Glass industry news

14.06.2021, (First Solar, Inc.)

First Solar to Invest $680m in Expanding American Solar Manufacturing Capacity by 3.3 GW

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced that it will invest $680 million to expand America’s domestic photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturing capacity by 3.3 gigawatts (GW)DC annually, representing an implied capital expenditure of

Solar Industry

11.06.2021, (The Chinese Ceramic Society)

The 31st China Glass Exhibition has come to a successful conclusion

The 31st China Glass Exhibition successfully held despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and many uncertainties, bringing new opportunities to the entire industry and demonstrating confidence and vitality to the global glass

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11.06.2021, (EME GmbH)

Meeting 9.5 million new daily demands

In 2019, EME commissioned another new batch house in partnership with the Mexico-based glass manufacturer,

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Batch, Furnace, Melting, Coating

11.06.2021, (Bucher Automation Tettnang GmbH)

New servo invert control system from futronic

Our SIU24S (servo invert unit) control system is designed to control and drive almost any servo invert mechanism established in the market today. The SIU24S HMI allows operators to preset and check the acceleration and deceleration of the swivel

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Products

11.06.2021, (FEVE The European Container Glass Industry)

Boosting closed loop glass recycling in Europe: Why Deposit Return Schemes are not the way forward

Evidence across Europe shows that DRS does not maximise quantity or quality of recycled glass and we consider that including glass in a DRS could have a range of negative consequences and put existing collection and recycling systems at

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10.06.2021, (HyGear B.V.)

HyGear to provide hydrogen recycling for major glass manufacturing company

HyGear will provide its hydrogen recycling technology to one of the largest glass manufacturers in the world with the signing of a 10-year Gas-as-a-Service contract

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Batch, Furnace, Melting, Coating

10.06.2021, (HEGLA Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG)

Laser upgrades: Adding value to standard products

Thanks to laser technology, the glass industry can do something that would be almost inconceivable in any other

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Cold End Equipment

09.06.2021, (FeneTech Inc.)

19th ANNUAL FENETECH USER CONFERENCE ENDS

During the conference, FeneTech shared the latest enhancements and features of their FeneVision ERP

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Cold End Equipment

09.06.2021

AB InBev develops lightest beer bottle in the world

AB InBev has developed the world’s lightest longneck beer bottle for commercial

Glass Industry Related News

08.06.2021, (VPInstruments)

Establishment of VPInstruments China

VPInstruments, a manufacturer of leading flow metering equipment for easy insight into energy flows, is pleased to announce the establishment of a new office in Shanghai,

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Batch, Furnace, Melting, Coating

08.06.2021, (AGC Glass Europe)

AGC selected to deliver third coater for the large mirrors of the world’s largest telescope

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and AGC Glass Europe, with its business unit AGC Plasma Technology Solutions, have signed a second contract to deliver a coater specially equipped for the large mirrors (M2, M3, M4 and M5) of the world’s

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Products

07.06.2021, (FeneTech Inc.)

19th ANNUAL FENETECH USER CONFERENCE BEGINS

From the company´s North American headquarters in Ohio and FeneTech-Europe Sàrl in Luxembourg, the FeneTech User Conference began for FeneTech´s customers worldwide. This is the second year that the conference has taken place on a virtual

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Cold End Equipment

07.06.2021, (Sparklike Oy)

Sparklike Laser Integrated™ installation at Isophon Glas

Isophon Glas, a pioneer German company in insulating glass unit production, ordered earlier this year two Sparklike Laser Integrated™ insulating gas measurement

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Cold End Equipment

07.06.2021, (Stara Glass S.p.A.)

Stara Glass starts the construction phase of a turn-key project in Netherlands

Stara Glass is proud to announce the kick off of the site activities in the Netherlands for a leading Glass Manufacturing

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Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

04.06.2021, (Stara Glass S.p.A.)

Glass Futures: Contract Award

I am proud to announce that Stara Glass has been awarded with the Furnace Design Contract related to the Glass Futures Pilot Plant facility in

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Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

04.06.2021, (Stara Glass S.p.A.)

Stara Glass delivered a furnace in Italy

Stara Glass is proud to announce the conclusion of the activity carried out for a leading Glass Manufacturing company in Center

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Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

04.06.2021, (Stara Glass S.p.A.)

Stara Glass, another furnace is coming this summer – Unity is strength

Stara Glass is proud to announce the award of an exciting opportunity to strengthen its relationship with an Italian leading glassmaker through the complete rebuild of one of their

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Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

02.06.2021, (Corning Inc.)

Corning: grand opening of Gen 10.5 LCD glass plant in Wuhan, China

Corning Incorporated hosted an opening ceremony for its Gen 10.5 liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility in the city of Wuhan in the Hubei Province,

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02.06.2021, (Glaston Finland Oy)

Glaston joins forces with Softsolution to take glass quality inspection in heat treatment forward

Glaston Corporation and Softsolution, an Austria-based manufacturer of quality assurance systems for the glass industry, are collaborating to create even more outstanding quality inspection solutions for tempering

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01.06.2021, (ISRA VISION)

ISRA VISION founder and CEO Enis Ersü to retire  from active professional life on June 30, 2021

One of the founding fathers of the German machine vision industry will enter a new stage of life as he is set to retire from his position as CEO of ISRA VISION AG by the end of June 2021 after