All over the world, supply chains are seeking an answer to tackle carbon emissions. Brand owners are looking at alternative materials, while glassmakers are exploring alternative fuels, and industry bodies are combining forces to build trial plants.
After 150 years of performance and endurance, SORG has overcome many different challenges. Now we face our biggest one yet, as the world is forced to change before it is too late. Sustainability is the only answer, and SORG is determined to work towards this goal.
We are on a mission to reduce our carbon footprint. To innovate technology and fuel positive change through sustainable melting. We are investing all of our research and development efforts into saving energy and producing cleaner glass.
Today, we are already well on the way to sustainable melting. In the near future, we aim to have the technology in place to slash emissions and ultimately deliver net zero glass on a large scale.
We have risen to the challenges of the glass industry and developed an exciting new hybrid melting concept to ensure a much more sustainable future for our customers around the world.
Start your hybrid journey todayDiscover our 50 furnace facts – everything you need to know about the innovation and technology behind our electric melting developments to help combat climate change over the last half century.
50 Facts for 50 YearsWe have risen to the challenges of the glass industry and developed an exciting new hybrid melting concept to ensure a much more sustainable future for our customers around the world.
Start your hybrid journey todayAs the glass industry looks forward to more sustainable melting, SORG is looking back. Half a century ago to be precise, when we patented the first all-electric VSM® furnace.
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