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Company Cleverglass from the Cadence Innovation group will next year build a plant worth some CZK 1 billion to produce polycarbonate glass sheets near Liberec, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes said yesterday.
To support a strategic shift away from consuming large amounts of fossil fuel, the greenhouse industry in the Netherlands is turning to GE’s ecomagination initiative for innovative environmental solutions.
Economic, political and personal rivalries will be played out before a planning inquiry which will determine the future of 500 jobs at a glass bottling plant near Chester.
Having achieved 27 per cent market share for its range of products in a span of five years, Saint-Gobain Glass India Ltd is hoping to reach the 40-per cent-mark in the next cycle of investment.The company, according to its Managing Director, B.
Judel Glass has entered into a joint venture with Jane Lew glassmaker Masterpiece Crystal, according to Judel President David Rifenburgh.
Saint-Gobain's long-term credit rating was cut to Baa1 from A2 by Moody's Investors Service, following its agreed 3.89 bln stg bid to acquire UK plasterboard group BPB PLC.
LMI Technologies, Inc. has introduced a new and improved glass thickness and profiling laser sensor with all software functions operating inside the sensor head, eliminating the need for a separate controller for reduced implementation cost.
Saint-Gobain (SGOB.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) is under no pressure to sell assets to finance its agreed takeover of BPB Plc (BPB.L: Quote, Profile, Research) or other acquisitions, but may sell some activities, the world's biggest materials…
The board of Pilkington, which recently rejected an initial offer of £2bn from Nippon Sheet Glass as being too low, clearly believes the aphorism that you have to spend money to make it.
A glass firm made a staggering 58 changes to its plans for a huge manufacturing plant during construction of the facility.
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA agreed to buy BPB Plc for 3.89 billion pounds ($6.7 billion) to become the world's biggest supplier of interior walls and ceilings.
Myrtle Beach Pelican Willie James swung his baseball bat into a window used in a new kind of hurricane-resistant building.
Anchor Glass Container Corporation (Pink Sheets:AGCCQ) today announced that it has entered into a new multi year agreement with Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated to supply substantially all of their glass requirements in the Southeast Region for their…
Lisa Koshkarian and Tom DiFrancesco topped their Potrero Hill house with a modern, clean-lined master suite last year that gave them views of downtown, the Bay Bridge and the Transamerica Pyramid through big, loft-style windows.
Emirates Glass has showcased its premium glass products made from its state-of-the-art machinery, the water jet and the tempering furnace, which evinced keen interest among the trade visitors and industry professionals at the Big5, the region’s…
Pilkington's (PILK.LN) management is unlikely to be impressed by an increased offer of 162p a share from Nippon Sheet Glass (5202.
As 2005 draws to a close, some Chinese businesses are pursuing more overseas growth through cooperation. China Triumph Engineering, one of the country's leading and largest glass makers announced recently it has established a 50-50 joint…
Rio Tinto Borax, acknowledged world leader in borate supply and science, today announced a significant price increase across all product lines to help offset the effect of far greater increases in energy, raw material and transportation costs.
The remarkable story of Czech glass and its originality from the end of World War II until 1980 is told in an exhibition currently at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y.
panel makers for infringement on retardation film related patents, and several of the makers have settled with the US-based glass provider by paying royalties, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), one of the Taiwan-based defendants, said it refuses to…
XsunX, Inc., developer of Power Glass(r) -- an innovative solar technology that allows glass windows to produce electricity from the power of the sun, announced today that the use of rolled flexible materials, such as plastics and metal, in the…
All the ship's stern windows, supplied by Pilkington and specially ground by Göteborg processors FP Glasmagasinet, have been tested by the National Swedish Administration of Shipping and Navigation and shown to be proof against the severest…
Engineered Glass Products’ ThermiqueTM heated glass technology has won a 2005 “Best of What’s New” Award in the home technology category from Popular Science magazine.
A remarkable idea to create a huge glass tower in the centre of Coventry has attracted major support.
The European Investment Bank is lending EUR 60 million to Sisecam, a major glass manufacturing company in Turkey, for funding part of its investment programme.