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| As a part of strategy in Asian Region, Saint-Gobain Renforcement recently made an investment in China by forming a Joint Venture company with Xinxing Glass Fiber Plant Division of Hangzhou Glass Group Co.
| Asahi Glass Co Ltd , Japan's largest glassmaker, said on Monday it would post a special loss of 38 billion yen ($281 million) related to restructuring measures in the business year to next March.
| Japan's largest glass maker, Asahi Glass Co Ltd, slashed its earnings forecast for 2001/02 on Monday to a loss of nine billion yen - its first-ever net loss for a business year.
| Asahi Glass Co. will turn the parent company's ceramics business division into a 100% unit April 1. The move is aimed rationalizing and revitalizing the ceramics operations, which Asahi Glass regards as one of the group's key business…
| Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. announced that it has succeeded in using a high-transparency fluoropolymer, a leading candidate for next-next generation photolithographic semiconductor manufacturing using F2 (fluoride dimer) excimer lasers, as a photoresist…
| Iran, a country enjoying comparative advantage for production of glass, can emerge as a major exporter of the commodity in the Middle East, managing director of a glass industries production union Mohammad-Reza Rajabi said here Tuesday.
| The Board of Directors of Glaverbel S.A. met on Tuesday 8 January 2002 to formulate the opinion that it must give to the Banking and Finance Commission, concerning the public tender offer announced on 19 December by Asahi Glass for the Glaverbel S.
| Asahi Glass Co Ltd president Shinya Ishizu said he expects a "huge" increase in profitability from the reorganisation of its worldwide glass operations including the planned buyout of its Glaverbel SA unit.
| Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. ("AGC"; headquartered in Tokyo; president: Mr. Shinya Ishizu) decided to make a public tender offer to purchase all the ordinary shares held by public shareholders in its consolidated subsidiary, Glaverbel S.A. (…
| Zhejiang Glass Company Limited, the largest privately owned flat glass manufacturer in Zhejiang Province and the fifth in the Chinese mainland, announced the issue of 170 million new H-shares in Hong Kong on November 28.
| Vietnam's two largest glass producers are sitting on major stockpiles of unsold stock, despite strong protection from Government tariff and non-tariff measures.
| A major glassworks in Central Asia in the town of Chuy-Tokmak (in the northern Kyrgyz Chuy Region) will be launched soon.