LionGlass, a new family of glass engineered by researchers at Penn State, has secured its first corporate partner, a move toward bringing the ecofriendly alternative to standard soda lime silicate glass to market.
LionGlass, a new family of glass engineered by researchers at Penn State, has secured its first corporate partner, a move toward bringing the ecofriendly alternative to standard soda lime silicate glass to market.
Bormioli Luigi, an Italian glassmaker that specializes in producing high-end packaging for fragrance, cosmetics and tableware, is the first company to enter an official partnership with Penn State to perform research and development with the goal of scaling up, manufacturing and ultimately commercializing LionGlass.
“This is an enormous opportunity to work with this material and create a more sustainable glass with far less carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and energy consumption than standard glass,” said Elisa Biavardi, the chemical laboratory manager for Bormioli Luigi. “I see it also as an opportunity to learn from one another as we explore the possibilities for this major innovation in glassmaking.”
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Nicholas Clark, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State and one of the inventors of LionGlass, molds a piece of glass after removing it from a forge in the team's research lab. LionGlass is an entirely new type of glass that offers the first alternative to soda lime silicate glass, which has been used for thousands of years for everything from windows to bottles to microscope slides. (Photo Credit: Michael Owen / Penn State)
