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Saint-Gobain announces that definitive agreements to sell its Reinforcements and Composites activities to Owens Corning were signed on the 27th of July, 2007.
SALES: up 6.0% to EUR21,779 million up 6.9% like-for-like(*) - OPERATING INCOME: up 15.3% to EUR2,093 million up 16.6% like-for-like(*) - RECURRING NET INCOME(**): up 31.2% to EUR1,067 million Net income amounts to EUR465 million, taking into…
Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on its acquisition of Owens Corning’s Siding Solutions business.
Saint-Gobain announces that discussions regarding the plan to merge its Reinforcements and Composites activities (part of the entity Vetrotex) with the Reinforcements business of Owens Corning, are now focusing on a sale project of Saint- Gobain’s…
CNN reported that Sales Intended to Address Regulatory Concerns Associated with the Previously Announced Joint Venture with Saint-Gobain's Reinforcement and Composites BusinessOwens Corning also in Discussions with Saint-Gobain to Convert the…
AGC Flat Glass Philippines Inc. (AGPH), formerly Asahi Glass Philippines Inc., is solidifying its status as Asia’s production hub for solar glass cover even as it eyes to be the regional production center of other high value-added products like flat…
Japan-based Asahi Glass is considering changing the site where it will establish its fifth Taiwan-based glass substrate plant since construction of related facilities may be postponed due to a recent government environment assessment team report…
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) reached the decision at its meeting of the Board of Directors on June 13, 2007, to establish the terms and conditions regarding the offering stock acquisition rights as stock compensation-type stock options to…
Asahi Glass, Suzuki local subsidiary Maruti Udyog Ltd. and others, will build an automotive glass plant on Delhi's outskirts that will come online in September.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; President: Masahiro Kadomatsu) has succeeded in  the development of a modified perfluoropolyether (PFPE) for hard disk lubricant.
Please be informed that Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) reached the decision at its meeting of the Board of Directors on June 13, 2007, to establish the following terms and conditions regarding the offering stock acquisition rights as stock…
Britain is now home to two of the world’s most advanced plaster and plasterboard manufacturing plants following a £120-million investment in production capacity by British Gypsum.
Saint-Gobain Isover is launching an unrivalled programme of insulation training for merchants and distributors that kicks off in the classroom.
The Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Compagnie de Saint-  Gobain was held in Paris on Thursday, June 7, 2007.
The board of directors of Asahi India Glass recommended the interim dividend of 65%, or Rs 0.65 a share, declared in the board meeting held on Mar. 17, 2007, as final dividend for the financial year 2006-07.
The share price of Asahi Glass, the second biggest producer of flat glass in the world, advanced by more than 1.5% after the company announced that it contemplates to stop producing cathode-ray tube panels from its Thailand and Singapore units,…
Asahi India Glass on Monday posted 86.64 per cent decline in profit after tax at Rs 8.94 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, as compared to Rs 66.95 crore for the same quarter previous year.
The liquid crystal display television wars are heating up and could provide new opportunities for Corning Inc. Reuters news agency reported from Tokyo that Sharp Corp. is making a move on its larger rivals, Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has  decided to stop operations of production furnaces at CRT glass production bases in Singapore  and Thailand by the end of June this year.
The Saint-Gobain Reinforcement & Composites Activity has increased its European production capacity for TWINTEX ® by 25% in its Chambéry plant (FR) as of April 2007.
Newratings.com reported that analyst S Yamada of Credit Suisse maintains his "outperform" rating on Asahi Glass (ticker: SHJ).
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; President: Masahiro Kadomatsu) and Tokyo Denpa  Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; Senior Managing Director: Kazunori Hashiguchi) have joined  forces to successfully develop a synthetic quartz crystal…
1. Business review of the first quarter of 2007During the first quarter of 2007 (January 1 through March 31, 2007), the Japanese economy recovered at a gradual pace as shown by the increase of both capital expenditure and employment opportunities,…
The National Science Foundation is on the lookout for investigators who can see beyond today’s frontiers of knowledge and will take a stab at the moving frontiers that lie beyond our current horizon, NSF director Arden L.
Saint-Gobain Sekurit India’s plants at Bhosari and Chakan have obtained, on January 17th 2006, the OHSAS 18001: 1999 certification to reward their management of healthy/safety risks and the ISO 14001:2004 certification for their environmental…