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2005: Another Year of GrowthExcluding the impact of British Plaster Board (BPB), consolidated at December 1, 2005:- Sales +8.4% (to EUR 34,873 million)- Operating Income +4.6% (to EUR 2,868 million)- Business Income +8.0% (to EUR 2,611 million)- Net…
Group sales climbed over 8 percent reports Saint-Gobain with contributions from the High-Performance Materials Sector for Ceramics, Plastics and Abrasives Divisions.
CertainTeed Corporation, one of North America's leading building products manufacturers, is proud to announce a partnership with sister companies Norton Abrasives and BPB in a team sponsorship of the number 66 Best Buy Chevrolet for the 2006…
In keeping with its commitment to introduce state-of-the-art glass products, the Paris-based Multinational Saint-Gobain announced introduction of a rage of solar control reflective glass products.
Saint-Gobain, a Paris based global glass gaint, has accorded India as top priority zone in all its business ventures in Asia over the next five years, Jean Louis Beffa, chairman and chief executive officer has said.
Saint-Gobain Vitrage, Saint-Gobains Flat Glass Sector and Shell have signed a memorandum of understanding to produce next-generation solar panels.
Saint-Gobain SA said it has formed a partnership with Royal Dutch Shell PLC to develop a new technology of solar panels consisting of thin films of copper indium selenide (CIS) on glass, instead of traditional silicon wafers.
Four Season Solar Products LLC is recalling the glass used in about 6,000 sunrooms. Sunlight reflecting off of certain sunroom roof glass and skylights onto adjacent cedar shingles or cedar shakes could pose a fire hazard.
Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon's western rim, announces new features planned for The Skywalk, which will push the project's completion date to later this year.
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Europe's biggest distributor of building materials, said second-half profit was little changed as costs related to the French company's acquisition of plasterboard maker BPB Plc countered increased demand in the U.…
Saint-Gobain Vetrotex has created a Specialty Reinforcements Group (SRG) for the North American market, as a part of a strategy to move closer to the market.
Jeffrey Rioux of Saint-Gobain Crystals will present a report on advances in the design and ballistic performance of the company's Sapphire Transparent Armor System at the upcoming 30th Annual International Conference and Exposition on Advanced…
Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass is unlikely to agree to buy Pilkington Plc for several more weeks as it continues to plough through the glassmaker's books, sources familiar with the situation said.
The board of French building materials maker Saint-Gobain will meet later on Monday to consider the size of a raised hostile bid for BPB after the plasterboard maker rejected calls for friendly talks over the weekend, said a source close to the…
Saint-Gobain SA, the French building materials group, is this weekend making a last-ditch approach to the board of BPB PLC in an effort to seal an agreed 3.8 bln stg takeover of the British plasterboard company, both The Sunday Times and The Sunday…
When she needs a break from her day as a city council aide, Theressa Hamilton retreats to a garden oasis on the roof of City Hall.There, among the cement, steel and glass, Hamilton smiles at an orange butterfly alit on a green bush with pink flowers.
The European Commission on Wednesday cleared French glass firm Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA's hostile 3.68 billion British pound (euro5.45 billion; US$6.4 billion) bid for British plasterboard maker BPB PLC.
OmniDecor will participate from 13th to 15th September 2005 in Atlanta at "GlassBuild America 2005" (Stand 317 and 319 Hall B2 Aisle 300) and from 5th to 8th October in Milan at "Vitrum" 2005 (Pad. 15/II, Stand B81)OmniDecor SpA…
The English countryside is dotted with churches that measure their ages in centuries. Their steeples stand tall against the rural landscape like sentinels begging a pilgrim to come forward.
Saint Gobain's (12500.FR) remarks in response to BPB (BPB.LN) defense document contain nothing new as expected, says analyst.
BPB is shoring up its defences to fend off a £3.6bn cash bid from French glassmaker Saint-Gobain in what promises to be one of the London Stock Exchange's biggest hostile takeover battles for years.
Vortex technology produces an extremely permeable centerless grinding wheel with an improved porous structure and superior abrasive grain spacing by combining a new engineered abrasive grain and an innovative manufacturing process.
BPB, the world's leading plasterboard business, is on full alert for an offer of more than £3.5bn for the company from Saint-Gobain, its French rival.
BPB PLC's institutional investors have demanded the group not be sold for less than 800 pence a share, valuing the group at more than 4 bln stg, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Saint-Gobain SA said its Scandinavian subsidiary, Saint-Gobain Nordic, has bought Optimera Gruppen AS of Norway, a distributor of building materials that has a commercial network of 95 brands in Norway and Sweden.