The latest news from American Glass Research.

AGR demonstrates how millions can be saved with the right weighted bottle

At the drinktec trade show in Munich, Germany, AGR’s Director of Research, Bill Slusser, conducted a free seminar on understanding and establishing impact criteria for filling lines. The seminar provided a foundation for understanding glass strength and the effect of stresses developed during impact events. The highlight of the seminar was an illustration that indicated that utilizing actual impact values obtained through a filling line audit, has the potential to produce annual cost savings in the millions when properly applied to a lightweighting campaign. Properly performing and interpreting the results of a line audit is the key to unlocking these incredible, cost benefits.

Accessing AGR’s Comprehensive Container Development service, which consists of FEA analysis of the current bottle designs, filling line audits and validation thru performance testing, allows the customer to realize the potential cost benefits outlined in the seminar.

Contact Us to talk about your needs or click to learn more about our Design Study, Line Audits or Performance Testing.

AGR announces new Rapid Prototyping

AGR has enhanced its Fast-Track Bottle Design Service and customers can now receive an actual 3D printed replica of their proposed bottle design.  The 3D printed bottles are the exact dimensions as described in the technical drawing and even include all unique design features and logos. Providing the 3D printed bottle provides enhanced visualization of the end product (including label application) to the customer well in advance of actual bottle production.    

This new offering augments AGR’s Conceptual Bottle Design and Onsite Bottle Design Service and is expected to enhance the customer experience during glass container development projects.

Click HERE to learn more about our Design Study Service or Contact Us to discuss your bottle development needs.

Celebrating 90 years of service to the glass industry

Continuing on our promise, we will be marking our 90th Anniversary throughout the year with the release of more of our Legacy White Papers.

In our last release, we included a paper entitled “Effect of Coatings on Adhesion of Labels to Glass Containers”.  Continuing in the area of surface coatings, we now bring to your attention two additional papers from our archives.   These cover the topics of the effect of coatings on closure rusting and the effect that caustic wash solutions have on hot end coatings that are applied to refillable containers.  We hope these will enhance your understanding of coatings and how they can affect the performance of glass containers.

“How Tin oxide Coatings Affect Closure Rusting”, was written by Gary L. Smay and published in Glass Worldwide in 2011.

“Effect of Alkaline Solutions on Tin oxide Coated Glass Surfaces”, was written G.L. Smay and J.S. Wasylyk, and published in Glass Technology in 1981.

Visit our White Paper Library to view all of our White Papers.

Do you want to learn how to diagnose and prevent bottle breakage?  Conduct a thorough audit of a glass manufacturing plant? Or understand all of the implications of Lightweighting a bottle design?