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A large company in Luzerne County is cutting jobs. Dozens of glass workers at the Schott plant in Duryea will get pink slips.
Roberto Caliari has been appointed Senior Vice-President in charge of the Ceramics & Plastics, Abrasives and Reinforcements Branches.
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.
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…
Earthquakes, which have proved to be the most destructive of natural hazards, destroy fragile buildings and civil infrastructures.
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.
Saint-Gobain announced the syndication of its EUR1.0 billion 5-year syndicated loan facility was closed successfully. The transaction was well oversubscribed allowing Saint-Gobain to increase the size of the facility to EUR1.2 billion.
RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security(R), today announced that Saint-Gobain Corporation has chosen its RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication solution to help provide more than 3,000 U.
With virtually constant sales of 1.98 billion euros (2.004 billion euros in 2000/2001) and a satisfactory profit comparable to that of the previous year the Schott technology concern stood up well to the weak world economy. “Overall Schott performed…
Schott is expanding its activities in the field of biotechnology and with effect from October 2002 has founded Schott Nexterion AG, based in Mainz, Germany.
A spate of layoffs hit France this week, with U.S. computer-maker Hewlett-Packard detailing 1,400 cuts and transfers, and glass and construction group Saint-Gobain announcing it will move positions to the Czech Republic.
Vom 28. Oktober bis zum 1. November 2002 präsentiert sich SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS auf der glasstec 2002 in Düsseldorf mit einem völlig neuen Messestand.
Insulating “warm edge” spacer for IG Units, made by glass fibre reinforced polymerInsulating glass units have been manufactured so far using metal spacers, usually in Aluminium.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
French glass and construction materials firm Saint-Gobain foresees no sign of any vigorous economic rebound before the end of 2002 and confirmed its outlook for earnings growth of up to 4 percent.
Central Glass Co. of Japan is tying up with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain of France to strengthen its global business of making glass for Japanese automakers.
Traditionally, when bathing, the Japanese wash and rinse off and only then get into their bath. This is filled with extremely hot water, between 40 and 50°C, which is usually used by all the members of the family.
At 3.20 x 1.20 meters it is fourteen times bigger than a standard cooktop and it has more than 40 cooking zones: With the biggest ever glass-ceramic cooktop Schott has its sights on an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
At its meeting of Thursday, March 28, 2002, the Board of Directors of Saint-Gobain reviewed theGroup's consolidated financial statements for 2001.
Schott, the international technology company based in Germany, announces a new broadband erbium-doped fiber based on its newly developed compact oxide glass, which will provide up to 50% more bandwidth.
In spite of the weakness of the world economy and negative influences from industry the Schott Group anticipates sales of 2 billion euros in the current fiscal year (to Sept. 30, 2002).
“Research is the In Thing” was the title chosen for a ceremony staged on Friday in the new Chemistry and Pharmacy building at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz where 86 entrants presented their work for the regional “Jugend-forscht/Schler…
The torch which carried the Olympic flame to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games is crowned with borosilicate glass from Schott. 11,500 glass crowns were produced by Schott Boral in Croatia for the 13,500 mile relay which passed through 48 states on its…