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Nippon Sheet Glass Co. announced Monday it agreed to acquire 80 percent of British glassmaker Pilkington plc in a strategy to expand its global production capacity.
A new group has been established to address the problem of what to do with a mountain of recycled glass in New Zealand. Recyclers say glass recycling in the South Island is in crisis, with huge glass mountains piling up because it is too expensive…
Pilkington +4.6% at 154.75p amid press speculation that talks between the company and its rebuffed suitor Nippon Sheet Glass (5202.
Slaughter and Mays famed boardroom connections have snared it a lucrative instruction from Pilkington on its potential £2bn takeover despite Herbert Smith having already been given the role.
As RFID tags' use become more prevalent, with source tagging of individual packs on the horizon, trade federation British Glass is advocating more work to tackle the potentially serious problem of recycling glass bottles that may still contain…
Leelanau County's seven recycling collection sites will no longer accept any type of glass. The county collected brown, green and clear glass during previous years but will stop doing so because of changes in the county's processing…
Two novel new machines from partners CADRAM and R&R Sondermaschinen are providing the first automated solutions for applying decoration to window glass, using either lead or bevel-effect 3M Accentrim tape.
The Big Recycle campaign has been launched across the UK in a bid to tackle the landfill crisis. The government is trying to induce more people to adopt recycling as a way of life as it seeks to control the ever-growing waste mountain.
Researchers from the United Kingdom, France and the DUBBLE beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have made a step forward in research on glass.
Major glass users in New Zealand have agreed to pay a voluntary levy on imported glass to cover a shortfall between the costs of collecting the glass and the price paid for it by glass recyclers.
Major glass users in New Zealand have agreed to pay a voluntary levy on imported glass to cover a shortfall between the costs of collecting the glass and the price paid for it by glass recyclers.
The award was made at a recent supplier conference held by Honda UK Manufacturing and presented to Pilkington's Charles Mason.
Glass and beverage companies, consumer groups and government yesterday launched a national glass recycling campaign that follows the plastic bag recycling campaign launched two years ago.
Pilkington PLC, the world's biggest maker of car windshields, whose North American headquarters are in Toledo, will pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of contaminating an Illinois town's water supply five months after a jury…
A step towards ending glass pollution in South Africa was taken on Thursday, when deputy environment minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi signed a memorandum of understanding with business on glass recycling.
Traditionally the keynote speakers have been visionaries in the industry. They have tended to focus on new ideas, trends and subjects for the glass industry as a whole.
Stockpiles of glass are piling up around the country after the only glass reprocessor slashed its price for used glass.
In accordance with its established policy, Pilkington issued the following trading up-date ahead of the announcement of its results for the period to 31 March 2005, scheduled for Thursday, 26 May 2005.
St .Helens based glass maker Pilkington shrugged aside difficult trading conditions at its UK building products division to predict a 15 per cent rise in full year profits today.
Guardian Industries Corp., a worldwide manufacturer of float glass and fabricated glass products, officially inaugurated its float glass facility in Goole, England, yesterday. (EDITORS NOTE - Float glass is made by floating melted glass on a bed of…
The amount of recycled glass used in making new containers has increased by more than ten times over the past year, according to figures released by trade confederation British Glass.
New figures from British Glass have revealed a 17% increase in the amount of UK glass packaging recycled in 2004 compared to the previous year.
At the NAHB Green Building Conference at Atlanta, Owens Corning today announced that its line of fiber glass insulation products has been certified to contain an average of 35 percent recycled content by leading third-party certifier Scientific…
As early as next month, Wichita residents may have a new place to take their empty cereal boxes, milk jugs, old newspapers and glass bottles.
The role of Company Secretary has been strengthgened following the publication of a UK government-commissioned report on corporate governance.