Forum Glass Technology
Traditional and trendsetting
It is impossible to imagine modern life without glass, a more than 5,000 years old material. Every day, new technological and market-specific challenges confront the machine and plant manufacturers in glass production, processing, and finishing.
The Forum Glass Technology represents member companies from various sectors of the glass industry along the entire process chain in technology, standardization, and markets and represents the industry's interests.
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Collaboration
The Forum Glass Technology is hosted by the Trade Association Construction - Equipment and Plant Engineering. The activities are coordinated, considering the activities and services of the photovoltaics departments in the EMINT trade association and the Metallurgy trade association.
Forum Glass Technology represents machine and plant manufacturers from all sub-sectors of glass production - flat glass, container glass, tableware, fiberglass, tubular glass, and special glass.
VDMA 24124:2025-06 introduces a structured Job Target Definition (JTD) model, using Protobuf and JSON standards to enable machine-independent, scalable data exchange in flat glass processing.
At its last meeting, the Industry Working Group Research & Technology focused on current developments in digitalisation and sensor technology as well as future data law for mechanical engineers.
This year, Germany will once again be represented with a joint booth at the two glass industry trade fairs in Mumbai.
The glass industry is undergoing a transformation: Digital connectivity, automation, and data-driven process optimization are no longer future concepts but key factors for competitiveness and efficiency.
The VDMA economic survey for the 4th quarter of 2024 has been sent out a few days ago and will run until January 17th. The results will be available to all participating companies at the end of January.
glasspex/glasspro 2025: Opening with VDMA Symposium
Due to the positive development tendencies in India, we have decided to establish our own management meetings for the Indian market.
The 27th International Congress on Glass (ICG) will take place in Kolkata from January 20–24, 2025.
DescriptionDemonstrator at the VDMA stand – Interoperability between planning systems and machines.
From October 22 to 25, 2024, everything in Düsseldorf revolved around trends and technologies in glass production and the glass processing and manufacturing industry. 44 VDMA member companies exhibited.
Promoting young talent is a key concern for companies and the VDMA.
Board elections and economic topics dominated this year's general meeting.
The who's who of the construction equipment and building materials equipment industry visits the VDMA in Frankfurt.
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Here you will find information about the exhibitors' locations.
Join us for a discussion on the future of the construction equipment and building material plants industries, as we are in the midst of major changes.
Current research projects in the flat glass industry and innovation management were the topics of the IAK Research & Technology on November 13/14, 2023.
Glass South America, the most important trade fair for the glass industry in Latin America, will take place in Sao Paulo from June 12 to 15, 2024.
In order to intensify cooperation at future events, symposiums, trade fairs and in social media communication, we have established a new working group together with members on 20 November.
With 76 participants from the Indian glass producing and processing industry, the VDMA Forum Glass Technology organised a successful technical symposium on the day before glasspex India.
The challenges in the technological handling of the material glass and in the development of new products made of it are many and varied. Where are we and how do we deal with them in the companies?
Digitalization of machines requires standardized language for machine communication – and OPC UA is the perfect choice.
What's up? When do which committees and working groups meet? All dates can be found here at a glance.
Veranstaltungen & Messen
This is the OPC-JWG Flat Glass branch. You can find the agenda below.
Working group for the development and use of OPC UA in the container glass industry
For the third time, glass manufacturers, glass processors and glass machinery manufacturers can enter into a direct exchange on the requirements of local production for the domestic and global market for glass products.
The next event will take place in Düsseldorf from October 20 to 23, 2026. The VDMA Forum Glastechnik is the conceptual sponsor of glasstec. For four days, Düsseldorf was the center of the global glass industry. From October 22 to 25, 2024, glasstec, the international trade fair for glass production, glass processing and glass products, once again impressed exhibitors and trade visitors from all over the world, confirming its importance as a global industry platform for the glass industry. 1.257 exhibitors from 50 countries and more than 32,000 trade visitors from 121 nations came together to experience the latest technologies, trends and innovations along the entire glass production and processing value chain.
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