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| Listed as one of the Top 200 trade shows in the U.S. by Tradeshow Week magazine, GlassBuild America is clearly THE place to be in 2007.
| GTS is expanding its glass business software to support broader residential and commercial glazing market needs. It is also extending its Internet Marketing Services into other markets, such as collision repair.
| Solar Innovations has received its Folding Glass Wall Notice of Approval (NOA) number. In addition to Solar Innovations' Folding Glass Walls already being certified as hurricane rated, Miami Dade certification now bumps Solar to the highest overall coastal rating achievable.
| Archeological excavations on the top of Patapeh historic hill located behind Kalan Dam in Malayer, Iranian Hamadan province, has resulted in identifying architectural evidence dating back to Safavid dynastic era (1501-1736 AD).
| Saint-Gobain Sekurit India’s plants at Bhosari and Chakan have obtained, on January 17th 2006, the OHSAS 18001: 1999 certification to reward their management of healthy/safety risks and the ISO 14001:2004 certification for their environmental performances.
| The American Ceramic Society and NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University will hold the 2007 Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting & 18th University Conference on Glass in Rochester, New York, May 20-23, 2007.
| Saint Gobain a state-of-the-art glass manufacturing company in the country, has brought all its solar control products under a single umbrella brand – Sun Ban Reflective Glass.
| North East glassmakers are heading out to the United Arab Emirates as they look to break into the Gulf’s lucrative glass market.
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“NSG”) confirms that Pilkington Group Limited (“Pilkington”), a member of NSG Group, received a further Statement of Objections on 20 April 2007 from the European Commission.
| A daring piece of architecture for The Loop, Aqua comes off more as a massive sculpture than as a condominium block in the crowded heart of the city.
| POLYMAGIC™ Glass is a special, patented, technology that incorporates LEDs (light sources) into glass panels to create distinctive patterns, images and logos.
| Malaysian Sheet Glass Sdn Bhd (MSG) on April 12 launched a RM200 million bank-guaranteed notes issuance programme that was arranged by RHB Investment Bank Bhd (RHB InvestBank).
| A forthcoming EU Directive, "The Energy Performance of Buildings" will require Member States to take major steps to make buildings more energy-efficient, and is therefore set to boost demand for products which improve the energy performance of buildings.
| While restraining the United States glass manufacturer Guardian from setting up a 100 per cent subsidiary in India, the Delhi High Court ruled that foreign companies would have to establish their units in collaboration with Indian companies.
| In float glass manufacturing, the tin bath heating system’s temperature performance and energy efficiency are essential, not least because of the enormously high energy densities the system produces, with an operating performance of up to 3 MW.
| Strong Growth, Outperforming Targets - Sales: up 18.5% to EUR41,596 million; up 18.2% at constant exchange rates* and up 6.7% like-for-like - Operating income: up 29.9% to EUR3,714 million; up 29.8% at constant exchange rates* - Net income (excluding capital gains and losses on sales of non-current assets): up 32.6% to EUR1,702 million The key consolidated data for the Group, as well as the results by business sector and geographical area set out in the appendix, are the same as the estimated figures published at the end of January (**), and are summarized below: 2005 2006 % In EUR In EUR change millions millions (1) (2) (2)/(1) Net sales (a) 35,110 (a) 41,596 (a) +18.5% Operating income 2,860 3,714 +29.9% Non-operating costs (288) (367) +27.4% Capital gains and losses and exceptional asset write-downs (21) (27) -28.6% Dividend income 3 2 -50.0% Business income 2,554 3,322 +30.1% Net financial expense (569) (748) +31.5% Income tax (701) (899) +28.2% Share in net income of equity 10 7 -30.0% investees Income before minority interests 1,294 1,682 +30.0% Minority interests (30) (45) +50.0% Net attributable income 1,264 1,637 +29.5% Earnings per share based on the number of shares at December 31 (in 3.66 4.44 +21.3% EUR) Earnings per share excluding capital 1,284 1,702 +32.6% gains Earnings per share excluding capital gains based on the number of shares at December 31 (in EUR) 3.72 4.62 +24.2% Cash flow from operations 2,735 3,347 +22.4% Cash flow from operations excluding capital gains tax 2,730 3,374 +23.6% Depreciation and amortization 1,420 1,717 (b) +20.9% Capital expenditure 1,756 2,191 +24.8% Investments in securities (c) 6,991 584 n.m.
| Like Alice in Wonderland, guests at the Toledo Museum of Art 2007 Docent Winter Social, “Through the Looking Glass,” March 9 were in awe as they meandered through the museum’s Glass Pavilion.
| It has taken ten long months in planning, but Pilkington Activ™ Blue self-cleaning glass is poised to be installed in a very unusual place – within the two observation towers at the Woolwich ferry on the River Thames.
| Rexam, the global consumer packaging company and the world’s leading beverage can maker, announces its audited results for the year to 31 December 2006.
| Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has announced the decision at the meeting of its Board of Directors on February 5, 2007 to propose an agenda to the 82nd Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on March 29, 2007, to seek approval of the granting of stock acquisition rights on new stock (as stock options) in compliance with Articles 236, 238 and 239 of the Corporation Law of Japan. 1.