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Glass Futures™ - exploring energy efficient technology

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Glass Futures™ - exploring energy efficient technology

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As a founding member of Glass Futures, we invested in the Global Centre of Excellence in St Helens, UK, a new research, development and training facility for the float and global glass industry.

Glass Futures Limited, a not-for-profit research and technology organisation, has recently opened it’s “catapult-like” Centre of Excellence in Glass, which will have full plant utilities to accelerate R&D, innovation, technology incubation and implementation with its industrial scale 30-tonne per day pilot furnace.

Existing projects and areas of key interest to Glass Futures and its members include but are not limited to:

  • Development of alternative fuel technologies
  • Heat recovery, abatement and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) demonstrations
  • Secondary raw materials for recycling
  • Raw material and cullet processing technology
  • New compositions and treatments
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