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Huge opportunity for glass sectors
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So this is it, 2022, the International Year of Glass. What an opportunity for the industry to highlight its credentials in front of a global audience. Over the course of the next 12 months, starting from the opening ceremony in Geneva to the closing celebration in Japan in December, glass will be under the spotlight. A variety of celebrations and activities are planned all around the globe to bring glass to the public eye. The glass industry is made up of a huge amount of disparate sectors – glass packaging, glass architecture, glass art and speciality glass to name a few – and the year of glass is an opportunity to bring all these elements together under one banner. Themes such as sustainability and digitalisation have been common in glass for several years now. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity provides a chance to show the rest of the world how forward thinking and dynamic the industry can be. Without glass there would be no smartphones for example, something so ubiquitous in all our lives. Highlighting examples such as this to those outside the indistry could provide a boon to the whole sector for years to come. The IYOG website lists several of the actvites taking place and encourages as many events as possible to be listed. Take a moment to view and, if possible, to participate. A successful year of glass could mean that glass finally takes its place within the mainstream of public consiousness.
O-I to sell Cristar tableware business to Nadir Figueiredo
O-I Glass is to sell its Cristar TableTop subsidiary to Brazilian tableware group Nadir Figueiredo for $95 million. Cristar owns a tableware manufacturing plant in Buga, Colombia, that exports table-
ware to 40 countries and generated $14.6 million of EBITDA to the 12 months ended September 30, 2021. The sale is expected to close during the first half of 2022. Andres Lopez, CEO, said:
“We are deploying proceeds from the sale of non-core assets to help fund our expansion plan, leveraging our exciting new MAGMA solution, that includes investment with attractive returns.”
Glass manufacturing facility set to be built in Canada Canadian Premium Sand (CPS) is set to construct a glass manufacturing facility in Selkirk, Canada. CPS said the solar glass manufacturing facility will be the first of its kind in North America and will provide around 300 jobs in the area once the
facility is operating. Currently, all solar panels manufactured in North America using patterned solar glass are made with glass imported from China and other Asia Pacific countries. CPS chose Selkirk due to the proximity to a silica sand
quarry, which is around 160 km north of Selkirk. Leroux said the company looked at several options for where to set up the plant, but determined Manitoba, and Selkirk were the perfect fit. There is also a supply of natural gas in the area, he said.
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