Tag: glassmaker
The glassmaker Duralex, in financial difficulty since the energy crisis, requests its placement in receivership
Glasses being manufactured in the Duralex factory in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin (Loiret), in 2005. AFP/ALAIN JOCARD In difficulty since the energy crisis of 2022, the French glassmaker Duralex “requested the opening…
Blown away by the price of gas, the Arc glassmaker turns off furnaces and thinks of fuel oil
A worker at the Arc glassworks, in Arques, France, on September 9, 2022 (AFP / Sameer Al-DOUMY) This one still heats, to 1,500°C, the temperature of the molten glass before…