Objective The project will promote improvements in efficiency, quality and safe working practice in the predominantly SME, European hand-made glass industry, through the adoption of innovation in pot furnace technology. The project will deliver a pot that avoids the need for the current seven-day tempering process prior to installation. It will also deliver an effective coating material and coating process for the pot which will improve glass quality and eliminate the potentially harmful practice of manually applying molten glass coatings to the pot surface at elevated temperatures. The new technology based on advanced materials will improve the efficiency of pot furnaces and thereby increase the yield of "first quality" glass per pot and more efficient use of resources. The project will thereby promote modernization of the industry and contribution to sustainable development. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films Programme(s) FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.3.-5. - RTD Activities of a Generic Nature : materials and their technologies for production and transformation and new and improved materials and production technologies in the steel field Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme EAW - Exploratory awards Coordinator TYRONE CRYSTAL LTD EU contribution No data Address KILLYBRACKEY BT71 6TT DUNGANNON United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MALERAS GLASBRUCK AB Sweden EU contribution No data Address Industrigatan 20 380 42 MALERAS See on map Total cost No data