The current report represents the final deliverable of the 2018 edition of the “Composition and Drivers of Energy Prices and Costs: Case Studies in Selected Energy Intensive Industries” (hereinafter “the Assignment”). The Assignment aimed to achieve two main objectives: 1. Providing well-grounde...
Based on data collected from 194 plants over a 10-year period (2008-2017), the study shows energy prices and costs borne by EU producers operating in 11 energy intensive subsectors: bricks and roof tiles, wall and floor tiles, glass tableware, packaging glass, aluminium primary, aluminium second...
Theoretical and experimental investigations have confirmed that ferritic stainless steel, due to its unique properties in terms of thermal expansion, is the best commercial metal to be bonded with glass, to form high-performance unitized cells. The testing activity on reduced-scale specimens has...
Food contact materials (FCMs) are regulated in the European Union to ensure the functioning of the internal market and to protect the health and interests of the consumers. For ceramics, limits exist only for lead and cadmium under Directive 84/500/EEC but scientific data has shown the need to l...
This report presents the outcome of an inter-laboratory comparison exercise (ILC) on the determination of selected metals in acetic acid solutions and the determination of migration of elements from ceramic and glass tableware. The exercise was organised by the European Union Reference Laborator...
This JRC Scientific and Policy Report is a pre-normative document that represents the basis of a new Eurocode on the design of structural glass. It was developed by CEN/TC 250 WG 3 and it presents the available background of both the design of glass components related to up-to-date existing nati...
In the present work, the release of metals from 14 samples (9 industrial samples, 2 ad-hoc manufactured ceramic cups and 3 ad-hoc manufactured glasses) was investigated in order to provide underpinning data on migration of metals under different conditions from different samples. The rim area wa...
In the present work, the release from 15 samples of crystalware was investigated with respect to migration of metals in different conditions from different samples. Three test regimes were compared. The first one, currently in use for ceramic, foresees the use of acetic acid 4% as simulant and t...
The purpose of the study is to provide the EC with a clear and up-to-date understanding of the competitiveness of the EU glass sector (as it is now and how it might develop), which will then allow the EC to knowledgeably engage with the sector in the development of horizontal and vertical policy...
