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The proportion of recycled glass used to make new glass containers in the UK has fallen, according to newly-published figures for the 12 months up to August 2006.
Vitro, announced that it had finalized the sale of real estate currently occupied by its subsidiary Vidriera Mexico (Vimex) in Mexico City for US$100 million.
Glass recyclers want the Government to encourage the use of crushed glass instead of mineral aggregate in base course for roading.
Cherwell council is expanding a glass collection scheme after the success of a pilot, which involved reusable bags. Around 4,000 reusable bags were delivered to households in the district, able to hold around six bottles – this allowed residents to…
Cory Environmental has said that is now sending mixed glass collected in Cornwall directly to Portugal. According to the company the move makes more sense environmentally and will mean that it isn't adding to road congestion.
Environment and Tourism Minister Willem Konjore officially launched the Glass Recycling Company in Windhoek on Thursday. Speaking at the event, Konjore noted that glass recycling is a very difficult industry.
Vitro S.A. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA; NYSE: VTO) one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, today announced 3Q'06 unaudited results.
There is still good demand for recycled glass from the aggregates industry – despite the decision by cement firm Cemex to stop using the material.
PPG Industries has installed a $1.6-million unit to recycle waste fiber glass at its fiber glass manufacturing plant in Hoogezand, the Netherlands.
A nationwide glass recycling crisis is forcing a Wairarapa rethink on managing waste tonnages including a call to drink more beer from cans not bottles.
Vitro S.A. de C.V. one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, today announced 1Q'06 unaudited results.
Businesses in the glazing and window replacement sector are the latest to benefit from a series of WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) trials to improve recycling services for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Libbey Inc. (NYSE: LBY) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire from Vitro, S.A. de C.V. (Vitro) its 51 percent of Vitrocrisa Holdings, S de R.L. de C.V. and related companies (Crisa), bringing Libbey's ownership of…
Vitro, S.A. de C.V. announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its 51 percent interest in Vitrocrisa Holdings, S de R.
Plans to set up the textbook sustainable enterprise - creating 200 jobs converting contaminated waste into recycled glass on a brownfield site in a deprived area - look to have collapsed.
A new group has been established to address the problem of what to do with a mountain of recycled glass in New Zealand. Recyclers say glass recycling in the South Island is in crisis, with huge glass mountains piling up because it is too expensive…
Mexican glass maker Vitro increased its consolidated sales by 6 percent last year to $2.4 billion, the company said on Friday in a preliminary earnings report.
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…
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…
Mexican stocks edged higher Wednesday as second-tier issues, like shares in glass maker Vitro SA, staged recoveries. The market's key IPC index closed up 27.07 points or 0.2 percent to 13,550.14.
The Bank of New York, a global leader in securities servicing, has been selected as depositary for the Vitro, S.A. de C.V.
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.
Vitro S.A. de C.V. one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, today announced 1Q'05 unaudited results.