§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will take steps to encourage the glass industry to make a partial switch to electric smelting.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe Department of Energy is collaborating with the Department of Industry in bringing to the attention of the glass industry the benefits of electric smelting in small glass furnaces, and of electrically heated forehearths of glass smelters of all sizes. The Government have sponsored two full-scale demonstrations of the latter and are currently discussing an agreement to demonstrate an electric glass smelter having a capacity of 20 tonnes per day. The results of such demonstrations are widely disseminated in the industry.