Overview: Stories
arcon ensures better connectivity through its innovation
14.03.2025
Glass processor arcon joined forces with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) to develop an innovative coating for glass surfaces to tackle a problem of the digital age – poor connectivity at your own home.
FEVE report features European decarbonisation projects
06.03.2025
FEVE’s report “One Destination, Multiple Pathways: How the European Container Glass Industry is Decarbonising Glassmaking” impressively illustrates how container glass manufacturers are developing and trialling new technologies to improve their CO2-balance.
In conversation with Kunstpalast Düsseldorf: glass as a contemporary witness of art
17.02.2025
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk is the Director of the glass collection at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany. In this interview we talk about his experiences with glasstec, exciting pieces from the glass collection and also look ahead into the future of glass art and discover which piece in the collection is his personal favourite.
Glass – from antiquity to the digital revolution
11.02.2025
Glass, a material we are all so familiar with, looks back on a history as old as civilization itself – spanning from the first glass beads to the ultra-modern displays of our smartphones – glass has proven to be a versatile and indispensable material over the course of millennia.
Interview: The AI-optimised and data-controlled future of recycling
27.01.2025
Thomas Wesian’s business is exploring the future of the glass industry – to be precise using AI and data for a better circular economy. We spoke with him about the various topics, potentials and challenges at play here.
How will the glass industry become CO2-neutral by 2045?
27.01.2025
glasstec, which placed an important focus on the topic of decarbonisation in October 2024, highlighted a study by BV Glas on how the path to CO2 neutrality in the glass industry, and in the container glass industry in particular, could succeed.
Interview with Malte Seifert, Director Metals & Autonomous Technologies, about XPONENTIAL Europe 2025
22.01.2025
From February 18 to 20, 2025, Messe Düsseldorf will host XPONENTIAL Europe for the first time. As a global meeting point for uncrewed systems, mobility and robotics, it stands at the forefront of autonomous technologies. We spoke with Malte Seifert, Director Metals & Autonomous Technologies, about the background, challenges and opportunities of this event.
Review: we asked – our exhibitors answered
13.12.2024
For many years they have already attended glasstec – renowned exhibitors from industry. Already before glasstec 2024 seven of them took to their cameras and told us in brief videos what they associate with glasstec.
Powerful and future-oriented: this was glasstec 2024
09.12.2024
glasstec 2024 convinced us with a varied supporting programme, ample room for innovations, opportunities for networking and exchange as well as with exhibitors and decision-makers from around the world. We look back, take stock and listen to industry testimonials.
The future of facade engineering: recycling, CO2-reduction & design for disassembly
09.12.2024
Decarbonisation, digitalisation and circularity are also transforming façade engineering – alongside many other segments of the glass industry. glasstec 2024 showed how recycling and design for disassembly pave the way for sustainable building.