Glass Futures™ - exploring energy efficient technology
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Glass Futures™ - exploring energy efficient technology
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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