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EMISSIONS REDUCTION
Emissions reduction
ith sustainabil-
ity being a core
W value of the
company for many years
already, it’s hardly surpris-
ing that significant invest-
ments have been made
in both technologies and
processes which span the
whole of production – all to
drive eco-friendly solutions
that can reach important
targets in the field of energy
reduction.

ZEROCO2GLAS
Numbered among these
achievements is Stoelzle’s
participation in ZeroCO2Glas
with German research asso-
ciation IPGR, which aims by an CURRENT SUSTAINABILITY
all-encompassing approach to CHALLENGES
develop a revolutionary glass With around 4.1 million tonnes
melting process that includes of glass per annum, the hollow
the development and set up glass sector produces 53 percent
of a new, CO2-neutral ener- of its glass in Germany -the larg-
gy-saving furnace through a est share- of which 98 percent is
project funded by the German represented by container glass. It’s
Ministry for Economy and against this backdrop, and always
Climate BMWK to a maxi- within a very energy-intensive
mum of EUR 8.38M, for a industry, that up to 85 percent
total project volume of circa of the requisite energy during
EUR 14.94M. Here, besides manufacture is directly attribut-
the role of IPGR as technol- able to melting (depending upon
ogy partner, other consorti- glass type and production pro-
um partners include Aachen cess). That alone makes the project
University for research and a noteworthy contributor towards
development as well as Horn increasing energy efficiency whilst
Glass Industries and Wiegand- expanding renewable energies and
Glas as industry partners. significantly reducing greenhouse

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