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| Directors of PPG Industries have elected Robert Ripp a member of the company's board, effective March 1. He is chairman of Lightpath Technologies, a manufacturer of optical lens and module assemblies for the telecommunications sector.
| Southwall Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SWTX) plans to release its financial results for fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2002 on Wednesday, February 26, 2003, following the close of market.
| Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Owens-Illinois, Inc., announced today that it has closed on the sale of $450 million principal amount of its 8-3/4%Senior Secured Notes due November 15, 2012.
| Taiwan Glass Industry Corp has received approval from the Investment Commission to invest an additional US$24mil in its China unit.
| The Vidrio Andino project, a joint venture between the French Saint Gobain company and the Grupo Empresarial Antioqueno, with participation of the British Pilkington company, has received its environmental licensing for its glass factory, which will generate 350 jobs in the Soacha area when it enters into operation.
| Salomon Smith Barney said it downgraded on Monday Mexican glass maker Vitro VTO.N Vitroa.MX to "neutral" from "outperform" because of the sudden departure of Chief Financial Officer Luis Nicolau.
| As a result of a charge for a previously announced asbestos settlement agreement, PPG Industries today reported a net loss of $345 million, or a loss per share of $2.03, for the second quarter. Excluding the $495 million aftertax charge, net income was $150 million or 89 cents a share.
| Peter Jones of Biffa Waste Services has been described as “Waste management’s greatest advocate,” and judged more influential than environment minister Michael Meacher in a ‘Hot 100’ list of the most powerful people in sustainable waste management.
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| Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOI) announced today that Solutia management is unaware of any reason there should be unusually high trading volume or downward trading pressure on the price of Solutia stock.
| AFG Industries assigned Jason Friedt to be AFG primary glass field representative for the Northwest United States Territory.
| Beta Glass Plc paid a total sum of 227 million as dividend to its shareholders, some of who collected their dividend warrants recently at the Mainland Hotel, Ebute-Metta, Lagos venue of the Annual General Meeting of the company.According to Beta Glass Chairman, Chief C.O.
| Tamglass Ltd, part of the Kyro Group, received orders for automotive glass machinery at a combined value of EUR 11 million during May.
| In response to new standards passed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Owens-Illinois is forging ahead in the development of new child-resistant packaging in addition to those product lines already offered.
| When Paolo Scaroni told investors last month that Pilkington was "entering a new year in very difficult conditions," he was not kidding.
| Excavators at an Anglo-Saxon burial ground have found a rare glass bowl that remained intact for more than 1,500 years hidden inside a wooden bucket.
| PPG Industries' automotive flat glass plant here has been named member of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program designed to reward facilities whose performance extends beyond compliance with environmental laws.
| The NGA Show 2002 - the largest North American glass industry event of the year - went out on a high note drawing 5,000 attendees to the George R.
| The German company Heye-Glas will construct a glassware plant worth 23m euro for enterprises in Uzplodovoshchvinprom [Uzbek vegetable and wine industry] Holding in Yangiyul (a town in capital Tashkent Region).
| The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide a dlrs 12 million loan to modernize Ukraine's oldest and biggest glass packing producer, bank officials said Tuesday in a statement.