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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…
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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%.
The NSG Group has announced plans to build two new value-added float lines in Vietnam to increase its production of specialist products to supply the growing Solar Energy and Touch Screen sectors.
Vidrios Lirquén, the joint venture between NSG Group, Saint-Gobain Glass and Inversiones Pathfinder, today announced its intention to build a new Float line in Lima, Peru.
Pilkington parent company NSG Group has released its report for fiscal year 2011, and within the report shows some optimism for the automotive market.
Japan-based Asahi Glass will establish a new glass substrate factory in Shenzhen, southern China, to produce substrates for 8.5G TFT-LCD panel production lines with volume production slated for summer 2012, according to industry sources.
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Asahi Glass Co. (5201)  on Wednesday announced plans to build a processing plant for glass substrates for LCD panels in China's Guangdong Province by the summer of 2012.
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.
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The Board of NSG Group announces the appointment of Mark Lyons as Chief Financial Officer (Finance Director) of NSG Group.
Asahi Glass (AGC) has said it is eyeing Brazil's construction and automotive glass markets. The Japan-based glass substrate supplier announced plans to invest JPY40 billion (US$470 million) to build an industrial glass complex in Sao Paulo,…
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…
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Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (AGC) will launch sales of a non-electric glass door for freezing showcases for the first time in Japan.
The NSG Group has announced the re-commissioning of its VGI float line at My Xuan in southern Vietnam.
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