The Board of Directors of Vetropack Holding Ltd has nominated Raffaella Marzi for election to the Board of Directors at the next annual General Assembly on 19 April 2023. She is running to succeed Rudolf Fischer, who is retiring.

Claude R. Cornaz, chairman of the Board, explains the decision: "Raffaella Marzi, like Rudolf Fischer, draws on many years of professional experience in the field of human resources. Bringing a new member with this expertise on board as seamlessly as possible was very important to us. Topics such as employer branding, talent management and management development have a very high priority for us."

Fiacre O'Donnell has won the Business in the Community Northern Ireland George Dawson Award for Environmental Contribution. The award signifies all the work Mr O’Donnell has implemented to help improve the environmental performance and impact that Encirc has on the planet. As Director of Sustainability for parent company Vidrala, he is seen as a true inspiration to the workforce, delivering the message that decarbonising isn’t a lifestyle choice, but a necessity.

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The winners of the Glass Focus Awards 2022 were unveiled last night (17 November) at a black-tie dinner hosted at the Sefton Park Palm House in Liverpool.

Companies from across the glass supply chain gathered to celebrate the International Year of Glass and the milestones of the previous 12 months at the event which saw Pilkington NSG crowned Company of the Year for the first time.

The flat glass manufacturers also won the Health and safety action award while Saint-Gobain Glass UK and Ardagh Glass Packaging were both double winners on the night. The former took home the Design of the year – flat glass and Strengthening business through people awards with the latter awarded the Sustainable practice and Marketing impact categories. 

Encirc has entered into a deal with Accolade Wines, one of the world’s leading premium wine producers, to purchase the assets of “The Park” bottling and warehousing facility in Bristol, UK. The agreement will see Accolade entering a 10-year contract bottling and distribution agreement with Encirc to ensure ongoing support for its flagship beverage brands. The move will utilise rail distribution between sites and supply into retail, enabling Encirc to provide an ultra-efficient, sustainable supply chain service across the UK beverage market.

Spread across 100+ acres in Willowbrook, Los Angeles County, the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Recreation Area, named after the basketball Hall of Famer and Los Angeles Lakers legend, is a go-to area for outdoor activities, gatherings and festivals. A revamp of the park was completed in late 2020, and this transformation included the addition of 30,000 plants and 300 trees, a redesigned lake and a half-mile walking trail. The core of the revamp was the construction of a 20,000 square foot community centre built along the southwest perimeter of the lake.

Between creativity and authenticity, glass brings together the beautiful and the commonplace: over the millennia, it has created a unique emotional bond with the consumer. A link that is renewed today in the recycling chain and its ecological advantages. The 14th edition of the Verallia Design Awards marks this bond with a new and inspiring theme “Glass to Live the Moment”.

Surfing on the trend of slowing down and searching for well-being, Verallia invites young designers to create containers (bottles and jars) that are inspired by nature (biomimicry) and provide sensations of calm and serenity (through their shape, their finish or their colours). This theme applies to all markets: still and sparkling wines; spirits; beers, waters and soft drinks; and food.

Chris Sorsby has been appointed Managing Director at VitriTech, the Rotherham based specialty glass melting business that currently manufactures products for the oil and gas, tunnelling, medical, and marine markets.

VitriTech develops and manufactures specialty glass products by exploiting the exceptional properties of glass, far beyond its traditional perceptions. The company’s products are designed to deliver bespoke solutions to a wide range of problems where controlled chemical or biological reactions are required in difficult to reach locations, from deep underground to the inside of the human body.

Vetropack has pursued a holistic approach to sustainability ever since it launched a wide-ranging transformation process back in 2019. This European glass packaging manufacturer is working to continuously reduce the ecological footprint of all its business activities and improve recycling in the value chain, while safeguarding access to key resources. By committing to the SBTi, the company is highlighting the key priority accorded to the targets it has set and is pledging to devote every effort to achieving its emission reduction targets.

Saint-Gobain held a ground breaking ceremony to mark construction of a new, state-of-the-art glass mat facility at its CertainTeed Roofing campus in Oxford, North Carolina. The investment, projected at $167 million with additional funds allocated toward new technology to enhance employee safety and sustainability, marks the company’s largest ever investment in a US roofing facility.

The event, hosted at the future site of the glass mat facility, featured remarks from North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Machelle Baker Sanders, Vice President of CertainTeed Roofing Carmen Bodden, Oxford Mayor Jackie Sergent, County Commissioner Tony Cozart, and Glass Mat General Manager Pedro Romero.