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Fresh from their honeymoon, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were looking forward to the highlight of their 12-day tour of Nazi Germany: afternoon tea with Adolf Hitler. They would be meeting him at the Berghof, his private retreat in the Bavarian Alps. At last, they thought, they would be able to thank Hitler in person for his wedding gift — an inscribed gold box. With Nazi efficiency, police cleared the roads on October 22, 1937, for the Windsors’ motorcade. Unfortunately, this meant that ...

A truly momentous occasion for glass: Diageo produces glass whisky bottles in waste-powered furnaces Black & White Scotch whisky is is popular in global export markets, according to Diageo Drinks giant claims biofuel furnaces tested in trial will reduce carbon footprint of glass manufacturing by 90 per cent and thus boost sustainability of its “grain-to-glass” supply chain Hundreds of thousands of bottles of Black & White Scotch have been produced in furnaces powered by waste in a pioneeri...

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Diageo plans sustainable glass bottle production 9th April, 2021 by Nicola Carruthers Johnnie Walker owner Diageo participated in a pilot project that reduced the carbon footprint of a glass whisky bottle by up to 90%. Diageo used Black & White whisky bottles for the pilot project Diageo partnered with glass manufacturer Encirc and research and technology body Glass Futures on the project, which used the firm’s Black & White Scotch brand as the test subject. The project saw the use of a was...

Distiller Diageo has said it has collaborated in a successful pilot project to pioneer "the lowest carbon footprint glass bottles ever produced for a Scotch whisky brand". The collaboration with glass manufacturer Encirc and leading industry research and technology body Glass Futures, used waste-based biofuel-powered furnaces to reduce the carbon footprint of the bottle-making process by up to 90% For the purposes of the trial Diageo used its Black & White Scotch whisky brand – famous f...