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  • GMIC Announces New 2025 President: Stanley Rutkowski

    GMIC Leadership Update Stanley Rutkowski, Senior Applications Engineer at RoMan Manufacturing, has begun his term as President of the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC) for 2025. Stan is eager to advance key initiatives, including the Department of Energy grant, hosting…

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  • GMIC Office is Moving to Toledo

    GMIC is on the move to a new office in Toledo, Ohio! Our new business address is: 3950 Sunforest CtSuite 200, Office 209Toledo OH, 43623 After many years of being co-located with the American Ceramic Society in Columbus, OH, our…

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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…

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  • 2025 GPC Returning to Toledo

    GMIC is pleased to announce that the 86th Glass Problems Conference will be held at the Glass City Center in Toledo, Ohio, October 6-8, 2025. The annual GMIC/GlassTrend Symposium will follow on Thursday, October 9. This year’s GPC, also in…

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  • Ohio consortium that includes GMIC wins state grant for glass

    GMIC is proud to be part of the Northwest Ohio Innovation Consortium (NOIC) to support our area members and the entire glass industry. Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (pictured in photo by Scott Cooper, CelSian), Lt. Governor Jon Husted,…

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  • Latest ACerS Bulletin Features Electric Melting Article

    The May 2024 edition of the ACerS Bulletin includes, “Empowering Sustainability: The US glass industry charged to break barriers for a greener future.” The article, by Scott Cooper, GMIC Past President and Technical Director USA for CelSian; and Kerry Ward,…

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  • DOE Announces Glass Decarbonization Workshop

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Office (IEDO) is inviting stakeholders from across the glass manufacturing supply chain (e.g., glass manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, raw material providers, etc.) to participate in a workshop on glass decarbonization on…

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  • Three GMIC Members Receive DOE Grants

    Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) announced up to $6 billion in funding to decarbonize energy-intensive industries. Proposals from GMIC members Gallo Glass, Libbey Glass, and O-I Glass were among 33 projects selected…

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  • GMIC to Receive Funding to Help Decarbonize America’s Industrial Sector

    The Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC) is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive $3 million in funding to research advanced electric melting in glass manufacturing. The research is intended to…

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  • GPC Call for Abstracts

    The call for abstracts is now available for the 85th anniversary Glass Problems Conference (GPC) and the 14th Advances in Fusion and Processing of Glass Conference (AFPG), being held jointly September 16-19, 2024, at the Glass City Center in Toledo, Ohio,…

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