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Vietnam’s largest float glass factory project worth VND1.3 trillion (US$81 million) got off the ground Friday in the central Chu Lai Economic Zone.
Beer producer Adnams is aiming to reduce its impact on glass packaging waste by over 500 tonnes a year, with the launch of a new lightweight beer bottle.
Come learn and explore the age-old art of glass lampworking. Using a torch, you’ll melt and form glass into shapes that can become pendants, beads, marbles, paperweights, stir-sticks or anything you, as an artist, want to create.
Somerset County Council is backing a new television advertising campaign which encourages people to recycle more glass bottles and jars.
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The container industry recycled record levels of glass in 2006, according to new industry figures – but worryingly the nation's growth in glass recycling has slowed.
Glass recycling is saving the country NT$525 million (US$16 million) in garbage disposal costs and creating NT$180 million worth of business opportunities per year, Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) officials said Tuesday.
Rexam, the global consumer packaging company and the world’s leading beverage can maker, notifies the market that Rexam PLC’s capital consists of 583,354,712 ordinary shares of 64 2/7 pence each, each ordinary share carrying the right to one vote at…
Romania has inaugurated a float glass factory in Calarasi following a 100 million EUR investment implemented over 18 months.
The expansion, which the company expects to be operational in August 2008, will increase production capacity to serve markets globally.
The Glass Recycling Company is South Africa's new national organisation responsible for facilitating the recovery of waste glass for recycling, endorsed by the Ministry for Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48704) has announced the addition of “Glass Container Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its Foreign Trade (1996-2008)” to their offering.
UK glassmakers have to accept that the supply of colour-separated collections will dwindle and find new ways of using more mixed glass, according to WRAP.
Two weeks into the new year, and the recycling industry is working overtime. The festive season created 750m extra glass bottles, most of which seemed to be lined up in my kitchen ready for the council to pick up.
A doorstep glass recycling scheme in two Northumberland villages is proving to be a success. BBC reported that around 1,400 households in Longhoughton and Shilbottle were given a plastic box for bottles and jars at the beginning of August.
Jeannine Warren is doing more than her part to "reduce, reuse and recycle." She's got at least five tons of green, brown and clear class pebbles atop a weed barrier with flower beds surrounding her central Kentucky home.
Leonard Marty pulled a glowing glass bulb out of the fiery furnace and spun it around on a pole. Within seconds, the glob began taking the shape of a red Christmas tree ornament.
The chief executive of Pilkington is to take on a beefed-up executive role at its Japanese parent months after steering the British glassmaker through its £2.2bn takeover.
Rexam, the global consumer packaging company and the world’s leading beverage can maker, confirms that in conformity with the Transparency Directive’s transitional provision 6 we notify the market that Rexam PLC’s capital consists of 583,312,312…
Waste firm Biffa has expanded its commercial glass recycling service to cover the West Midlands, South Wales and the M1 corridor including Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield.
The proportion of recycled glass used to make new glass containers in the UK has fallen, according to newly-published figures for the 12 months up to August 2006.
Rexam, the global consumer packaging company and the world's leading beverage can maker, is issuing this trading statement for the year ending 31 December 2006 ahead of the scheduled announcement of its preliminary results on 20 February 2007.
Shaikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, laid the foundation stone for RAK Gani Glass plant, a pharmaceutical container glass plant to be set up with an investment of $20 million (Dh71 million) at the RAK…
One of leading green-field investors in Bulgaria, Turkish glassware producer Sisecam, has made a bow to local culture and history giving the start to a limited series of glassware.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has directed all soft drinks manufacturers to phase out glass bottles and adopt the use of plastic bottles on or before January 2, 2008.