American Glass Research Senior Scientist, Dr Clarissa de Lima presented a co-authored paper entitled “Effects of composition on the durability and weathering of flat glass” at the ‘Challenging Glass 8 Conference’ at Ghent University in Belgium, on June 23, 2022.   Here is a brief from the abstract:  Among the environmental factors affecting glass weathering are humidity, exposure time, temperature, and the presence of pollutants in the atmosphere. Notwithstanding that the weathering produced depends on numerous factors, the important weathering effect of high humidity may be specifically mitigated by using a good chemical composition for the glass. To evaluate this relationship, flat glass samples from three sup-pliers were studied.

We are pleased to share with you our recently released white paper "Identifying breakage issues in crown closure bottles" written by Dr. Clarissa L. Justino de Lima and Peter de Haan of our Delft, the Netherlands testing laboratory.  The paper was published in the March/April issue of Glass Worldwide.

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Our American Glass Research Research Familly wishes Brian the best of luck for a long, relaxing and properous retirement.

Brian has carved out an impressive legacy during his time at AGR. He developed an expertise in the operation and maintenance of multiple Scanning Electron Microsopes over the courese of his career and is considered a world leading expert in Stone Identification and is a subject matter expert based on his teachings. 

We would like to share with you another case study as a noteworthy example of fracture diagnosis: Breakage of Sauce Jars

Download directly from our Library HERE.

We are pleased to share our just released white paper "Stresses Caused by Thermal Expansion Differences Between an Applied Ceramic Label and Soda-lime-silica Glass Surfaces" by AGR Senior Scientists Wenke Hu and Gary Smay published in the January/February issue of Glass Worldwide Magazine. Download free from our library HERE.

We are pleased to announce our 2022 in-person training seminar schedule with all dates and locations. See our just released Q4 e-Newsletter to learn more: