{"id":514443,"date":"2022-08-16T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514443"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:17:50","slug":"europe-russia-gas-standoff-threatens-future-of-worlds-oldest-glassware-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/europe-russia-gas-standoff-threatens-future-of-worlds-oldest-glassware-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe-Russia gas standoff threatens future of world&#8217;s oldest glassware company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maximilian Riedel\u2019s family has kept the furnaces running at their glass-making business for 11 generations. He\u2019s worried that Europe\u2019s gas standoff with Russia might break that legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Riedel, founded in 1756, runs a three-year lead time to source specialist materials for the luxury wine glasses and decanters it produces, and furnaces used to melt glass can break if they are allowed to cool. This means that a pause in production due to energy rationing would temporarily put the company out of operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m steaming ahead, hoping that we\u2019re not the Titanic,\u201d Riedel, 44, said in a Zoom interview from the company\u2019s headquarters in the Austrian Alpine town of Kufstein. The energy crunch is making \u201ceverything uncertain and business people are very nervous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximilian Riedel\u2019s family has kept the furnaces running at their glass-making business for 11 generations. He\u2019s worried that Europe\u2019s gas standoff with Russia might break that legacy. Riedel, founded in 1756, runs a three-year lead time to source specialist materials for the luxury wine glasses and decanters it produces, and furnaces used to melt glass can break if they are allowed to cool. This means that a pause in production due to energy rationing would temporarily put the company out of operation. \u201cI\u2019m steaming ahead, hoping that we\u2019re not the Titanic,\u201d Riedel, 44, said in a Zoom interview from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}