This International Standard defines terms relating to the manufacture of glasscontainers, to the materials used and to the processes and products associated with such manufacture.

This International Standard deals with terms relating to the manufacture and processing of containers, i.e. bottles and jars, made from soda-lime-silica glass by an automatic or semiautomatic process. It does not concern terms relating to the manufacture of any other type of glasscontainer, such as laboratory beakers or flasks, or any item of domestic glassware, such as tumblers or decanters.