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If you’re an NBA fan, you’ll want to take special notice of some unusual glass doors that help create the façade of the new Sacramento Kings Golden 1 Center. The new arena opened at the beginning of the 2016-17 NBA season. When you think of “glass doors,” you think of doors that are vertically hinged […]
If you want to know about the status of glass recycling in the United States, some quick Internet searching will allow you to create a fairly long list of municipalities that have dumped curbside recycling of glass. Glass is easily one of the most recyclable materials, and it costs less to recycle glass than it […]
One of the world’s premier name in fine glass is coming back home. Corning recently announced that it has reacquired Steuben Glass, after having sold the company in 2008. The company was founded in 1903 and initially acquired by Corning Glass Works in 1918. Three years after the company’s sale to Schottenstein Stores, Schottenstein announced […]
The new European Union Headquarters, located in Brussels, Belgium, is getting ready to host European leaders for the first time. The building, which was originally scheduled to open in 2012, has been beset by delays and cost overruns that pushed the building’s opening back to 2017. The building is known as The Europa, and is […]
If you know anything about glass, you know that it’s a unique material. Glass is formed in a liquid state, and as it cools, it hardens. Unlike other solid materials, glass doesn’t form a standard crystalline structure. For reasons that aren’t clearly understood, glass cools and hardens before it can achieve the hallmark crystal lattice […]
The accepted history of glass says that glassmaking first arose in Mesopotamia about 3,600 years ago. But researchers from Harvard University and Cranfield University in England want the world to know something. There’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that glassmaking originated in Egypt, and that the earliest Mesopotamian glasses were probably just cheap […]
Yankee Candles is voluntarily recalling about 31,000 scented candles in square glass holders that the company sold between September 2016 and November 2016. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which investigated consumer complaints regarding the product, lit candles can generate enough heat to crack the glass holders. The CPSC received reports of 16 candleholders […]
Uroboros, one of the Portland glass furnaces at the center of a controversy regarding toxic heavy metal emissions, has been sold to a California company that intends to move the company to Mexico. Owner Eric Lovell had previously said that the company would close in early 2017, because it was unable to cope with new […]
Researchers at Iowa State University will spend the next three years looking at glass as a possible solid electrolyte for batteries. If glass proves to be a good medium, the resulting rechargeable batteries could be safer and last longer. They could also be used in a broad range of devices. Traditional battery design has relied […]
An Israeli company, Micron 3DP may deliver a 3-D glass printer for alpha-testing sometime in 2017. The unusual characterization of glass – a not-quite-liquid solid or a not-quite-solid liquid – may make it an ideal medium for 3D printing. Programmable printing devices may find use in a wide range of applications, from scientific to artistic. […]
Glass Paint – self-priming/permanent-bonding glass paint began outside of the USA in early 1997. In late 2003 Glass Paint moved to the USA for distribution in North America.
