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2025 GPC Call for Abstracts

The call for abstracts for the 86th Glass Problems Conference is now open, and submissions are due by January 22, 2025. The conference will take place October 6-9, 2025, at the Glass City Center in Toledo, Ohio, USA.

Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of glass industry experts and representatives, and selections will be announced in Mid-March.

Broad topics of interest are:

• Furnace design and reconstruction
• Physics and chemistry of the melting process
• Modeling of glass melting and processing
• Combustion and heat transfer
• Refractories
• Safety
• Forming and shaping
• Raw materials: engineered, minerals, and chemicals, batching and recycling
• Energy efficiency and management
• Environmental impact of glass
• Advanced process controls and sensors
• AI in glass manufacturing
• Sustainability and glass manufacturing

For questions about the conference or the abstract submission process, please contact Donna Banks at (614) 523-3033 or email: dbanks@gmic.org.