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PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced that a student team from Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) will feature vinyl windows fabricated with SOLARBAN® 70XL glass in the “Chameleon House” it is constructing for the U.S.
Curved façade incorporates SOLARBAN R100 glass over OPTIBLUE glass substrate   Louis and Peaches Owen Hospital in Tyler, Texas, designed by WHR Architects, Inc., Dallas, is one of the first major buildings to be constructed with neutral-reflective…
Pilkington Planar™ has been used in an award winning refurbishment of the historic St Thomas' Hospital in London.   St Thomas’ Hospital is a renowned teaching hospital located in central London, opposite the Houses of Parliament on the south…
The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) on September 23, 2013 announced the winners of its 2013 Clear Choice Awards at Pack Expo, one of the packaging industry’s premier conferences.
Three months after a blaze in a glass facade building claimed four lives at Andheri, the fire department and BMC have come out with a fresh set of guidelines for such buildings.
After last year's fire incident in a Bandra-Kurla Complex building exposed the helplessness of firefighters, civic body draws up fresh guidelines to safeguard human life and property.
After four years, ift Rosenheim had to terminate the cooperation with the OTI test laboratory in Istanbul.
Educational content, expanded product info help homeowners shop for window glass -- PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has launched a new residential glass website at www.ppgglass.com to help homeowners more easily shop for windows and window glass.
Guardian Industries today launched two industry-leading residential glass products at the GlassBuild America show that will help customers meet and exceed energy standards in North America while providing optimal views and comfort to a home.
DFI's Turn-Key CVD Chamber is Implemented at Vitro's Plant in Mexico. - Vitro Becomes First Glass Producer to Launch Diamon-Fusion® 3D Chamber System for Architectural Flat Glass.
During the 2000s, PGT expanded its business into North Carolina, but then shuttered its operations there during the Great Recession and consolidated production in Venice in 2011.
Ecological, close to nature and cost-saving: on Hamburg's Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg, the International Building Exhibition 2013 is showing how we will live in the future.
Thermoseal Group, manufacturer of Thermobar and Thermoflex warm edge spacers and leading UK insulated glass component supplier, has introduced new sizes to its range of Duplex fittings for Thermobar warm edge spacer.
Members of the public have voted the UCD Student Centre as the winner of the Public Choice Award in this year’s Irish Architecture Awards.      The building was designed by Dublin based Fitzgerald Kavanagh & Partners, received 18% of the 12,500…
The Torre de Cristal at Madrid is an office building with the architecture design intended to look like a cut crystal. At 249 m and 52 floors, the glass tower is the second highest building in Spain.      It features a photovoltaic dome and the…
Thermoseal Group has launched its new mobile device friendly site which is now the first interface that mobile web browsers will see when logging onto www.thermosealgroup.com.
Gains will benefit from a major rebound in building construction spending, continued improvement in motor vehicle production, and increased share for high performance products in the general flat glass market.
The Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) Group is the largest bank in Austria.    The regions, known for its variant temperatures, demands architecture that can withstand the changing climates, thereby making solar control glass the natural choice for…
With a great concert held at the Lunario of Mexico’s Auditorio Nacional, Vitro strengthens its initiative to raise awareness among the general public about the advantages of glass.
Vitro announced that Mr. Alejandro F. Sánchez Mújica, who holds the position of Executive VP Legal and General Counsel since 2005, has opted to retire from his current office effective next August 15.   In the following months, Mr.
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) released AAMA 912-13, Voluntary Specification for Non-Residential Fenestration Building Information Modeling (BIM), which identifies and outlines minimum requirements for two widely used…
Bill Blazek joins the market team at Technoform Bautec North America, Inc. He will provide manufacturers of aluminum windows, doors and façades with high-precision polyamide insulation profiles that deliver energy efficiency, structural performance…
The Company obtained the main award “Stellar Container” for the categories of Food and Security; Vitro reaffirms its total commitment to fulfill and exceed the needs of its customers in the market    The Asociación Mexicana de Envase y Embalaje (…
The unremitting difficulties faced by the Russian economy continue to contribute to the low profile of exports to that country, as indicated in the results gathered at Mir Stekla.
As the trend for greener buildings is growing, the need to design building facades aimed at preventing bird collisions is increasing.     Numerous studies have been made relating to bird collisions in cities around the world.