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| Oran Safety Glass, an Israeli glass manufacturer, plans to open its first U-S production facility in Greensville County, creating 50 jobs.
| Asahi Glass Philippines, Inc. (AGP), a subsidiary of Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. of Japan, expects exports to double next year to $ 43 million from the projected $ 20 million this year following a strong exports for its solar glass covers.
| Shreveport’s Libbey Glass Inc. will have a grand opening at 9 a.m. Wednesday for its 646,000-square-foot warehouse-distribution center at 5001 Greenwood Road.
| Swiss design and precision engineering combine to make the EKU Porta 100 range the most elegant and reliable sliding glass door system available.
| Shares of Corning Inc., which makes glass for LCD TVs, plus optical fiber, laboratory products and other items, climbed Tuesday after an analyst initiated coverage on the company.Credit Suisse analyst Michael R.
| One of South Africa’s most prominentturnkey refractory and mechanicalspecialists has been awarded contracts for several key industrial and mining projects, both locally and internationally.
| Not in the mood to work today? OK, you can get one day off. This is a policy newly introduced by a private enterprise in Fenghua of Zhejiang Province, which declared that employees could be allowed not to work if they said that they were down but…
| US company Owens-Illinois will spend US$47 million on a new furnace for its glass manufacturing facility in New Zealand, it said this week.
| Oldcastle Glass has acquired Toronto-based Antamex International, Inc., a privately-held supplier of high-performance curtain wall systems and engineering design services for commercial, institutional and multi-story condominium construction markets.
| Incredible plans to build a giant glass tower in Coventry city centre have been thrown out by lottery chiefs.
| The Argentine government Tuesday launched a 180-day ban on glass exports in a bid to hold down domestic prices, repeating a move used previously with beef exports.
| Talks are to take place over the future of Selkirk Glass after its parent and sister firms went into administration. Local Lib Dem MSP Jeremy Purvis is to meet with administrators Deloitte to discuss the situation, which affects about 20 staff in…
| When glass artist Dale Chihuly filed a copyright-infringement suit against two glassblowers last year, his friends and acquaintances were almost apologetic.Such a hard-nosed tactic, they said, was unlike Chihuly, who once ran his business as an…
| Glass manufacturer O-I New Zealand, owned by US giant Owens-Illinois Inc of Ohio, announced today a US$47 million USD (NZ$78 million) expansion at its Penrose, Auckland, plant.
| Jin Murai, a former minister who won Sunday's gubernatorial election against incumbent Yasuo Tanaka, said he would remove a glass-walled office Tanaka had set up as a symbol of his reform programs.
| On site gas generation is widely used by OEMs in many industry sectors, which rely on ready-made supplies of ultra high purity (UHP) nitrogen or other industrial gases, to feed their production facility.
| High Springs n The first business slated for High Springs Industrial Park, a planned commercial area of the city off Poe Springs Road, is preparing for construction and an opening as early as next spring.
| Owens Corning (OWENQ.OB) reported consolidated net sales and operating results for the second quarter and the first six months of 2006.
| Mr. B Muthuraman, managing director, Tata Steel, participated in the groundbreaking for the two new plants along with Dr Tridibesh Mukherjee, deputy managing director-steel; Tata Steel, Mr.
| The International Autobody Congress and Exposition (NACE) has added the Auto Glass Expo @ NACE (AGX), a new national auto glass event within the NACE Exposition, to its list of show activities.