[Italy] Vetrerie Riunite: Pressed Glass Bottles With Varying Thicknesses

The Italian company, Vetrerie Riunite (FINVETRO Group), who specialise in pressed glass, have produced bottles using this method. For the time being, these are prototypes. The advantage of this technique resides in the possibility of obtaining variations in thickness, notably for the vertical walls of the bottle. There is still one difficulty to be resolved - creating the base. Glass pressing consists of allowing a gob of glass to fall into an open circled mould, a core, then pushing the glass along the length of the walls of the mould and the core emerging through the opening of the mould which releases a product without a base. The glassmaker is currently studying a solution to be able to close the bottle and guarantee its tightness.