Through an Innovate UK Business Growth project, anomalyseTM worked with GF to implement an advanced monitoring solution capable of detecting subtle, multivariate deviations in system behaviour while integrating seamlessly with the existing Siemens automation infrastructure.
Electrifying Glass Manufacturing: RaD‑Electric is demonstrating how high‑capacity electric‑boosting—backed by £6M from DESNZ and delivered with Guardian Glass and Encirc—can cut the glass sector’s reliance on natural gas, slash emissions, and pave the way for cleaner, more efficient UK furnaces.
Glass Futures’ Dr Sarah Harrold highlights how glass—durable, endlessly recyclable, and increasingly high‑tech—is becoming a cornerstone material for a net‑zero economy, with innovation in low‑carbon manufacturing, smart glazing, connected packaging, and circular design positioning the sector for major growth in the decade ahead.
The £1.5M UKRI‑funded AI GLASS project—delivered with the Virtual Engineering Centre and Glass Service—is revolutionising furnace optimisation by combining machine learning and digital twins to predict performance, cut emissions and waste, and equip the workforce with advanced immersive training tools for the future of glass manufacturing.
Glass Futures’ Combustion Test Bed is a highly instrumented, 350 kW replica furnace that enables rapid, low‑carbon combustion innovation by safely testing new fuels, burner designs, and operating strategies under full‑scale conditions—saving time, cost, and emissions before deployment to industrial furnaces.
This pioneering £5.6M DESNZ‑funded project is proving how low‑cost biofuels made from waste cooking oil—developed with partners including Ardagh, Encirc, Pilkington UK, DSF, and O‑I—can cut furnace CO₂ emissions by over 90% and offer a scalable, low‑carbon replacement for natural gas in glass and ceramics manufacturing.