Sales in Czech glass industry rise by 160% since 1990s

Glass and customs jewellery production remains a significant industry in the Czech Republic and its sales have grown by 160 percent since the 1990s, according to a study carried out by the Technical University in Liberec.  

The structure of the glass industry has nevertheless changed over the past 20 years, study co-author Vlastimil Hotar said.

"Glass means not only drinking glasses, utility glass, decoration glass and lighting glass, but also glass fibres, glass packaging and flat glass," Hotar said.

A majority of the public associates the glass industry mainly with traditional production of utility glass, which accounted for 55 percent of Czech glass output in early 1990s.

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