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Vitro S.A.B.  de C.V. (BMV: VITROA; NYSE: VTO) announced today that Alfonso Gomez  Palacio, President of the Glass Containers business unit, retired on June 30  2007 after an outstanding 23 year career and performance at Vitro.
Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
Glassex-GP&T 2008 will be promoted by CIB, the current Construction Marketing Awards “Agency of the Year”.
This week crews poured the 60th and last residential floor at One Rincon, the condominium atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill.
The up-coming International Congress on Glass 2007 will take place in Strasbourg from 1 to 6 July 2007.
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. announced that Russell Huffer, chairman and chief executive officer, will host the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., on Wednesday, June 27, at 9 a.m.
Britain is now home to two of the world’s most advanced plaster and plasterboard manufacturing plants following a £120-million investment in production capacity by British Gypsum.
Saint-Gobain Isover is launching an unrivalled programme of insulation training for merchants and distributors that kicks off in the classroom.
After months of planning, work is ready to begin next week on the installation of the new curtain wall at Indiana Square.
The Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Compagnie de Saint-  Gobain was held in Paris on Thursday, June 7, 2007.
The Saint-Gobain Reinforcement & Composites Activity has increased its European production capacity for TWINTEX ® by 25% in its Chambéry plant (FR) as of April 2007.
Turkish glass giant Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari (Sisecam) is freezing plans that it had to double its investments in Bulgaria, until problems in the country’s labour laws are solved.
Listed as one of the Top 200 trade shows in the U.S. by Tradeshow Week magazine, GlassBuild America is clearly THE place to be in 2007.
Burj Dubai, on course to becoming the world's tallest tower, is taking its final shimmering form as installation of curtain wall glass panels commenced on Level 19 of the super-structure developed by Emaar Properties.
Co-organized by Messe Düsseldorf China Ltd. and China Foreign Trade Centre (Group), China International Exhibition for Glass Technology (All in glass for short) will be debuted from Nov.21 to 24, 2007, at Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou…
The workers of Trakia Glass Bulgaria, the local unit of Turkish glass and chemicals group Turkey Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari (Sisecam), will go on strike from Saturday after the management and the trade unions failed to agree on new pay benefits.
Finacity Corporation announced that it successfully facilitated the upsize and extension of a trade receivables securitization transaction for Vitro America, Vitro's US-based subsidiary, on April 16, 2007.
No other material is associated more closely with modern architecture than glass. In combination with new technologies, this versatile material offers a broad range of possibilities ranging from lighting to construction using solar technology.
Saint-Gobain Sekurit India’s plants at Bhosari and Chakan have obtained, on January 17th 2006, the OHSAS 18001: 1999 certification to reward their management of healthy/safety risks and the ISO 14001:2004 certification for their environmental…
A new mixed-use development is primed to add glitz and a pair of 44-story high-rises to a city on the rebound.
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, announced 1Q'07 unaudited results.Year over year consolidated sales increased 6.0 percent and EBITDA rose 30.0 percent.
The race among the world's cities to build the ultimate record-busting, flat-out tallest skyscraper on the planet is fast and furious.
Southwall Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: SWTX) announced first quarter 2007 revenue of $10.5 million, up 5% from the first quarter of 2006 and up 14% from the fourth quarter of 2006.
The American Ceramic Society and NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University will hold the 2007 Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting & 18th University Conference on Glass in Rochester, New York, May 20-23, 2007.