Glass packaging

In the first half of this year, the volume of container glass sold in Germany was around 2.03m t, which is 10.8% less than in the same period last year. As reported by the Aktionsforum Glasverpackung both domestic and foreign developments showed a downward trend. Compared to the first half of 2022, deliveries of...

Consumers worldwide will not use less packaging in the future, but more. Although the highest increases will be in Africa, Asia and Latin America, packaging consumption per capita is also rising in Europe, the USA and Australia. This is the conclusion of an analysis by the global ING Bank. In Europe, for example, the...

In the first six months of this year, the German container glass industry registered a significant increase in terms of tonnage compared to the previous year. The Düsseldorf-based federal association of the German glass industry (Bundesverband Glasindustrie) reported that deliveries increased by 5.4% in the period...

Glass bottles are in short supply and becoming more and more expensive, according to various media reports....

Germany's export-oriented neighbour is increasingly becoming a European hub for packaging and growing continuously...

The pilot production of tempered reusable containers has commenced in selected test markets....