## New CRT glass market on the horizon
_By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling_
A leading CRT glass processor has secured a contract to supply processed cullet for a new, large-volume application.
Dlubak Glass is a major processor of CRT glass, handling about 45,000 tons annually. Like other processors, the company has been active in trying to develop new markets for processed glass, given the steep decline in global demand for lead glass by CRT tube producers. Company officials now say that they've helped develop a new application that shows promise in countering low demand.
Dave Dlubak says his family-owned firm has entered into a 10-year supply agreement with a major company that will use powdered cullet as a filler and strengthener in Portland cement. The cullet is a blend made up of various forms of glass, including CRT material. The agreement is for a minimum of 50,000 tons per year, and the cullet buyer plans to install $10 million in equipment in a plant adjacent to Dlubak's Upper Sandusky, Ohio facility.
In order to produce CRT glass for this application, Dlubak has developed a new, automated, high-speed saw which allows the firm to separate funnel and panel glass at the rate of one tube every 15 seconds. Herb Schall, the Dlubak Glass official working to develop new markets for CRT glass, says the company expects to announce by year's end a new market for the funnel glass generated by the firm.
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