The IGR (Institut für Glas- und Rohstofftechnologie – Institute for Glass and Raw Materials Technology) is a globally recognized, DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 accredited service provider for the glass industry.
Whether you are involved in the production of hollow glass, flat glass or special glass, distribute raw materials or need a glass defect analysis, IGR offers you an independent pool of expertise on all glass-related issues.
Some of the current topics at IGR.
Duration of analysis
IGR distinguishes between standard analyses and rush analyses. In order to be able to classify orders accordingly, it is very important to know whether your samples are routine analyses or urgent analyses (e.g. in the event of incidents). Of course, IGR is happy to help you 24/7 if necessary due to the given urgency, but that can lead to additional effort and costs. For more details please see here.
For that reason, when placing an order, please assure to use the company’s sample submission form, which can be download from here at any time, regardless of the urgency, feel free to send it in advance via e-mail. Especially for rush analyses this facilitates the planning of resources and shortens the analysis duration.
For incidents it is additionally very important to name a contact person and data at your side that can be reached by IGR during the whole analysis time for clarifications and also receives the first results.
Quality assurance measures for processed recycled cullet, in particular glass from solar modules
Facing the question “which problems it may lead in melting when using recycled silicon-stabilised solar modules” IGR has performed some laboratory melting tests with soda-lime glass batch and recycling glass. First results and conclusions can be found here.
Software on a rental basis
IGR now offers a software solution on a rental basis that makes it possible to calculate the redox states – both for Fe2+ and for other polyvalent elements (such as Cr6+) – without time-consuming individual analyses. This also applies to amber glass. A sample can be found here.
And finally: IGR has completely revised its homepage. Please feel free to take a look here.
