Lightweighting container designs at source
Monday 1 December 2008
A specialist conference took place in the offices of British Glass, the UK confederation of glass manufacturers, at Sheffield to review the work carried out in a campaign to lightweight container designs at source. The event was hosted by British Glass... Read More
GTS wins glass-based project-management role with WRAP
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Specialists from Glass Technology Services Limited (GTS) have been invited by WRAP onto their panel of experts as part of their "Project Monitors" project. This four year project will see GTS assist with the day-to-day administration... Read More
New Project Helps Glass Packaging Lose Weight
Tuesday 15 January 2008
Food retailers and brand owners are being invited to take part in a series of trials to lightweight glass containers. If successful, the project could save 65,000 tonnes of glass and 48,000 tonnes of carbon emissions by 2009 - the equivalent of taking... Read More
The Colourite Project
Friday 1 June 2007
Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS) based in Sheffield, UK, has recently completed an 18 month long project, known as Colourite. The project, supported by WRAP with collaboration from project partners which included glass processors, container glass manufacturers... Read More
Advantages of Boron in Glass Mineral Wool Insulation
Friday 1 June 2007
Glass Technology Services (GTS) Ltd, based in Sheffield, recently undertook a review on the role of boron in glass mineral wool insulation. The report explored the important benefits boron brings to glass mineral wool insulation, a borosilicate glass,... Read More
Is It Time To Change Batch?
Friday 1 December 2006
For as long as anyone can remember container glass batch has been ostensibly unchanged in composition. Save for minor tweaks for improvement in durability, the same trusted formulae have been the constant by which the industry is measured (and have measured!).... Read More
Minimising the Environmental Impact of LCDs
Thursday 16 November 2006
Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS) is currently involved in a new DTI-funded research project concerning the recycling of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Read More
These Testing Times
Friday 1 September 2006
The Product Performance Department of Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS), the UK’s leading technical glass solutions provider, has a long-standing reputation, built up over decades, in physical testing and fractography across the range of all glass... Read More
Glass Container Lightweighting Conference
Monday 24 July 2006
Hosted by Glass Technology Services ( GTS), British Glass, WRAP and Faraday Packaging at the British Glass offices in Sheffield, the Glass Container Lightweighting Conference on 16 June 2006 reviewed the work carried out to date in... Read More
New Lightweight Glass Packaging
Thursday 23 June 2005
A new research project to reduce the amount of household glass waste being sent to landfill has been launched this month. At present there are 2.4m tonnes of container glass in circulation in the UK annually and less than one million tonnes of this amount... Read More
