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Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; President: Masahiro Kadomatsu) has succeeded in development of a fluorescent fluorinated water/oil-repellent coating material.
PPG Industries has signed an agreement with Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills, Calif., under which the company would divest its automotive original equipment manufacture (OEM) glass and automotive replacement glass (ARG) and services businesses.
News services reported concerns expressed by the European Federation of Wine and Spirit Importers and Distributors in which Federation members claimed to be “confronted with” a shortage of glass bottles.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. decided at its Board of Directors’ meeting held on September 12, 2007 to divest the glass wool and industrial materials operations from Asahi Glass Fiber Co., Ltd. and transfer the entire shares of a newly established company…
Asahi India Glass Ltd sees 13-14 percent growth in automotive glass segment and 50 percent growth in architectural glass in FY08, a senior company official said on Thursday.
Glaverbel, one of the world's leading glass producers, is now AGC Flat Glass Europe. We have taken this opportunity to launch the very first edition of yourglass pocket in English*.
Officials from Asahi India Glass say the company’s architectural segment grew by 50 percent in the 2008 fiscal year, according to a Sept. 6 Reuters report.
New AGC invention can help in fighting hospital-caught infectionsAGC Flat Glass Europe, formerly Glaverbel, presented its new AntiBacterial GlassTM.
The Linden, Utah-based Glazex is serving as a Sapphire sponsor for the Second Annual Walt Gorman Memorial Windshield Repair Olympics (WRO).
Glaverbel today announced that it has changed its name to AGC Flat Glass Europe and has adopted a new corporate logo, aligning branding of Glaverbel’s operations with that of the AGC group globally.
Clemens Miller has been appointed Managing Director, Building Products Europe, with effect from 1 September 2007. Clemens succeeds Mark Lyons, who will now concentrate on his global BP role as Head of Building Products Regional Operations.
Taking place from 3rd to 7th September 2007 at the Fiera Milano in Italy, the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference will be the most important international Conference in the field of Photovoltaics.
Although net sales increased just 2.2 percent for Japan’s Asahi Glass Co. for the first half of the year, the company reported operating profits of more than $760 million, up 37 percent compared to last year, according to an Aug. 6 Asahi Glass…
Reuters reported that Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (5201.T: Quote, Profile, Research) is selling its unit Asahi Fiber Glass Co. Ltd. to the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), as it slims down to better compete with Corning Inc. (GLW.N: Quote, Profile,…
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) confirms the provisional amount of extra-ordinary gain arising from the sale of shares of a subsidiary, and announces the revisions made to its previous forecast of operating results for FY 2008 ( April…
Asahi Glass Co. , Japan's largest glass maker, booked a bigger-than-expected growth in first-half profit, buoyed by strong demand for liquid crystal display glass substrates.
PPG Industries and iGlass Projects Pty. Ltd. of Australia announced today they have signed an agreement to develop and commercialize dimmable glazing for automotive sunroofs.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. announces that it resolved at the Board of Directors’ Meeting held on August 6, 2007 to increase the interim dividend per share for the fiscal year ending December 2007, and to revise the dividend payment forecast per share for…
Since 1959, Pittsburgh Plate Glass has had an automotive glass division in Crestline.While that’s not likely to change soon, other changes, including employee layoffs, are still possible for PPG Crestline by the end of the summer.
Sharp, the second-largest Japanese maker of liquid crystal displays, will invest ¥380 billion, or $3.2 billion, on an LCD factory to help narrow the gap with Sony in the $56 billion global flat-panel market.
ABRA Auto Body & Glass announced today that Peterson Santos, Vice President of ABRA-Georgia, has been elected to chair the Atlanta I-CAR Committee.
Glasstech, Inc., developer of glass bending and tempering equipment, will highlight its innovative technology that has set the worldwide automotive standard for precision and efficiency at Vitrum 2007, October 3 – 6, Milan, Italy.
Asahi Glass Company Ltd. (AGC) of Japan has committed to continue expanding the capacity of its local unit’s solar glass cover plant up to 2010 to fully meet the demands of the region’s demand being its regional export hub for solar panels.This was…
Nanoprotect AG from Nanotec is a unique transparent nanotechnology treatment specifically developed for automotive glass.
PPG Industries Inc. workers at the automotive glass plant in East Deer will have to wait another month or so before learning the fate of the facility, officials said Thursday.