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| Illinois businesses are not happy. They say new tax legislation hit hard. PPG Industries in Mt. Zion is one of those businesses.
| A resolution to support glass recycling stalled Wednesday when ASUM voted to wait to deliberate on the MontPIRG-led effort until next week.
| Midland Glass has invested in a plastics processing plant at its site in Kirkby-in-Ashfield and is looking to expand into the collection of plastics from local authorities.
| When one of the lots for auction at a recent charity turned out to be a 32-sqare-meter stand at industry exhibition Glassex, it was too good an opportunity to miss for industry veteran and window company boss Mike Crewdson.
| What began as a near tragedy has sent a Eugene man on a mission to make safety changes nationwide. But Greg Abel doesn't have to go far to show how much work needs to be done.
| When Cristalux SA went out of business three years ago, some 300 workers lost their jobs producing glassware strong enough to be hurled against a wall without breaking.
| International Sematech is working with Oxford, England-based Exitech Ltd. to develop a unique tool in a microchip manufacturing process that involves lithography.
| The domestic construction glass industry is confident it will be able to compete under the ASEAN free trade area when import tariffs are shattered to under 5 per cent.
| Poly Glass Fibre (M) Bhd expects its glass-wool manufacturing division to at least maintain its performance this year, according to group managing director Chow Hon Piew.
| Glass manufacturer ACI has been hit by a 24-hour stoppage by hundreds of workers at its plants in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
| Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. recently announced plans to significantly expand its automotive safety glass business in China through a minority buy-out of its existing joint venture in China - Qinhuangdao Haiyan Safety Glass (QHSG), and the construction of a new state-of-the-art facility in Qinhuangdao Economic & Technological Development Zone (QETD Zone), Hebei Province, China.The economy in China has been growing at a compound annual growth rate of more than 8 percent since 1992, which is likely to be accelerated following its WTO entry in 2002.
| Pilkington PLC has until Aug. 1 to make a decision on the lease of its downtown Toledo headquarters, after receiving a one-month extension this week.
| The U.S. Department of Energy's decision to adopt the Energy Star Windows criteria establishing a new four-zone map allows window manufacturers to offer homeowners energy efficient windows suited to their needs, according to Pilkington Building Products North America.
| Directors of Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE) have declared a regular quarterly dividend of 14.5 cents per share of common stock.
| An exhibition catching up with artists who studied at a Black Country glass museum will be held throughout the summer. Previous occupants of the Scholarship Studio at Broadfield House will present some of their latest work at the centre in Compton Drive, Kingswinford, from July 5 to September 28.
| French architect Dominique Perrault won an international contest Saturday to modernize the 19th-century Mariinsky Theater with a giant glass and marble cocoon.
| A local company is now certified with the International Standards Organization, an achievement only about 130 companies in the state have acquired.
| Randy Braun has accepted the position of Director of Commercial Business Development at Edgetech IG. The position, which is new to the company, was formed specifically to take advantage of Brauns commercial window industry experience.
| GTS Services, LLC, and Harmon AutoGlass, a leading auto glass repair and replacement company with over 400 retail locations nationwide, today announced an agreement under which GTS Services' family of enterprise-wide software solutions will be installed throughout Harmon's retail network.
| Vitro, S.A. de C.V. announced that it was selected to provide close to 8,000 square meters of its extra-clear tempered glass and mirrors to build the façade of the Monterrey Arena, the most important events forum in Latin America which will cost US$55 million.