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The Buffalo News today continues its occasional series on notable bridges, as our community works toward an agreement on what kind of bridge to build across the Niagara River.
Paolo Scaroni has resigned from the Board of Pilkington plc and relinquished the post of non-executive deputy chairman of the Group.
Bystronic acquired Armatec Vierhaus GmbH, effective January 1, 2003. For Bystronic, a global supplier of system solutions for fabricating and processing of architectural and automotive glass, the aquisition of Armatec, which specializes in laminated…
A fire broke out in a glass factory in the Indian capital on Saturday, killing four people and wounding 12 others, a fire service official said.
Finland's second largest independent glass processing firm has become part of the Pilkington Group.The acquisition of KP Lasi will give Pilkington Processing and Merchanting 15 per cent of the buoyant Finnish IGU market.
A one-year WRAP funded project aims to help increase glass recycling. BRE-led research will assess the recycling opportunities for non-contaminated, high-grade flat glass and non-contaminated timber and plastic profiles from the demolition and…
DuPont and the U.S. State Department (DOS) have been working closely together for the past two years on a test and development programme to creat the next generation of blast-resistant window installations.
EMS rushed to the scene of an apartment on Detroit’s east side to attend to a boy critically cut by broken glass.The boy’s parents told police the incident occurred while the child was playing in a closet where a storm window was stored.
The Eugene School District will shell out about $1 million to replace hundreds of wired glass panels in its schools after some serious injuries.
The Safety Glass Technology business area within the Kyro Group have contracted machinery deliveries worth approximately EUR 15 million in total.
Tamglass Group of Finland, fully owned by Kyro Corporation listed on the Helsinki Exchanges, and Bavelloni Group of Italy, fully owned by the Bavelloni family, and the above owners are in negotiations over mutual co-operation.
Glassrobots, an experienced supplier of safety glass technology will feature its bending, tempering and laminating technology innovations for automotive and architectural glass applications at the glasstec exhibition.
Joe Farcus of Joseph Farcus Architects PA (Miami Beach) works with the Fincantieri shipyard of Trieste, Italy to fit luxury cruise ships from US company Carnival Cruise Lines with an abundance of laminated glass applications for reasons of dramatic…
DuPont Teijin Films(TM) and CPFilms today announced the formation of a new strategic relationship to work jointly to reduce injury and property damage due to flying glass.
To maintain and improve the safety standards attained and to reduce operating hazards to users, the Organization for Abrasive Tool Safety (Organisation fr die Sicherheit von Schleifwerkzeugen, oSa) has now been formed.
An article in Tuesday's edition of The Wall Street Journal spotlighted the DuPont effort to take a leadership role in the search for safety and security solutions following the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Glasstech, Inc., the Perrysburg Township firm that has claimed to be the world's leading maker of equipment for tempering and bending glass for the automotive industry, filed for bankruptcy for the second time in 10 years.
Demand for flat glass in the United States is forecast to rise three percent per year to almost seven billion square feet in 2005, valued at $9.1 billion.
The glazing industry of the 21st century uses these days increasingly float glass integrated with special coating materials.
Glaspro Inc., the West Coast's predominant designer and fabricator of architectural glass, today announced an agreement with Solutia Inc. to fabricate and distribute Vanceva, a new brand of Advanced Solutions for Glass; designed specifically…
While dark glass on today's vehicles provides passenger privacy and symbolizes status, tomorrow's automotive designers see glass tops, spanning from the windshield across the roof to the back window, on luxury vehicles so that occupants…
Mike Willinganz, an 11-year employee of Viracon, joined the field sales force on Dec. 3, covering the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
PPG Industries will present the second annual PPG Design Challenge Awards to students of Detroit's College for Creative Studies (CCS) on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 2 p.m. at Cobo Center, Detroit, in Suite O2-33.
Modern architecture, with its increasing dependence on glass, is stimulating the development of newer and safer glazing that is designed to meet tighter requirements of impending European CEN standards for bullet and blast-resistant screens.
Standardised safety glass will soon be compulsory for all vehicles, either made locally or imported, to ensure the safety of motorists by minimising the impact of broken windscreens.