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| Porto Real, Brazil (May 26, 2010)  -- Guardian celebrated the addition of its new state-of-the-art coater at its Porto Real, Brazil float glass plant with a dedication ceremony attended by government and company officials, including Porto Real…
| Saint-Gobain and NSG Group have announced the construction of a new flat glass (float) plant in Jacarei, close to São Paulo, in Brazil.
| Usiminas ordered from Fives Stein a new Digit@l Furnace® and the implementation of Level 2 system. Usiminas is one of the largest steel producers in the Americas, with major steel mills in Brazil for a total capacity of 9.5 million metric tons of…
| Expansion of cooperation with diabetes leader Novo NordiskImportant step in the worldwide development of medical plastic systemsDüsseldorf, January 11, 2010 – The Gerresheimer Group has set up a new facility for medical plastic systems in Indaiatuba…
| Glaston Brazil carried out Expo Glaston 2009 from July 15th to 18th, 2009 with a great success. Glaston Brazil carried out Expo Glaston 2009 from July 15th to 18th, 2009 with a great success.
| Company certifies BRASVETRO in Porto Alegre, which marks DFI’s first step to expand its nanotechnology in South America’s largest country.
| Tatui, Brazil – April 25, 2008 -- Guardian Industries held a groundbreaking ceremony here today to officially launch the construction of a new $130 million (US) float glass manufacturing facility in Tatui, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
| Corning Inc. said Wednesday it will move its laboratory glassware business from its Big Flats plant to Monterrey, Mexico.
| Libbey Inc. (NYSE: LBY) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire from Vitro, S.A. de C.V. (Vitro) its 51 percent of Vitrocrisa Holdings, S de R.L. de C.V. and related companies (Crisa), bringing Libbey's ownership of…
| Bekaert, the premier supplier of rotatable sputtering technologies delivering lower cost of ownership and higher coater throughput, has announced that Lance Sides has joined the company as the Market Manager for North American Operations.
| Mexican stocks edged higher Wednesday as second-tier issues, like shares in glass maker Vitro SA, staged recoveries. The market's key IPC index closed up 27.07 points or 0.2 percent to 13,550.14.
| On June 7, 2005, Mexican President Vicente Fox officially inaugurated Guardian Industries’ 24th float glass plant in El Marqués, Querétaro, Mexico.
| Glassmaker Grupo Vitro is seen reporting weak third quarter earnings compared with the same quarter last year, due to weak economies in Mexico and the U.
| Shareholders of Mexican glass giant Vitro approved on Thursday the payment of a dividend of 0.25 peso per share.
| With its 1999 goal of sales expansion outside Europe, Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics set up a fabric cutting unit in Mexico for grinding wheels, in November 2001.
| Mexican glass maker Vitro SA said early on Tuesday that it will propose a 0.25 pesos-per-share dividend to investors at its annual shareholders meeting in March.
| Vitro, the Mexican conglom-erate, sold its 51 per cent stake in Vitromatic, the white goods company, to Whirlpool of the US yesterday, in a deal valued at about Dollars 280m.
| Imagine the frustration of knowing you had a world-class view out of your windows that you couldn't see properly. The property owners of Casa Caribe, Cancun, Mexico faced this problem on a daily basis.