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Vitro SAB, Mexico’s largest glassmaker, said it will miss $44.8 million in interest payments due next week on $1 billion of bonds to preserve cash to run its operations.

Previously known as Pilkington Australia, the Geelong factory specialised in automotive glass. It opened in 1936 to support the Geelong Ford plant, which opened 11 years earlier.

Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced today that its subsidiary Viméxico, S.A. de C.

Pilkington NSG Group Flat Glass Business, 300 Northridge Drive, sent an e-mail to employees on Thursday, advising them that the plant will close for two weeks for approximately 180 of 263 employees from Jan. 19 to Feb. 2 due to slow sales and…

Vitro America is pleased to announce the move to a new facility located in City of Industry, California. This 125,000 square foot operation is 15 miles east of Los Angeles.

Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. announced today that the Company and its two Central American partners have decided to share the control of the daily operations of Panama-based Empresas Comegua, S.A. (“Comegua”).

Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. announced on November 18, 2008 the company’s new executive team that will report to Hugo Lara, CEO of Vitro, starting as of today.

Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Asahi Glass Co., and a Nippon Sheet Glass Co. unit were fined a record 1.38 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by the European Union over claims the companies fixed the price of car windows.

Vitro would like to announce to its clients, business partners and suppliers that it has recently reached an agreement with Bancomext, in which non-performing real estate assets were placed in a trust pending future sale.

• For the fifth time Vitro receives this prestigious award for proving its superior quality standards During the XVIII Summit of Heads of State and Government that took place in San Salvador, El Salvador, Vitro received for the fifth occasion the…

Located to the north of the Spanish capital, and with a unique stylistic identity, the project, built according to the tenets of architectural sustainability, is an enormous business campus clad in glass and crowned by the biggest canopy of solar…

If there is one way to prove that you really believe in a product, then it must be to use it yourself, which is precisely what happened recently with Britannia Windows (UK), a fabricating business in Clevedon in South West England when it used…

Lister Trade Frames is the latest company to partner with Pilkington energiKare™ and the energy efficiency evolution.

Pilkington Planar™ glazing has made a splash at a multi-million pound regeneration of a leisure complex in Swansea.

A major part of Pilkington North America’s multi-year, $70 million improvement and repair project is nearly complete.

Pilkington Activ™ Neutral is a revolutionary new double-coated glass that combines dual-action, self-cleaning properties with solar control performance and is perfect for use in glass extensions and conservatory roofs and windows.

Trade Price Conservatories have announced the availability of Pilkington Activ self cleaning glass throughout their conservatory product range.

Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced on July 22, 2008 that its subsidiary Viméxico, S.

Created through CSR’s acquisition and merger of Pilkington (AU & NZ) and DMS Glass, Viridian offers new, advanced technology which will allow architects and designers to use glass in different ways.

Pilkington Activ™ self-cleaning glass is now on prominent and permanent display at the brand new IKEA store in the city centre of Coventry.

• For the seventh consecutive year, it recognizes those persons who stand out for their extraordinary work in promoting art and culture. • Lucio Bubacco, Noemí Osuna de Páez, Germaine Gómez Haro and Diego Sada are this year’s prize winners.

June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Nippon Sheet Glass Co., the world's largest maker of car windows, fell the most in a month in Tokyo trading as European regulators may fine the company and its rivals for price-fixing as early as next month.

Pilkington has gained approval from the largest fire testing facility in the UK, the Building Research Establishment (BRE), for its fire-resistant glazing in a new rooflight from NuLite Ltd.

28/05/2008 Glass-maker Pilkington is to invest £40m in one of its St Helens sites. The investment will enable the facility to use the latest advanced manufacturing technology to produce a range of innovative new glass products.

It’s almost as if an irresistible force is drawing Stuart Chambers towards the Asian continent. He spent the first 16 years of his life living there, and now, aged 51, has just accepted a new challenge that will see him spending 50 per cent of his…