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All-glass construction to present Croatia’s architecture.
The Buffalo News today continues its occasional series on notable bridges, as our community works toward an agreement on what kind of bridge to build across the Niagara River.
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The high cost of building a glass structure that can withstand the unforgiving Canadian climate has forced the Royal Ontario Museum to rethink the controversial "crystal" design for its extension.
A one-year WRAP funded project aims to help increase glass recycling. BRE-led research will assess the recycling opportunities for non-contaminated, high-grade flat glass and non-contaminated timber and plastic profiles from the demolition and…
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The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co . (J.NSG or 5202) Friday revised down its profit forecast for the year ended March 31 due to slimmer profits on its information technology products and poor earnings at subsidiaries.
Tamglass has launched a new technology concept of convection heating for Low-E tempering in order to provide higher production capacity and better optical quality for the glass processors in North America.
As of December 31, 2001 Mr. Karl Lenhardt has resigned his responsibilities as Managing Director of Lenhardt Maschinenbau GmbH in Neuhausen-Hamberg.
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