Corning Inc has appointed Roger W Ferguson Jr, President and CEO of TIAA, to its Board of Directors. Mr Ferguson will serve on the board’s Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees.

He will hold office until Corning’s annual meeting of shareholders in the spring of 2021, at which time he will stand for election to a one year term. His appointment brings the number of Corning directors to 14.

Mr. Ferguson brings to the board extensive financial expertise and significant knowledge of government policy and regulations, along with notable public company directorship experience. He is the former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System.

Glass Futures recently staged an open design session on digitisation, forming, annealing and quality, the second in a series of virtual workshops offering insight to the initiative’s plans and direction.

Together with members, Glass Futures is co-designing the world's first global centre of excellence and is reaching out to the global glass supply chain for the best knowledge.

Following introductions by Robbie Hodson (Glass Futures Project Engineer) and Richard Katz (Glass Futures CEO), insights were provided into the fields of digitalisation, forming/annealing and automatic inspection by Rob Ireson (Glass Futures Innovation and Partnerships Manager), Tobias Wachtmann (Head of Vertical Glass and Solar at Siemens) and Peter Firth (Glass Futures Production Consultant).

Bucher Emhart Glass has acquired Symplex Vision Systems (Symplex) based in Munich, Germany.

The company will be integrated into Bucher Emhart Glass, while assembly and engineering remain in Munich.

Bucher Emhart Glass will continue to sell and support the existing product portfolio of Symplex, consisting of inline inspection systems and hot end process monitoring sensors, as well as the established Emhart FleXinspect machine portfolio.

Both offerings complement each other and address different markets and customer needs.

Following the success of its first webinar in 2021, GlassTrend has announced the second session on 23 February. Entitled ‘Melting glass using concentrated solar energy’, the session will be presented by Professor Russell J Hand (pictured) from the University of Sheffield. 

Professor Hand will provide a summary on his work on potential applications of using concentrated solar energy for glass melting, addressing issues associated with the intermittent nature of solar energy such as day/night cycle, cloud cover and conclusions concerning land requirements for a pilot set-up. 

All GlassTrend members companies are invited to register.

https://www.glasstrend.nl/events/ 

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has agreed a financing package for glassware manufacturer Pasabahce Egypt for Glass Manufacturing SAE to help the company boost exports, introduce cleaner production practices and create jobs. 

Pasabahce Egypt will upgrade its production facility outside Cairo and introduce efficiencies to cut natural gas and electricity consumption by more than half. The funding is also expected to allow the Sisecam subsidiary to create about 330 new direct jobs in engineering, production and quality control, plus more than 100 indirect jobs. 

Pasabahce Egypt mainly serves markets in the Middle East, Turkey and the USA. IFC's $30 million financing package includes a long-term loan of up to $20 million and a shorter-term loan of $10 million.

A partnership with UK glass bottle supplier, Encirc, has allowed Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company to take another step towards Carlsberg Group’s zero carbon footprint ambition, with a trial demonstrating the possibility to cut the carbon impact of glass bottles by up to 90%.

The trial with Encirc uses 100% biofuel and increases recycled content of the bottles to 100% while maintaining quality.

One million beer bottles have been manufactured for the Carlsberg Danish Pilsner brand and according to CMBC, glass bottles account for some 10% of the total beer-in-hand emissions (the full value chain) for the company.

Orora is a founding member of the South Australian Hub-to-Hub (SA-H2H) Hydrogen Technology Cluster, led by EfficientSee and Mumford Commercial Consulting. National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) is investing AUD $1.85 million to establish the clusters across all states and territories that will facilitate the development of new capability in hydrogen focused technologies for Australia.

Francisco Ruiz, General Manager at Cristalerías Toro Spa has confirmed heat-up is underway for the container specialist’s latest Maipú furnace, with first bottles expected by early March.

This entire start-up process is supported by technicians from suppliers in Germany, the USA, Colombia and Mexico.

The new furnace has a capacity of 300 tons/day, uses electrical energy from 100% renewable sources and will produce bottles with more than 60% recycled glass.

According to Francisco Ruiz, it has been a tremendous challenge to meet the dates originally set, since the travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have demanded the ability to co-ordinate the different specialties and have everything ready to start furnace operation.

Strategic Materials Inc has launched an eco-friendly filtration media, TruFiltration, made from 100% recycled glass, servicing residential and commercial filtration markets. 

The company boasts recycled glass media is superior to traditional products in the marketplace for health and performance benefits.

Unlike commonly used sand media, recycled glass does not cause worker concern for free crystalline silica and filters up to six times better. The filtration media was developed specifically to meet the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) certification for pools and spas.