Leading UK glass recycling company Recresco has made a significant investment into metal sorting technology at its Ellesmere Port site. The project will see shredders, X-ray fluorescence technology and briquetting machinery installed and operational by the end of September to efficiently sort, shred and compress the aluminium bottle tops from co-mingled glass collections for smelting.

Glass collections often see aluminium caps still attached to containers with rubber, cork or plastic seals still in place. Recresco sees around 20 tonnes of metal lids move through its Ellesmere Port plant every week. Once caps are removed from glass bottles, innovative Redwave machinery removes other metals and a press forms smelter ready briquettes.

Paşabahçe has launches its new campaign for its functional, elegant and wide ranging drinkware collections. This focuses on inspirational ideas to excel the pleasure of drinking, elevate the elegance of presentations as well as home decor.

Promoting a wide range of the company’s favourite drinkware collections Elysia, Timeless, Leafy and Hill, by highlighting their diversified functions. From simply enjoying a healthy drink to preparing a dazzling dessert or arranging beautiful delicate flowers; Paşabahçe drinkware items are convenient for every purpose with a little bit of creativity and inspiration.

A reusable glass container at the centre of a pool system for soups, spreads, antipasti, sauces and more has been developed by Circujar, offering a simple and optimized handling for the smaller ecological footprint. The company takes over as soon as the glasses are brought back by the consumer: collection, transport, cleaning and redelivery. This service is financed by a usage fee.

Growing drinks brand KTea has switched its bottle supplier and chosen Beatson Clark’s new amber drinks bottle for its kombucha fermented tea.

The Guernsey-based artisan drinks manufacturer is now using Beatson Clark’s new 330ml amber Alpha drinks bottle with an MCA neck finish as it looks to increase capacity and grow sales.

Kombucha is a fermented tea drink which originated in China around 2,000 years ago when it was known as The Tea of immortality. Now it is so fashionable that around 1,000 pubs in Britain sell it.

As kombucha is full of healthy bacteria it encourages better digestion, relieves inflammation and can promote weight loss.

In recognition of their contributions to glass, the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London has elected industry stalwarts Professor Alicia Duran and Professor John M. Parker as Honorary Liverymen of the Company.

Park Cam recently operated a furnace at full capacity for twelve months with virtually zero wear in critical areas. Working closely with PaneraTech, they were able to make data-driven decisions to target cooling and maximise the operation time before overcoating.

New carbon pledges by international glass manufacturer NSG Group have been certified as science based, as its UK subsidiary Pilkington UK completes a string of world-first trials towards achieving decarbonisation.

The NSG Group will reduce its carbon emissions by 30% compared with 2018 levels, by 2030. It forms part of a wider plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, from emissions directly associated with its manufacturing to carbon produced in its supply chain.

The glass giant’s carbon pledge has been certified as science based by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), meaning it will effectively help to limit the average rise of global temperature to well below 2°C on pre-industrial revolution levels.

Glass packaging manufacturer Beatson Clark has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Stephen Reyes as Business Development Manager.

Stephen will be the new face of Beatson Clark, travelling round the UK to visit potential customers in the food, beverage, brewing, spirits and pharmaceutical sectors.

He has many years of experience working in sales and business development for a number of packaging firms, including Duo Ltd and Berlin Packaging UK.

While working at Berlin Packaging UK he became known as The Beer Guy after developing a reputation for his extensive knowledge and contacts in the brewing sector.

Kapoor Glass is pleased to announce the commissioning of a new manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of high-quality tubular vials and cartridges for pen systems.

From the new plant, Kapoor Glass offers cartridges for insulin and for dental applications. These are made on high-speed German production lines offering the highest levels of accuracy. As an industry first, our cartridges undergo cosmetic inspection and are packed in socially clean rooms with the help of advanced robots for packing into final customer packaging.

The machines produce the entire range of cartridges including dual chamber cartridges for lyophilised products, with high quality silk screen printing and any external coatings as required.