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Japan's largest glass maker Asahi Glass said on Thursday its affiliate will spend nearly six billion rupees ($140 mn) to build a new plant in India as the growing economy there sees a boom in construction and cars.
The Glass Art Society of America conference held in Adelaide in May 2005, has inspired a special temporary exhibition, Contemporary Australian Glass, from the Art Gallery of South Australia collection.
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…
Czech Glass" may earn a place as the largest and richest exhibit ever assembled at the Corning Museum of Glass.The new three-part display features today's exuberantly over-the-top glass sculptures and some trailblazers from the 19th…
Asahi Glass announced on June 15 that it has decided to enter into the business of manufacturing and selling glass substrates for hard disks.The company will use high-strain point glass that enables the processing of glass substrates at higher…
Sunbeams streaming through the stained glass windows of Sacred Heart would shower color on the interior of the church and the worshippers within.
In a mesmerizing display of art, science, fire and endurance, Hiram Toraason twirls a puntil rod in his 2,050-degree furnace.A bluegrass CD wails the high, lonesome sounds of Old Crow Medicine Show.
The Clio Area Art Society presents a stained glass exhibit featuring local glass artists. It runs from June 7-28, with a reception at 6 p.m.
Plansww Holding AG (PLANSEE) and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (MMC) have reached a basic agreement by signing a Letter of Intent to merge their relevant business activities in the field of powder metallurgical (PM) products under a new joint…
Bruce Stowell practices his alchemy in a studio set in his serene avocado grove. There, he coaxes and cajoles molten glass into stunning works of functional art: vases, lamps, martini glasses or goblets.The work is grueling.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. resolved at the meeting of its Board of Directors on April 13, 2005, regarding the details of purchase options on new stock to be issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 280, Paragraphs 20 and 21 of the Commercial…
Iridescent glass was made by many glass factories in the United States in the late-19th and 20th centuries.
Fenton Art Glass, the largest manufacturer of handmade colored glass in the United States, will mark its centennial anniversary May 4, 2005, 100 years to the day since the company opened for business.
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.
Since the first time someone thought to heat and combine sand, sodium carbonate and lime, the drive to create original pieces of glasswork has skyrocketed in popularity.
They were Irish immigrants who chipped in spare change earned from digging coal and building railroads to buy hundreds of stained glass windows for Catholic churches.From about 1870 until the Great Depression, divisions of the Ancient Order of…
Well-known American abstract artist Alan Held's designs for laminated art glass windows for the Orlando federal courthouse annex and expansion are on loan to the Orlando Museum of Art through April 3.
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An American artist will make his mark on a city centre with the unveiling of a 12-metre high glass sculpture. Danny Lane's "Ellipsis Eclipses" will be the latest piece of public art to grace the streets of Tyneside.
Vintage Italian glass, bursting with color and fantastical forms, is back in the limelight after a late-1990s bust that shattered many buyers' dreams of ever-rising prices.
Asahi Glass Co said Thursday it will start producing automotive glass in Hungary in early 2006 to meet growing demand in central and eastern Europe.
The following stocks are on the move on Tuesday: Glass sheet maker Central Glass Co up 5.38 percent at 822 yen, a day after its annual results and outlook both beat the market consensus.
Glass artist Michelle Walker wanted to use her craft to honor fellow artists who'd served in the military -- and to celebrate art as a form of peace.``With all the stuff going on in Iraq,'' she said, ``it seemed appropriate.'…
Two museums, the Orlando Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, have collaborated in displaying an artist known for his glass bowls, vases, floats and chandeliers.