Development of glass jewelery components for circular economics

The aim of the project is R&D of glass beads that will be in line with circular economy and ICT. R&D will be focused on the production of glass beads, which will contain in addition to traditional soda-potassium glass also ingredients obtained by recycling waste from various types of glass (flat, laboratory or decorative) or materials that have not been systematically recycled, such as fibers from composite materials. R&D will focus on the preparation of recycled materials (dust, shards, fibers), as well as on the composition of the resulting glass and the resulting visual effect. The 2nd project goal is the development of a glass bead that will allow jewelery to perform functions such as NFC or IoT. The methods of CAE, Rapid Tooling and 3D printing will be used for innovated glass beads.