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|      Indian data storage major Moser Baer I will invest around $250 million over the next three years to set up the largest thin film fabrication facility in the country.
| The introduction in June this year of Energy Performance Certificates, as part of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, is set to revolutionise the way homes are bought, sold and rented in the UK.
| The Club of Rome has introduced an initiative aimed at bringing Europe, the Middle East and North Africa together in building solar thermal power plants.
| Solar thermal power plants make use of direct solar radiation that is not dispersed by clouds and concentrate it using mirrors.
| George Rode fixes cars, and now he's trying to do his part to get a few extra miles out of Mother Earth. Rode is preparing to install solar photovoltaic electric systems on the roofs of his two Eugene auto repair shops, Euro-Asian Automotive…
| Photovoltaic panels produced by the new joint venture company AVANCIS will use an innovative film coating and glass processing technology.
| New nanosilicon photovoltaic solar cell technology could adapt home and office glass windows into ones capable of generating electricity from sunlight without losing significant transparency or requiring major changes in manufacturing infrastructure.
| The objective of solar control measures Increased user convenience and lower energy consumption are among the main demands placed on modern building design.
| Saint-Gobain Vitrage, Saint-Gobain’s Flat Glass Sector, and Shell (Shell Erneuerbare Energien GmbH) announce the foundation of a 50/50 joint-venture for the production and sale of next generation photovoltaic panels.
| Kansas.com reported that a Florida import company will establish a Midwest headquarters in Wichita early next year to distribute European-made green building materials.
| The market for solar thermal power plants is only now beginning to offer one of the most important energy supply options for the future.
| Guardian Industries Corp. announced Thursday that it will invest $75 million in its 300-employee Kingsburg glass plant to replace the plant's furnace and install pollution controls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Read the full article on…
| Isoclima S.p.A., a licensee of Research Frontiers Incorporated (Nasdaq: REFR), announced today that Isoclima will feature its new CromaLite™ smart automotive glass products at two shows in Germany this month.
| Basler AG, one of the leading companies in the field of Vision Technology (the technology of machine-based vision), is expanding its business activities in the Vision Systems corporate division (inspection systems for industrial mass production) to…
| Analysts project that demand for advanced flat-glass products will expand nearly 6 percent per year to generate sales of $7.7 billion by 2010, according to a study released Aug. 21 by the Freedonia Group of Cleveland.
| Applied Industrial Technologies has been selected as a PPG Industries, Inc. Excellent Supplier for 2005.
| Second, the California company XsunX Inc. has begun the build-out of its new facility in Golden. Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based XsunX is developing Power Glass, a technology that will allow glass windows to produce electricity from solar power.
| In a major move into the solar-cell and other equipment markets, Applied Materials Inc. on Thursday (May 4) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Applied Films Corp. for $464 million in cash.
| The main limitation of solar power right now is cost, because the crystalline silicon used to make most solar photovoltaic (PV) cells is very expensive.
| Emirates Glass, a Dubai Investments subsidiary and leading supplier of premium architectural glass products, has won major orders to supply a total of 50,000 square meters of its EmiCool range to two prestigious projects in Dubai.