Upcycling Waste Glass into Facades and Interiors

Glass is one waste stream of the construction industry, and the major waste stream of the glass industry. Glass as a waste stream, is collected and separated, but reusing it can be costly energy wise.

MAGNA Glaskeramik offers a glass ceramic material that is almost 100% recyclable. Glaskeramik uses glass from industrial waste streams (i.e. glass and overruns, bottle glass, flat glass, etc.) and transforms it into glass granulates. Thanks to a complex mixing process, new higher quality upcycled resource material slab if formed, not requiring any moulds. The waste glass granulates are mixed and are comprised of glass of two forms: clear and crystallized annealed glass. The production process adds no resins, no binders, and no additive chemical or colours to the resource content. The process can also reuse old glass from demolition of facade glass.

Glass can usually be recycled, but only under heavy energy footprint. Glaskeramik takes glass waste and its embodied carbon footprint, and recycles it at a third of the energy footprint usually required, offseting the footprint of its processes via Solar Farm PV input.

The outcome is a material that is not extracted from the Earth's resource, but entirely derived from waste. Glaskeramik meets accreditations and has the capacity to fulfil large volumes requested by architectural facade and interiors, offering a valid alternative to stone, ceramic or virgin glass.

In support of the pioneering role played by glass ceramic for sustainably produced materials, the company is currently working towards various sustainable certificates for MAGNA Glaskeramik.