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Guardian Building Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Guardian Industries Corp., announced that it will invest $39 million and create 135 jobs with its purchase of a former Mack Truck facility in Winnsboro, S.C.
Guardian Building Products Inc. announced Thursday it would make an initial investment of $39 million and create 135 jobs in Fairfield County as it establishes its third South Carolina facility.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. announced Monday it agreed to acquire 80 percent of British glassmaker Pilkington plc in a strategy to expand its global production capacity.
Guardian Industries Corp. announced at the 2006 International Builders’ Show its newest glass innovation, ShowerGuard™, the first and only temperable, permanently protected shower glass.
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Baltic Glass Company, the subsidiary of Russian Soda Company from St.-Petersburg and American PPG Industries, Inc. agreed on concerted efforts in the implementation of the sheet glass project in St.-Petersburg.
Saint-Gobain Vetrotex has created a Specialty Reinforcements Group (SRG) for the North American market, as a part of a strategy to move closer to the market.
Pilkington +4.6% at 154.75p amid press speculation that talks between the company and its rebuffed suitor Nippon Sheet Glass (5202.
Guardian Industries Corp. recently received the 2005 Partnership Award from Hapag-Lloyd Container Line.
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Bekaert, the premier supplier of rotatable sputtering technologies delivering lower cost of ownership and higher coater throughput, has announced that Lance Sides has joined the company as the Market Manager for North American Operations.
Johns Manville plans to build a new nonwoven glass mat production line, capable of producing one billion square metres of glass mat per year, at its facility in Etowah, in the US.
Slaughter and May’s famed boardroom connections have snared it a lucrative instruction from Pilkington on its potential £2bn takeover — despite Herbert Smith having already been given the role.
On 15th July, 2005, Pilkington announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the US assets of Autostock Distribution, with an asset value of around $US 18 million.
Two novel new machines from partners CADRAM and R&R Sondermaschinen are providing the first automated solutions for applying decoration to window glass, using either lead or bevel-effect 3M Accentrim tape.
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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.
The award was made at a recent supplier conference held by Honda UK Manufacturing and presented to Pilkington's Charles Mason.
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Fenton Art Glass, the largest manufacturer of handmade colored glass in the United States, will mark its centennial anniversary May 4, 2005, 100 years to the day since the company opened for business.
In accordance with its established policy, Pilkington issued the following trading up-date ahead of the announcement of its results for the period to 31 March 2005, scheduled for Thursday, 26 May 2005.