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| AUSTRALIA'S third-largest building-products maker CSR has paid $690 million for glassmaker Pilkington Australasia. The deal for the Melbourne business, which has 1700 employees, saw CSR beat offers from consortiums reportedly led by private equity.
| Rexam, the global consumer packaging group and the world’s leading beverage can maker, is pleased to announce that it has completed the divestment of its Glass business to Ardagh Glass Group which was initially announced on 12 March 2007.
| The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recognized the Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. U.S. corporate Home Office in Deerfield, Ill., with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design(R) (LEED) designation at a Gold-level certification in the New Construction category.
| Emirates Float Glass will build a second plant over 2.36m sqft in Dubai. Parent company Glass LLC said it plans to invest $545m in the glass products sector over the next 4-5 years.
| MyIris.com reported that a meeting of the board of directors of Gujarat Borosil will be held on Jun. 27, 2007 to recommend dividend and to consider and approve the annual accounts and audited financial results for the year ended Mar. 31, 2007.
| Further to speculation in the media this morning, the Board of Rexam, the global consumer packaging company and the world's leading beverage can maker, confirms it is in discussions with Owens Illinois Inc. (“OI”) which may, or may not, lead to the acquisition of OI’s plastics division.
| In speaking to investors today at the Sanford C. Bernstein 23rd Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York City, Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Wendell P.
| The liquid crystal display television wars are heating up and could provide new opportunities for Corning Inc. Reuters news agency reported from Tokyo that Sharp Corp. is making a move on its larger rivals, Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co.
| Forbes reported that investors Service said it has upgraded the corporate family rating for Ardagh Glass Group PLC to 'B2' from 'B3', and assigned a 'stable' outlook, following Ardagh's acquisition of the European glass activities of Rexam PLC.
| Winemakers and retailers will learn this week how to reduce their impact on climate change by bottling imported wines within the UK – and boost recycling as they do so.
| Reuters reported that PPG Industries Research expects to announce the planned sale or a partnership link-up of its fine chemicals and glass businesses by the end of the summer, CEO Charles Bunch said on Friday.
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| Sumir R. Pandit of Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School has won a PPG Industries Foundation Community Merit Scholarship award.
| Finacity Corporation announced that it successfully facilitated the upsize and extension of a trade receivables securitization transaction for Vitro America, Vitro's US-based subsidiary, on April 16, 2007.
| The National Science Foundation is on the lookout for investigators who can see beyond today’s frontiers of knowledge and will take a stab at the moving frontiers that lie beyond our current horizon, NSF director Arden L.
| Thailand has launched an official protest with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the Philippines's unilateral raising of import tariffs on Thai glass panes, WTO ambassador Thawatchai Sophastienphong said Friday The Philippines had moved ahead with unilateral measures to protect its domestic glass industry by increasing the import tariff for imported glass panes to 3,971 pesos per tonne, Mr Tawatchai reported, arguing that such trade action was a barrier that obviously breached the trade principles and unduely damaged the Thai glass industry.
| Iraq put forth 12 projects to international companies in the fields of: cement industry, iron and steel, petrochemicals, fertilizers, glass, paper and cars, in the framework of the Ministry of Industry for the development of these plants and increase their productive capacity.
| Compagnie de Saint-Gobain confirms that it has received a “Statement of objections” from the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition.
| PPG Industries Inc. wants to sell off the business that started it all: a glass plant in East Deer Township that opened in 1883.
| Kaj Appelberg, Glaston’s Head of Global Sales and acting Managing Director of Bavelloni has left the Kyro Group with immediate effect.