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Roberto Caliari has been appointed Senior Vice-President in charge of the Ceramics & Plastics, Abrasives and Reinforcements Branches.
Pilkington Building Products teams from three continents joined forces to present a range of high performance Pilkington products at October's Glass Tech Asia Exhibition and Conference in Singapore.
Glassmaker Pilkington forecast a 10% uplift to first half profits despite continued tough trading conditions in most of its major markets.
Investors will be looking for news on a cost-cutting drive when glassmaker Pilkington issues its first half-trading update on Thursday.
Saint-Gobain Group consolidated net income for the first half of 2003 amounted to EUR 470 million, a decrease of 5.6% on the same period of 2002.
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Sterling Commerce today announced an agreement with Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. to deploy a trio of Sterling Commerce value-added services to upgrade critical business transactions and remove manual processes between the glass container supplier…
The recent decision by British Airways and Air France to retire their Concorde fleets will end a fantastic era in world aviation.
Seeking more market-rate housing in Toledo, city officials are hoping to join Pilkington North America and a yet-to-be named builder to turn 34 acres of industrial wasteland riverfront property into a condominium/townhouse development.
A decade has passed since the Monday afternoon that three top executives of the former Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. were ousted from their downtown Toledo posts and an investigation into their secret professional lives gained steam.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), is just around the corner. GPD 2003 will take place on 15–18, June 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
The role of Company Secretary has been strengthgened following the publication of a UK government-commissioned report on corporate governance.
Pilkington Chairman Sir Nigel Rudd has been presented with a Personality of the Year award by Brazil in recognition of the Group's record investment in that country.
The Pilkington float plant at Lahti, Finland has been awarded the new ISO 9001:2002 certificate after a year-long project to achieve the international quality standard.The Finnish plant is only the second Pilkington Primary Products Euroope site to…
Earthquakes, which have proved to be the most destructive of natural hazards, destroy fragile buildings and civil infrastructures.
British glass-maker Pilkington Plc PILK.L said on Thursday that trading was in line with expectations despite tough conditions in most of its major markets, sending its shares up four percent.
Clyde Leff, group general counsel, is to become company secretary of Pilkington with effect from May 1, continuing in his role as group general counsel.
The Pilkington Group Management Committee has been replaced by an Executive Board and two new Business Line Boards for Building Products and Automotive have been created.
Francesco Davalli, CSM Tecnologies Sales Manager, in cooperation with YKC closed an important contract with Saint Gobain group to supply a full automated line for thier glass processing plant HPG in Korea.
French glassmaker Saint-Gobain SGOB.PA has no plans to follow the example of Swiss firm ABB by making a major payment to settle U.S. asbestos claims, a senior executive said on Thursday.
French business confidence slid in January amid resurgent uncertainty about the prospect of war in Iraq, snapping what had looked like a budding recovery in the last two months of 2002, a report published on Thursday showed.
Specialist fire protection glass from Pilkington UK has been used for the stunning redevelopment project, The Tun, in Edinburgh.
Paolo Scaroni has resigned from the Board of Pilkington plc and relinquished the post of non-executive deputy chairman of the Group.
Pilkington Aerospace has recieved a $4m order for windscreens for the Mikoyan MiG-27 jet fighter from Hindustan Aeronautical Laboratories (HAL Nasik), located in India.
The main thing Pilkington Laurinburg used to make 355,000 tons of glass last year was heat."This is the heart and the lungs," said Jeff Mercer, human resources manager, looking at one of the four mammoth furnaces in the plant.