Training & webinars

Learn the fundamentals about why glass products break and how to identify the common causes. This course will equip you with the core knowledge to help resolve disputes and overcome production hold-ups the next time you have a glass failure issue.

This one-day introductory course is designed to give delegates a broad understanding of glass as a material – including raw materials, manufacture, processing, use, the properties of glass and its environmental impact.

This two-day course will teach you how to analyse and interpret glass product failures to determine causation.

In this four-part webinar series, our experts explain the current and future options available to manufacturers, brands and retailers to achieve their glass packaging sustainability goals.

This webinar replay focuses on pharmaceutical glass product recalls, their causes and the measures that can be taken to prevent them from happening.

This one-day introductory course is designed to give delegates a broad understanding of glass as a material – including raw materials, manufacture, processing, use, the properties of glass and its environmental impact.

Technical Manager Daniel Capon and Senior Technologist, Oliver Wallwork join forces to discuss how their work across departments at Glass Technology Services identifies, diagnoses, and solves common glass container issues.

In response to Covid-19, there has been a large increase the demand for pharmaceutical glass packaging. This has impacted the supply chain in many ways and left companies with no choice but to look for new glass suppliers.

This free one-day workshop will give delegates a sound introduction to glass as a material, and an understanding of performance properties.

This free one-day workshop offers an introduction to pharmaceutical glass packaging and covers key regulatory, specification and quality assurance topics concerning glass primary packaging.

A one-day introduction to glass course, tailored for those working within the foods, drinks, retail and brand management who wish to learn more about the glass manufacturing process, quality control, specifications, design and decoration.

Technical Director Dr Nick Kirk draws on his experience and walks through the line auditing process and its benefits to customers.

In our first partnership webinar our Technical Director, Dr Nick Kirk is joined by Adam Bere CTO of Rockfield to discuss how proactive glass bottle design can reduce the risk of technical problems later down the line.

Our Chemistry Manager, Amy Meysner looks at how and why we evaluate inner surface durability and delamination to save money and gain long term confidence in packaging choices.

Technical Manager, Daniel Capon returns to discuss the different types of glass defects, how to identify each one, and what glass manufacturers can do to prevent issues from happening again in future production runs.

Melting and R&D Lead Martyn Marshall discusses the what, the why, and how of glass batch ingredients, simple batch calculations, the basis of glass refining and the influence of redox on colours.