Ardagh Glass Packaging pioneers hydrogen innovation
ARDAGH Glass Packaging-Europe has announced it is now producing green hydrogen for glass melting via a hydrogen electrolyser at its facility in Limmared, Sweden.
The...
Virtual event explores future of wine bottles
INITIATIVES designed to ensure that glass wine bottles have a sustainable future were recently discussed at O-I and Progressive Media International’s Wine Glass Bottles:...
China’s ‘river of forgetting’ inspires winner of student design competition
Fu Xin from Hunan University of Technology in China has won the 2023 O-I : EXPRESSIONS Student Design Awards, run in conjunction with Pentawards.
His...
Production set to resume at Ukrainian glass packaging manufacturing site
GLASS packaging manufacturer Vetropack is 'cautiously' ramping up operations again at its Gostomel plant in Ukraine following a halt to production more than a year...
A clear future for glass decoration
One of the most eye-catching features of last year’s €30 million investment at O-I in Alloa was the installation of new glass decoration capability....
‘Pioneering’ trials to begin on lightweighting glass bottles
TRIALS are set to start aimed at increasing the strength and thereby reducing the weight of glass bottles.
Three major players in the sector are...
Japanese group impressed by Irvine glass bottle plant
REPRESENTATIVES from the Japanese Glass Bottlers Association recently toured Ardagh's glass bottle manufacturing plant in Irvine.
Ardagh said the group was impressed by the "general...
Stoelzle Glass Group celebrates 30-year milestone
STOELZLE Glass Group is celebrating 30 years of operations at its Knottingley facility.
Since joining the Stoelzle Glass Group in 1994, the Stoelzle Flaconnage Knottingley site has...
Leading bodies back calls urging exclusion of glass in Deposit Return Scheme
BRITISH Glass has released an open letter raising its concerns over the potential inclusion of glass in the impending Scottish Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), which will see a refundable 20p deposit imposed on plastic bottles, cans and potentially glass bottles
Glass packaging firm replaces diesel forklifts with electric models
ARDAGH Glass Packaging (AGP) has announced that four new electric forklift trucks have replaced diesel forklifts at the AGP – Europe facility in Bad...
