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| The additional cost of building to Passive House standards can be recouped in just a couple of years according to the UK’s insulation giant Saint-Gobain Isover.
| Defenshield is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with North American Specialty Glass (NASG) – a premier transparent armor supplier based in Trumbauersville, PA.
| Due to strong demand for its solar modules, Sunfilm AG announced today that it has awarded Applied Materials, Inc. a contract for a second Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line.
| BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- A Botswanian official called for more Chinese companies and entrepreneurs to invest in her country's glass manufacturing industry here on Monday.
| Saint-Gobain Glass’ UK plant has won The Sunday Times national award for training and motivation of staff on environmental issues and has also been named as one of UK’s greenest companies in The Sunday Times’ 50 Best Green Companies list to be published this weekend (Sunday 18 May).
| - Full year EBIT result in line with market guidance Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) $386.3 million: down 5% (YEM 07: $406.1m) Net Profit (before significant items) $192.8 million; down 20% (YEM 07: $240.5m) Final dividend 9 cents per share; full year dividend maintained at 15 cents per share - Building Products’ like for like earnings up 16% despite weak residential housing market - Glass acquisitions build revenue stream and broaden product portfolio – Viridian launched as new brand – integration on track; capitalising on energy efficient glass opportunities - Significant investment across the business to sustain market position and deliver medium term earnings growth CSR limited today reported earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of $386.3 million for the year ended 31 March 2008, in line with previous market guidance.
| Applied Materials, Inc. reported results for its second fiscal quarter ended April 27, 2008. Net sales were $2.15 billion, down 15 percent from $2.53 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2007, and up 3 percent from $2.09 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2008.
| The owner of a construction-glass plant in Lathrop is proposing a $100 million upgrade, contingent on some government financial support.
| Business review of the first quarter of 2008 During the first quarter of fiscal 2008 (January 1 through March 31, 2008), prices of raw materials and fuels such as oil continued to rise worldwide.
| Prior to the Show, Thermoseal Group urged all window companies visiting the Glassex 2008 exhibition to ‘Get Real’ and find out the true facts behind the construction of sustainable sealed units.
| (TOPEKA) ‐ The Protective Glazing Council (PGC) International on May 5, 2008 announced their 2008 Annual Symposium, which will take place November 1‐13th at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia.
| CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2008--Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE) announced today that it will conduct a conference call on Wednesday, May 7, at 10:00 a.m.
| Global Solar Joins Dow in Solar America Initiative to Help Deliver Hi-tech, Thin-film BIPV Products for Building Construction, Including Flexible Solar Shingles Tucson, Ariz.
| On the back of a positive show for Edgetech, the company has announced its sales are up 47% so far this year. "While it's great that our own sales are still on the up, we were even more pleased to hear that our customers are seeing growth too," explains Alan Fielder, National Sales Manager of Edgetech.
| SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Materials, Inc. today announced the appointment of James E. Rogers to serve on its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
| The intelligent glass Smart-Tint will be out on display again next month this time at the Grand Designs Live show at Docklands Excel.
| With comments like “best product I have seen today”, and “this is just simply amazing”, heard from some of the visitors to the Smart-Tint stand at the NEC, Reflex Glass says that the National Homebuilding & Renovating show was a massive success.
| For leading warm edge technology supplier Edgetech, Glassex-GP&T was living proof that forward thinking glass and window companies are confident - and even excited - about the industry's future, despite all the talk of doom and gloom.
|  * Sales increase by 18.2% to €239.1m in the first quarter of 2008  * Operating result (Adjusted EBITDA) improves by 20.4% to €43.0m  * Integration of the acquisitions EDP and Allplas progressing in line with plan  * CEO Dr.
| Edgetech I.G. is proud to announce that it has appointed Mike Burk to technical service manager. Burk joined Edgetech in 2007 as a product manager after spending 15 years in the industry.