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Double glazing firm St Helens Glass is believed to have collapsed with the loss of more than 200 jobs. It is estimated that figure could rise to more than 300 if salespeople, fitters and drivers contracted by the firm are also taken into account.
The glass manufacturing works is purposed to create the national glass industry, satisfy the construction industry needs, achieve multiplicative effect for the development of other sectors, the Bank’s press service informs.
Theherald.co.uk reported that the building industry is facing the threat of a dramatic rise in the price of glass this year after private warnings by Europe's major manufacturers that they are withdrawing capacity and introducing quota supplies.
Isra Vision AG, supplier of industrial image processing systems (Machine Vision), saw a seamless continuation of its excellent business development of the past few years in the first quarter of the new 2006/2007 fiscal year (October 1 to December 31…
Pilkington’s joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KZ (PKZ) LLP, yesterday announced the start of infrastructure work on the site of the new float glass production line to be built in Kyzylorda, in the south west of the country.
McMullen Architectural Systems has set up McMullen Inc in North Carolina in a bid to to meet demand in the US for the company's products and growing international order book.
Vitreous fused silica rollers are used specially as transport rollers for tempering flat glass. This method has been used for many years in the manufacture of tempered safety flat glass.
Guardian Building Products Distribution, Inc., announces its newest product with the introduction of GuardWrap™.
The National Glass Association announced today that it has joined forces with Intercorp Inc., a leading insurance program management firm, to offer its members a comprehensive slate of business insurance plans.
Saint-Gobain Isover is to build a new, 70,000-ton capacity glass wool plant in Chemillé, (Maine-et-Loire) France. The plant is due to begin production at the end of 2008, will create approximately 150 jobs.
In the context of CE Marking, most flat glass products sold in the European Union must now conform to European technical standards known as harmonised European Norms (hEN), as dictated by the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN).
Emirates Float Glass (EFG), the UAE’s first integrated glass processing facility and a subsidiary of Glass LLC which is wholly owned by Dubai Investments, has signed a 15-year nitrogen and hydrogen supply agreements with worldwide leading industrial…
Vietnam’s largest float glass factory project worth VND1.3 trillion (US$81 million) got off the ground Friday in the central Chu Lai Economic Zone.
The Raytek GS110 process imaging system for low emissivity (low-E) glass was specifically designed to monitor one-side coated flat glass and addresses a rapidly increasing need as low-E glass becomes more widely used in the construction industry.
Fenton Art Glass Co. production employees are getting a three-week break this month and into February. Company President George W.
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Romania has inaugurated a float glass factory in Calarasi following a 100 million EUR investment implemented over 18 months.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48704) has announced the addition of “Glass Container Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its Foreign Trade (1996-2008)” to their offering.
With an eye on productivity and the other on long term investments to achieve top company performance over the next decades, MIDDLE EAST GLASS in Egypt updated the vacuum system to serve the IS machines supplied by EMHART first in 2004 with one UV50…
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The chief executive of Pilkington is to take on a beefed-up executive role at its Japanese parent months after steering the British glassmaker through its £2.2bn takeover.
This important happening confirmed itself during the 2006 edition as the leading fair for glass industry world-wide.
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