About Glass

About Glass

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Natural raw materials and high temperatures lie at the core of glass birth. Its purity and the ability to take on a variety of shapes have made glass the crucial, the top ecological packaging material for beverages and food products. Glass is safe and hygienic, as it does not react with the contents. Glass packaging retains the useful properties, taste, freshness and quality of the contained product, and thanks to its transparency, it allows the buyer visually to evaluate the product itself. Humankind has been using glass for not one thousand years and it is impossible to imagine the modern world without glass packaging.

Why we trust glass packaging:

  • environmental friendliness and safety, because there are no toxic substances in the glass;
  • retention of product freshness, flavor and quality;
  • extending the shelf life of food products
  • hygienic feature and odorless;
  • resistance to heating, which allows food to be packaged hot
  • transparency, which allows you visual evaluation of the product itself.

Interesting Facts about glass

  • The most ancient glassware is 5500 years old

    The most ancient example of glassmaking is a greenish bead of 9 mm in diameter, found near the ancient city of Thebes; its age is about 5500 years. It is exhibited in the Berlin Museum.

  • The Egyptians were the first to master glassmaking

    Scientists assume that the ancient Egyptians were the first to master glassmaking about 6 thousand years ago. This is confirmed by unique findings on the territory of modern Egypt.

  • Glass used to be expensive.

    It used to be very expensive, and only very wealthy people could afford glazed windows. The rest made do with thin plates of mica or bubbles of animal origin, which replaced glass.

  • Invention of the glass blowing tube

    Application of a product blowing method from molten glass was made possible by the invention of the glass blowing tube

  • Glass contains 3 main components.

    Glass contains high-silica sand (about 70%), lime and soda

  • Why does glass shine?

    Lime impurities give glass shine and resistance to chemical impacts.

  • How fast does a glass crack spread?

    If the glass is broken, the crack will propagate along it at a speed of up to 4500-5000 km / h.

  • Record holder for decay period

    Glass holds the record for decay period, which under normal conditions reaches a million years.

  • Glass can be used indefinitely

    Glass can be recycled and reused an infinite number of times without losing its properties and qualities.