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The abrupt closing of Anchor Glass Container Corp.'s bottle plant in South Connellsville last month is playing a key role in a blizzard of class action lawsuits alleging federal securities fraud filed by angry investors.
Libbey Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its City of Industry, California, property consisting of approximately 27 acres of land for $17 million.
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:APOG), today announced fiscal 2005 third quarter earnings. Apogee develops and delivers value-added glass products and services for the architectural, large-scale optical and automotive industries.
The largest manufacturer of pressed glass in Brazil, Nadir Figueiredo Ind., S/A, recently installed EdgeCAM in its mold making facility in Sao Paulo.
Glass is a mysterious material, but when researchers apply pressure, it reveals secrets. Using a variety of techniques, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory saw for the first time ever, the atomic structure of a dense, purely octahedral glass…
BSN Glasspack S.A. Completes Tender Offer for the 10-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 of BSN Financing Co. S.A. and 9-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 of BSN Glasspack Obligation S.A.
The following statement was issued on dec 14 by the law firm of Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP:Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on behalf of all…
One of Wichita County`s largest companies just announced it`s getting bigger. Officials say that only means good things for surrounding communities.
Federal jurors on Thursday cleared Pilkington North America of allegations that it allowed arsenic waste at the company's glass factory in Naplate to contaminate the surrounding village.
A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured yesterday when nearly two tonnes of glass fell on him in a factory.A WorkSafe spokesman said the boy, whose parents work at the Melbourne factory, was walking across the shop floor when 11 sheets of glass,…
NEC Corp said it has fixed the sale price of 16 mln shares in its subsidiary Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd at 2,326 yen per share.
Lumiglass Industries, one of Dubai Investment Group's subsidiaries, today announced the launch of its first state-of-the-art production facility at Al Quoz industrial area in Dubai.
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. announced that its Harmon, Inc. subsidiary has completed the purchase of the assets of Architectural Wall Solutions, Inc. (AWallS) of Bolingbrook, IL, the ninth largest commercial glass installation business in the United…
Hafele UK have expanded their range of rail and patch fittings for frameless glass pivot doors and fixed panels, called the Hafele Standard Range.
Over 200 amazing glass artworks, from the red hot furnaces on the island of Murano, will illuminate the galleries of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in the very cool exhibition Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection.
David Vogt pulls a five-foot, stainless steel hollow rod with a small glob of molten glass at the end out of a red-hot oven.Vogt rolls the glowing glob across a stainless-steel surface, blows through the tube to expand it, and then re-heats it.
Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Libbey Glass Incorporated has announced plans to stop production at its Walnut, California, glass tableware manufacturing plant.
Federal jurors on Thursday cleared Pilkington North America of allegations that it allowed arsenic waste at the company's glass factory in Naplate to contaminate the surrounding village.
In the run up to the exhibition there was never any doubt that glasstec 2004 would once again justify its claim to be the world’s no. 1 exhibition in the glass sector.
Saint-Gobain, one of the world's leading glass companies, is considering entering the business of highly pure glass for liquid-crystal display screens, a booming area of the electronics industry, the Financial Times reported, citing the company…
When it comes to glass-making "everything old is new again." Well, at least sometimes. Creative glass techniques used in ancient Egypt and Rome have been rediscovered and used in new ways by such important glassmakers as Louis Comfort…
Ultraframe shares crashed 16pc yesterday after the conservatory specialist effectively issued a fourth profits warning this year alongside its annual results.
Analysts at Lehman Brothers maintain their "overweight" rating on Applied Films. The target price has been raised from $18 to $24.
Glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell spends his days working and teaching in the state-of-the-art Corning Corhart Philips Lighting Hot Glass studio at Centre College.