International snippets: Poland, Turkey, Vietnam

The production of sand for use in glass manufacture in Poland in 2007 totalled 2.27 million tons, as compared with 1.52 million tons in 2006 and 1.59 million tons in 2005, according to a July 31 report from Poland’s Central Statistical Office.

The production of “sheets of float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, but not otherwise worked” in Poland in 2007 totalled 65.6 million square metres, as compared with 64.8 million square metres in 2006, 54.8 million square metres in 2005 and 35.0 million square metres in 2004, according to the report.