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A pilot Automotive Leadership programme was held in the UK in June. This was very successful and the content has been refined since in order that programme can be rolled out globally and delivered regionally.
Employees were given an opportunity in June to meet and put questions to the new Group CEO Craig Naylor at a series of ‘town hall’ meetings in the UK, Japan, North America and Germany.
Façades with a high share of glass are a particularly hotly discussed topic from the point of view of energy efficiency.
The G10 Regional exhibition in Belfast (Europa Hotel, 29-30 June 10) provided the first forum for Thermoseal Group to show prototypes of its new Thermobar Warm Edge spacer, as well as a place to discuss revised thermal calculations for the highly…
PVB films for solar modules – Façade-integrated photovoltaics or “Building-integrated photovoltaics” (BIPV) making use of thin-film technology facilitate the efficient use of the building envelope, enabling it to generate electricity.
Pilkington has built on the success of the manufacture and sales of Pilkington Cervoglass™ conservatory roof IGUs at Pilkington Aintree by opening an additional manufacturing facility in the South of England employing 34 people.
Higher, further, faster: increasingly complex major international construction developments under strong pressure to maintain quality and deadlines while reducing costs are steadily raising the demands on building design and construction technology.
Pilkington was once a national treasure. From its St Helens base in England's northwest, it was a pioneer of the wor ld of glassmaking.  Now, that same cradle of innovation is an operational outpost of a disparate Japanese empire.
Malaysian Sheet Glass (MSG) has won the Product Innovation Award for Building Finishes, one of the annual Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Green Excellence Awards.
Mike Efeney joins Tubelite Inc. representing the company’s architectural aluminum products in northern Texas and Oklahoma.
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) and the Window and Door Manufacturers Association (WDMA) have jointly released the updated 2009/2010 AAMA/WDMA U.S.
Around 1,200 metres square of Pilkington Profilit™ wired has been used for the main pedestrian entrances of three Santiago subway stations.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jun 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Southwall Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:SWTX), the leading innovator of energy-saving films and glass products that dramatically improve the energy efficiency of buildings, homes and vehicles,…
NSG Group's Automotive plant in Vizag, India, has successfully passed the quality audit of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
Place, date.  A new staircase with glass balustrades  made of toughened glass laminated together using strong and stiff DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayer is one of the architectural highlights of the new Daylit Gallery at the Victoria & Albert (V…
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) held the 2010 Western Region Spring Meeting on May 5-6 in Oakland, Calif., featuring several industry experts discussing the current economic outlook, updates to California building…
Tubelite Inc. has named The Metcalf Group Ltd. as a manufacturer’s representative for the company’s architectural aluminum products in northern New Jersey and in the five boroughs and Long Island in New York.
Research Triangle Park (RTP) Headquarters is nestled amongst mature willow oaks on an 18-acre site in North Carolina.
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, (the FSO, in effect from October 2006) has introduced a fundamental step change in the legislation governing fire safety.
United States Department of State (DOS) Diplomatic Security (DS) branch identifies glazing made with SentryGlas® interlayers that meets testing protocol SD-STD-01.01 for forced entry (FE) and ballistic resistance (BR).
In January, the Group acquired China Glass Holdings’ 50 per cent share in Taicang Pilkington China Glass Special Glass Limited (TPCG) and as a result , TPCG will be renamed Pilkington Solar (Taicang), Limited (PST) with the company becoming a wholly…
BEng Civil & Structural Engineering undergraduate Paul has been investigating the effect of lateral torsional buckling of glass fins.
A prize win of Pilkington energiKare™ glazing has allowed Manchester couple Clare Schofield and Adam Tregaskis to drop their home heating thermostat setting to just 16 deg C - and still stay warm.
Pilkington is inviting the glazing industry, architects, specifiers and building control officers to take part in a live web chat at the Sustainability Now virtual exhibition on 12-13 May.
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) is a $27 million, 70,000-square-foot facility located at the Research Park of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.