Congratulations to this class for completing AGR's "F2: Advanced Breakage Diagnosis" last week in Krakow, Poland. The participants learned the appropriate fracture diagnosis techniques to solve complex breakage and other performance related problems.  See our Seminar Catalogue to learn more about this and all of our training seminars.

The just released Q3 e-Newsletters features the new “Color Atlas of Glass Container Defects” book published by AGR’s Senior Scientist’s Dr. Brandon Aldinger and Peter de Haan. The 154 page hardbound book contains over 450 original pictures and can help to quickly identify and resolve defect problems. The book is now available directly from AGR or Amazon.

The Q3 e-Newsletter also includes the updated second half worldwide seminar training schedule and more. Download the Q3 e-Newsletter to read.

Dr Wenke Hu, AGR Senior Scientist, travelled to Wuxi, China to conduct a customized “Fracture 1: Testing & Breakage Diagnosis training seminar to glass beverage fillers and manufacturers to facilitate a metaphorical crossing of the bridge of understanding of how to perform fracture analysis to solve breakage and performance problems.  Our next complete F1 seminar will be held in Lake Ammersee, Germany in September.  See our Training Schedule for all upcoming worldwide seminars.

Read about AGR Europe’s Testing lab completing successful first year, our new Proof of Design Report and the updated 2nd half training schedule in the just released Q2 e-Newsletter. Visit our e-Newsletter library to see all of our published e-Newsletters or subscribe free for future issues.

We are pleased to announce that we will be returning to the Hotel Seehof located on Lake Ammersee, Germany in the Fall for our training seminars. Seminar participants have raved about this location. We will be conducting our “Evaluation & Lightweighting of Glass Container Designs” and  two classes of “Fracture 1: Testing and Breakage Diagnosis”  in September.  Visit our Seminar Catalogue to see all of our seminars, locations, dates and to register.

Bangkok, Thailand has just been added to the 2019 AGR Training Seminar Schedule.  Participants can find out the answer to the question “When bottles break, can the problem be rectified by changing the composition of the glass”  in our “Fracture 1: Testing and Breakage Diagnosis of Glass Containers” Training Seminar. 

The answer to this question is NO.  Rather, we would recommend a thorough fracture analysis to determine the root cause and then use those results to institute a proper corrective action and that is exactly what you will learn in the Fracture 1 seminar.