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Peter Layton Impacted.
M. A. Carretero.
Given this impressive technological capabilities, one of the questions that I set out to business who checked me it is whether they will be able to meet Our greatest interest in this visit was given by see the strong demand which I the stand of the signature am sure will generate window Tvitec, located in taking them into account its product offering. the town of Zamora Last October I was visiting with our Secretary Veteco 2016 the Fair as set forth on page 5 of this Bulletin.
Cubillos del Sil, which exposed a laminated glass of 12 m. long. I was a good time chatting with one of the business of the firm to inform the characteristics of the factory and its evolution. For me, it is impressive that a Spanish firm, with Spanish technology, is capable of manufacturing flat glass of this size.
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You have to think that every time the glass for the realization of the most important buildings in major cities around the world is most sought after, and not a glass any, if not a glass technologically increasingly more advanced than, for example, be able to allow lower energy consumption in the air conditioning of buildings, or offers an attractive view of the buildings through the silkscreen stamped with the "curtain walls".
Besides impressed, I also feel very proud of myself entrepreneurs nationality are able to implement In the article published in such projects. the Bulletin, we mentioned the main projects has been How could it be carrying Tvitec and has in otherwise, the main its portfolio for the near customers of this future. company are foreign firms that build imposing A level of employment, it is buildings in other also good to see that more countries and that need than 700 workers open 24 this window technology to hours a day producing make these buildings are factory, which occupies an emblematic worldwide. area of 60,000 m2.
Cristalglass subsequently sold to Mexican Vitro group, but previously has already started in the world of industrial glass through hardware stores that had their parents and in selling and installed simple glass. How much similarity to the origins of our Honorary President Javier Gomez! Javier Prado opted for the industrial production and Javier Gomez by our artistic glass. But both have made some very prominent positions worldwide with his tenacity and farsightedness. After this visit to the stand of Tvitec has aroused tremendous interest for us to visit their facilities bercianas Cubillos, near the town of Ponferrada.
So, considering that the area enjoys some important tourist destinations, such as the site of Las Médulas, or the Castle of the Templars, we will try next year to make a visit to this area and enjoy the view and knowledge of one of the most advanced windows technologies in the world, one of the most amazing places whose beginnings date back to Roman times and a castle The firm, which began in the beginning, was a operations in 2007, does Celtic castro, after a not rest on its enlargement Roman and Visigoth site process and provision of until built in the twelfth the highest technology to century. undertake increasingly demanding projects, led by The National Energy Javier Prado Ovalle, which Museum is another interesting tourist began its windows activities in 1956 in signing attractions in the area.
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Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (LVII) MAC.
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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:
Part of the month
Veteco 2016
Visit to Farcama
Entrañas
Activities on the MAVA
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
How does
Intellectual Property Law
CONTENIDO:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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Veteco 2016
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Visit to Farcama
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Entrañas
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Progress in L'Ollería
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Venetian glass
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Conservation - restoration 14 Glass in Uruguay
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2016
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Carda in Escal
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Crafts Awards
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2016 program
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Agustin Aguirre SER
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Other trends
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Encontro restoration
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Envidriarte
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Congress SECV
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Stairs Eva Jiricna
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Meteorite impact
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How do
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Otazu Kablanc Award
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Czech centenary office
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The Trinity
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The blower dreams
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Oven glass bottles
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Vicrila in crisis
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The Museum of Tomorrow 36 BA buys Glass
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First glass bath
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Board Of Directors
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URGENT NEWS
Granada Conference.
No response from the Department of Culture.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Mary Bayard White.
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Mary Bayard is a sculptor and educator who works on environmental issues, including water resources, renewable energy and preserving habitats for wild birds and insects.
Chicago, Iowa, Indiana and Boulder, Colorado. He earned a BFA in Ceramics CEC and MFA in painting on glass at California College of the Arts.
He has taught workshops in more than fifteen institutions.
He was a Fulbright scholar and professor at the National School of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, between 2009 From 1986 to 2005, he She believes in the power and 2010, which took a was head of the SJSU of regeneration, graduate seminar on Glass Program at the transformation and reuse experimental critical School of Art and Design, and encourages thinking. San Jose, USA. interdisciplinary research The work outlined in the He was a member of a collaboration. permanent collection of coordinating council of She teaches at The MAVA is illustrating this the Glass Art Society and Crucible in Oakland, article and is entitled Board Chair of the California, USA. "Travel Series". Women Environmental Mary grew up in Artists Directory. Haverford, Pennsylvania,
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Established artists. Peter Layton.
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Peter Layton was born in the development of this 1938 in Prague and raised in magical and versatile England. medium paper.
contemporary glass into sculptural and functional forms.
He studied ceramics at the Central School of Art and Design, and joined the glassblowing with teaching ceramics at the University of Iowa.
A strong advocate of collaborative work, Peter has acted for years as a mentor, providing training and cooperating with many other glass artists.
Since his return to Britain and the establishment of its glassblowing studio in London in 1976, he has played an important role in
Their glassblowing studio in London is renowned for its innovative and experimental approach in the production of unique pieces of
Peter designs represent an adventure, an opportunity and a challenge to the shape and the main color, while allowing the flow of glass to bring their own qualities and characteristics.
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Each piece is signed and many are in important public and private collections around the world.
Emerging artists. Scott Chico Raskey.
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in Hopfen aus Glaskunst, Germany. Raskey able to establish numerous contacts within the glass studies in Germany, Chekia, and France. He continued to teach for the German Glass School Glass House in Wertheim.
Chico Raskey was born in Ludington, Michigan. On the advice of a teacher, Raskey began to learn about glass blowing.
After high school, he traveled to Europe to learn more about the process in Murano.
Together with a team of glassblowers, he traveled throughout Europe to provide demonstrations of glass in the various schools of glass.
Once back in the United States, he established his own company Raskey Chico Art Glass which Raskey consolidates his continues to express through his apprenticeship with Peter Straud work.
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Veteco 2016.
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In the last week of last October it was held in Madrid VETECO Fair, International Window, Facade and Sun Protection. In this show we visited with special interest Tvitec stand, glass berciana company located in the town of Cubillos del Sil, near Ponferrada. Our interest in this visit lay in seeing with our own eyes the laminated glass of 12 m. long this company has been manufacturing and has exhibited in their booth. Tvitec has recently expanded its factory in 25,000 m2, it has installed a new furnace annealing two chambers and is preparing another bilateral and machine manufacturing to work singing in parts up to the 12 m. As we said a representative of the firm, its greatest turnover is made orders for abroad, where they enjoy special consideration. Thus, the Surf Club of Miami is building two new towers for which Tvitec has provided some 7,000 m. railings tempered and laminated to resist high winds and hurricanes.
In Spain, Real Madrid will build in its Ciudad Deportiva Valdebebas located in a building for the new offices of Club. Tvitec has done for its facade one of the biggest pieces of glass in Europe with double glazing 8 m. length and digital silkscreen.
headquarters of the multinational pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca in Cambridge (UK), comprising double-glazed pieces of more than 7 m. in length, incorporating a special insulation.
Isolar Glass has granted the company the award berciana year by the triple glazing of the new headquarters of the Scandinavian bank Nordea in Copenhagen. The provision for this new headquarters was more than 19,000 m2 of high performance glass.
that the company has spent eight years in the world of high performance glass, which increased by 20% its turnover compared to 2015 and in that year had increased by 30% compared to the spectacular 2014 figures taking into account the current state of the world economy in general and our country in particular.
Finally, Tvitec has been recognized by the London Stock Exchange as one of the It has also supplied the glass for "Thousand companies that pisable regarded as the world's inspire Europe", a pride and an most dangerous path, the important recognition given that Caminito del Rey in Malaga. The there are more than 23 million pisable ensures security while companies with a turnover in our the views of the cliff from the continent between 20 million and spectacular viewpoints of this 300 million euros. space. In this regard, it should be noted
They have also received an honorable mention of the WOCA Awards for treatment of laminated glass used to change face an old city park in Beasaín.
As for his upcoming projects, Tvitec will supply more than A signature Bulgari, the Italian 22,000 m2 of high performance emblem of luxury jewelry glass for the new headquarters belonging to Group Louis of the finance company Fannie Vuitton, Tvitec has provided Mae in Washington DC, and the pieces of glass double glazed for first deliveries have already making a house of 13 m. high. started to leave the plant Cubillos to the US capital. It has provided glass for one of the most spectacular towers of Another project in the portfolio the capital of Azerbaijan, the and about to run is the Crescent City Tower.
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Given that the Bierzo area has numerous tourist inducements (Médulas, the castle of the Templars, Museums), we will raise for next year a visit to the facilities of this splendid glassmaker complex with a staff of more than 700 workers spread over three shifts. From these pages we send to Javier Prado, Director General of the firm, our very best wishes for what it is achieving for the Spanish glassmaker sector.
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Our visit to FARCAMA.
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Last October we visited, transaction to enter the another year, the Craft Fair draws were made at the of Castilla La Mancha. fair, and probably higher, since not all visitors have According to Europa put the ticket in the urn Press, about 64,000 empowered to do to people have visited in this preserve your personal year's edition of the Fair, data. which closed its doors last October 16 with a total of The regional spokesman 24,000 registered also recalled that this year purchases, as detailed by has had a 20 percent more the regional government than in 2015 artisans. spokesman, Nacho Among the novelties of this Hernando. year, he has placed At the press conference to emphasis on the give an account of the professional conferences agreements of the that have attended 50 Governing Council, national purchasers of the Hernando said that this fashion industry, number of visitors and accessories, decoration business is similar to last and gift, and recovery of year, given that this year the Day of Recognition for has not been a holiday the sector with the delivery weekend, and "doubling" of of the master titles and 2014. medals and plaques, which were not delivered since However, sales, indicated 2011. that the figure was based on the tickets purchase It has also indicated that that have been delivered to Farcama is "an opportunity people who have made a as a showcase for www.amigosmava.org
professional contacts and evaluate purchases from one year to another," as stated by the artisans themselves. So has stressed, the regional government will continue to work to "continue to grow in quality and quantity" not only at the fair held in Toledo but also in Farcama Spring, which in 2017 will be held in Albacete. On our visit to the fair were able to greet and chat with Natalia Benchoam (NYRB Vidrieras) of Coria Caceres, with Lume Glass with Juan Moreno Moya (Grisailles Moreno) and Isaac Perez Sanchez (DeCristalia), which has placed recently his workshop in Navarre lands. The pictures we took on our visit the can see through this link.
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“Entrañas”.
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An art project that disease or abnormality as a common condition in question, thus representing the normal work of Montserrat Duran Muntadas.
Others have been chosen to represent the Spanish contemporary glass and are being exposed in the European Glass Context in Denmark.
One of the issues that concern and occupy millions of people worldwide. An artistic proposal to reopen the debate on freedom of defining himself in a world of limitations.
Some of them have been finalists in 2016 ENJOIA'T PREMIS l'AFAD, Barcelona and 2 of them are finalists (the contest is still open) in the PRIX FRANÇOIS-Houde for artistic excellence in Montreal, Canada.
Accept and reproduce the anomaly, see its beauty from the inability to procreate and make creation, this is the challenge of these art installations that combine the intimate and the public.
It all started with a change, a transformation.
From a young age the artist was diagnosed with a uterine malformation that today The pieces are themselves the compromise their fertility as symbol of an art mutation in its well as the fact to live like a alliance of heterogeneous normal woman. materials, blown glass But it is to be a "normal" sculptures, glass fabric torch woman today? That is the and play with transparencies underlying question on which and textures to transform another. The deformed seeks the artist reflects this work. perfection and notions of We live in a time where the interior space and "visceral art" disease or abnormality are a become literal. common condition, thus Some sculptures of this project representing normal. will be presented by the CREA Gallery from 3 to 6 November 2016 in the SOFA (Sculpture Objects Functional Art & Design) in Chicago, one of the most important art fairs in the United States.
Accept and reproduce the anomaly, see its beauty from the inability to procreate and make creation, this is the challenge of this installation of pieces of blown glass that
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combines the intimate and the public. Sculptures where the deformed seeks perfection, and where notions of interior space and "visceral art" become literal. The pieces are themselves the symbol of an art mutation in its alliance of heterogeneous materials, glass and cloth playing with transparencies and textures to transform each other and reflection on fertility and freedom to define itself in a world of limitations. Project: ENTRAILS Author: Montserrat Duran Muntadas. Event: SOFA Chicago, United States. When: From 3 to 6 November 2016. Event: European Glass Context, Bornholm Denmark. When: From 10 September to 13 November 2016. Event: Prix François-Houde, Galerie THE GUILD, Montreal, Canada. When: From November 24 to February 18, 2016. Montserrat We wish the best of success in these exhibitions.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. Science Week.
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“El Progreso” in L’Ollería.
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Collected in the portaldelollería.es.
training, is shown completely satisfied, therefore delivering He finished the course Glass students who have taken full Blowing with excellent advantage of the teachings, for sensations everywhere. the support received from Five were students, aspiring several companies, which teachers in the School of Glass have not spared no means and "Progress" of Honduras, which effort to facilitate the were forming technically at development of technical l'Olleria. classes, in addition to the institutional support of the City These arrivals through the and logistical support they Veron Foundation, students provided both the Capuchin were part of "olleriense glassmaker world" for a week. convent, which engrandaron moments rest of the Museum Capuchins, existing candidates, and daily tasting parts in the House Santonja local cuisine, which tasted in (future glass museum), Ravalet. Ecoglass, VITROCOLOR, "Given the youth and Lograta, etc ... .. landmarks experience of the students that were already part of the attending this training qualify lives of these students, who as excellent, both individually have left satisfied both by the and collectively." teachings as their treatment. Meanwhile the master glassmaker Luis Bodas, who was responsible for technical
"The personal treatment that has offered them think it was the right saving possible
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logical differences of culture change among our peoples and has tried as far as possible that these people would feel at all welcomed time both companies, City hall and private partners, etc ... to make them feel in a nice safe environment and family. " Is it an experience to repeat? Of course you do, not just what you bring to the students, this experience has made clear the commitment and good work of all those involved directly and indirectly, also represents prestige to l'Olleria, since we are not exporting past, we are projecting future, future teachers continue to develop blown glass by the world and its credit is part of the style of this town. Without a doubt an experience to repeat.
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After the beauty of Venetian glass (IV).
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Alejandro IpiĂąa.
He commissioned a series of sculptures in blue glass Picasso He is a man able to convince a style. stone that you can run a He also commissioned the door marathon. of his house, which has This Venetian, doctor in embedded between rusty iron modern languages, 27 years rods stones Murano glass made ago took a decision: edit art by her friend Claire Falkenstein. with a capital leveraging the skills of Murano glass masters. The gates of heaven are called. A particular sky tailored Peggy. I met him at the Franchetti A Costantini came up with the Palace, while giving instructions for installation of a idea of proposing to established artists to collaborate with him, to work on the landing of the contribute their ideas to staircase: the palace on the banks of the Grand Canal. It is translate them into blown glass, handmade by master the seat of Glasstress. glassmakers. The idea, says Adriano says The first to respond to the Berengo, has its origins in suggestion of Oskar Kokoschka, Egidio Costantini and Peggy in 1952. Guggenheim, the rich American heiress who fell in Together they made the Cup love with Venice and that in his Baccanti. palace in Dorsoduro lived love Then came Le Corbusier, their dogs (Lhasa Apso), the Picasso, Calder, Max Ernst and rabidly contemporary art men, Jean Arp, among others. in that order of importance. It was very amorous and could But Costantini was not a good financial manager. afford. For problems with hacienda he In 1961 Peggy Guggenheim was ruined, and had to work in met Costantini, a man who had ten years ago created the accounting, and even discharger in the spring ... .. Fucina degli Angeli, which at charmer.
Care must be taken because the glass bites. You start seeing a Glass Tea House, designed by a Japanese, and just thirsty glass. Do you want to see more. I have to settle for me to see. Others, who may end up doing collections, such as the BelliniPezzoli, the oldnick-Spanu, Dimitri Levas or Bischofberger, who are exhibiting part of her collection at Le Stanze del Vetro. All bitten by the glass, they have finished making even a good deal with their collections, which are exhibited worldwide. So far, a brief account of what may be considered the line of excellence official say Venetian glass. But in the last century it made his way elbowing another line of work, what we call the art glass, art glass. Now the surprise in the world of glass comes from the hand of Adriano Berengo, a snake
that time was walking ruined.
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Ethics in conservation and restoration (IV).
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By Fernando CortĂŠs Pizano.
For a regulated profession one in which access to or exercise thereof is restricted by national legislation to holders of specific qualifications understood. And that is why so actually, today, there can be no prosecution or legal prosecution for possible bad practices in our profession.
The urgency of the regulatory process One of the main objectives of our collective should be to promote adequate academic training, and unified approved for conservatives; but especially the common struggle to achieve the regulation of our profession.
The consideration of our activity, affecting cultural property must be classified This is mainly because our as general interest and profession is not regulated should be addressed to the and therefore it is not possible to define or quantify earliest ordination. what we mean by Processing or prosecution of malpractice. malpractices intrusiveness Spanish law does not specify or persecution should be secondary targets. clearly and forcefully who may practice our profession That would be the best way and, by exclusion, those who to care for our heritage: can not. raising the level of our interventions and ensure Similarly, these laws do not that those engaged in this include any penalty or profession to enjoy rights punishment for those who and comply with obligations. exercise without a qualification or specific Only in this case we can be training. really subject to an ethical code and have some control In order to practice our over who and how it profession we are not required to have a license or intervenes on our heritage. to be registered in an official We must not forget that this association or college. regulation should also therefore have an From this it follows that not really make sense, today, to international recognition, so talk about concepts such as that what we mean by a intrusion or encroachment on conservator-restorer is the same in all countries, at our profession. www.amigosmava.org
least within the European framework, allowing free movement of professionals. Finally, this regulation should be carried out by public institutions in collaboration with independent associations on cultural heritage, not only private institutions, as has happened in other countries. Existing regional associations of restaurateurs, and especially ACRE, the only national association, can and should play a key role in this regulatory process. Another important issue that should not be left aside is the urgent need for regulation of securities conservators those who completed their studies before the recent adoption of the current model of Grado. I mean those who currently have a bachelor's degree, diploma or higher, all currently nonexistent and obsolete. It should therefore promote a system of approval and conversion of the titles of all these professionals so that they can be matched and work on equal terms with existing restaurateurs degree qualification.
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"Art Glass" in Uruguay.
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The artist Wilson Nessi, based for many years in San José de Mayo, presented at the Grand Hotel Concordia its exhibition "Art Glass".
He knew nothing about its techniques, its history, but the attraction to this material and the desire to know more about him were the reasons that encouraged me, but even more who incentivized me as it was Victor and there began to remember those beautiful classes drawing and painting and watercolor -óleo - the artist salteño Artigas Milans Martinez when I preparatory architecture in those years. "
The man, the artist, the work, all is one. Light certainly an invisible substance itself, spread by the immensity, incites everywhere ... ..it some spiritual substance ... that "The first time I worked with glass, informs the power of our senses, fourteen years ago, I was even if still look outside sun or fire fascinated. It all started at a very any, has been given as a soul, not young age. only our but also universal ... what grafted visibly in the internal senses My admiration for the light after species absent things, and why, passing through different colored during sleep, and we welcome and glasses and according to the figures species of sensible things ... position it was to places where .while rests the soul of the activity of shone different physical and The artist says that glass is one of the external senses - as in dreams spiritual states. the materials that can most help to so enlightens the species of visible convey a dialogue-matter - no Issue not stopped thinking about things that while dreams - the several times in my life until I retire matter. dreams - at all judges that this when my work "- shares. Light is very important and currently meantime dreaming, and is informed by the inner light as with has many possibilities with the In the Torres García Museum, techniques of working with light and more true than on the outside light. Nessi found that dictated lessons for stained glass and others by the glass is a good receiver ... This reality forces us to think, to Spanish artist Victor Garcia reason. We started the way of this "This is why we feel that chooses Gongora with whom he worked for and when reissuing it to us so that it show where they have appreciated two years until he was released on can see, I think the transforms, and different works, so now tell them their own and through the within a block of glass I can create that all were made with float glass experiences that he collected on the a limitless universe, an inner world glass windows - recycled bottles. way went ahead to form my that is really what I look in the Schools glass have specialties workshop where besides studying glass. design and decoration, sculptures, study continued testing mistakes and successes and turning all these Perhaps what I look for in my work new techniques applied to contemporary stained glass, experiences in my classes "- tells is that the pieces always have restoration, conservation, carved, Wilson Nessi. something to say from within, coming so with these new something to say inside, a strong From his early experiences with techniques applied today to the art inner life, and that their glass he realized the enormous of baking glass, where we are transparency when you work expressive possibilities for that witnessing a new era in the history makes us see that has a slightly matter. of art glass where the only and mysterious quality, It is material unquestionable claimed that expression. " "I confess that at first the world of distinguishes it is authenticity. artistic glass was unknown to me.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXI).
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materials, none is exclusive glass vessels.
As for the decor, the fund is mainly light blue, and yellow Generally they mimic the and white colors are applied, forms have their origin in and blue when the production made of stone. background is blue. The production technique The green color usually beakers not allow the appears only on vessels that manufacture of large vessels correspond to the first half of so forms imitated stone will the XVIII dynasty. be reduced measures .; so The decor at very irregular will some cases that mimic pen locate in the last the terracotta. moments of the production The content of glass vessels of glasses, the late New should be sensitive to judge Kingdom: the feeling of a by the sense of luxury item marmolización the outside of and small dimensions. the piece. Their destination was a very Another type of decoration is small market. made of spots, these, in amárnica time, are reported Remains found inside colored glasses and tubes of as eye, but only found in kohl powder. fragments. All forms are taken from the production made in those same moments in other
Smaller and narrow mouth vessels should contain perfumes. Covered containers that appear are scarce; usually they closed with pieces of cloth or wood tied with cords below the mouth of the cup. The fayence probably originated in imitation of parts made of semiprecious stones, and glass at the start of their production tend to imitate: it is enough to observe the celestial color that dominates the funds during the first period of its production. In this regard we can not forget the pseudo vessels or vessels mutant.
They constitute a set of glasses worked in wood or Stone vessels were primarily terracotta generally dated to used to contain ointments, the XVIII dynasty. salves and drugs.
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N E W S (I).
Peke Toyas in Mónaco. Atocha 36, in May and June.
"" It was a great experience to see windows in an exhibition of contemporary art, without having to be specific glass. Being able to redeem the window of his architectural servitude, ie without dependence of the gap without requiring a door or window to be, or to be ... well it seems a Posted by ACAV. Cat. Its retro illuminated paintings wonderful act of liberation. "Our friend and partner Toyas have been seen hanging in the And Monaco a special booth of the Gaudi Gallery in Peke has participated in Art place with its elegance Fair Art Tentation which took Madrid, which is Toyas Peke and glamor. "" who discovered in the place from 22 to 25 September 2016 in Monaco. exhibition Casa Decor Calle
Culture 2016. donated to a more pronounced thematic personality, formed by the Immaculate, one of the most common themes among Spanish Golden Age artists to express successive ideals of feminine beauty. The selection of these works, dated from the 1630s and 1680s, lets see how the representation of the theme of the Immaculate Conception oscillated between two versions: one that emphasizes privacy, meditation and concentration, and featuring baroque formulas by dynamic and colorful compositions. In exhibition have gathered the earliest Immaculate donation and guarding the Prado, both of Zurbaran, whose comparison allows to know the different iconographic and compositional alternatives that the painter was raised at the beginning of his career before formal concentration and emotional introspection which entered the museum in 1956, from the donation Arango is expansive and is notable for the wide flight of his robe.
The second Inmaculada de Zurbaran donation, dated 1656, is a bridge with the rich tradition of sevillanas concepcionistas representations of the second half of the seventeenth century and can be compared to the Immaculate one of the great representatives of this school, Juan Valdes Leal that in his work, dated 1682, Last October we visited the "Immaculate" exhibition at the prevents the communicative Museo del Prado. compositional dynamism and expansion After the generous donation made last year Plácido Arango that are characteristic. Arias, the Prado Museum has organized a special new presentation that, this time, gathers the set of works
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N E W S (II).
Carda taught in ESCAL.
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The School of Ceramics of Alcora (Escal) hosted last 11 October a training seminar on "The use of recycled glass in the formulation of new ceramic bodies," which was given by John B. Carda, Professor of Chemistry inorganic Universitat Jaume I and director of the Department of Innovation
Ceramics Ciutat de Vilareal.
the LIFE ClayGlass, a project funded by the European Commission The system reduces under the Life Environment cooking temperatures, Programme, which proves thereby saving energy and, successful program finally, reducing emissions. making facing bricks, by The participation of experts replacing part of the took place, with the pottery clay mass recycled collaboration of the glass. Association of Ceramic Technicians (ATC) within
National Crafts Awards.
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The glass in Museums: Stedelijk Zwolle.
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The Stedelijk Museum Zwolle is the center of the museum to experience the cultural heritage of Zwolle. The museum offers an amazing experience and contemporary way of cultural history as an important chapter in the history of Zwolle. The rich cultural history of the city, both for its own residents and visitors to the city will be connected to the city today with its other attractive features.
Stedelijk Museum has paw, symbolizing the existed for more than 125 seven provinces. years. The other presentation It was founded in 1884 as refers to the French Overijssels Museum. Republic. Until 1954 the museum was part of the Society for practice Overijsselsch Regiment and History. Then it became independent.
Herein include the letters "Egaux et vivre ou mourir free, the Rights of Man 'freely and on an equal footing, live or die, human rights and République Française" recorded.
In 1996, the name was This combination changed to City Museum indicates a training period Zwolle. between the Treaty of 16 In a glass cup they can May 1795 between be recorded symbols France and the Republic Monitoring and promotion French and Dutch and the admission of the freedom. of the rich cultural eighth Brabant province heritage leads to of the General States on In one, the inspiration, wonder, personification of liberty, March 1, 1796. connection and education having left the Dutch lion This masterpiece has level. with seven arrows in its been exhibited at the Salon Drostenhuis.
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Recycling. Against the return system.
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Companies and associations are studying possible legal action to block the implementation of a system that, a priori, does not apply: consulted legal experts agree that the weak point of the future Law for the Prevention of Abandonment of packaging waste is that the DRS is unconstitutional, To ensure its since regulation on the implementation, the draft collection and treatment of regional law regulating the waste is state competition. system provides a tough The Government plans to penalties, ranging from define the draft rules fines of less than 900 before the end of the year, euros for minor offenses amounts to 45,000 to 1.75 so the coming weeks will be crucial. million for those who "hinder" its operation , Its aim is to undertake which is responsible, processing and largely, producers and parliamentary approval in commercial establishments 2017, one year moratorium through various control informative and piloting measures. actions, which would be its The Generalitat Valenciana is not willing to give up the implementation of the system of deposit, refund and return packaging (SDDR), despite the unanimous opposition of business representatives, consumers and entities responsible for processing and recycling.
An approach that has sat like a bucket of cold water between the sectors concerned, fighting, for months, against the implementation of the DRS.
complementary, current containers. The consumer will pay 10 cents per pack -the consumer associations emphasize that encarecerĂĄ the shopping cart, arriving in cases such as water, to 40 per cent, which will be returned when returned. The Government estimates that some 7 million packages daily are consumed in the Region, of which 5 million are not recycled. In this regard, the Executive argues that it is "a policy of protecting the territory."
In response, a specialist in this alert regarding that "the law is masquerading under regional powers on additional security measures on the practical application in environment, but they can 2018. only dictaminarse in areas The DRS packaging arises where communities can act only water, juices, soft jurist and waste are the drinks and beer -latas, exclusive competence of cartons and glass bottles the State. the arises, is a and plastic-, so it will not standard that has not gone be a substitute, but ".
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In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2016.
Cultural visits.
This November our cultural activity related to the glass will be focused on assisting the lecture series "The glass in the century of Cervantes" to be taught in the MAVA occasion of the XVI Science Week 2016 and will taught by Susana Arbaizar, Vetraria Muñoz de Pablos and Angel Sanchez Moreno.
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Our activities.
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This November will visit the Renoir exhibition at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and can be seen at various stages of his career and in a wide variety of The filmmaker Jean Renoir wrote genres, both in group scenes, portraits and nudes and still lifes that his father "looked at the and landscapes. flowers, women, the clouds of heaven as other men touch and A tour of more than 70 works by the French artist, from museums fondle". Faced with the usual conception and collections around the world, to discover how they served that reduces impressionism to suggestions touch volume, "pure visuality", the exhibition highlights the central place tactile materials or textures as a vehicle to capture the intimacy in its sensations in the paintings of various forms-social, friendly , www.amigosmava.org
family or erotic, and how that work and spectator imaginary links with the sensuality of the brushstroke and the pictorial surface. The exhibition, curated by Guillermo Solana, artistic director of the Thyssen Museum, has the patronage of Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and subsequently exhibited at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, between February 7 and May 15, 2017.
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Agustín Aguirre in the SER.
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It is one of the few glassmakers there in Navarra and also create very many artistic products, the company exercises the R & D creating a new way to manufacture the glass exploded.
understands the difference between the sole and exclusive work and which is made in series," says Marian Aguirre.
furniture and doors and small decorative objects inlaid with different woods. It even has elements linked to esotericism as gemotherapy and mineralogy.
Stained glass windows, lamps, decorative objects, recycled glass, inlaid wood "The market fell and the By The Window Company and acrylic paintings, crisis is costing recover. dichroic glass jewelry, has passed Navarra Keep in mind that we are tiffany, fusing and torch. Marian Aguirre, Aguirre not a company of Agustin Company Artistic The diversification is varied expensive products. It is a Glass Workshop, a in this family business, misconception," says company dedicated to the which demands a better Marian Aguirre. "We have artistic glass using different tax treatment for craft products from a few euros. techniques such as tiffany, businesses like yours. We encourage anyone who stained, thermoforming, Even they taught courses wants to know to enter the recycled glass artistic and tiffany and inlaid glass. establishment and ask us. exploded. There are many dreams, Agustín Aguirre is one of ideas that can materialize Agustín Aguirre Artistic the few glassmakers who in glass, and not Glass Workshop is located are still active at this time expensive," adds Marian at Calle 29 numero in Spain. Aguirre. Bergamín Pamplona. "The The company performs goal is that the client heraldic paintings, inlaid
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Other trends. Alhambra messages.
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Propaganda is a constant power. In the thirteenth century Spain, the Nasrid dynasty made use of her lungs. Moreover, he had extraordinary support: walls, columns, arches, fountains and rooftops of the Alhambra. The result of this intense propaganda exercise is that much of the 10,000 epigraphic inscriptions that adorn the city Nazari, compared to what was believed, are not beautiful poems and pious verses of the Koran. The most frequent epigrams recount the exploits and conquests of the sultans, the excellence of its buildings and, above all, those that contain the words "Wa-la Ghalib illa Allah", the motto of the Nasrid dynasty which means "No conqueror but Allah. " For readers of the time, this was, above all, a reminder of who ruled them. That's one of the conclusions reached by the Arabist and research scientist at the School of Arab Studies of the CSIC Juan Castilla Brazales, who, leading a team of a dozen people, has cataloged these 10,000 entries. The process has led to localize, translate, link with similar legends, photograph and draw each and every one of them, carried out on three types of materials: wood, plaster and stone. Castilla has completed a laborious job. "It is difficult to find in the free spaces Alhambra decoration; even the stalactite, these constructions based prisms, sometimes include an inscription on each side of these
prisms. I spent hours looking epigrams on the roof with binoculars, "he recalls. Arab decoration, unlike that of the palaces and cathedrals of Europe, renunciation of human and animal figures. Therefore, for the decoration of the Moorish city builders resorted to geometric and plant forms and, "in the absence of a developed visual arts, calligraphy," says Castilla. "The Alhambra is not littered with poems and Koranic quotations because one of the main objectives of this decoration is the strengthening of identity. It is also an advertising tool. " Are frequent ejaculations in honor of the Muslim god, as "Gratitude to Allah" or "Glory is to Allah"; then votive, very short sections -of one or two words about abstract concepts like happiness, glory and blessing and extolling the monarch. Finally, Koranic inscriptions more or less extent and poetic legends.
Alonso del Castillo in 1564. The expert concludes that job now and so many others "with a different perspective: completeness". "No I settled inscriptions were in sight, I looked everywhere," he says. Thus, it has been found inscriptions in underground rooms, stairs and even in material collapse stacked for centuries ... To the question of whether there is any criterion to determine the association between each entry and its location, the researcher explains that each sultan tried to make his mark and, indeed, the spaces were designed by selecting the epigrams. Sometimes appointments were created for the occasion and, in some cases, fragments of existing texts were used.
The documentation has been collected in Corpus Epigraphic of the Alhambra, a bilingual edition of eight books-DVD interactive allowing the user to know the detail of all entries: localization, translation, photography, drawing, The research team Juan Castilla context. The Spanish Union of and puts an end to a job that began University Publishing has awarded 500 years ago. After the taking of this work the prize for best national Granada by the Christians, the edition in digital format. Reynaldo Alhambra became also a visiting Fernandez, director of Board of the space and thus began the curiosity Alhambra and the Generalife, editor of these visitors to know the of the work, announces it expects to meaning of the writings. But that make available to the public the last task was undertaken only partially; two books-DVD in the first half of only they had translated the poems, next year. The Alhambra will then epigrams aside smaller and have 10,000 fewer secrets. importance. The first verses translated, Castille, medical and Granada Moorish
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VI Encontro Restoration.
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Ten experts in restoration of national heritage, museum curators and foundations and teachers of Spanish universities will participate this month in the Encontro Conservation and Restoration, an event that reaches its sixth edition and again organize the Museum of Pontevedra and the Higher School Conservation and Restoration of Galicia Culturais Bens. "In this issue" advance organizers, "the tour is completed by different families of decorative arts, addressing all issues related to the conservation and restoration of ceramics, glass and metals." To this end, they hope to have "the most outstanding specialists" to provide a "multidisciplinary perspective as possible," so that would appeal to a wide range of audiences. The Sixth Building Museum will host scientific conference, to be held from 16 to 18 November. Carmen Espinosa Martín, chief curator of the Museum Lazaro Galdiano, will deliver the inaugural lecture dedicated to "Conservation and maintenance of eclectic museum collections. The Museum Lazaro Galdiano case. Methodology of work." The next speaker will be Abraham Rubio Celada, doctor in Art History and expert Marqués
de Castrillón, who devoted his speech to the Spanish Historic Pottery Foundation, and propose a route between the Middle Ages and the late nineteenth century. "Preserving heritage restoration metal, problematic and technical innovation" is the title of the talk to be delivered the same opening day the conservatorrestorer of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain Soledad Diaz Martinez.
Tapia, porcelain and glass restorer of National Heritage. The second day will conclude with the presentation "Treatments azulejería intervention" by Begoña Carrascosa Moiner, Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Already in the dismissal of the Encontros Restoration, the first invited the conservator-restorer of The lectures of the first day of works of art and cultural property the conference will close with the specializing in glass Marta intervention of the National Golobardes Subirana, who will Heritage restorer Isabel Delgado present the topic "Conservation Iglesias on "Conservation of and restoration of glass. historic armor and weapons." Introduction to basic knowledge for treatment the historical glass. The next day the first act of " scientific meeting will be devoted to "Decorative arts Orivería.. Finally, will deliver the closing conference, dedicated to "The Restoration techniques processional crosses and other role of conservation departments during the renovation of a historic objects of sacred and secular art" by the restorer of cultural museum", the conservatorgoods José Luis Alonso Benito. restorer María Antonia Moreno This will give way to the Cifuentes. collaborator of the Institute of Different scientific sessions will Cultural Heritage of Spain Diana be supplemented by discussions Lafuente Fernández, whose with attendees and visits to the intervention entitled "The Enemy collections of the sixth building Within: pollutants and preventive and Sarmiento. conservation of cultural heritage in museums metal". The deadline for registration in the VI Encontro Conservation For its part, the restoration of and Restoration is already open porcelain and ceramics in the in the secretariat of the museum royal collections will be the and runs until November 11. subject of analysis of Margarita
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The exhibition "Envidriarte".
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Interpretation Center Guadix Caves hosts its 21st Temporary Exhibition.
education and an important awareness of recycling .
since 2001 is the PIMA (Program for Comprehensive Prevention in Open Inma Toscano, educator Environment) which works It is "EnvidriArte" a very comprehensive prevention with the group of lower attractive collection of pieces program in the Middle Open values education that act as created from recycled glass, (PIMA), explained that this protective factors against unique pieces that have exhibition born of supply and consumption been made in the craft experimentation, wanting to drug: frustration tolerance, workshops developed by the check instructors and self-esteem, commitment, Association A.T.A.N.I. Help students the behavior of the respect for nature, to Drug Addicts Association glass in the oven they use in pretending to be an "New Illusion" in Guadix from their pottery, leading to a alternative to the model of 25 years ago. number of interesting jobs consumerist leisure. "that have attracted much It presents a wide range of creativity of children". The central activity of the parts that can be made by program is a recycling recycling bottles using With these works the PIMA workshop that part of their techniques such as painting, project develops Atani since interests, attended on their cutting and baking. 2001, although other own initiative and which have workshops will be continued The participation of children been developed pieces and work culminates. involved the collection of presented in this exhibition. bottles, clean them and More information about Atani It presents a wide range of applying some of the "ATANI is a non profit parts that can be made by techniques such as painting organization that was recycling bottles using and baking. founded in 1991 from the techniques such as painting, The exhibition was concern of a group of cutting and baking. inaugurated with the mothers affected by the Participation the children in participation of Councillor of problem of drug addiction of the same consisted of the Tourism of the City of their children / as, seek help collection of bottles, clean Guadix, Ivan Lopez Ariza, for their treatment and them and applying some of who stressed the value of subsequent rehabilitation. the techniques such as the work done Atani with One of the projects painting and baking. " workshops for children in developed by the company which they inculcate values
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Congress of the SECV.
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SECV throughout his professional life and plaque of recognition as Honorary Member Professor D. Arturo Domínguez Rodríguez, for their outstanding scientific achievements in the field of ceramics, which have become an undisputed international reference.
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Particularly moving was the moment when the new Secretary of the Society, Dr. Begoña Ferrari, addressed those present for glossing the trajectory of Dr. Carmen Baudín during his tenure as Secretary of the institution and the organization of the International Congress ECERS 2015 in Toledo.
The LV Congress (SECV), was held in Seville, from 5 to 7 October 2016 was treated in the first call that is made by the SECV biannually and this year passed with the slogan "Ceramics and glass: traditional, modern and future challenges ", already the fifth edition in Seville after the Annual Congresses held in 1967, 1978, 1995 and 2005. Last January and at the request of the Spanish Society of Ceramics and Glass (SECV), the city of Seville was officially designated as the venue to host your LV Congress. Until the last Congress of 2014, these had been continuously congressional calls annually. With the resolution adopted by the Board of Governors of the SECV, Seville was in 2016 the first biennial call headquarters, having been already organized in the past at the same venue in 1967, 1978, 1995 and the last in 2005. The designation of Seville to host the LV Congress SECV has been a good incentive for many tenured members, many chemists, physicists, materials engineers and Corporate Partners of the SECV in Universities, Schools, Research Institutes and Companies field of ceramics and glass, in Seville province capital and, by extension, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. The Annual Meeting of the SECV took place on the first day of Congress (October 5) afternoon, in which they proclaimed and elected candidates took possession of it. Then there was the Inaugural Session of Congress LV under the auditorium of the University of Seville, in the building of the Rectory. Once the opening ceremony concluded, it was given an Inaugural Conference by the prestigious Professor Alfonso Pleguezuelo, University of Sevilla, who spoke about the history of the Seville Ceramics in
the early twentieth century, driven essentially formed by D . José Gestoso. On Thursday and Friday, in the Chambers-Classrooms teachers which has the Vice President for Doctoral and Graduate Studies, building of the former Pavilion of Mexico, carried out simultaneous morning and afternoon sessions of this LV Congress with the presentation of various papers selected by the Science and Technology Committee of the LV Congress. They invited several conferences, plenary character, were given by renowned specialists of our country and other European universities and research centers. In particular, Prof. Richard I. Todd, University of Oxford, UK, spoke about the "flash sintering" in ceramics. Also, Professor Pilar Miranzo, the Institute of Ceramics and Glass in Madrid, gave a very instructive lesson devoted to ceramic composites based on graphene. Prof. Arturo Dominguez Rodriguez of the University of Seville, presented an interesting overview of past, present and future of ceramics and finally, Prof. Angel Luis Ortiz Seco, University of Extremadura, presented a comprehensive study of processing carbides of refractory nanoceramic. The Congress themes were varied, among them the following: synthesis and processing, materials characterization, biomaterials, recycling and reuse of materials, archeometry and ceramics for architecture and industry. On Thursday evening a tour to the Museum of Ceramics Triana followed by the Gala Dinner LV Congress was held. It is noteworthy delivering plates tribute to D. Emilio Herrero Criado, for his long and fruitful work during the
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No less emotional was the moment when our colleague, Dr. Francisco Capel Eagle, Paco Capel announced his desire to move the stage to the stalls; that is, withdraw from their current responsibilities on the Board after many years of selfless service to our institution and to archeometry. Paco Capel is someone who is always in the hearts of those present, with what these words came with a bittersweet tone. We have the great consolation that is always available for everything it takes in the Company. Among the various activities of LV Congress, took place a new edition of the Contest of Scientific and Technical Ceramics and Glass Photography and the Student Competition. The latter Competition appointed Spanish representative in the "Student Speech Contest" (Student Competition) of the XV Congress of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS 2017) to be held in Budapest (Hungary) in July 2017. This distinction was awarded to the Mr Giulio Gorni person for his work entitled "Nd3 + doped transparent oxyfluoride glass-ceramics: Bulk and fibers". The conference ended on the afternoon of October 7th, with the closing ceremony chaired by Dr. Marina Villegas Gracia, Director of the newly established National Investigation Agency (AEI) and partner with broad experience in the SECV, which evoked affectionately memories of past editions. In his speech aside a few minutes to briefly explain the nature of the AEI and help disseminate the scientific community what their true nature. He stressed that a management structure, no generation of R & D, which will manage all the calls for the public sector and whose mission is to achieve a more efficient and agile management of resources available to the Spanish research, to which counting own budget will be a fundamental tool. He concluded by encouraging researchers to learn and interact with the AEI to contribute to its implementation.
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Eva Jiricna stairs.
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It is possible to decouple the design of stairs by the name of Eva Jiricna, architect and designer Czech, British origin adopted since 1976, which played a prominent role in the London architecture of the eighties, with its original and innovative way of conceiving interiors shops and trendy restaurants of the city, employing a style that characterize throughout his career, for the use of industrial materials such as steel and glass in domestic contexts, mainly in their original and sculptural stairs . Create a new, own and recognizable language, combining elements such as steel, tensioning wire and glass, in the open stairs,
playing with the effects of weightlessness, transparency and the passage of light that offer these materials. In recent years we can find some projects where LED lighting includes touches of color, increasing the dramatic effect of his designs, breaking with its usual neutral tones. Uses the same criteria in all their designs, both projects of new plant and rehabilitation of buildings from other eras, using these cases as an element of transition between the new and the existing, as in the case of the Somerset House in London.
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Since 1986, the year he opened his own studio in London, has carried out numerous works, both nationally and internationally, among which are residential, public, commercial buildings, etc., always excelling in the field of interior design. His contribution to architecture, both professionally and teachers have awarded honorary doctorates at several prestigious universities, as well as several awards, among them the Royal Designer for Industry in 1991 and Jane Prize Drew, in 2013, in which his "contribution to the status of women in architecture" stood out.
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Meteorite impact.
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About 55 million years ago, Earth's climate began to change menacingly. Temperatures rose to nine degrees, the polar ice caps disappear, sea level rose and there was a mass extinction of marine organisms. Meanwhile, on land, groups of modern mammals appeared, including primates. That event is studied by scientists, because it presents the best analog current global warming, although it probably was not as sharp or dangerous.
impact at this time," notes Morgan meanwhile Schaller, a geochemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lead author of the research.
Meteor expert believes the finding glasses is "a very important discovery, but only if confirmed by other groups."
The most accepted hypothesis is that until now the massive release of carbon was due to volcanic eruptions over a period of between 5,000 and 20,000 years. The process was accentuated when large quantities of methane that had remained frozen in the seabed melted, reinforcing the greenhouse effect.
If these glasses are genuine, says, everything suggests that the comet or asteroid was very small, about 1,000 times less than that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Coal aboard the comet could Now a team of US scientists claims trigger global warming, the authors to have found the first evidence that maintain. And that process may act in parallel with others, such as the the process was initiated by the melting of methane added. impact of a meteorite. In a study published in Science, the team of Dennis Kent, of Columbia University, he maintains that a comet struck Earth just at the time that started the "Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum" (PETM), characterized by the release of large amounts of carbon began to warm the planet. Scientists have found hundreds of pieces of glass known as microtektites and the size of grains of sand. They would be part of the cast by the impact and then solidified material. The team removed the old submarine sediments in the state of New Jersey. "This may be the ground zero" thermal maximum, argues Kent. "Suddenly temperatures rose and this may be the explanation," said the scientist in a press release issued by the university. "There has to be more than a coincidence that there is a fair
more than three decades ago, a scientific team found tektites glass and iridium in sediments from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. They were the first evidence confirming that a large meteorite could cause the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. "Since then we have seen many studies that propose similar events and that later turn out to be nothing," says Birger Schmitz, a researcher at the University of Lund (Sweden). The expert recognizes that there are "a lot of skepticism" in the scientific community about the new find in New Jersey. "Over the past 20 years have done a lot of studies on the start of the PETM without have found evidence of the impact of an asteroid or a comet," he observes. "Some of the most detailed" Birger has made with Victorian Pujalte in the Basque Country, he says.
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"Such bodies fall to Earth all the time without causing a global disturbance", so it is hard to argue that this body alone itself could. "If it really was the cause is because it fell in a particularly sensitive area, such as a large oil deposit" adventure. By far not found any crater in the area. Nor it has dated glasses directly, only sediments that contained it, so still it is doubtful whether there was an impact at that time. The Swedish expert says his American colleagues have sent samples for glasses found himself analyzed to confirm that demonstrate an impact. For Jesus Martinez-Frias, Head of Research Group Meteorite CSIC and Planetary Geosciences, found the glass spheres are an "unequivocal impact" test. In his view, climate change was caused probably caused by causes "complementary" both impacts and volcanism. In any case that climate change was much more benign. It is estimated that the current rate of warming is 10 times faster, thus possibly leading to the extinction of one in six species.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Peter Layton.
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Otazu Kablan prize.
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recycling system that constantly recirculates.
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Also, Alfredo Jaar adds: "Galileo said" Wine is sunlight, united by water '. For this reason I decided to illuminate the water with a very powerful system LED lights that replace the sun when it sets. " The four cubes are also a symbol of the four elements that define us: fire, air, earth and water. In short, it is a celebration of life, in response to the wine, which also celebrates life. It is the first activity of the newly created Foundation Art Kablanc Otazu, which aims to deepen the relationship between art and society. The award is biennial and is organized by Guillermo Penso White, general manager of the Bodega Otazu and member of the International Council of Patronage of the Reina Sofía Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, with among vineyards, towering Museum Foundation and his work 'The color of our sculptures by Xavier Mascaro, curated by Miguel Angel Garcia lives', was the winner of the Anish Kapoor, Arturo Berned, Vega, critic and regular first edition of the International Manolo Valdes, Rafael Barrios, contributor to the newspaper El Contemporary Art Prize and since October 2016, País. organized by the Foundation Alfredo Jaar. minimalism liquid Kablanc Otazu. The color of our lives This spectacular piece, João The jury was composed by The play The color of our lives Fernandes defined as 'liquid João Fernandes (deputy (2015) Chilean artist Alfredo minimalism' was unveiled on director of the Reina Sofía Jaar has won the First October 5, coinciding with "The Museum Foundation, Soledad International Art Prize harvest festival" of Bodega Lorenzo (gallerist and Foundation Kablanc Otazu. Otazu. collector;) and Aníbal Yazbeck Jozami (collector and director A monumental composition During the harvest festival will of the Art Biennale Unasur). composed of four glass cubes, not only be able to visit the art transparent, respecting the museum of the Lordship of Art Foundation Kablanc Otazu environment in which they find Otazu and Exhibition Collection is the new project of Bodega themselves. and Foundation Kablanc Otazu and CEO, William Otazu, but could also enjoy Penso, which reinforces this Its dimensions represent tasting grapes, musts and initiative through its active with approximately four types of mature wines led by teachers the world of art and culture wine made Otazu: red, white, oenologists the winery and commitment. pink and champagne. In participate in the manual addition, the four cubes Just 15 kilometers from harvest in vineyard and contain water, the only liquid Pamplona, between the traditional grape stomp, attend element that can compete with mountains of Forgiveness and to manual stripping, the aging the wine, says the artist, who Sarbil and the Arga River, lies process of the grapes and the is always moving through a the Bodega Otazu, a paradise opening of barrels. of art and wine in which live
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Czech trade centenary.
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worked in various studios around the world. As a result he has learned a lot of techniques used in different locations, allowing you to apply these methods in their creations for Lasvit. After his return from the Design Week in London, where the work of Lasvit was presented, Marek Effmert claims that the latest trends in glass manufacturing are based on the simplicity of the pieces, simple forms, lack of colors and simple and easy lines. Glass craft has remained with the passage of time and today this business enjoys a golden age. The Czech region of Nový Bor is located in the heart of the Bohemian glass industry, forming future professionals each year of this art. With the fall of communism in 1989 they led to new opportunities for making glass, and although this industry suffered the impact of the global crisis and some businesses were forced to close, this tradition survived. The Czech town north of Bohemia, Nový Bor, has one of the companies glass design more international success, Lasvit, which together with the famous glassworks Ajeto in Lindava offers Bohemian glass customers more demanding all the world. Jiří Suchý is glass master at the School of Art and Design in Nový Bor glass, which has about 400 students. The expert noted that there is currently a high demand for engravers, blowers and producers of molds and virtually every week gets a call from a company looking for a good student. The school has its own workshops with small smelters, glass painting classes, classes engravers and cutters and is the only country that teaches the art
of making molds. The teacher Pavel Fille says the secret to success lies in the specialization of schools.
A craft that dates back to the era of the Middle Ages
The town of Nový Bor is linked to the art of Jiří Suchý that the growing glassmaking for over seven interest in this profession hundred years ago. Thanks because the glassmaking to the abundant amount of companies are offering wood that exists in the area, talented graduates with which is used as fuel and raw exceptional opportunities. materials, this region has the This encourages young ideal conditions to perform people to further come to the this office. The glassworks city of Nový Bor to know the date back to the Middle Ages old office. and found due to various archaeological finds as small The glass artist Marek pieces of molten glass and Effmert is a successful fragments of molds. graduate who has become one of the stars of the Since the early seventeenth company Lasvit. Your job is century Bohemian glass to achieve the best creation masters were much sought of a piece through the after because of their skills. proposal received from the The cities of Kamenický designers, either a Šenov and Nový Bor artisans chandelier, a sculpture or a were famous for exporting trophy. The virtuoso their products to the royal craftsman says that the houses of Europe and qualities you need a good America and Asia. worker are based on glass have imagination, a little luck The first school of art glass in in creating the first prototype Europe is in Kamenický and some skills in Šenov, and dates from 1856. glassblowing. He claims that Later in 1870 a similar school this can not be achieved in was established in Nový Bor. the first year of training, Both regions became because you need to forerunners cities of art experience and learn glassmaking. different techniques. After the Communist Marek Effmert that when takeover in 1948, many small made parts do not take it as businesses became large a job, feels it is an enjoyable state-owned industries. game. He claims that his Glass of Bohemia was one of success lies in the the main export items of the experience. The artist has country and remains so traveled extensively and has today.
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More on "The Trinity".
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Castreño noted that after the capture DUSI 15 million program to North Macarena and prevents attend the second call for such funds.
find some funds," he said, however.
It was the September 4, 2001 when the Ministry of Culture agreed to enroll in The full City Council of the General Catalog of this Seville, meeting in regular ancient and symbolic factory session, unanimously complex Avenue Miraflores adopted a motion of IU-CA to Andalusian Historical materialize the agreements Heritage, acquired by the on future uses of the old company edify Real Estate glass factory La Trinidad, Development, declared located on Avenida de years in bankruptcy in the Miraflores and whose central framework of the nave , ovens and fireplaces catastrophe for the real are protected as cultural estate and construction. interest (BIC) and seek The enclosure is one of the European funds to undertake few examples that has once the restoration of the survived the architecture of site. big industry and Sevilla first During the debate on the industrial expansion outside motion, the first deputy its walled enclosure. mayor of City Hall, Carmen The declaration of cultural castreño, has stated that in interest filed and approved the first call of the Strategy of at the time, in particular, Sustainable and Integrated protects the central nave, Urban Development (DUSI), furnaces and chimney of the financed by the Operational plant as place of Programme 2014-2020 ethnological interest, European Fund Regional although the regional Development (Feder), Seville government promotes for has already harvested 15 years a procedure to catalog million euros for actions in also ships two and three and the Macarena Norte and unify the protected assets in sectors, making it impossible a single category, that of to attend the second call for "place of industrial interest." such funds. "We will try to
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The idea, promoted negotiation years ago, was to give the public heritage protected areas on account of its restrictions on planning matters. Over recent years, anyway, bankruptcy edify Real Estate Development has worsened neglect and ruin the factory complex, which has been the subject of various illegal occupations and episodes of pillaging, being even destroyed furnaces tempering and annealing as well as a boiler, air transportation facilities a glass melting furnace, in a performance that was even elevated to justice. Last June 2014, the Planning Department announced that, thanks to a Plenum March 2011 on the extension of the protected area, had completed the design of a new planning proposal that rethinks "the whole sector" . The new management is reflected in an amendment to the existing special internal reform plan that extends the restrictions and protection devices to auxiliary ships set, the curtain wall and patio enclosure operation.
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The blower dreams.
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Russian linguist Vladimir Propp (1895-1970) was devoted to the analysis of the basic components of the Russians to identify its simplest irreducible narrative elements folktales, analyzed these stories until he found a number of recurring points that created a constant structure all those stories. It is what is known as "the 31 functions Vladimir Propp." These functions are grouped into seven areas: 1) The aggressor. 2) donor. He gives the hero magical object. 3) The auxiliary. Which helps the hero. 4) The Princess and the father. 5) payer. 6) The hero. 7) antagonist.
From the island of Murano at the Laguna Veneta, in northeastern Italy, framed in the Veneto region. An island that is approximately one kilometer from the city of Venice, we get a translucent objects of beauty. The island is famous for its craft of glass. A glass enjoying worldwide recognition for its craftsmanship and color. His glassmakers still currently doing works of art by the same technique made famous centenarian this glass in the twelfth century. But it is not only famous for its beauty and color, so is the one figure, that of "The blower of Dreams" (Bruno), a wonderful story written by Bernard Villiote illustrated by Thibault Prugne (1988), where we tell retales of the life of this beloved character, which is dedicated to a different glass blowing it consists of something very special. One night, makes a child happy by presenting him
Following the criteria Propp "blower Dreams" has a very good structure of the story, being a wonderful full story of timeless character, adapted to a modern language, where the main characters are displayed for the story are given some of the Propp areas such as: an with a fine glass bubble attacker or adversary and containing that special antagonist which no desvelarĂŠsomething, the most wonderful Zorzi, giving a magical object, dream, and from that time the which as we know is this Zorzi child -called Giacomo- spread with fine glass bubbles, the the word around the island all assistant to the hero who is his kids they ask their parents like new partner Giacomo, and a magic bubble! But the victims are children who can mysterious dreams blower is not access those magical not easy to find and also not bubbles. all people on the island are With this structure and happy with this blower so illustrations of prominent faces, characteristic. elongated figures and a colorful This blower has an identity, is and evocative landscapes of called Zorzi Ballari and is Thibault Prugne, the result is apprenticed to Pietro Spalato, magnificent, finding in each the most prosperous master double page a small canvas glassmaker. That person is a artist who moved to the small practical matter and is handled reader to the world of magic with panache and approved in dreams away from which the a mechanical trade also mythological influences exercised publicly, becoming reaches hero fulfill a social the most influential of the function, that of making people island glazier. The illusion and happy children. All a story to dream of Zorzi was learning all read and be read by parents, his master to become a great not only for your enjoyment but glazier, but misfortune will also those little ones who have befall him changing not yet acquired the ability to circumstances drastically. make sense of the set of letters. The anthropologist and
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Oven glass bottles.
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Like Angel Castellon ceramist has been invited to the Second International Conference of Ceramics The turn of Torno, organized in Manises. The workshop for ceramists international level will take place in this small town on 4, 5 and 6 November. Despite its specific character, the conference will be open to the public who would come to visit him. Like Angel it is finalizing what will be a very special show where it plans to build a wood oven with wine bottles for baking ceramics. The oven will reach a temperature of 1000. To this company, it will also support ceramicist Jaime Romero. The space for the construction of the fire is Factory-Museum of José Gimeno (Orchard Street, 1) Valencia Manises pottery. During the workshop, professionals and the public will be able to see how to build an oven with recycled glass bottles. The peculiarity is to be built on site and will be throughout the
rooted in the street "Olleries" Vall de Uxó. Since his youth he "In addition, this workshop will stimulated the arts and especially decorate pieces by different ceramics, which has been cooking methods, making working for about 20 years. He different types of firings in the studied at the School of Ceramics same oven, where we of Manises, obtaining the degree carbonaciones, saggar cooking, of Cerámico Technical Expert, cooking with salt and enameled where he continued Higher pieces," Just says. Studies of Ceramics. Later he continued studying at the Open "We will show how to build a University of Catalonia (UOC) furnace bottles and carry a where he earned a degree in complete firewood cooking. In addition, we will demonstrate the Audiovisual Communication and Master in Education and ICT. technical and aesthetic of this type of cooking possibilities, as His career combines the teaching well as processes and reactions of the arts, research, workshops that occur in the oven ", and creating unique work. In the abounds. field of research work on new As angel has proposed cooking materials, and experimental cooking techniques. In the field of in an oven built with bottles, in teaching, currently he continues which ceramic products should its teaching in the field of be cooked and different results ceramics in C. M. Arts Rafel Martí will be obtained. After the cooking all parts obtained in the Viciana, and teaching courses on different techniques for same place and the molten professionals. He has given bottles are displayed. lectures and master classes in ARTIST PROFILE different parts of the world. construction process.
The same angel lives and works in his studio in Vila-real, though
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Vicrila goes into voluntary bankruptcy.
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Glass and glassware Lamiaco (Vicrila) has been declared voluntary bankruptcy before the Commercial Court No. 1 of Bilbao.
Bilbao, which exceeds 50 M €. The competition is therefore a step further, and condition of ARC, to reduce debt glassmaker table.
The news comes what may be the final phase of the negotiation process that keeps ARC for months for purchase and subsequent return to the French group.
Vicrila through a delicate financial situation that comes, in part, investors disbursements has been undertaking in recent years, as the launch of a production In fact, remember that the plant in Mexico and closing of the acquisition has important investments in its among its key factors Spanish factory. receiving the approval of the Under the terms disclosed in Basque executive, the procurement process, shareholder Vicrila, and debt ARC, which had been negotiation company of
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pegged to 2009, would be interested in investing some 10 M € in Vicrila, which, in turn, would allow the French group to strengthen its position in European markets Iberian. Vicrila ended the year 2015 with net sales of 30.69 M € and grew by around 8% over the previous year. The operating profit of the company was settled with 12.04 M € negative (-8.52 M in 2014), while net income accumulated losses of 26.88 M € (-4.76 M in 2014).
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Glass for the Museum of Tomorrow.
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More than 3,000 m2 of high performance glass Guardian SunGuard Solar Neutral 67 manufactured in Spain have been installed in more than 750 panels to help illuminate the interior of 15,000 m2 of Museum Mañanaen Brazil, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava.
His longilinear form, on two floors, was designed in such a way that respected and allowed to contemplate the architectural environment, especially the Monastery of Sao Benito, one of the most important Baroque buildings in the country.
The set, which the Museum of The Museu do Amanhã Tomorrow now part includes (Museum of Tomorrow) is one the building A Noite (first of the emblematic works of the skyscraper in Latin America), city. the Pedra do Sal, the neighborhood of Gamboa, one The building, considered one of the cradles of samba, the of the cultural icons of the historic Fortezza da Conceicao Olympic Games in Rio de and Rio Art Museum (MAR), Janeiro, has been created by which forms an area of five the architect Santiago million square meters. Calatrava and is the key element in the revitalization of The Museum of Tomorrow the port area in Port Maravilha aims to reflect the future from in Bay Rio de Janeiro. a scientific and technological perspective and, according to
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its architect, Santiago Calatrava, the shape of the building: "It is the result of a very consistent dialogue whose artistic process has led to the creation of more than 600 watercolors, so that the building is allied with the goal of becoming the place where a museum for the future as an educational unit "is installed. Some of the distinctive features of the building are marked by the use of glass as a light surround. One of them is the shell of glass that opens like a window on the front of the museum; another, the succession of triangular glazed windows with high-performance glass made in Spain of Guardian Glass.
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BA Glass buys five factories.
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The group of companies BA Vidrio, to the packaging plant located in Leon (formerly Window Leonesa, Vilesa) belongs, has carried out throughout this year the acquisition of five new manufacturing plants in Germany and Greece, the consolidating its growth in the markets of Eastern Europe and opens the Balkans. With these operations (the Greek is still pending approval by the European competition authorities) the sum Group 12 factories hollow glass containers spread across seven European countries.
In the process of internationalization carried out by the Portuguese group acquired last July HNG Global company, located in the German town of Gardelegen, west of Berlin. The incorporation of the manufacturing plant of this group added a production capacity of 130,000 tons per year, and already has all authorizations. Glazier growth group is strengthened with the announcement now business purchase of glass containers of Greek society Yioula Glass, although from the company indicate that the operation has yet to be approved by European competition agencies.
BA Glass and brings together a total workforce of nearly 4,000 people, and the combined turnover of the group amounted to 800 million The transaction will materialize euros. for BA Glass incorporating In the absence of adding the your business in Greece, productive volume of four Bulgaria and Romania, which Greek plants, the production has four factories packaging capacity of the remaining eight production. plants is more than 14 million In particular in the cities of units daily. Athens, Sofia and Plovdiv in Its production is mainly Bulgaria and Bucharest in focused on the bottles and jars Romania. for the food industry and Business Incorporation glass beverage. of Greek business group www.amigosmava.org
allows BA Vidrio market access of container production in the area of the Balkans, and incorporate a new business with a production capacity of 550,000 tons of glass in seven ovens, divided into four production plants. Integration The Portuguese group took the Vidriera Leonesa in 1999 through a tender offer of shares, for which he first achieved 54.3% of the capital, to become later with all of it, which expanded to 37 , 5 million euros. In 2001 the then Container Glass Factory Barbosa and Almeida merged with Vilesa, BA Glass to create the group. The process of growth and internationalization that has lived since redoubled from 2008, with the acquisition of Solancro group. The purchase in 2012 of the Polish Warta Glass glass group marked the beginning of the expansion in the markets of Eastern Europe, and allowed further strengthen the international position of BA Glass in the spirits segment.
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The first all-glass bathroom.
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A brand new public toilet in Hunan, China, provides a much less predictable than the range of health service. It offers a breathtaking view of Shiyan Lake Ecological Park and also lets you see who is sitting on the toilet next door.
This means that when nature calls users make their needs, will not miss a minute of the breathtaking beauty of Lake Shiyan.
And there, against those who are outraged on social networks so "insane" and "perverse" concept, it is where the The walls, ceiling and voyeurism of this space, floor are made entirely of according to its creators. glass. Why? Cubicles,
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technically, are not fully exposed. --from Doors in the floor to just above the toilet seat - the glass is slightly matt, to protect users who try to see something more than life outdoors. This is true both in the men's room as in women. And both are equally divided transparent walls.
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Presidente honorario
Evangelina del Poyo
Presidente
Diego Martín García
Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez
Francisco Martín García
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José María Gallardo Breña
Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor
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Javier Gómez Gómez
Pablo Bravo García
Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos