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The massive renovation of Churchill Downs includes $1 million of commissioned art. The artists were hitting the homestretch this week, painting, uncrating and installing their work.
A Minnesota-based glass manufacturer is considering the Wilkes-Barre area for the location of a new plant, its chief executive confirmed Thursday.
Vitro S.A. de C.V. one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, today announced 4Q'04 un-audited results.
Dubai Investments PJSC is planning to set up a manufacturing plant for float glass in the UAE at an estimated investment of Dh735 million.
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.
Vitro, S.A. de C.V. announced that to better serve its customers in the city of Acapulco, Vitrocar, S.A. de C.V., a Vitro’s subsidiary Company, leader in national replacement automotive glass, has opened today a new branch in Acapulco, located at Av.
Vitro announced that on December 30, 2002, it issued a medium term note (Certificados Bursátiles) in the Mexican market for approximately $96 million maturing on December 22, 2008.
New DuPont™ SentryGlas® Secure™ is the tool architects need to design the next generation of laminated glass applications to meet today's stringent security standards.
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…
City and county leaders welcomed Component Technology Inc. to the city on Monday.The company, which will retain its plant in Branchburg, Somerset County, is expected to create between 50 and 75 jobs at the Harris Industrial Park, the site of the…
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.
Glassmaker Grupo Vitro is seen reporting weak third quarter earnings compared with the same quarter last year, due to weak economies in Mexico and the U.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
When Paris-based architect Franck Hammoutene won a design competition held by the city's Catholic diocese to build a church for the city's downtown La Defense business area that is workplace to around 100,000 people, two questions were…
Tough action and tough talking have followed the announcement by US commerce chiefs of plans to slap anti-dumping duty on specific glass products.
Santander Central Hispano said Monday it has raised its recommendation on Mexican glass maker Vitro SA (VTO) to 'Hold' from 'Underperform.'The upgrade was based on the stock's new valuation following news that Vitro will…
Shareholders of Mexican glass giant Vitro approved on Thursday the payment of a dividend of 0.25 peso per share.
Mexican glass maker Vitro SA said early on Tuesday that it will propose a 0.25 pesos-per-share dividend to investors at its annual shareholders meeting in March.
Vitro, the Mexican conglom-erate, sold its 51 per cent stake in Vitromatic, the white goods company, to Whirlpool of the US yesterday, in a deal valued at about Dollars 280m.
Demand for flat glass in the United States is forecast to rise three percent per year to almost seven billion square feet in 2005, valued at $9.1 billion.
Modern architecture, with its increasing dependence on glass, is stimulating the development of newer and safer glazing that is designed to meet tighter requirements of impending European CEN standards for bullet and blast-resistant screens.
Volkswagen, the German carmaker, has officially inaugurated its 187m-euro glass-structure car factory in Dresden. It is here that the new luxury limousine will be manufactured.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) named Atlanta firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVS) as recipient of the 2002 AIA Architecture Firm Award.