February/March 2012
Pharmaceutical packaging trends
Despite the boom in healthcare, demand for glass in the pharmaceutical industry has disappointed slightly in the last 12 months. Rohan Gunasekera looks at why this has been the case…
Low- E revolutions…
China’s markets for Low-E glass are on the brink of a massive increase. AG assesses future demand, and asks what opportunities exist for new players…
ASEAN container glass trade
AG takes a look at how Far East container makers seem set to enjoy a more prosperous 2012, after a difficult last 12 months.
China float focus
Hao Meiping* talks to Asian Glass about how China’s float glass industry is settling into its next phase of development as the twelfth five year plan (2011-2015), enters a new year…
Firing up facades
The research covered in this article focuses on a newly developed film to improve the fire resistance of existing glass windows and the fire resistant test (ISO 834 heat curve test) which it has passed.
In Focus:
Asian Glass talks to both Andrew Koehler of Bystronic Glass Middle East and Mr. Fahed Al Harbi Company Chairman and CEO of ArcGlass (and CEO of Al Harbi Holding, about how the latter’s investment in a state-of-the-art facility could revolutionise glass processing in the Middle East…
Window on:
An inside look at Chinese glass data.
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"The Indian pharma industry is on the ‘threshold’ of becoming a major global market by 2020" "According to such estimate, the global demand of ultra-white glass in 2014 will reach 800,000~1,650,000 tonnes" "Across the Middle East there are a wealth of new projects (and existing ones), where high grade processed glass is required, and we are now going to be able to present this accordingly"
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