The European IPPC Bureau
Glass Manufacturing Industry
This BREF covers the industrial installations for the manufacture of glass including glass fibre and installations for melting mineral substances. It considers the different glass manufacturing industries and it is based on the products manufactured, but inevitably there is some overlap between them. The eight glass types covered are:
• container glass
• flat glass
• continuous filament glass fibre
• domestic glass
• special glass (without water glass)
• mineral wool (with two subsectors-glass wool and stone wool)
• high tempertaure insulation wools
• frits.
- Download the BREF document (adopted)
- Download the BREF document (latest draft)
- List of Technical Working Group (TWG members)
- List of references used to produce the BREF
- Meeting report
- Translation of the Executive Summary
- Relevant legislation/standard
- Additional technical information
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