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Asahi Glass Fine Techno, a Taiwanese subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass, expects its fifth glass furnace to begin operations earlier than expected to meet demand from TFT LCD makers, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times.
Roberto Caliari has been appointed Senior Vice-President in charge of the Ceramics & Plastics, Abrasives and Reinforcements Branches.
Saint-Gobain Group consolidated net income for the first half of 2003 amounted to EUR 470 million, a decrease of 5.6% on the same period of 2002.
Sterling Commerce today announced an agreement with Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. to deploy a trio of Sterling Commerce value-added services to upgrade critical business transactions and remove manual processes between the glass container supplier…
The local glass manufacturing industry is under heavy siege with the surge of glass products imported from China, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, India and Korea.
Corning to shut CRT glass plant Corning Inc. has announced plans to close its television glass joint venture with Japan's Asahi Glass Co.
Japan-based Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. has announced that it will move part of its production line in the Philippines to Thailand as a way of rationalizing its regional operations.
The shareholders of Asahi India Glass Ltd (AIGL) and Floatglass India Ltd (FIL) have approved the merger of the two companies, according to a AIGL release.
Earthquakes, which have proved to be the most destructive of natural hazards, destroy fragile buildings and civil infrastructures.
Asahi Glass Philippines, the local unit of Japanese glass maker Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (J.AHG or 5201) said Thursday it will phase out its Philippines automotive glass operations this year, but may recall that decision if domestic car sales improve.
Francesco Davalli, CSM Tecnologies Sales Manager, in cooperation with YKC closed an important contract with Saint Gobain group to supply a full automated line for thier glass processing plant HPG in Korea.
French glassmaker Saint-Gobain SGOB.PA has no plans to follow the example of Swiss firm ABB by making a major payment to settle U.S. asbestos claims, a senior executive said on Thursday.
French business confidence slid in January amid resurgent uncertainty about the prospect of war in Iraq, snapping what had looked like a budding recovery in the last two months of 2002, a report published on Thursday showed.
Standard & Poor's Corp (S&P) said Thursday it has revised the outlook on the long-term corporate credit rating on Asahi Glass Co, one of the world's largest flat-glass makers, to negative from stable.
The squeeze-out offer of Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., for the remaining Glaverbel shares closed on 16 December. Asahi Glass thus fully holds 100 percent of the capital of Glaverbel. 34,552 shares and 175 bonds were tendered.
Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (J.AHG) said Wednesday that it has gained full control of Belgium's Glaverbel SA (B.GLA) following a squeeze-out offer.
Saint-Gobain announced the syndication of its EUR1.0 billion 5-year syndicated loan facility was closed successfully. The transaction was well oversubscribed allowing Saint-Gobain to increase the size of the facility to EUR1.2 billion.
RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security(R), today announced that Saint-Gobain Corporation has chosen its RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication solution to help provide more than 3,000 U.
Asahi Glass Company Ltd said it will launch a bid for all the remaining shares of Glaverbel SA at 140.86 eur per share. The company said the Belgian Banking and Finance Commission approved the operation, which it said will run from Dec 3-16.
The collaboration between Curvet Spa from Pesaro, an unrivalled market leader in its sector which for the last 25 years has specialised in manufacturing safety glass and curved glass, and Bekaert ECD Solar Systems LLC , the only manufacturer of…
A spate of layoffs hit France this week, with U.S. computer-maker Hewlett-Packard detailing 1,400 cuts and transfers, and glass and construction group Saint-Gobain announcing it will move positions to the Czech Republic.
Vom 28. Oktober bis zum 1. November 2002 präsentiert sich SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS auf der glasstec 2002 in Düsseldorf mit einem völlig neuen Messestand.
Insulating “warm edge” spacer for IG Units, made by glass fibre reinforced polymerInsulating glass units have been manufactured so far using metal spacers, usually in Aluminium.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd (J.AHG), which currently holds 99.08% of the share capital of Glaverbel (GLAB.BRU), announced today that it is launching a public squeeze-out bid for the 65,434 shares (i.e. 0.92% of the share capital) it does not already hold.