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ICG to the structure and properties of bioactive glasses,
hybrids and composites, for the design of new materials
10TH WORKSHOP for health applications. Compatibility with human
body of prostheses and scaffolds, will be discussed.
FOR NEW RESEARCHERS The interactions with drugs and molecules with glass,
adsorption, delamination problems of glass containers
IN GLASS SCIENCE AND for pharmaceutical products, will also be treated. In the
sessions where the two threads overlap, all participants
APPLICATION will cross two bridges: one between science and
application, the other between academia and industry.
The 10th ICG workshop, taking place in Montpellier, The lecturers will be world experts in their fields. A
France, 2-6 July 2018, will be composed of two significant aspect of the workshop will be student-
interwoven threads. The first thread will overview centred projects that will help participants to develop
fundamentals in glass science emphasising structure- their understanding by applying what they know to
property relationships, experimental techniques specific issues.
and material simulations. Specific properties, their Pre-registration: Deadline 15/04/2018 by email
structural dependence and applications will be to: verres2018@mycema.fr; registration deadline
discussed e.g. optical behaviour, transport phenomena, 15/05/2018. Participants will be limited to: 30 (Glass
nucleation and crystallisation, and strength. The second Science); and 20 (Glass Applications).
thread this year will focus on bioglasses and glasses A more complete programme will appear soon on the
for pharmaceutical packaging. Attention will be given ICG web site (www.icglass.org).

LIBBEY a craftsman at the Toledo plant for the 1904 St. Louis
World’s Fair, said glass curator Diane Wright.
CELEBRATING 200 YEARS “The museum has quite a few works from the days of the
New England Glass Works that date to the beginning of
Libbey Inc. has several significant milestones in its glass production in Cambridge,” Ms. Wright said. “Of
history, including when the glass manufacturing company special importance here is the tremendous encyclopedic
established its roots in Toledo in 1888, and again in 1892, glass collection, one of the few collections of its kind in this
when Edward Drummond Libbey changed its name from country. The impact of the Libbey Glass company on the
the New England Glass Company to what it is today. city of Toledo really cannot be understated.”
But it was two centuries ago, 1818, that the company Libbey has already started its internal celebration, coined
first established itself, and it is that benchmark – and the Toast to 200 Years, Mrs. Burt said, and employees have
company’s successes since – that will be celebrated this year been asked to raise a glass in its two US manufacturing
with both private and public events on 4 and 5 May. plants here and in Shreveport, La., as well as plants in
“For us to still be making the same product as when China, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
we started is pretty profound. This is definitely our big “One of the things we are asking associates to do, whether
anniversary,” said Jamie Burt, company spokesman. “This with customers or suppliers, is to take a picture toasting to
[event] has more of a global aspect because we do have a Libbey, and we will be creating a collage” that will be shared
presence in multiple locations and, also, there are very few during the May events and also on social media, she said.
American companies who have reached 200 years.” Libbey was actually founded as the New England Glass
Libbey plans to host an invitation-only event the evening of Company in East Cambridge, Mass., on 18 February
4 May, which will include a Toledo Symphony Orchestra 1818, by William Libbey. His son, Edward Drummond
performance, cocktails, and a video about the company, Libbey, moved the company from the Boston area to
Mrs. Burt said. There will be a public event at different Toledo in 1888, building a plant on farmland northeast of
locations in the city on 5 May, which will include hands-on the downtown area. It was the beginning of what would
painting, drawing, and sculpting activities and glassblowing be Toledo’s legacy as the Glass City. Headquartered
demonstrations at the Toledo Museum of Art, tours of the downtown for more than 125 years, the company produces
Edward D. Libbey House and shopping spree incentives at glassware, flatware, and dinnerware for restaurants and
the Libbey Glass Factory Outlet. consumers. Significant events in the glass company’s
In conjunction with the celebration, the art museum in late history include being the first to develop machine-blown
April will open an exhibition of Libbey glass featuring both glass in 1907 and its patent of the first one-piece press and
contemporary pieces and late 19th and early 20th century blow stemware process in 1970.
works from its permanent collection of 650 Libbey pieces, Libbey has about 6,200 employees worldwide, and it
including the popular Libbey punch bowl that was cut by claimed net sales of USD 793.4 million in 2016.

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