The hollow glass sector comprises the segments of container glass and tableware glass. There is also a segment which cannot be categorised as either container or tableware glass called “miscellaneous hollow glass”. The following section only pertains to “miscellaneous hollow glass including tableware glass”. Container glass is a separate category in the BV Glas statistics.

The “miscellaneous hollow glass, including tableware glass” segment recorded a revenue upturn of 2.1 percent to EUR 545.4 million in 2025 (2024: EUR 434.1 million). However, this result has to be differentiated from developments in the “tableware glass” segment, for which the Federal Statistical Office does not report any data: The production value in this segment was EUR 329.2 million, which is 3.4 percent higher than in the previous year (2024: EUR 318.5 million). Production tonnage rose by 15.7 percent to 29.2 million tonnes (2024: 25.2 million tonnes). BV Glas has made a qualified revenue estimate based on these figures, and puts the revenue figure at EUR 359.4 million. This is 6.8 percent above the previous year’s result of EUR 336.4 million.

Thanks to an improvement in the data situation – data on domestic and foreign sales are now also available for the segment of “miscellaneous hollow glass, including tableware glass”– it is possible to determine the import and export quotas again. The value of exports was up to EUR 582.1 million in 2025 (2024: EUR 554.2 million), which corresponds to an increase of 5.0 percent. The export quota was 58.4 percent in 2025 (2024: 55.5 percent), also representing a slight improvement.

The value of imports also increased by 9.6 percent to EUR 616.4 (2024: EUR 562.3 million). The trade balance is negative at minus EUR 34 million. This represents a considerable 323 percent change since the previous year (2024: minus EUR 8 million).

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