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Six years after conception, construction of the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion is in the home stretch.
Danway LLC - a subsidiary of Emirates Holding - and UK's Fusion Glass Designs Ltd have joined hands to set a set up a joint venture under the UAE Offsets Program.The two companies will hold 51% and 30% stakes respectively in the new company…
Four Season Solar Products LLC is recalling the glass used in about 6,000 sunrooms. Sunlight reflecting off of certain sunroom roof glass and skylights onto adjacent cedar shingles or cedar shakes could pose a fire hazard.
Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon's western rim, announces new features planned for The Skywalk, which will push the project's completion date to later this year.
When she needs a break from her day as a city council aide, Theressa Hamilton retreats to a garden oasis on the roof of City Hall.There, among the cement, steel and glass, Hamilton smiles at an orange butterfly alit on a green bush with pink flowers.
On May 20th 2005, the Board of Directors of Sekisui Chemical in Osaka approved plans for the construction of a new plant in the Netherlands to produce the raw material for interlayer film.
OmniDecor will participate from 13th to 15th September 2005 in Atlanta at "GlassBuild America 2005" (Stand 317 and 319 Hall B2 Aisle 300) and from 5th to 8th October in Milan at "Vitrum" 2005 (Pad. 15/II, Stand B81)OmniDecor SpA…
HALL 15 1 / STAND K24 – L25RegaLead, Europe’s largest supplier of decorative glass overlay products, will be exhibiting again at Vitrum with Italian partners Neostucco s.r.l demonstrating their technically proven overlay system which offers a quick…
The English countryside is dotted with churches that measure their ages in centuries. Their steeples stand tall against the rural landscape like sentinels begging a pilgrim to come forward.
Hall: 16I / Stand: F06-10Once again, Optima S.r.l., a leading Italian software house producing and marketing dedicated systems for the glass industry, is offering a series of new applications to coincide with Vitrum 2005.
Asahi Glass Co. Ltd is expanding its electronics and energy materials operations on a full-scale basis as part of the medium-term management plan "JIKKO-2007." As part of the initiative, Asahi Glass decided to enter into the business of…
The North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) announced today the results of its annual survey of members' use of pre- and post-consumer recycled materials in their insulation products.
Imagine a woven wooden basket that's 120 feet high, broad at the base and curving gently inward as it rises. Now imagine that basket wrapped in opaque glass.
Work is expected to start this month on the multi-million- dollar Motors Holden dealership upgrade in Launceston.Motors Pty Ltd managing director Marcus Birrell said yesterday that the upgrading would cost more than $4 million and take about a year…
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.
On-Site Systems Glass Etching, an experienced etching company, employs the latest technology and the most talented glass artisans to create sophisticated and elegant custom glass etching for commercial, residential, and government buildings.
All-glass construction to present Croatia’s architecture.
A 60-year-old man was crushed to death Friday by a load of glass panels at a construction site, officials said.
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.
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.
TRADITION AND INNOVATION ON SHOW AT GLASSTEC 2002With their three new lines of decorative profiles developped especially for the stained glass and cathedral glass units producers, FBSPROFILATI s.r.l. confirms the constant evolution of their…
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
Glaspro Inc., designer and manufacturer of custom-design architectural glass, was recently selected to manufacture over 50, eight-foot tall, bent, laminated glass panels for interior columns at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif.