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| Housing units started by the nation's home builders surged by 11.6 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.73 million units, according to Commerce Department figures.
| DuPont Chairman and CEO Chad Holliday discussed a variety of topics in a recent issue of Chemical Market Reporter (CMR). Highlights of Chad’s comments are being featured in Network News.
| Entegris, Inc., the materials integrity management company, today announced that it will present and provide live webcasts for two investor conferences during its fourth quarter, 2002.Entegris will participate in the 22nd annual Adams, Harkness & Hill Summer Seminar in Boston, Mass., August 6-8.
| The Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain was held on Thursday June 6, 2002 in Paris.
| Pilkington chief executive Paulo Scaroni is set to accept the offer of a job as head of Italian electricity giant ENEL , sources in Rome and London said on Monday.
| The value of new construction starts dropped 11 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $468.9 billion, according to the Dodge division of McGraw-Hill Construction.
| Asahi Glass Co . said it expects to post a group net loss of Y13 billion for the year ended March 31 due to more special losses on the closure of a factory and the write-off of business rights for a U.
| The first quarter of 2002 was characterized by an improvement in sales volumes, raw material and energy costs and other operating cost reductions compared with the fourth quarter of 2001, as well as a challenging pricing environment Solutia sold its 50 percent interest in the Advanced Elastomer Systems joint venture for approximately $102 million, which resulted in a $3 million, or 3 cents per share, aftertax gain.
| Central Glass Co. of Japan is tying up with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain of France to strengthen its global business of making glass for Japanese automakers.
| James Houghton returned from partial retirement on Monday to take the helm at Corning as the venerable glass company based in upstate New York continued its efforts to recover from a disastrous move into optical communications.
| Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH) today released historical financial data which conforms to the financial reporting segments the company adopted, effective January 1, 2002.
| Pilkington Aerospace, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pilkington plc, has been selected by Lockheed Martin to supply the Integrated Transparency System for the cockpit of the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
| Citing sluggish economic conditions and the negative impact on sales to foodservice customers related to the events of September 11, 2001, Libbey Inc. anounced that diluted earnings per share for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2001, were 45 cents on sales of $112.1 million.
| Rohm and Haas Company's Board of Directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $.20 per common share. This dividend will be payable on March 1, 2002 to shareholders of record on February 15, 2002.
| Asahi Glass Co Ltd purchased aggregate of 555,000 shares in Company on 08-Jan-2002 and 09-Jan-2002.The purchases increased Asahi Glass Co Ltd's shareholding in the Company from 188,773,000 shares to 189,328,000 shares.
| Solutia Inc.'s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John C. Hunter, will address a chemical industry investor conference sponsored by Salomon Smith Barney in New York on Dec. 4, 2001 at 10:30 a.m.
| BMC Industries, Inc., today announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend. The dividend, however, has been reduced from $.015 per share to $.0025 per share.
| The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) will host an online contest on both LinkedIn and Twitter every Monday and Wednesday, respectively, at 12:30 p.m.
| The Indian government’s energy policy is raising growth expectations   Mumbai, India and Pforzheim/Freiburg, Germany, 26.
| Over the next few weeks and months we’ll be taking a look back at the show and specifically some of the products, services, and machinery you may have not gotten to see thanks to the busy and bustling show floor.