Glas Industry

A clear matter: Saxony-Anhalt offers the glass industry brilliant prerequisites. The raw material stocks of quartz sand, soda and lime are in the immediate vicinity of the glassworks – an unprecedented proximity in Germany. The industry is growing and exports are booming. Our four plate glass plants produce a third of German plate glass and a tenth of plate glass produced in Europe. Glass from Osterweddingen shines in the new World Trade Center and the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg.

Plate glass production has emerged as a workhorse within the glass industry. About 2,700 tonnes of plate glass leave the factory halls in Wolfen-Thalheim, Osterweddingen and Haldensleben every day. HNG Global GmbH has one of Europe’s most modern glassworks for container glass in Gardelegen: 300 million bottles and glasses leave the production halls every year. Glass is processed into solar float glass or insulated and laminated safety glass. For instance, in terms of handicraft Saxony-Anhalt is graced with the glass workshops in Quedlinburg from the company Glaswerkstätten F. Schneemelcher, which has immortalised its ability at the Monument to the Battle of Nations in Leipzig.