Chemical Vapor Deposition CVD glass coating solution

AcuraCoat® systems deposit layers of metal oxides just nanometers thick onto glass to form a very hard chemically bonded coating. These coatings are not only able to change the appearance of the glass, but also change properties like self cleaning,

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26.05.2020, (Glaston Finland Oy)

Glaston’s President and CEO Arto Metsänen to retire from the company on 1 January 2021

Arto Metsänen (b. 1956) has announced he will retire from the company on 1 January 2021 and agreed with the Board of Directors that he will step down as CEO on 1 June 2020. Glaston’s Board of Directors has nominated current deputy to the CEO Sasu

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25.05.2020, (MSK Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH)

MSK cancels participation in Glasstec 2020

Due to the ongoing corona pandemic, the MSK Covertech Group is canceling its participation in Glasstec, which will take place in Düsseldorf in October 2020, and is planning alternative product

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25.05.2020, (Sparklike Oy)

SPARKLIKE – THE ENABLER OF FAST QUALITY SAMPLING

For the longest time, IGU manufacturers around the world had to accept that measuring the extent of gas-fill in IGUs was both challenging, costly and

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22.05.2020, (Glass International)

Bucher Emhart Glass appoints new President

Martin Jetter, who has been president at Bucher Emhart Glass for 15 years, is handing over to Matthias

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22.05.2020, (ISRA VISION)

Improve you for float glass lines by full surface flatness and waviness 3D Form-Measurement

Flatness and surface waviness are important quality criteria for the production of float

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21.05.2020, (Glass International)

AGC plots re-start strategy

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic AGC Glass Europe has drastically reduced its manufacturing and distribution activities, spread all over

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21.05.2020, (Glass International)

Arc International secures state loan

French tableware manufacturer Arc International has secured a €31 million state

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20.05.2020, (Glass International)

Baccarat extends partial layoffs

Luxury French glass manufacturer Baccarat has extended the partial unemployment of its staff until July

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20.05.2020, (Glass International)

Forglass named Gazelle of Business 2019

For the second year in a row, Forglass has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Gazelles of Business ranking of the most dynamically growing businesses in the Small-to-Medium Enterprise sector in