date:Jul 04, 2012
ly climbed just 1.8% to just over 3.5m tonnes.
In the UK, volumes fell 0.8% to 2.3m tonnes but this wasstill 150,000 tonnes up on 2006 levels. Turkey saw a healthy rise in 2011 with output increasing 5% to 822,000 tonnes.
The figures include production of container glass not only forfood and beverages but also perfumery, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.
Strong recovery
The year 2011 marked a strong recovery of the industry production volumes to satisfy an increasing local demand but a