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| The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has directed all soft drinks manufacturers to phase out glass bottles and adopt the use of plastic bottles on or before January 2, 2008.
| Glass container manufacturer Rockware Glass has produced what it is calling the UK's first-ever 70cl spirit bottle made with less than 300g of glass.
| Mminingweekly.co.za reported that one of South Africa’s largest glass packaging manufacturers, Consol Glass, has invested some R320-million in a facility at its Clayville plant In Midrand, which will extend the factory’s production capacity by…
| A landmark was reached yesterday, with Namibia's first ever glass-manufacturing project from waste bottles getting underway in Windhoek.
| 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…
| 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.
| The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending $32.5 million to a local subsidiary of Turkeys Anadolu Cam group to build a bottling plant near the city of Ufa in central Russia.
| Derrick Ketchum, an employee of Owens Brockway Glass Container in Godfrey, filed a 12-count, $600,000 suit against his employer and Castrol Inc. claiming he was sickened from exposure to Syntilo 9918 and other metal working fluids.
| 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.
| Anchor Glass Posts Wider First-Quarter Loss As Lower Volumes, Rising Costs Weigh on Bottom Line Anchor Glass Container Corp. posted a wider loss for the first quarter, hurt by restructuring charges, rising costs and lower volumes.
| Owens Illinois Inc. will close a plant that makes plastic bottles for the health care industry, putting as many as 65 people out of work.
| If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.o-i.com .
| Glass bottle maker Owens-Illinois Inc. said it expects to improve profits with its newly acquired European container company by trimming 950 jobs and production overseas.
| 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.
| An age-old admonition in politics and life in general holds that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
| Corning to shut CRT glass plant Corning Inc. has announced plans to close its television glass joint venture with Japan's Asahi Glass Co.
| Anchor Glass Container Corp., manufacturer of glass beverage containers, has filed for bankruptcy protection.The reorganization plan was filed Monday in the U.S.
| The domestic glass manufacturers and the liquor industry are divided over the recycling of liquor bottles by distilleries.