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DURAN is the brand name for borosilicate glass corresponding to glass type 3.3 according to ISO 3585. It is currently (2008) maufactured by

SCHOTT Rohrglas GmbH, Mittertich, Germany. Principally rod and tube

DURAN Group, Mainz, Germany and Pula, Croatia. Principally blow-moulded and pressed items for laboratory and industrial applications

Historical Use of DURAN Brand
Application for registration of the brand name DURAN in Germany was made December 1938 by Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen, Jena, Germany (now SCHOTT AG, Mainz, Germany) although the brand was in use from as early as 1928. It was originally used to designate a range of hard glasses later including DURAN 3891III (a tungsten sealing glass) and DURAN 50 (similar to modern DURAN for holoware). DURAN was at times simultaneously used by both Schott Glaswerke AG and Jena Glaswerke VEB in the period between the partition of Germany after World War Two and German reunification.

Current Brand Ownership
On 1st March 2005, SCHOTT AG sold its Laboratory Glassware business to the German capital company ADCURAM Industriekapital AG. The ownership of the DURAN brand remained with SCHOTT evidenced by its use for borosilicate 3.3 tubing from SCHOTT Rohrglas. Subsequently, the newly independant business re-styled itself as the DURAN Group and has re-branded literature to focus on the DURAN element whilst product and product packaging is restyled around the 'old' SCHOTT DURAN brand and logo superceeded in 1999. This appears to be an analogue of the rebranding that occurred when SCHOTT disposed of its laboratory instruments business, SCHOTT Geräte, to Nova Analytics in 2003. SCHOTT Geräte became SCHOTT Instruments using the pre-1999 logo.