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French building materials group Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA (SGO.FR) Thursday said it is confident it will achieve its 2011 targets as it reported net profit rose to EUR768 million in the first half of from EUR501 million in the same period of 2010.
Wrightstyle, based in the UK, supplies specialist glass and glazing systems worldwide.
Italy´s booming solar power market is expected to grow nearly four times to 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2020 as part of incentive-driven efforts to fight climate change, the head of Italy´s top utility said.
French construction materials maker Saint-Gobain on Monday postponed indefinitely the initial public offering of glass container unit Verallia, the latest sign of ailing demand for European stock flotations.
* Indicative IPO price range 29.50 to 36 euros/share * Price discounted to account for tough market * To raise 958 mln-1.1 bln eur in IPO of 40-46 pct stake * Shares due to start trading on June 22 * Verallia eyes 3-5 pct annual organic net sales…
Light transmittance (Tv) 62 %, solar factor 29 % – a selectivity that is higher than factor 2. These excellent technical values have now become reality with the new solar control glass ipasol ultraselect 62/29 by Interpane (Laufenfoerde, Germany).
In a May 25 letter to customers, Guardian Industries, Auburn Hills, Mich., announced a price increase on its products, effective June 23.
Sezal Glass touched an intraday high of Rs 4.30 and an intraday low of Rs 3.90. At 10:54 hrs the share was quoting at Rs 4.30, up Rs 0.20, or 4.88%.
AGC announced on May 16, 2011 it has developed ultra-thin sheet glass manufactured using the float process, measuring just 0.1 mm, roughly the thinness of a sheet of paper.
Saint-Gobain Sekurit, a China-based manufacturer of automotive glass, has announced that it is constructing its second Chinese automotive glass plant in the Shandong province of Qingdao.
Saint-Gobain, the world's largest building materials company, reported a stronger-than-expected 12.2 percent rise in first-quarter sales on Thursday, helped by a recovering building sector in Europe and favourable weather conditions.
French glassmaker Saint-Gobain said on Tuesday that its Verallia glass packaging unit had taken the first step towards an initial public offering by filing documents with the French AMF regulator. "Saint-Gobain is thus pursuing the process…
Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, inaugurated the new solar glass furnace at the Saint-Gobain Glass Renedo plant in Spain, 15 kilometers from Santander.
Tennessee operations serve expanded market, afford synergiesCarlex Glass America has completed the acquisition from Zeledyne of a float glass manufacturing and automotive windshield fabricating plant in Nashville and an automotive replacement glass…
India is an investment hot-spot, as far as glass manufacturer Saint Gobain is concerned. One in every 4 euros it spends is spent in India, reports CNBC-TV18's Swathi Narayanan.
GIESSE North America, a subsidiary of the Giesse Group headquartered in Bologna, Italy, announced that Roger Daugherty has joined its sales team.
Stewart Engineers is exhibiting at China Glass 2011. We welcome you to stop by and visit with the team to discuss our latest advancements in our ultra thin glass and borosilicate StewartFloat® bath furnaces and/or our AcuraCoat® coating systems for…
With the work on draping its Churchgate building almost over, WR realises employees inside will swelter in absence of ACs.
Universal Aluminium’s new MU4200 curtain walling system has combined with SFS intec’s VDS canopy attachment system to meet the brief of creating a complementary but architecturally distinctive new access tower for an important Grade II Listed…
Glass manufacturer Sezal Glass is raising around Rs 18 crore through issue of shares to ad-for-equity investor Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd’s arm Brand Equity Treaties Ltd.
Rostov plant will produce residential and commercial coated glassAuburn Hills, Mich., February 24, 2011 – Guardian Industries Corp. has culminated a few years of analysis and strategic planning in announcing plans to build a float glass…
World leader in habitat, Saint-Gobain has just organized its third global innovation competition, aimed at rewarding start-up companies offering the most innovative solutions in the fields of habitat, energy and the environment.
As a result of frenetic developments in the warm edge market, the most qualified producers are inevitably raising their production levels.
The panel will include Roland Matzig, founder of RMP Architects which consulted on the world’s only Passive House skyscraper built to date in Germany; Bill Butcher, who developed ‘Denby Dale’, one of the UK’s first Passive House developments and…
The dates for Vitrum 2011 were announced at Glasstec last Fall. Slated for October 26th to 29th, the vitality that drives international excellence in the glass processing machinery sector will be on display for all the world to see.