Others also read
BPB is shoring up its defences to fend off a £3.6bn cash bid from French glassmaker Saint-Gobain in what promises to be one of the London Stock Exchange's biggest hostile takeover battles for years.
Vortex technology produces an extremely permeable centerless grinding wheel with an improved porous structure and superior abrasive grain spacing by combining a new engineered abrasive grain and an innovative manufacturing process.
BPB, the world's leading plasterboard business, is on full alert for an offer of more than £3.5bn for the company from Saint-Gobain, its French rival.
BPB PLC's institutional investors have demanded the group not be sold for less than 800 pence a share, valuing the group at more than 4 bln stg, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Saint-Gobain SA said its Scandinavian subsidiary, Saint-Gobain Nordic, has bought Optimera Gruppen AS of Norway, a distributor of building materials that has a commercial network of 95 brands in Norway and Sweden.
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.
In view of the strong growth trends in Latin American markets, Saint-Gobain's Flat Glass Sector (Saint-Gobain Vitrage) has decided to expand its presence in the region with the construction of a new float glass production line in Mexico.
Glass and chemicals copmany PPG Industries Inc. (PPG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to issue a eurobond after a European roadshow, the banks managing the sale said on Wednesday.
In view of the strong growth trends in Latin American markets, Saint-Gobain's Flat Glass Sector (Saint-Gobain Vitrage) has decided to expand its presence in the region with the construction of a new float glass production line in Mexico.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending $32.5 million to a local subsidiary of Turkeys Anadolu Cam group to build a bottling plant near the city of Ufa in central Russia.
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.
Derrick Ketchum, an employee of Owens Brockway Glass Container in Godfrey, filed a 12-count, $600,000 suit against his employer and Castrol Inc. claiming he was sickened from exposure to Syntilo 9918 and other metal working fluids.
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.
SGG COOL-LITE ST has had a great deal of success on the solar control market. Our sales of COOL-LITE that can be toughened already represent 22% of all SGG COOL-LITE sold.
Anchor Glass Posts Wider First-Quarter Loss As Lower Volumes, Rising Costs Weigh on Bottom Line Anchor Glass Container Corp. posted a wider loss for the first quarter, hurt by restructuring charges, rising costs and lower volumes.
Air Liquide is pleased to announce that it has signed a 15-year contract with Saint-Gobain, a leader in the glass industry, for their new float-glass manufacturing site of Calarasi, 100 km south-east of Bucarest in Romania.
Consolidated sales for the Saint-Gobain Group in the first quarter of 2005, calculated in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), came in at 7,633 million, compared with 7,261 million for the same period in 2004 (…
Owens Illinois Inc. will close a plant that makes plastic bottles for the health care industry, putting as many as 65 people out of work.
Kristal Maribor has become a member of the Securit Partner® group, one of the most important groups of producers of safety glass in Europe, which operates under the auspices of the glass manufacturer Saint-Gobain Glass.
Saint-Gobain's Flat Glass Sector (Saint-Gobain Vitrage) has decided to expand into the booming glass market for flat TV panels, through the production of glass for PDP (Plasma Display Panel).
If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.o-i.com .
In accordance with agreements finalized on April 6, 2005, Saint-Gobain has increased its share of voting rights in Hankuk Glass Industries (HGI) from 46% to 80.47%, and thus gained control of HGI.
Glass bottle maker Owens-Illinois Inc. said it expects to improve profits with its newly acquired European container company by trimming 950 jobs and production overseas.
At the official opening of the UK's first magnetron coater, Saint-Gobain Glass UK announced the launch of SGG PLANITHERM TOTAL 1.3.
Experience partnerships a joint trade fair stand held by CLIMALIT® and SECURIT-Partner with SAINT- GOBAIN GLASS at glasstec 2004 From 9 to 13 November 2004 trade fair visitors will be able to experience the working-material glass and its versatile…