Glass Futures Ltd

Glass Futures Limited (GFL) was established to tackle a critical challenge: the lack of an open-access, industrial-scale facility to test and validate low-carbon technologies under real-world conditions. Glass manufacturing is one of the world's most energy-intensive processes, traditionally reliant on fossil fuels. With increasing regulatory and consumer...

The Foundation Industries (FIs) metals, glass, ceramics, cement, chemicals, and paper are vital to the UK manufacturing and construction sectors. Approximately 75% of the materials we see around us have been made by one of these six industries and moving towards 2050, we need to rapidly address the challenges brought about by climate change, and the need ...

COREu will demonstrate key enabling technologies in a CCS value chain and support the development of three new CCS routes in Central-East Europe (CEE), helping accelerate CCS development . COREu will (a) provide the means for development of an open-access, trans-national network (infrastructure and logistic) to connect emitters with storage sites in Europ...

This collaborative project will develop, build and operate an industry scale demonstrator, the Torstran Production Demonstrator. It will use waste heat from steel and glass manufacturing to convert renewable/waste methane into hydrogen for use as a process chemical in steel and glass manufacturing. The Torstran Production Demonstrator also produces a high...

This collaborative, cross sector R&D demonstration project furthers previous industrial research to advance & showcase novel technology developed to support transformation of Foundation Industry production process optimisation. The primary aim is to increase efficiency to achieve greater productivity by increased energy and resource efficiency. This will ...

In order for the UK to be carbon neutral by 2050, the country will have to widen the use of materials that provide exceptional benefits. To do this we need bold, game-changing innovations to be applied to our most energy consuming industries. This project will do just that by enabling the wider use of ceramics and thus enabling their energy saving propert...

This project brings together partners from glass (Glass Futures, Encirc, Calumite, Glass Technology Services, Diageo), steel (British Steel, the Materials Processing Institute, Tata Steel) and cement (LKAB Minerals, Hanson) sectors to develop a novel process to combine waste-materials into blast furnace slag to 'up-grade' low-quality materials into an enh...

Almath Crucibles Ltd manufactures and supplies ceramic products to a range of industries for their kiln and furnace processes. The environmental sustainability of kiln and furnace processes can be improved by reducing the total heat energy consumed in each run of the equipment, which can be achieved by using furnace furniture with lower mass and equivalen...

Glass is a reusable and recyclable material for windows and a reusable and recyclable alternative to plastic for containers. Sustainable glass is manufactured by melting sand in exceptionally large (the size of a low-rise block of flats), high temperature furnaces. However, the manufacturing process is very inefficient and up to 50% of the energy supplied...

The 'Deployment of End to End Process Control for Encirc's Elton site (DEEP Control)' project will deliver energy savings through deployment of new end-to-end control systems linking processes across the two Encirc Elton container-glass furnaces and associated 14 forming lines to facilitate: 1. Optimisation of furnaces to run at minimum energy whilst main...