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The board of Taiwan Glass Industrial Corp. (Q.TGI) has approved plans to invest US$30 million in a new plant in China's Guangdong province, the glass maker said Friday.
After a year under construction, the new Bergen City Parkinghouse in Norway is now complete and is proudly displaying Pilkington glass.
New DuPont™ SentryGlas® Secure™ is the tool architects need to design the next generation of laminated glass applications to meet today's stringent security standards.
The high cost of building a glass structure that can withstand the unforgiving Canadian climate has forced the Royal Ontario Museum to rethink the controversial "crystal" design for its extension.
DuPont and the U.S. State Department (DOS) have been working closely together for the past two years on a test and development programme to creat the next generation of blast-resistant window installations.
The market value of fabricated glass (encompassing basic flat glass as well as all value-added products, such as laminated, tempered, insulating and mirrored glass) is forecast to increase 5.2 percent per year through 2006.
In a ceremony today in Goole, England, Guardian Industries Corp. executives and government officials laid the cornerstone for its future float glass plant.
A spectacular new home in Hamilton, New Zealand, will feature a large Pilkington Planar™ glass system as its front 'wall'.
Some 1,100 exhibitors covering more than 63,000 m2 of net space are opening up dimensions never thought possible years ago, especially in a difficult economic environment such as the current one.
A western Pennsylvania town that once relied on a glass manufacturer for employment now believes the company is the key to luring new business there.
Glasstech, Inc., the world leader in the manufacturing of glass bending and tempering equipment, will feature key architectural and automotive technologies at glasstec 2002 in Dusseldorf, Germany, October 28 – November 1, 2002.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
Zhejiang Glass Co Ltd said it intends to use 100 mln yuan which was a part of net proceeds raised from its listing of H shares to invest in an ultra-thick float flat glass production line.
The Pilkington plc website, www.pilkington.com, has won a major award just four weeks after re-launch – for best practice in investor relations.
Netegrity, Inc., the leading provider of solutions for securely managing e-business relationships, today announced that Guardian Industries Corp. has selected Netegrity SiteMinder(R) product to secure access to several business applications across…
Tamglass has launched a new technology concept of convection heating for Low-E tempering in order to provide higher production capacity and better optical quality for the glass processors in North America.
Guardian Industries Corp., a leading manufacturer of high performance coated glass for the commercial construction industry, announced the availability of three new coatings in its Sun-Guard(R) Series: Sun-Guard Pewter-30, Sun-Guard Platinum-23, and…
The twin-towered, glass-skinned high-rise that straddles the main train station in the city of Nagoya has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest building housing a railway terminal.
With savvy consumers demanding greener automobiles and government agencies raising the fuel-economy bar, Guardian Industries' SilverGuard(TM) infrared reflective glass is engineered to help meet today's tough vehicle standards.
Grupo Vitro, Mexico's largest glass manufacturer, has assured that the volatility in gas prices for industrial use will not affect its operations.
Glassmaker Pilkington plc (Saint Helens, United Kingdom) has closed one of its 11 U.S. glass plants. The closing, first announced in June of 1999, was originally scheduled for 2000 and then 2001, but was delayed due to market conditions.
Auto-glass maker Asahi India Safety Glass has increased its stake to nearly 80 per cent in its subsidiary Float Glass India, through a recent open offer and said it might merge the ailing company with itself.
World demand for flat glass is forecast to rise more than 4 percent per year to nearly 4 billion square meters in 2004, with a market value of over $40 billion.
The glazing industry of the 21st century uses these days increasingly float glass integrated with special coating materials.
Glaspro Inc., the West Coast's predominant designer and fabricator of architectural glass, today announced an agreement with Solutia Inc. to fabricate and distribute Vanceva, a new brand of Advanced Solutions for Glass; designed specifically…