Pilkington invests £40m in Northwest facilities

Plans submitted to St Helens Council include a new £15m coating plant and a further £22m to be invested in upgrading a float line which melts 250,000 tonnes of glass each year.



The coating facility will produce Activ self cleaning glass. It will use nanotechnology developed down the road at the company's European Technical Centre at Lathom, near Ormskirk, to produce coated glass for the solar cell and thermal installation markets.

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