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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…
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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 strengthens its growing glass containers business in Central America and the Caribbean Markets
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…
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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…
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Pilkington Planar™ glazing has made a splash at a multi-million pound regeneration of a leisure complex in Swansea.
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