Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers...

or Syria. The earliest known glass objects were beads, perhaps created accidentally during metalworking or the production of faience, which is a form of...

Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations...

technique in the 1950s at their production site in St Helens, Merseyside. Modern windows are usually made from float glass, though Corning Incorporated uses...

metal-working (slags) or during the production of faience, a pre-glass vitreous material made by a process similar to glazing. Glass products remained a luxury...

Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...

glass objects have been recovered across the Roman Empire in domestic, industrial and funerary contexts. Glass was used primarily for the production of...

industrial process of glass manufacturing, transition phases of product changes (such as thickness and color changes) and production offcuts. External cullet...

Crown glass was an early type of window glass. In this process, glass was blown into a "crown" or hollow globe. This was then transferred from the blowpipe...

produced of the mass per day. Annual production is 200 000 tons. At present, raw materials for glass production are mainly provided by Russia and Kazakhstan...