Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro
Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro (SSV) is an international research center and a specialized analysis laboratory accredited UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025, and provides technical and scientific support to the entire supply chain of glass: producers, manufacturers, users of glass, producers of raw materials, of refractories and of machinery for the glass industry.
More than fifty people, including graduates, engineers and specialised technicians, work in laboratories equipped with the latest generation of scientific instruments, developing applied research projects, providing technical assistance services and carrying out quality control, certification and compliance tests in the various fields of the glass industry: hollow glass, flat glass for the building industry and for transport, household articles, technical glass, glass fibres and artistic glass.
SSV is specialized in the study of materials and processes in the fields of glass and refractories
SSV offers a wide range of analysis, certification, technical assistance and R&D services
SSV provides its support to the glass industry with its expertise and analytical equipment
SSV promotes and supports the conscious use of glass in its main areas of application
News
DIVINA Project: Research on Hydrogen – Natural Gas mixed combustion
The production of glass, and in particular the melting of the vitrifiable batch, are energy-intensive processes, which are currently associated with significant CO2 emissions, both related to the calcination of some of the raw materials [...]
LIFE SUGAR Project: a new journey towards a CO2 lean glass industry
Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro is proud to announce the start of a new endeavour towards a more sustainable glass Industry: the SUGAR technological development project, co-founded by the EU LIFE Programme (LIFE19 CCM/IT/001314). The [...]
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