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New European regulations demanding a sharp increase in the recycling of packaging have sparked a row between industry and local authorities about who should pick up the bill.
One of Australia's major glass manufacturers says it will probably have to stop production at its two major plants in Sydney if the company is asked to reduce its gas consumption.
Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) today announced that Daniel R. Coulson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will retire on March 31, 2004, after a distinguished 38-year career at Visteon and Ford Motor Co.
A small watch repair business in Geneva, Switzerland was quite literally saved last February because of the intrusion-resistance of its laminated glass storefront and door when thieves had to give up their attempt to break into the store in the…
Since Norman Lamp retired, he’s spending more time working on stained-glass projects. He just completed a 5- by 6-foot window in four panels that shows the globe for Cedar Lake Christian Center in Cedartown, Ga., where his son lives.
A stained glass window has been a thorn in Stephanie Vaughn's side, or perhaps just a frustrating mystery that doesn't hold many clues.
Speedy Auto Glass, the nation's largest auto glass repair company, is being accused of operating a kickback scheme and defrauding British Columbia's public auto insurer.
The glass man is going plastic in the Rubber City.Sometime this year, a towering polymer sculpture -- made by acclaimed glass artist Dale Chihuly -- will take shape at the University of Akron.
John Fiore admits he's hooked.His addiction, which began seven years ago, is taking over every horizontal surface in his 1,000-square-foot condo.It all started innocently.
A state-of-the-art new glass toughening plant has opened in Cornwall - a first for the county. It took a £2 million investment by Cornwall Glass and Glazing to create the plant in St Austell and already it is enabling the firm to expand its business.
Garry A. Goudy has been appointed vice president of PPG Industries' automotive aftermarket comprising automotive refinish coatings, automotive replacement glass and insurance and services.
Deloitte partners Andrew Peters and John Reid were appointed yesterday Receivers of Caithness Glass Limited, international brand leaders in the design, sale and manufacture of paperweights and art glass.
Mexican glass maker Vitro said on Wednesday it expects sales to grow 5 percent in 2004 and EBITDA to rise 7 percent, amid greater demand for glass from the construction industry.
The Visteon/Boston Acoustics partnership is yielding new branded audio business for the Chrysler Group.The result of the Visteon/Boston Acoustics partnership is currently a custom-designed, engineered and equalized Boston Acoustics-branded audio…
Asahi Glass Co. plans to spend as much as $500 million to build a plant in South Korea to make glass used for flat panel screens, Korea Economic Daily reported, citing an unidentified government official.
According to one environmental consultancy recycling glass back into glass products delivers maximum environmental benefits.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), the industry leader in specialty fiber, today announced the introduction of a ytterbium-doped double clad fiber with all-glass cladding enabling output power in excess of 100 Watts.
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) and Kansai Paint today announced they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding and entered into negotiations for the creation of an alliance.
Receivers have been called in to the glass-making firm Caithness Glass. The move places 150 jobs under threat at the company which has manufacturing centres in Wick, Perth and Oban.
UK reprocessors recycled 18% more glass packaging last year compared to 2002, new figures have revealed. Figures from British Glass show that 875,000 tonnes was recycled last years, compared with 747,000 in 2002 and 736,000 in 2001.
DuPont has acquired Retrim, a safetyglass interlayer company, with plant operations in Zlin, Czech Republic. Terms were not disclosed.
She may not be a magician, but Margie Shanahan feels that way sometimes.That's how she describes the work she does to create glass beads and jewelry, some of which are now on display at the Passageway Gallery in downtown Omaha.
Nicholas Ashton will tell you that if necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is the father. Both were present when Irish Republican Army bombs bloodied London in the early 1970s. Ashton and business partner Gary Blake decided to…
Owens-Illinois has entered into negotiations to acquire Europe's second largest glass manufacturer, BSN Glasspack, leaving the door open for a possible sale of its plastics business.
Rexam, the UK-based global consumer packaging company, has confirmed the acquisition from Dutch group Hunan of all of the shares in Poland Glassworks Holding, the holding company of Polish glassworks, Polglass.