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Vol. 6 | No. 1 | April - June 2018 Quarterly Journal of The All India Glass Manufacturers’ Federation Bi-lingual Special Feature • Drawing Competition - Adopt a Glass Bottle • Soda Ash for Glass Manufacturing • Opportunities and Challenges posed by the Environment for the Glass Industry in India • The Glass Industry Waking up to its Needs • Hot Sealing of Aluminium Films on Glass Containers • Safety Considerations of Architectural Glass • Float Glass Process and Applications – Revisited: Part I • Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of Container Glass in India – 2017 • Cold End Project between the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers • Indian Pharmaceutical Plants serve the World • Float Glass Process Technology – Revisited: Part II • Raising our Glasses to the Glass Industry Upcoming Events - Aug 17 (Details on page # 22) • Interactive Session on Industry- related Risk and Opportunities • Ist AIGMF Glass Awards • Annual General & Executive Committee Meetings 1st Prize (winning entry) of Drawing Competition on ‘Adopt a Glass Bottle’ held on World Environment Day - June 5, 2018 812 NEW DELHI HOUSE, 27 BARAKHAMBHA ROAD, NEW DELHI-110001, INDIA Telephone: + 91 11 23316507 Fax: + 91 11 23350357 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.aigmf.com 812 NEW DELHI HOUSE, 27 BARAKHAMBHA ROAD, NEW DELHI-110001, INDIA Telephone: + 91 11 23316507 Fax: + 91 11 23350357 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.aigmf.com GLASS MELTING GLASS FORMING We provide integrated oxyfuel technology using We provide low cost, compact and modular cost effective on-site oxygen generators based hydrogen generators using SMR technology on VSA technology and suitable combustion capable of producing ultra high purity system to maximise performance, enhance (99.999%) gas required for glass manufactur- productivity and decrease emissions in glass ing process. melting process. B-802, Lotus Corporate Park, Off Western Express Highway, Goregaon (East) Mumbai - 400063, Maharashtra, India [email protected] | +91- 22 6682 0000 | www.nishalgroup.com 2 Kanch | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | April-June 2018 www.aigmf.com Acting President RAJ KUMAR MITTAL Vice President BHARAT SOMANY Hon. General Secretary SANJAY AGARWAL Hon. Treasurer K C JAIN Member Editorial Board A K BANDYOPADHYAY Quarterly Journal of THE ALL INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ FEDERATION Former Principal, Govt. College of Engineering & Ceramic Technology-GCECT, Kolkata DEVENDRA KUMAR Prof. & HOD, Dept. of Ceramic, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Vol. 6 | No. 1 | April-June 2018 K K SHARMA President, NIGMA and Plant Head, HNG Neemrana, Rajasthan MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS EASTERN INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (EIGMA) c/o La Opala RG Ltd. Contents Chitrakoot, 10th Floor, 230 A A.J.C. Bose Road Kolkata - 700 020 President - Sushil Jhunjhunwala From Acting President's Desk 5 NORTHERN INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (NIGMA) c/o Hindustan National Glass & Industries Ltd. Post Office - Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar, Haryana-124 507 Drawing Competition - Adopt a Glass Bottle 7 President - KK Sharma Vice President - Jimmy Tyagi Advertise in Kanch 10 Honorary General Secretary - NN Goyal Secretary & Treasurer - JB Bhardwaj SOUTH INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (SIGMA) Soda Ash for Glass Manufacturing 11 c/o AGI glaspac (An SBU of HSIL Ltd.) Glass Factory Road, Off. Motinagar Glass News 14 PB No. 1930, Sanathnagar, PO Hyderabad -500 018 President - Sandip Somany UTTAR PRADESH GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ SYNDICATE (UPGMS) Interactive Session on Industry-related Risk and Opportunities; c/o General Traders AIGMF Glass Awards & 22 A-10, Industrial Estate, Firozabad – 283203 (UP) Executive Committee / Annual General Meetings (Aug 17) President - Raj Kumar Mittal Vice President - Dharmendra Mohan Gupta List of Advertisers 22 Vice President - Santosh Agarwal Hony. Secretary - Sanjay Agarwal Treasurer - Deepak Gupta Opportunities and Challenges posed by the Environment for the 23 Jt. Secretary - Pramod Kumar Garg Glass Industry in India WESTERN INDIA GLASS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (WIGMA) c/o Empire Industries Ltd.- Vitrum Glass The Glass Industry Waking up to its Needs 25 Empire House, 2nd Floor, 414 S.B. Marg Lower Parel, Mumbai - 400 013 President - G K Sarda Hot Sealing of Aluminium Films on Glass Containers 27 Honorary Secretary - Naresh Gupta Quarterly Journal of Glass Industry, published and printed by Safety Considerations of Architectural Glass 31 Vinit Kapur on behalf of The All India Glass Manufacturers’ Federation from 812, New Delhi House, 27 Barakhamba Road, New Delhi – 110001 Float Glass Process and Applications – Revisited: Part I 36 and printed at New United Process, A-26, Ph-II, Naraina Indl. Area, New Delhi-110028 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of Container Glass in India – 2017 41 T:+91 11 2331 6507 F:+91 11 2335 0357 E: [email protected] Editor MOHAN LALVANI Cold End Project between the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers 43 Complimentary copy for Members / Government Departments / NGO's and those connected with Glass Industry Indian Pharmaceutical Plants serve the World 44 Others: Price (excluding bank charges): Indian Companies : ` 125 per copy Float Glass Process Technology – Revisited: Part II 47 Annual Subscription ` 450 Foreign Companies : US$ 25 per copy Membership of The AIGMF 50 Annual Subscription US$ 80 About The AIGMF 51 Raising our Glasses to the Glass Industry 53 www.glassworldwide.co.uk Kanch | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | April-June 2018 3 812 NEW DELHI HOUSE, 27 BARAKHAMBHA ROAD, NEW DELHI-110001, INDIA Telephone: + 91 11 23316507 Fax: + 91 11 23350357 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.aigmf.com www.aigmf.com From Acting President’s Desk Series of Events were organized by Glass Industry ahead of World Environment Day. The All India Glass Manufacturers Federation (AIGMF) with the help of Education Department, Govt. of NCT of Delhi invited online entries from children between 7-16 years to participate in “Drawing Competition” on the theme “Adopt a Glass Bottle”. Former Presidents, Mr. Sanjay Somany and Mr. S C Bansal were jury members who adjudged top 3 drawings out of 2000+ entries received from all over India. 1st prize (Rs. 5,000) was given to Triman Dua aged 7 years, 2nd class student of Lancers Convent School, Prashant Vihar, Delhi; 2nd Prize (Rs. 2,000) was given to Riddhima Gupta aged 10 years, 5th class student of Delhi Public School, Rohini, Delhi and 3rd Prize (Rs. 1,000) was given to Rahul Kumar Kamat aged 13 years, 9th class student of Govt. Co-Ed Secondary School, Sector 15G, Rohini, Delhi. Parallel to Ex Com meeting on May 26th, a special session on Soda Ash for Glass Manufacturing was organised wherein Ms. Marguerite Morrin, Executive Director Chemicals, IHS Markit, London was invited as guest speaker who gave presentations on Global Overview on Soda Ash and Soda Ash & the Environment. Ms. Morrin said that Soda Ash is used in Glass Manufacturing, which is produced both naturally as well as in chemical form. Ms. Morrin, covered following main topics in her presentation, Top producers, Global Supply Profile, Capacity Changes by Type and by Geography, Soda Ash & the Environment, Natural Soda Ash, its place in the Global Soda Ash Industry, New Environmentally focused demand sectors e.g. lithium carbonate, solar panels. A glass bottle (specially manufactured by Hindustan National Glass and Industries Ltd.) with World Environment Day and Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan logos was launched enabling people demand responsible and safe packaging. A short video was released in Hindi on 'Benefits of Glass Packaging'. This video is in addition to English version released in early 2018. AIGMF also released an update on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Study of “Container Glass” in India. This update was done for its earlier study released in 2012, which provides the foundation for meaningful use of LCA results and to portray green image of the product amongst consumers and other stakeholders. Alongside Annual General and Executive Committee Meetings, AIGMF is organising an Interactive Session on Industry-related Risk and Opportunities on August 17 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Aerocity, Near T3 Terminal, Delhi. The session will cover presentations on Environment Law by Mr. Nawneet Vibhaw, Associate Partner, Khaitan & Co.; Competition Law by Mr. Manas Kr. Chaudhuri, Partner, Khaitan & Co., and Anti-Dumping/Indirect Tax by Mr. Kabir Bogra, Partner (Indirect Tax) Khaitan & Co. 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