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Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass is unlikely to agree to buy Pilkington Plc for several more weeks as it continues to plough through the glassmaker's books, sources familiar with the situation said.
Bold use of color dominated the entries in this year’s seventh annual 2005 Solutia International Design Awards, which honor excellence in designing with laminated glass.
GlassTech Asia 2005, which opened on 30 November at Challenger Hall 3 of IMPACT, has on first show day generated orders totaling US$6 million (250 million baht) from both Thai and international buyers.
The board of French building materials maker Saint-Gobain will meet later on Monday to consider the size of a raised hostile bid for BPB after the plasterboard maker rejected calls for friendly talks over the weekend, said a source close to the…
Saint-Gobain SA, the French building materials group, is this weekend making a last-ditch approach to the board of BPB PLC in an effort to seal an agreed 3.8 bln stg takeover of the British plasterboard company, both The Sunday Times and The Sunday…
The European Commission on Wednesday cleared French glass firm Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA's hostile 3.68 billion British pound (euro5.45 billion; US$6.4 billion) bid for British plasterboard maker BPB PLC.
HALL 15 1 / STAND K24 – L25RegaLead, Europe’s largest supplier of decorative glass overlay products, will be exhibiting again at Vitrum with Italian partners Neostucco s.r.l demonstrating their technically proven overlay system which offers a quick…
Bassra Machine Tools Ltd (BMT) has been known for leading the way in manufacturing insulated glass production machinery in UK from more than 20 years.
Hall: 16I / Stand: F06-10Once again, Optima S.r.l., a leading Italian software house producing and marketing dedicated systems for the glass industry, is offering a series of new applications to coincide with Vitrum 2005.
Saint Gobain's (12500.FR) remarks in response to BPB (BPB.LN) defense document contain nothing new as expected, says analyst.
BPB is shoring up its defences to fend off a £3.6bn cash bid from French glassmaker Saint-Gobain in what promises to be one of the London Stock Exchange's biggest hostile takeover battles for years.
Vortex technology produces an extremely permeable centerless grinding wheel with an improved porous structure and superior abrasive grain spacing by combining a new engineered abrasive grain and an innovative manufacturing process.
BPB, the world's leading plasterboard business, is on full alert for an offer of more than £3.5bn for the company from Saint-Gobain, its French rival.
BPB PLC's institutional investors have demanded the group not be sold for less than 800 pence a share, valuing the group at more than 4 bln stg, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Saint-Gobain SA said its Scandinavian subsidiary, Saint-Gobain Nordic, has bought Optimera Gruppen AS of Norway, a distributor of building materials that has a commercial network of 95 brands in Norway and Sweden.
In view of the strong growth trends in Latin American markets, Saint-Gobain's Flat Glass Sector (Saint-Gobain Vitrage) has decided to expand its presence in the region with the construction of a new float glass production line in Mexico.
Triggered by a strong demand from the buoyant infrastructure sector and booming real estate market, the stock prices of glass manufacturers are hitting the roof. Prices of all the 14 listed glass firms have been on the rise.
Asean, of which Malaysia is one of the founding members, has concluded the free trade agreement in goods with China and the initial phase of the agreement is expected to be implemented by July 1 this year, said International Trade and Industry…
In view of the strong growth trends in Latin American markets, Saint-Gobain's Flat Glass Sector (Saint-Gobain Vitrage) has decided to expand its presence in the region with the construction of a new float glass production line in Mexico.
Asahi India Glass Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs209.59mn for the quarter ended March 31, 2005 as compared to Rs202.82mn for the quarter ended March 31, 2004.
SGG COOL-LITE ST has had a great deal of success on the solar control market. Our sales of COOL-LITE that can be toughened already represent 22% of all SGG COOL-LITE sold.
Air Liquide is pleased to announce that it has signed a 15-year contract with Saint-Gobain, a leader in the glass industry, for their new float-glass manufacturing site of Calarasi, 100 km south-east of Bucarest in Romania.
Consolidated sales for the Saint-Gobain Group in the first quarter of 2005, calculated in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), came in at €7,633 million, compared with €7,261 million for the same period in 2004 (…
Saint-Gobain's Flat Glass Sector (Saint-Gobain Vitrage) has decided to expand into the booming glass market for flat TV panels, through the production of glass for PDP (Plasma Display Panel).
In accordance with agreements finalized on April 6, 2005, Saint-Gobain has increased its share of voting rights in Hankuk Glass Industries (HGI) from 46% to 80.47%, and thus gained control of HGI.