Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

2022 is the international year of glass. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO2 emissions mean that glass production faces a challenging future.

Physically speaking, glass is a rather unusual material. Most solid materials are significantly ‘ordered’ with their constituent molecules or atoms in a regular arrangement, repeating patterns called ...

1-minute of power failure can cause up to 6 months of unplanned downtime, costing up to €200,000 per day Joint initiative ensures reliability of critical annealing lehr drive process using ...

It is important that the correct crucible is selected when designing a new glass melt in order to safeguard the glass melt from deformation, cracking, or contamination by the crucible. Image credit: ...

A materials scientist at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany has been awarded a prestigious "ERC Proof of Concept Grant" from the European Research Council to further develop and refine a ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Air Liquide (Paris:AI) will implement for Verallia, the European leader and the world’s third largest producer of glass packaging for beverages and food ...

A HUNDRED years ago the United States Government wrote into the homestead law the provision that a four-paned glass window should be built into every cabin. Dedicated to improving the common lot of ...