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A highly unusual window replacement scheme has taken place at Leicester University. Pilkington Activ™ Blue glass has helped transform the Attenborough Tower, a 19-storey tower block built in the early 1970s on the main campus.
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced today the launching of its new product line ECOPURE®, its new self cleaning glass, through its European affiliate Vitro Cristalglass.
Vitro SAB, Mexico’s largest glassmaker, said it will miss $44.8 million in interest payments due next week on $1 billion of bonds to preserve cash to run its operations.
Previously known as Pilkington Australia, the Geelong factory specialised in automotive glass. It opened in 1936 to support the Geelong Ford plant, which opened 11 years earlier.
Auburn Hills, Mich., January 13, 2009, 2008 — SunGuard® advanced architectural glass by Guardian Industries now offers architects and designers five new performance and appearance glass options by combining its Guardian CrystalGray™ float glass with…
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced today that its subsidiary Viméxico, S.A. de C.
Pilkington NSG Group Flat Glass Business, 300 Northridge Drive, sent an e-mail to employees on Thursday, advising them that the plant will close for two weeks for approximately 180 of 263 employees from Jan. 19 to Feb. 2 due to slow sales and…
Vitro America is pleased to announce the move to a new facility located in City of Industry, California. This 125,000 square foot operation is 15 miles east of Los Angeles.
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. announced today that the Company and its two Central American partners have decided to share the control of the daily operations of Panama-based Empresas Comegua, S.A. (“Comegua”).
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) commercial coatings group has increased its involvement in the global wind turbine industry.
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. announced on November 18, 2008 the company’s new executive team that will report to Hugo Lara, CEO of Vitro, starting as of today.
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Asahi Glass Co., and a Nippon Sheet Glass Co. unit were fined a record 1.38 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by the European Union over claims the companies fixed the price of car windows.
Vitro would like to announce to its clients, business partners and suppliers that it has recently reached an agreement with Bancomext, in which non-performing real estate assets were placed in a trust pending future sale.
• For the fifth time Vitro receives this prestigious award for proving its superior quality standards During the XVIII Summit of Heads of State and Government that took place in San Salvador, El Salvador, Vitro received for the fifth occasion the…
DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) recently launched a new website -- www.pc.dupont.com. --designed to give customers quick and easy access to information about all DPC brands.
Located to the north of the Spanish capital, and with a unique stylistic identity, the project, built according to the tenets of architectural sustainability, is an enormous business campus clad in glass and crowned by the biggest canopy of solar…
If there is one way to prove that you really believe in a product, then it must be to use it yourself, which is precisely what happened recently with Britannia Windows (UK), a fabricating business in Clevedon in South West England when it used…
PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) industrial coatings business has published a new color guide for Duranar liquid coil and extrusion coatings.
As a result of the decision of NASDAQ OMX PHLX, formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, to terminate its equity trading platform effective Oct. 24, 2008, PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has announced its intention to voluntarily delist from the…
Lister Trade Frames is the latest company to partner with Pilkington energiKare™ and the energy efficiency evolution.
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace transparencies business and Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ:GNTX) will supply electrochromic window shade systems to Hawker Beechcraft Corporation for the passenger-cabin windows of the 2010 Beechcraft King Air 350i…
Divestiture reinforces PPG focus on coatings, specialty products PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) on Oct. 1, 2008 completed the divestiture of its automotive glass and services business to a new company formed by funds managed by Kohlberg & Company,…
Pilkington Planar™ glazing has made a splash at a multi-million pound regeneration of a leisure complex in Swansea.
A major part of Pilkington North America’s multi-year, $70 million improvement and repair project is nearly complete.
Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, announced it was awarded the exclusive contract to apply the Diamon-Fusion® nano-coating to the NIKE building…