Katie Aldworth grabs an empty wine bottle, puts it into a glass crusher, and then walks through her Maryland pottery studio with the end product: glass sand. After measuring out 275 grams, she pours ...

Thirty years ago Michael Owens, glassblower, revolutionized the glass business by inventing a machine that was a substitute for human lungs in bottle making. Out of his invention grew the great Owens ...

A California wine producer will soon produce paper wine bottles. The Monterey Wine Company is the first company in America to buy an assembly machine from a company called Frugalpac. The British ...

A photograph of a cullet sorting machine in action. A suite of sensors enables sorting equipment to quickly purify crushed glass, or cullet, for recycling. Credit: Strategic Materials If you could ...