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| Owners of Lincoln Glass in Newport, Dan and Elayne Mason, celebrated their 50th anniversary in the business this year. Dan's parents, John and Grace Mason, established Lincoln Glass in 1956 and oversaw day-to-day operations for 20 years.
| Potters Industries Inc., an affiliate of PQ Corporation, announced today that, effective February 15, 2007, the price on all Metal Finishing Glass Bead and Ground Glass product shipments will increase up to 3 cents a pound.
| Edward A. Shriver Jr., a Pittsburgh architect who works in retail store design, encourages architects and retail owners alike to "think outside the box," light years away from the designs that have dominated American retail architecture in…
| Hoya Corp., Japan's largest optical glass maker, agreed to buy camera maker Pentax Corp. for 90.6 billion yen ($765 million) to add endoscopes and surgical scissors.
| Strange specimens of natural glass found in the Egyptian desert are products of a meteorite slamming into Earth between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago, scientists have concluded.
| ZF.com reported that Tarnaveni (Romania)-based Gecsat, estimates an approximately 6.4 million-euro turnover for this year, a 16% drop against last year, when the company posted a 7.6 million-euro turnover.
| Hartmut Reinke, director, Eastern and Central Europe/Middle East and Africa, and Michael Dolan, industry leader, DuPont Biofuels, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, recently participated in the conference on Renewable Energy Prospects for Central and…
| A former mold-maker at Owens-Illinois Glass in Alton filed an asbestos suit against 13 defendant corporations claiming his exposure to asbestos caused his lung cancer.
| Wlns.com reported that Venezuela Workers at Venezuelan glass manufacturer Vivex ended a strike that forced several automobile assembly plants to temporarily stop or slow production.
| Thousands of ready meals are being recalled from supermarkets after consumers discovered fragments of glass in them. The frozen foods include 20 Asda own-brand meals, four Sainsbury's own brands and four Birds Eye meals.
| Reuters reported that China's Fuyao Group Glass Industries Co. Ltd. , in which Goldman Sachs is buying a stake, said on Tuesday it expected a jump of more than 50 percent in its earnings this year, sending its share price up nearly 8 percent.
| The first tenant at the Gateway Business Park here is making nice progress with its construction schedule despite setbacks from Mother Nature.
| Isra Vivion AG (ISIN: DE 0005488100), one of the leading suppliers for machine vision systems, has acquired the British company IAL Ltd. and is at an advanced stage of negotiations to acquire IAL’s sister company in the USA.
| Look at your window - not out it, but at it. Though the window glass looks clear, if you could peer inside the pane you would see a surprising molecular mess, with tiny particles jumbled together any which way.
| Owens Corning’s, Amarillo plant which is one of the largest glass-melting facilities in the world and makes more than 350 products with about 700 workers, scheduled to launch new glass-melting technologies to cut costs, reduce emissions and help…
| The participation at the GLASSTEC 2006 was again very successful for the TAMPOPRINT AG! Since the market has done a large step forward after the GLASSTEC 2004 in the range of glass decoration, TAMPOPRINT AG - as an expert in the machine construction…
| Company Continues Normal Business Operations, Enhances Competitive Position DURA Automotive Systems, Inc. announced that it received Court approval for the $300 million Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing it arranged from Goldman Sachs, GE Capital…
| For a man who's been dead 83 years, Michael J. Owens is getting a lot of attention lately. The prolific glass-machinery inventor is the star of a new video, the subject of a new book, and last year was a comic-strip hero of sorts.
| Heye Glas GmbH, Rockware Glass, and Huta Szkla ‘Ujscie’ S.A. are three members of the Ardagh Glass group who will be providing plenty of inspiration to visitors at Brau Beviale 2006 ( Hall 3, Stand 319).
| The Bernard McNamara-led consortium buying the former Irish Glass bottle site in Dublin for €412m expects to make a pre-tax profit of almost €300m from the development of the 25-acre Ringsend site, write Joe Brennan and Ciaran Hancock.