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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 81670, member: 878&quot;]Sorry, Pat, but you really lost me there. I have never heard of any factory &quot;making glass.&quot; The main ingredient of glass is sand - silica - with other ingredients added for different reasons - reduce melting temps, strength, coloring, etc. But perhaps 90% sand. </p><p>I do believe that no one ever mixed those ingredients, melted them at 1,000 to 3,000 centigrade, poured the results in a vat, let it solidify and shipped it off to someone who was going to put it in their own oven/kiln, re-melt it and make items with the results. Weight alone would make that uneconomical. Can you imagine the weight of a 50 gallon drum filled with sand, melted or not?</p><p><br /></p><p>The trademark &quot;Murano&quot; can be used only for <u>items made</u> on the island of Murano or, in a few cases, companies on the island of Venice. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are relatively recent - 1990s - laws reinforcing and further restricting the use of the name Murano. What you were accustomed to prior to then may no longer be possible. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.muranoglass.com/en/#.VgFkdMuFO00" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muranoglass.com/en/#.VgFkdMuFO00" rel="nofollow">http://www.muranoglass.com/en/#.VgFkdMuFO00</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.muranoglass.com/en/trademark/guide/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muranoglass.com/en/trademark/guide/" rel="nofollow">http://www.muranoglass.com/en/trademark/guide/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And while looking up those I came across sites concerning number of glass companies on the island. Depending on how they are classified, it&#039;s between 22 and 50 +_. The 22 are those who have a registered address on Murano plus a website, telephone, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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