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With digitisation, emissions and artificial intelligence all


                animating the conversation in the glass industry, GMP&A

                recently spoke to HEYE development engineer Dr Michael

                Kellner about where that trio of key issues ranks in his

                company’s latest contributions to the glass forming process.





                                                                               B
                                                                                    orn in Jena, Michael Kellner
                                                                                    first came into contact with
                                                                                    glass as an intern at Schott
                                                                               Glas. “Glass - that’s exactly what
                                                                               it should be” says Kellner in ret-
                                                                               rospect, remembering his student
                                                                               years in Weimar where he became
                                                                               an expert in building materials and
                                                                               process engineering with a focus
                                                                               upon glass. As early as 1986, he
                                                                               was involved with the first image




















































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