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In a filling submitted statement to the Public Disclosures Platform, Trakya Cam stated that the company will sign a 70-30 JV agreement with Saint Gobain to produce 800k units of auto glass in addition to their flat glass activities in Russia.
The move towards sustainability has changed the industry forever.   The challenge now is not just to build affordable, quality homes on a scale that will meet the needs of our growing population and also the environment but to refurbish an estimated…
Saint-Gobain Isover’s technical development manager, Mark Allen is now a fully certified Passivhaus Designer, putting him into a small group of people who are able to advise on constructing a Passivhaus building in the UK.
Old dogs may be incapable of learning new tricks, but old companies do not have that luxury. France’s Saint-Gobain knows this because it has been learning new tricks for more than 350 years — and its latest is solar energy.
Saint-Gobain announced the appointment of John Crowe as president and CEO of both Saint-Gobain Corp. and CertainTeed Corp., Saint-Gobain's largest North American subsidiary.
Bekaert and Saint-Gobain have today signed an agreement regarding the sale of Bekaert's Specialty Films activities to Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation, an Ohio, US-based corporation of the Saint-Gobain group.
India revamped the rules for its second national auction of permits to build solar power plants, which could boost sales for equipment providers including First Solar Inc. (FSLR) and allow banks to lend more easily to the industry.
Glazed area of office buildings in Bucharest exceeds one million square meters, according to estimates of Saint-Gobain Glass Romania.
Despite all the recent debate, triple glazing remains a relatively niche alternative to double glazing.
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.
CHANDIGARH: To save visitors from the stench of nocturnal birds and animals like barn owls, jackals and porcupines, the Chhatbir zoo  authorities are planning to install a glass sheet in the nocturnal house.
Mr. Mukul Somany (left), President , All-India Glass Manufacturers' Federation (AIGMF) and Vice-President and MD of HNG & Inds Ltd, and Mr Arun Kumar of AGI Glaspac, at a seminar on 'Glass Recycling In India' in Hyderabad on…
Major players in the glass industry have lined up investments worth Rs 7,000 crore for capacity expansion and new technologies over the next 2-3 years.
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.
Automotive glass manufacturer Saint Gobain Sekurit India said that Sreeram Srinivasan has resigned as Managing Director as well as Director of the company with effect from June 11, 2011.
* 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).
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%.
KOLKATA -- The Somany family, founders of India's largest glass-container manufacturer, Hindusthan National Glass and Industries, is looking to sell about 7.5% of the company's shares to invest in an "unrelated business."…
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…
During a recent visit to Finland, Indian Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Mr Farooq Abdullah, met Finnish Minister of the Environment, Mrs Paula Lehtomäki, together with Cleantech Finland officials and member companies, including Beneq.
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.
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.