German glass maker Heinz-Glas is producing and decorating two limited editions recently launched by Estée Lauder.

Estée Lauder has launched a limited edition collection ahead of the Lunar New Year.

This limited edition, for the Year of the Ox, includes skincare and make-up products.

In October, 2020, the iconic ‘Advanced Night Repair Serum’ was dressed up for a limited collectible edition, in a metallic pink with gold text, by the German glass master.

For each purchase of this product until June 2021, Estée Lauder will make a donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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EME has delivered two 1200 scrapers with single fork link chain to O-I for its production site ar Vayres in France, each providing a capacity of 450 tons/day.

The first scraper has been successfully commissioned and is in full operation, with the second currently being assembled. EME’s contract also includes a steam suction system to remove steam to outside the building.

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Robert Rose, Encirc’s Glass Operations Director, passed away in January.

Adrian Curry, Managing Director of Encirc, pays tribute to the man who helped shape the industry.

“Robert Rose was a colossus of the container glass world. Respected by all and revered by many, I wanted to write a few words about my friend, who helped to shape our industry as we know it. 

Robert was one of the very first people to join Encirc, or ‘Quinn Glass’ as it was known then in 1998, when he, Isobel and their daughters made a very courageous decision to move to Ireland, join a new, unheard of company and be part of the start-up of the Derrylin plant.

Johns Manville has introduced a thermal recycling unit for waste glass fibres at its Engineered Products plant in Trnava, Slovakia.

The has a projected recycling capacity of more than three tons per hour and consists of a warehousing area, feeding and transportation equipment, shredder, burning chamber and milling.

After processing, the recycled glass powder is free of organic particles and refed as raw material into the glass production process on-site, thus achieving a closed production loop.

The project will keep more than 10,000 tons of waste out of the landfill each year.

One year after the opening of a sales office in Cognac, Stoelzle is getting closer to its spirits customers by building a dedicated production line at its French factory in Masnières, located near Cambrai.

This line will be operational in early March 2021 and will manufacture decanters and bottles for premium spirits.

The glass will be extra white with 5% to 10% recycled glass.

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On 27 January, Glass Futures staged an open design session on materials, melting and refractories, the first in a series of virtual workshop events aimed at explaining how the centre of excellence will benefit industry businesses with carbon saving opportunities, while also showing how up-skilling and training will be delivered within a safe environment.

Together with members, the organisation 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.

In recent weeks, Schott AG has started up a greenfield production plant for pharmaceutical glass tubing in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.

The plant will produce high quality borosilicate glass tubing, the base material for pharmaceutical packaging such as vials, ampoules, syringes and cartridges, which the vast majority of Covid-19 vaccine projects rely upon.

EME, with the support of subsidiary company Shanghai Precision, supplied the batch plant including batch transport and cullet return system on a turnkey basis, including building, process equipment and the control system.

The batch plant is designed for several furnaces and different glass types.
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In the increasingly competitive world of glass container manufacture, the ability to provide solutions for multi gob manufacturing on the same production line is an important benefit.

Over the past 13 years, Lyon-based IRIS Inspection machines has developed an important leadership position in the field of multiple article inspection at the cold end.

Since completing its first multi equipment installation in 2008 for a leading German glass container factory, the non-contact inspection solutions specialist has delivered more than 30 projects to customers in such countries as the Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine.

Customers include such well-known glass packaging groups as Verallia, O-I, Saverglass and Vetropack.

The latest version of ZIPPE’s BZ24 glass level measuring system  is controlled by an electronic device with advanced interfaces. Parameter settings can be changed by the keyboard or alternatively, via web-interface.

The glass level trend can be visualised in internet browser and current settings can be stored on computer or notebook as backup.

Optionally, network interfaces are available to establish a data exchange to different types of PLC. The available protocols are Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet/IP and Modbus/TCP.

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