In the UK, Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe (AGP-Europe) has successfully completed an industrial fuel switching trial to produce glass packaging using biofuel in the furnace at its Knottingley, UK facility.
The £6 million industrial fuel switching trial, funded by the UK Government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio program and led by Glass Futures, the UK-based Global Centre of Excellence for glass R&D, Innovation and Training, brought together several manufacturers in both the glass and ceramics sectors, including AGP-Europe, Encirc, O-I Glass, Pilkington UK and DSF Refractories & Minerals. The project’s goal was to evaluate the feasibility of using alternative liquid bio-derived fuels in the glass melting process, with the aim of completely replacing natural gas with lower-carbon biofuel in the furnace.
Over the course of seven days, the AGP-Europe trial successfully replaced 100% of natural gas with liquid bio-derived fuels, producing 4.1 million glass containers and reducing CO2 emissions by 242 tons. The trial demonstrated that lower-carbon glass packaging can be produced at commercial scale without compromising glass quality or process efficiency.
Tags: AGP-Europe, biofuel glass, Europe
Category: Fuels
