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Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
Since February, the main stock trading hall in Frankfurt/Main has been glowing in new splendor. The seven round trading areas are particularly striking.
SCHOTT Solar GmbH is seeking to strengthen its position as one of the world’s technology and market leaders in the field of Photovoltaics.
By building solar power plants in sparsely populated provinces in China and other regions of the world, SCHOTT is contributing towards improved living conditions and developing a new market for the future.
This week crews poured the 60th and last residential floor at One Rincon, the condominium atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill.
After months of planning, work is ready to begin next week on the installation of the new curtain wall at Indiana Square.
In early June, the “Nevada Solar One” parabolic trough power plant located in Boulder City, near Las Vegas, Nevada (USA), will begin supplying power to the grid.
SCHOTT forma vitrum has tripled its production capacity with glass and polymer syringes in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
What was an industrial brownfields site, became a role model for environmentally compatible conversion in the fall of 2006.
Burj Dubai, on course to becoming the world's tallest tower, is taking its final shimmering form as installation of curtain wall glass panels commenced on Level 19 of the super-structure developed by Emaar Properties.
China’s largest optical telescope will be officially unveiled on May 12, 2007 at the Gaomeigu observatory in Yunnan province.
At the annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in Texas, the largest solar race of its kind in the U.S.A., the Sundancer team from Houston, Mississippi, was victorious for the sixth time in a row.
SCHOTT, one of the pioneers in the field of LEDs, is extending its VisiLED Series, well-established for many years, with an additional product range, specifically developed for use in stereomicroscopy.
No other material is associated more closely with modern architecture than glass. In combination with new technologies, this versatile material offers a broad range of possibilities ranging from lighting to construction using solar technology.
On March 11, 2007, a glass memorial was inaugurated in Madrid by the King and Queen of Spain. It pays tribute to the victims of the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.
A new mixed-use development is primed to add glitz and a pair of 44-story high-rises to a city on the rebound.
The race among the world's cities to build the ultimate record-busting, flat-out tallest skyscraper on the planet is fast and furious.
Schott-Rohrglas has been recognized as one of the eight best plants by Europe’s most challenging comparison of performance by manufacturing companies.
A daring piece of architecture for The Loop, Aqua comes off more as a massive sculpture than as a condominium block in the crowded heart of the city.
Heating with stoves offers both ecological and economic benefits. Thanks to innovative viewing panels, they are becoming even more popular.
Wealth, growth, and the desire to make a mark are spurring cities to build ever higher power-towers—and reshaping architectural design in the process.Scientists haven't isolated the "trophy tower" gene just yet.
On the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Madrid, a monument for the victims was unveiled in the Spanish capital.
FY 2005/2006: - Sales: 2.233 billion euros (+19%), - EBIT: 193 million euros (+34%), - net profit of 105 million euros FY 2006/2007: Continuation of the positive development of business Investment spending of 300 million euros to remain at a high…
MDI Schott Advanced Processing GmbH has developed a laser scribing technique for display manufacture that is far superior to mechanical glass cutting.
The German tech company Schott AG inaugurated a plant in central South Korea on Thursday that will produce glass substrates for use in liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.