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Staff at Swansea's Pilkington Glass have been reassured that their jobs are not at risk. The UK glass king, based in St Helens, Lancashire, is the latest in a string of British companies to be sold to foreign investors.
The contribution to business success in the shape of technology comes in many forms. For Pilkington it came with the help of a washing up bowl.Alastair Pilkington, then technical director of the "family" business, conceived the idea of…
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. announced Monday it agreed to acquire 80 percent of British glassmaker Pilkington plc in a strategy to expand its global production capacity.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. said Monday that it will acquire the 80 percent stake it doesn't have of Britain's Pilkington PLC in a deal worth 358.5 billion yen (US$3 billion; euro2.6 billion).
Pilkington's chairman, Sir Nigel Rudd, stands to make £4.25m if, as expected, Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass returns with an agreed £2.2bn takeover offer this month.
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein ups Pilkington (PILK.LN) to hold from sell, raises target price to 163p from 140p due to ongoing takeover discussions and following a sector re-rating.
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.
Pilkington (PILK.LN) could come under pressure from Asahi Glass's (5201.TO) reduction in '05 operating income for its glass division, traders say.
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.
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.
Glass factory workers in Denbighshire could soon be working for a new, Japanese owner.Nippon Sheet Glass Company looks likely to acquire glass maker Pilkington after reportedly beefing up its takeover offer to £2.2bn.
Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass is discussing a takeover of glassmaker Pilkington at more than 160 pence a share, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
Pilkington +4.6% at 154.75p amid press speculation that talks between the company and its rebuffed suitor Nippon Sheet Glass (5202.
Lacobel is a clear glass, one side of which is coated with a high-quality paint. The painted side is always protected by positioning it against the supporting structure.
Pilkington, Britain's leading glassmaker, has been forced to move from using gas to oil to run its UK operations because it could no longer afford to pay its enormous gas bill.
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.
Slaughter and Mays famed boardroom connections have snared it a lucrative instruction from Pilkington on its potential £2bn takeover despite Herbert Smith having already been given the role.
Sevasa, amongst the leading companies of high quality satined and engraved glass, has presented its new design CriSamar® ICE at the glass international exposition Vitrum 2005, held in Milan this past October.
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For Ritec International, this years Vitrum represents the third time the companys innovative ClearShield system will have been exhibited by its Italian and Croatian distributor, Advanced Surface Technology (AST).
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…
HALL 15 1 / STAND K24 L25RegaLead, Europes largest supplier of decorative glass overlay products, will be exhibiting again at Vitrum with Italian partners Neostucco s.r.l demonstrating their technically proven overlay system which offers a quick…
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GMH plans to source windscreens and back car windows from a French company in Thailand once the Pilkington contract expires.
Workers from Pilkington Glass have rallied outside Holden's offices at Port Melbourne, saying 120 jobs could go if the company imports windscreens.General Motors Holden (GMH) says a decision was made two years ago to import windscreens.