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> Also, Pyrex is still borosilicate in Europe, since soda-lime is hard to get there. How is soda-lime glass “hard to get”? The main reason why it's still boros
by littlestymaar 3y ago
> Also, Pyrex is still borosilicate in Europe, since soda-lime is hard to get there.
How is soda-lime glass “hard to get”? The main reason why it's still borosilicate here is because the brand has been licensed to a different company, and their management hasn't chose to stop selling borosilicate.
- reaperducer 3y agoHow is soda-lime glass “hard to get”? I'm just going by what Wikipedia says: "Since the closure of the soda–lime plant in England in 2007, European Pyrex has been made solely from borosilicate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoThere are more glass factories in Europe than the one in Sunderland that Arc themselves closed down in 2007. Something like 30 million plus of glass was made in the EU27 in 2007 in over 200 facilities, nearly all of it would be soda lime glass (i.e. "normal glass"). https://climate.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2016-11/bm_study-glass_en.pdf https://climate.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2016-11/bm_study-g...