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Hall: 16I / Stand: F06-10Once again, Optima S.r.l., a leading Italian software house producing and marketing dedicated systems for the glass industry, is offering a series of new applications to coincide with Vitrum 2005.
As RFID tags' use become more prevalent, with source tagging of individual packs on the horizon, trade federation British Glass is advocating more work to tackle the potentially serious problem of recycling glass bottles that may still contain…
Once again Edgetech will be exhibiting at this year's international glass trade fair VITRUM from 5th to 8th October in Milan.
Leelanau County's seven recycling collection sites will no longer accept any type of glass. The county collected brown, green and clear glass during previous years but will stop doing so because of changes in the county's processing…
The Big Recycle campaign has been launched across the UK in a bid to tackle the landfill crisis. The government is trying to induce more people to adopt recycling as a way of life as it seeks to control the ever-growing waste mountain.
Major glass users in New Zealand have agreed to pay a voluntary levy on imported glass to cover a shortfall between the costs of collecting the glass and the price paid for it by glass recyclers.
Major glass users in New Zealand have agreed to pay a voluntary levy on imported glass to cover a shortfall between the costs of collecting the glass and the price paid for it by glass recyclers.
Glass and beverage companies, consumer groups and government yesterday launched a national glass recycling campaign that follows the plastic bag recycling campaign launched two years ago.
A step towards ending glass pollution in South Africa was taken on Thursday, when deputy environment minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi signed a memorandum of understanding with business on glass recycling.
Stockpiles of glass are piling up around the country after the only glass reprocessor slashed its price for used glass.
The amount of recycled glass used in making new containers has increased by more than ten times over the past year, according to figures released by trade confederation British Glass.
New figures from British Glass have revealed a 17% increase in the amount of UK glass packaging recycled in 2004 compared to the previous year.
At the NAHB Green Building Conference at Atlanta, Owens Corning today announced that its line of fiber glass insulation products has been certified to contain an average of 35 percent recycled content by leading third-party certifier Scientific…
As early as next month, Wichita residents may have a new place to take their empty cereal boxes, milk jugs, old newspapers and glass bottles.
VITRUM 2003 will be held in Milan fairgrounds from 25th to 28th June.As in 2001, VITRUM will take place in halls 14, 15 and 16 of the Portello pavilions, now the organizers tried and tested, which proved the ideal venue for such a demanding…
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), is just around the corner. GPD 2003 will take place on 1518, June 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
New York City may not meet its July 2004 deadline for bringing back glass recycling, city officials said yesterday.The city suspended the recycling of glass and plastics in July as a budget-cutting measure, leaving only paper and metal recycling in…
The ongoing increase in exhibitor and visitor numbers seen at VITRUM in recent years reached its peak in 2001, confirming the tremendous interest aroused by the Milan exhibition among those in the trade, and the important role of Italian machinery,…
A one-year WRAP funded project aims to help increase glass recycling. BRE-led research will assess the recycling opportunities for non-contaminated, high-grade flat glass and non-contaminated timber and plastic profiles from the demolition and…
Glasstec 2002, recently closed in Düsseldorf, Germany, to very positive results. A total of 1,150 exhibitors from 42 countries displayed their products on 688,148 square feet of net exhibit space in nine halls.
Vitrum 2001 the international trade fair for machinery, equipment and systems for the processing of flat and hollow glass, glass and finished products for the industry, opened its doors October 3rd, in a climate of widespread uncertainty.
Staffordshire University is pioneering a method of recycling crushed glass from bottle banks into outdoor flooring tiles.
Asahi Glass Company (AGC) has announced an automotive glass recycling test initiative that begins next March and will lead to a full-scale program in 2004.
VITRUM 2001, the international trade fair dedicated to machinery, equipment and systems for flat and hollow glass, manufactured and processed glass and glass products for industrial use, closed its doors on Saturday, October 6th.
At Vitrum 2001 Optical Surface Technologies (OST) will present both well-known brands the Regipol and Tecepol. These brands have been in existence for nearly 40 years and are produced at OST's factory in the north of England.