Glass Futures

Glass Futures is an innovative research and technology centre that will help decarbonise the global glass industry. The Glass Futures Global Centre of Excellence features a unique experimental multi-fuel furnace that will pioneer ways of making carbon neutral glass. 

The project will create the world’s first openly accessible test and trial furnace facility, used to deliver industry and government-backed R&D projects focused on decarbonising glass production, and also providing a platform for industry to test and trial their own commercial ideas on a state-of-the-art line, both collaboratively and individually.

Based in the traditional centre of the UK glass making industry in St Helens, Glass Futures is a unique, industry-backed Research and Technology Organisation, leading collaboration across some of the largest companies in the global glass industry and its supply chain, together with academia and local and central government.