On 14 December, Glass for Europe was at the Glass Palace of the United Nations, New York, for the Closing Ceremony of the International Year of Glass 2022. The event offered the opportunity to present to UN representatives the outcome of an intense year which celebrated glass, its industry, and its contribution to the UN
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Today, we have learned that the recognition of the CE marking for construction products in the UK will be extended for a further 2.5 years. The new deadline is therefore set for 30 June 2025. Following the Brexit, the UK government announced that construction products such as glazing placed on the market in Great Britain
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The second Glass for Europe annual meeting for glass and glazing national associations took place yesterday, 29 November. Activating coordinated actions in the framework of the recast of the Construction Products Regulation, reviewing the EU market statistics on Insulated Glazing Units, laminated glass and coated glass, discussing how to better communicate flat glass transformation and
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Glass for Europe believes that the new requirements proposed in the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the recast of the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) should consider industrial realities and local conditions. “The on-going revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive is of utmost importance for the flat glass sector as
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For over a year, the European Union Europe has been coping with security of gas supply and unbearable high bills for both the consumers and the industry. Glass for Europe wants to share 3 reflections from the flat glass industry ahead of upcoming the extraordinary meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels. On November
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Brussels, 18 November 2022: The United Nations designated 2022 as the International Year of Glass, the first time a man-made material was chosen for worldwide attention. On 16 November, Glass Alliance Europe marked the occasion with an event gathering policy makers and stakeholders at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European
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Glass industry calls for urgent and robust EU support measures for the glass sector to face the on-going energy crisis The European glass industry is an innovative and highly strategic sector from which the EU benefits greatly. Glass products have a crucial societal contribution insofar as they are feeding important value chains (energy, building, transport,
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On November 14, the UK government announced that the UK will continue to recognise the CE marking for a further 2 years for certain products. Construction products do not seem covered yet by the extention and the government departments responsible for flat glass, among other products, are currently “making sector specific arrangements”. Following the Brexit,
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For the first time after several years of COVID, Glasstech Asia reconvened in Singapore from 26 to 28 October. Alongside the fair gathering hundreds of actors of the South-East Asian industry and the 2022 International Year of Glass celebrations by the Singapore glass association, the 2022 Asia Façade and Glass Conference was organised. Its main
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October 2022 Calculations of embodied and operational carbon of double and triple glazed windows To achieve the EU’s goal to reduce overall carbon emissions, one route pursued by EU authorities is to move towards zero-emission buildings[i]. It means that the CO2 emitted for heating and cooling the building throughout its lifetime, i.e., the operational carbon,
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Today, 17 October 2022, Glass for Europe hosted its 1st workshop for national glass and glazing associations and flat glass members on the review of the Construction Products Regulation. More than 20 attendants participated in the discussion around the new proposal of the European Commission and the opportunities for action at EU and Member States
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On 12 October 2022, Glass for Europe took part in a workshop on measuring the application of circular approaches in the construction ecosystem. A study on this topic is currently being conducted by Deloitte on behalf of the European Commission, as an output of the 2020 action plan to promote circularity principles in construction. The
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