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| PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) today reported record sales for the first quarter – or any quarter in the company’s history – of $2.9 billion, surpassing first quarter 2006 record sales by 11 percent.
| China's building material industry has seen rapid growth both in production and sales in 2006, with the industry restructuring also making substantial progress, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
| Strong growth in estimated results for 2006, outperforming targets Sales: UP 18.5% to €41,596 million UP 18.2% at constant exchange rates* UP 6.7% like-for-like Operating income: UP 29.9% to €3,714 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 €1,702 million * average exchange rates for 2005 2007 targets: another year of growth Robust increase in operating income at constant exchange rates** Double-digit growth in net income (excluding capital gains and losses on sales of non-current assets). ** average exchange rates for 2006 2006 DIVIDEND***: €1.7 per share, up 25% on 2005 *** Recommended dividend payable in respect of 2006 to be submitted by the Board of Directors to the Annual General Meeting on June 7, 2007 for approval.
| Tak Metal has become new partner of Albat+Wirsam Software AG in Turkey.
| One of the largest manufacturers of float glass and fabricated glass products, Guardian Industries has selected Dubai-based Emirates Industrial Gas Company (EIGC) to provide gas solutions to its first gas plant being built in the United Arab Emirates.
| The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of China is stepping up its efforts to steer local companies into the flat-panel TV industry.
| Emirates Glass LLC (EGL), one of the leading processors of architectural flat glass in the Middle East and a subsidiary of Glass LLC, which is wholly owned by Dubai Investments (DI), has won a major order to supply 35,000 square meters of its EmicoolSun High Performance glass products to the City Centre Project Phase II, and 48,000 square metres to Phase III Hotel Towers, in Doha.
| Materials engineers have created a new type of coating that attracts water yet beads oils – traits that are usually mutually exclusive – promising potential applications such as "self-cleaning" eyeglasses and antifogging car windshields and ski goggles.
| Within the past two months, the former Pilkington has opened a facility in Germany to meet demand from solar manufacturers there and elsewhere in Europe.
| Leading Mexican glass maker Vitro posted a 94 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit on Monday, buoyed by an asset sale and lower financial costs.
| Amid the destruction wrought by car bombs over the past two years in Iraq, there are some merchants who, by dint of their trade, have done well out of the mayhem, and glaziers fit that profit-from-misfortune group.
| Mexican stocks edged higher Wednesday as second-tier issues, like shares in glass maker Vitro SA, staged recoveries. The market's key IPC index closed up 27.07 points or 0.2 percent to 13,550.14.
| One of Cardiff's major manufacturing employers an-nounced yesterday that it had invited staff to apply for voluntary redundancy.
| Theres an all out battle for supremacy in the UK glass container market, with upstart Quinn Glass attempting to muscle its way over Ardagh Glass, the number one producer in the country, reports Ahmed ElAmin.
| Wire Glass Must Be Removed from all educational facilities which include all K-12 construction. Also athletic facilities which cover gymnasiums, basketball courts, and racquetball courts - and may extend to rooms used for kickboxing and aerobics classes.
| Corning Display Technologies Taiwan predicts that supply of glass substrates for production of 5G and up panels will tighten for the next few months.
| Libbey Glass is poised to get another round of financial help from local government officials hoping to save the plant's 1,000 Shreveport jobs.
| The next chairman of PPG Industries Inc. expects the $9 billion company to grow by acquiring primarily coating and optical products businesses and expanding in regions such as Asia and Eastern Europe that are primed for industrial growth.
| Yorkshire glass manufacturers fear nearly 2,000 jobs could be at stake across the region, because of a new glass manufacturing plant in the North West.A row between rival glass makers erupted last year after work began on building a £200m glass factory, owned by Quinn Glass, at a site in Cheshire.
| Reflecting one of the most ambitious transformations in its 102-year history, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging, Owens-Illinois, Inc., (NYSE: OI) will begin doing business globally as O-I.