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Live at the Bystronic glass stand At glasstec 2008, the Bystronic glass group will once again present numerous new products and developments for efficient processing of building and vehicle glass.

PITTSBURGH, June 30, 2008 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) industrial coatings business has published a new guide specification for its liquid and powder coil and extrusion coatings.

ST. LOUIS, June 25, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) today announced the establishment of its Saflex(r) Photovoltaic business, which serves the rapidly growing market for thin-film solar panels.

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has introduced an online tool that enables architects, specifiers and building owners to compare the relative energy and environmental performance of common architectural glazings on prototypical buildings.

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), citing higher raw material, energy and transportation costs, announced a price increase of up to 20 percent for all its precipitated silica products, including Hi-Sil silicas and Lo-Vel flatting agents, effective July 1,…

New PowerFlex Solar Strings Simplify and Speed Adoption of Low-Cost, Highly-Efficient and Flexible Thin-Film CIGS Technology

Guardian Industries Corp. and Sapa Fabricated Products have entered into a strategic partnership to expand the availability of Guardian ShowerGuard® throughout North America.

To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont on June 9, 2008 announced that it will expand production of DuPont™ Solamet® thick film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD)…

We encounter glass everywhere – as window and facade glazing, coffee-table tops and shelving. A new process makes it possible to cut the brittle material cost-efficiently and opens up new applications thanks to superior edge quality.

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Expands Distribution into China's Rapidly Growing Commercial Building Market Southwall Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:SWTX), the worldwide innovator and manufacturer of high performance, energy-saving films and glass products, announced on  May 29,…

New facility will serve automotive coatings, industrial coatings customers PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) is planning to build its first manufacturing plant in Russia.

Window installers looking to benefit from the boom in renewable energy systems by installing energy-efficient technology will find that Ecofirst Limited, a company established in 2006 by sustainable housing pioneers, ZeroC (formerly Cornhill Estates…

CANTOR Software GmbH, a subsidiary of ALBAT+WIRSAM Software AG for glass, announces their successful completion of certification procedures for CANTOR Professional Version 2008.1 Linden, Germany (May 15, 2008) CANTOR Software GmbH announces their…

SIA GroGlass opens a unique hi-tech factory at Katlakalna Street 4B in Riga today, May 19, 2008. The factory will manufacture large area optical vacuum coatings on glass substrate.

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), citing higher raw material, energy and transportation costs, on May 16, 2008 announced a 13-percent price increase for all clear, tinted, coated and tempered glasses from its performance glazings (formerly flat glass)…

Pavlovski Posad / Münster. BASF Coatings has started up its new production site for paints in Russia. The new facility at Pavlovski Posad, 60 kilometers east of Moscow, has an annual production capacity of 6,000 tonnes of paints (basecoats and…

PITTSBURGH, May 13, 2008 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) is this year celebrating the 125th anniversary of its founding in 1883 as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. “We are very proud of our long heritage and our success over the years,” said Charles E.

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) on May 13, 2008 dedicated a new 95,000-square-foot, 22-acre architectural coatings facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, about 15 miles east of Reno.

PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) announced on May 6, 2008 it started a third furnace May 2 at the PFG Fiber Glass (Kunshan) Co.

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Edgetech Super Spacer customer, Clayton Glass, has invested over £0.5M in kitting out a brand new factory to stay ahead of increasing demand for its high performance sealed units.

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced the appointment of Douglas S. Pegg to the position of vice president, packaging coatings, effective May 1.