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The Glass Manufacturing Process
Where does glass come from? How is it made? Can it be recycled? Is is friendly to the environment? Find out here!
Read/Watch
- Read this easy introduction about how glass bottles are made, by a large French company.
- Now, click on the overview from the same site to get more detailed infomation.
- Read this description of the glass manufacturing process from a major US packaging company - Owens-Illinois.
- Now see a video about how glass bottles are made here at http://manufacturing.stanford.edu. Click on Products 1, Packing it Up, Glass Bottles. It's about 13 minutes long.
- Finally read this description of container glass making.
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