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The market value of fabricated glass (encompassing basic flat glass as well as all value-added products, such as laminated, tempered, insulating and mirrored glass) is forecast to increase 5.2 percent per year through 2006.
In a ceremony today in Goole, England, Guardian Industries Corp. executives and government officials laid the cornerstone for its future float glass plant.
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Some 1,100 exhibitors covering more than 63,000 m2 of net space are opening up dimensions never thought possible years ago, especially in a difficult economic environment such as the current one.
A western Pennsylvania town that once relied on a glass manufacturer for employment now believes the company is the key to luring new business there.
A spate of layoffs hit France this week, with U.S. computer-maker Hewlett-Packard detailing 1,400 cuts and transfers, and glass and construction group Saint-Gobain announcing it will move positions to the Czech Republic.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
One worker was killed and another seriously injured when unspecified chemicals exploded in a glass factory in a northern Czech town, Czech radio reported Wednesday.The radio said the explosion occurred shortly before noon in a glass factory in…
Researchers and developers of glass and coatings innovations that have become business successes for PPG Industries were honored with the President's Award for Technical Achievement here during a corporate technology conference.
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Rohm and Haas Company is investing approximately US $20 million to build a facility in Mumbai, India.
Guardian Industries Corp., a leading manufacturer of high performance coated glass for the commercial construction industry, announced the availability of three new coatings in its Sun-Guard(R) Series: Sun-Guard Pewter-30, Sun-Guard Platinum-23, and…
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World demand for flat glass is forecast to rise more than 4 percent per year to nearly 4 billion square meters in 2004, with a market value of over $40 billion.