Neil Simpson will run a further series of on-line combustion courses dedicated to the glass industry.

These half-day courses given in the first three weeks of December are limited to 16 attendees and available on a first come basis.

Themes covered: under-port burners, furnace pressure and combustion optimisation for heat transfer and NOx, oxy-fuel combustion, in-furnace thermal imaging and the role of thermal imaging in surveying furnace optimisation.

Based on recent requests Mr Simpson is presenting another course which will look at industrial combustion decarbonisation.

This new course will be limited to 3 hours but will include a separate 30 minute 1:1 session for specific questions.

Corning is expanding its long term collaboration with AT&T to extend investments in optical fibre infrastructure, expand US broadband networks and accelerate 5G deployment.

Based on AT&T’s commitment to its network buildout, Corning is investing $150 million in optical cable manufacturing in North Carolina, initially adding 200 jobs.

The Optical Communications business operates cable facilities in Hickory, Newton and Winston-Salem, and optical fibre facilities in Wilmington and Concord with headquarters in Charlotte.

Proximus and AGC have successfully completed testing WAVEATTOCH, a new type of antenna designed for easy installation directly on glazed facades for mobile networks, at the Proximus Tower in Brussels, Belgium. Once installed, the antenna helps improve the coverage and the capacity of mobile networks, including those using 5G technology.

Proximus is accelerating 5G rollout and guaranteeing both the stability and quality of mobile connectivity at a time when mobile data usage is growing sharply.

With the need for higher data rates and lower latency it becomes necessary to install more antennas. Finding new sites to install antennas is a major challenge given the high number of existing sites, especially in crowded city centres like Brussels.

SCHOTT is investing a total of €70 million euros in the expansion of its Indian tubing site in Jambusar, Gujarat.

An additional tank furnace is scheduled to go into operation at the beginning of 2023, with a second one the following year. The expansion will create new jobs for around 225 people and is part of a more than $1 billion strategic investment programme by the company through to 2025.

"Against the backdrop of the growth trend in the Indian pharmaceutical business and the pandemic, we want to commit to secure the supply of pharma glass," explains Dr. Patrick Markschläger, Executive Vice President of SCHOTT's Business Unit Tubing.

The Heraeus Group has announced its acquisition of Mo-Sci Corporation and spin off company ETS Technology Holdings. Both companies are located in Rolla, Missouri.

Mo-Sci was founded by Dr. Delbert Day in 1985 to develop and supply specialty glass and ceramic products for specific market applications.

It is now a leading supplier to the medical device industry with glass microspheres, fibres and powders. It also provides sealing glass and test services for the aerospace, automotive, and electronics industries.

The company was led by Ted Day, Delbert’s son, up until his death in September 2020.

ETS was founded in 2012 to develop and commercialise a novel borate-based bioactive glass technology platform for wound care and hemostasis.

The Singapore Institute of Technology has adopted AGC’s new photovoltaic glass for the Punggol campus, scheduled to open in 2024.

The new Punggol campus of the Singapore Institute of Technology is scheduled to be the first in Southeast Asia to install an urban multi-energy microgrid that will decentralise energy sources and enable the effective use of local renewable energy, with the aim of obtaining Super Low Energy certification established by the country's Building and Construction Authority.

The first-place winner of the 2021 Glass Packaging Design Competition at Michigan State University (MSU) School of Packaging is the student team of Brendan Tulpa, Mitchell VanNote, Maddie Vasquez, Reed Vogt and Kailey Wood with their Red Dagger Hot Sauce packaging design.

International glass producer Stoelzle Glass Group has joined the Glass Futures membership to further its ambitions to create sustainable low carbon glass products by developing technology and improving processes across manufacturing and the supply chain.

Stoelzle has six production sites in Austria, Great Britain, France, Czech Republic and Poland and three decoration sites in Great Britain, France and Poland.

The company is Europe’s only manufacturer of packaging glass aimed at pharma, perfumery and cosmetics, spirits, consumer food and tableware markets.

They are aware of the energy-intensive nature of glass production and strive in all processes and technologies to balance this impact with constant investments and improvements.

The Knauf Group has announced the expansion of Knauf Insulation North America with a 600,000 square feet state-of-the-art facility to be constructed at the Industrial Park in McGregor, Texas.

"This is a great day for our employees, customers, vendors, shareholders, the citizens of McGregor, Texas, and the greater Waco area,” said Knauf Insulation North America CEO Matt Parrish. “At Knauf Insulation, we are excited to expand our North American manufacturing operations to McGregor, Texas. As part of a global, family-owned business, we believe the timing is right, and McGregor is exactly the type of community where we desire to expand and partner for the future."