The British Glass Focus awards celebrated the best of British glassmaking. The event was an opportunity to highlight innovation in glassmaking in seven categories, as well as an opportunity to network with fellow glassmaking professionals. Judge, Dr Nick Kirk, Technical Director of the organisers and hosts British Glass, praised the quality of all the entries and said it was difficult to decide the winners "all the entries were excellent, with many intriguing and beautiful designs, and amazing ideas, and we could clearly see that the sector's businesses believe strongly in developing their people for the future." Company of the year was awarded to Nippon Electric Glass Fibre while Ardagh Group were given the award for Sustainable Practice.