Date
 

SGT's Annual conference 2009

Glass Technology
Wednesday 16th- Works Visit
Thursday 17th September 2009

Sponsored by Fives Stein

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Wednesday 16th- Works Visit

Wednesday 1.00pm

Works visit to Quinn's
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Thursday 17th September 2009

Plenary
10.00am

'Glass Strength and Fracture - the flat-glass
industry view'

Paul Warren, Pilkington

10.40am Refreshments

 

Time Paper Speaker
11.00am

Increasing the Glass Cracking Resistance by Atomic Layer Deposition

Matti Putkonen,
Senior Scientist, Beneq Oy

11.30am
The development of a high temperature viscometer for glass ceramic and metal materials
S Taylor, Ravenfield
12.00pm

Solar Glass Product Development

Richard Hulme, Guardian
12.30pm
‘Float Glass Melting – The impact of high performance products’
Geoff Evans,
GlasRef Consulting
1.00pm
Lunch

 

Special Guest Speakers

1.40pm

“A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK”

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"Pragmatic Energy Policy" [pdf]

Ian Fells
and Candida Whitmill

 

2.40pm
Changing Refractories in a Changing World; Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Company to DSF Tianjin
Neale Parkin DSF
3.10pm
"EUETS- 2013 and Beyond"
John Osborn, Beatson Clark


3.40pm
Refreshments
4.00pm
A Brief History of Bottle Making Machines
P Pearson
4.45pm
Lowering NOx in Glass Melting Furnaces - The Importance of Operation and Maintenance
N Simpson, Eclipse
5.15pm
Primary NOx-Reduction for glass melting furnaces with STG DeNOx-Technology: Experiences, Results and Potentials
Cordula Treu, STG