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The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (China) is located in Pudong City’s Lujiazui financial and business district.
To further enhance customer service and support to glaziers, architects, specifiers and other commercial construction industry professionals in Canada, Technical Glass Products (TGP) is opening a Toronto office and has hired Ron Pitts as Canadian…
Architect Sandro Graf von Einsiedel of Cologne, Germany, turned what could have been the banal, industrial chimneys of an inner city electricity plant into huge and vivid laminated glass 'sails' that project multi-colored holographic…
A furnace fire at a major glass company building in Evansville had firefighters busy Friday. It happened around noon Friday at PPG Industries off Highway 41 on Inglfield Road.
Following a rebound in October, the  Architecture Billings Index (ABI) continued up more than two points in November.
Safti First, manufacturer of fire rated glazing and  framing products, raised over $10,000 to purchase bicycles for school children who attend four elementary  schools near the company’s Merced manufacturing plant, located in California’s San…
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PRINTING INTERNATIONAL N.V. from Alter in Belgium has been added to the list exhibitors for next week’s GlassPrint 2007- the leading event in Europe for the decoration of glass.
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