With Glass Worldwide as official journal, the 44th ASEAN Glass Conference is underway in Pattaya, Thailand, hosted by the Glass Manufacturers Industry Club, The Federation of Thai Industries (GMFTI).

Following a golf tournament and cocktail reception, Harris Hendraka (AFGM Chairman), Jariya Sangchaiya (GMFTI Chair), Somporn Temudomsomboon (Chair of the conference organising committee) and Piti Srisangnam (keynote speaker and Associate Professor in Economics from Chulalongkorn University) addressed over 300 delegates at a grand welcome ceremony.

Technical sessions will follow under the event’s ‘Glass: Sustainable World Solutions’ theme, with presentations including:

• Regenerative burner low NOx mechanism and application (ATS / Anderson Thermal Solutions (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.).
• Decarbonisation through process electrification and digitalisation (Eurotherm).
• GlassFORM.ai: a joint venture to master the glass forming process through artificial intelligence (Bottero/TIAMA).
• Improving energy efficiency of oxy-fuel glass furnaces (Linde).
• More sustainable glass production by increasing the electric power (HORN Glass Industries).
• New melting technologies require updated monitoring methods (PaneraTech).
• All-electric melting: Recent developments and improved understanding (Fives).
• Climate protection: the total recovery glass furnace and the LIFE SUGAR project (Stara Glass).
• Sustainable solutions for a greener and more energy efficient glass industry (BIG).

Papers from the conference will be exclusively reproduced in 2023 issues of Glass Worldwide. For the first time, the ASEAN Glass Conference also features a poster session showcasing industrial practitioners, sponsored by IYOG 2022.

Complementing the technical sessions, attendees are benefiting from Business Connect sessions as well as a social programme aimed at strengthening business networking and collaboration.

In addition to Glass Worldwide, sponsors of the event include AGC Ceramics Singapore, Agr, Anderson Thermal Solutions, Antonini, BIG, Bottero, Bucher Emhart Glass, Cermin Minerals and Logistics, Changshu Jianhau Mould, Changshu Jinggong Mould, Changshu Weiheng Mould, Dura Temp, Esomatic, Excelsius Global Services, First Supply Engineering, Fives, futronic, Heat Applications, Heye International, HORN Glass Industries, Hotwork International, Ihara Furnace Co, Infineon Plus, INTCO, IRIS Inspection machines, IWG, IYOG, Linde, LWN Lufttechnik, Officina Meccanica Sestese (OMS), Omco International, PaneraTech, Parkinson-Spencer Refractories, PTT National Gas Distribution, PTT Public Company Ltd, Ramsey, Refel, RHI, Rondot Group, SEFPRO, Siam Mould, Socabelec, SORG, T.Bariwat Co, Tata Chemicals International, Thai Beverage Company, The Siam Refractory Industry Co, Tiama, Total Energies, Trirex, Vertech’, XPAR Vision and ZIPPE Industrieanlagen.

A full event review will follow in Glass Worldwide. For recent interviews with Somporn Temudomsomboon and Harris Hendraka, visit the AFGM Library of Articles at https://www.glassworldwide.co.uk/afgm-articles

Image: AFGM dignitaries at the opening ceremony in Pattaya on 1 November 2022.