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Vitro Cristalglass, an affiliate of Vitro Europe, supplied 85,000 square meters of architectural glass for the new Terminal 1 (T1) in the El Prat Airport in Barcelona, inaugurated this past June 16th.
On July 10, 2009, Chief Executive Officer Pierre-André de Chalendar inaugurated in the presence of José Socrates, Portugal's Prime Minister and Fernando Texeira dos Santos, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Saint-Gobain’s first and largest…
In the framework of the 10th “Expoconstrucción y Expodiseño”, the 2009 edition was held from May 5 through May 10 in Bogotá where Vitro Colombia launched its two new products of architectural glass: Pavia and Duovent.
Vitro was designated by General Motors (GM) to supply the automotive glass for the new version of the Pontiac Solstice Convertible Sport Coupe an impressive sports car with a spectacular 2.4 liter motor that generates 176 horsepower and was…
Float Glass, a subsidiary of Vitro’s Flat Glass business unit, launches its General Manual for Uses and Applications for the purpose of offering a more complete service to its current and potential clients by integrating into one document the…
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Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA; NYSE: VTO), one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of glass products, today announced that it will release earnings for the first quarter ending March 31, 2009 on Thursday, April 30, 2009 after the…
San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México, March 12, 2009 – Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA; NYSE: VTO), announced today that its business units for Glass Containers and Flat Glass as well as its subsidiary Clinica Vitro (the Vitro Clinic) and…
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA; NYSE: VTO), (the “Company”) announced on February 5, 2009 that in order to preserve the necessary cash to continue its operations and consistent with last week’s Senior Notes interest payments to bondholders…
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA; NYSE: VTO) one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of glass products, announced on February 27, 2009 4Q’08 unaudited results.
World’s first triple-silver–coated, low-e glass slated for hundreds of new projectsPPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has shipped its 20-millionth square-foot of Solarban 70XL glass.
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced today the launching of its new product line ECOPURE®, its new self cleaning glass, through its European affiliate Vitro Cristalglass.
Vitro SAB, Mexico’s largest glassmaker, said it will miss $44.8 million in interest payments due next week on $1 billion of bonds to preserve cash to run its operations.
Even as the dire financial news continues to dominate year-end headlines, a cascade of newly released studies and reports points to green building as one of the growing bright spots for the U.
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced today that its subsidiary Viméxico, S.A. de C.
Vitro America is pleased to announce the move to a new facility located in City of Industry, California. This 125,000 square foot operation is 15 miles east of Los Angeles.
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. announced today that the Company and its two Central American partners have decided to share the control of the daily operations of Panama-based Empresas Comegua, S.A. (“Comegua”).
The glass group Schott uses photovoltaic modules and fused colored glasses together for the first time ever for the newly designed staircase of its administrative building in Mainz.
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. announced on November 18, 2008 the company’s new executive team that will report to Hugo Lara, CEO of Vitro, starting as of today.
Vitro would like to announce to its clients, business partners and suppliers that it has recently reached an agreement with Bancomext, in which non-performing real estate assets were placed in a trust pending future sale.
• For the fifth time Vitro receives this prestigious award for proving its superior quality standards During the XVIII Summit of Heads of State and Government that took place in San Salvador, El Salvador, Vitro received for the fifth occasion the…
Located to the north of the Spanish capital, and with a unique stylistic identity, the project, built according to the tenets of architectural sustainability, is an enormous business campus clad in glass and crowned by the biggest canopy of solar…
Poly 225 module to be first photovoltaic module manufactured in Albuquerque SCHOTT Solar announced today that it will unveil a new 225 watt polycrystalline photovoltaic module at the Solar Power International show in San Diego, California.
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