Developments reviewed in this paper include investments by the international container manufacturing concern O-I (formerly Owens-Illinois, but the full name is no longer used) in its glass bottle production facilities in the UK (including the refurbishment of the warehouses at Harlow in southeastern England and the installation of bottle decoration equipment at Alloa in central Scotland, where the production facilities have also been modified to allow small batches of experimental bottle designs to be made in the course of new product development projects), the development by a company named Vemotion, in partnership with Rockware Glass, of a system for enabling consumers with certain types of technologically advanced mobile telephones to gain access to more detailed information on bottled products than can be displayed on labels and the development by Rexam Glass of a process for making clear bottles that are fully transparent to visible light but opaque to the ultraviolet wavelengths that cause beer to become lightstruck (first used in a 330 ml bottle for InBev's German lager brand Beck's Gold).
