The St Helens Star local newspaper is reporting that Glass Futures, the UK national centre of excellence for glass innovation, has been approved to receive £9 million of funding as part of the Liverpool City Region’s £1.4 billion ‘Building Back Better’ economic recovery plan.

If delivered, the £54 million project will have the first and only experimental furnace of its kind in the world with provision for research and development trials to decarbonise the UK glass industry.

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