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AUSTRALIA'S third-largest building-products maker CSR has paid $690 million for glassmaker Pilkington Australasia. The deal for the Melbourne business, which has 1700 employees, saw CSR beat offers from consortiums reportedly led by private…
Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
Asahi Glass, Suzuki local subsidiary Maruti Udyog Ltd. and others, will build an automotive glass plant on Delhi's outskirts that will come online in September.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; President: Masahiro Kadomatsu) has succeeded in  the development of a modified perfluoropolyether (PFPE) for hard disk lubricant.
AwardThe NSG Automotive business has won a Superior Quality Award for its performance in supplying Toyota.Awards are based on quality performance and on recommendation from Toyota factories.
Pilkington has launched a new ultra-efficient insulating glass unit which performs twice as well as a standard Part L IGU.The Pilkington energiKare™ IGU helps windows to achieve a minimum of band C under the new UK Window Energy Ratings scheme.
Please be informed that Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) reached the decision at its meeting of the Board of Directors on June 13, 2007, to establish the following terms and conditions regarding the offering stock acquisition rights as stock…
The board of directors of Asahi India Glass recommended the interim dividend of 65%, or Rs 0.65 a share, declared in the board meeting held on Mar. 17, 2007, as final dividend for the financial year 2006-07.
The share price of Asahi Glass, the second biggest producer of flat glass in the world, advanced by more than 1.5% after the company announced that it contemplates to stop producing cathode-ray tube panels from its Thailand and Singapore units,…
Asahi India Glass on Monday posted 86.64 per cent decline in profit after tax at Rs 8.94 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, as compared to Rs 66.95 crore for the same quarter previous year.
The liquid crystal display television wars are heating up and could provide new opportunities for Corning Inc. Reuters news agency reported from Tokyo that Sharp Corp. is making a move on its larger rivals, Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has  decided to stop operations of production furnaces at CRT glass production bases in Singapore  and Thailand by the end of June this year.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) announces the revisions made to its outlook of consolidated and non-consolidated operating results published on 6th July 2007 and the recognition of extra-ordinary loss for the full fiscal year 2007 (…
Newratings.com reported that analyst S Yamada of Credit Suisse maintains his "outperform" rating on Asahi Glass (ticker: SHJ).
Pilkington has taken a leaf out of children's favourite, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and helped to create two glass elevators.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; President: Masahiro Kadomatsu) and Tokyo Denpa  Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; Senior Managing Director: Kazunori Hashiguchi) have joined  forces to successfully develop a synthetic quartz crystal…
1. Business review of the first quarter of 2007During the first quarter of 2007 (January 1 through March 31, 2007), the Japanese economy recovered at a gradual pace as shown by the increase of both capital expenditure and employment opportunities,…
The National Science Foundation is on the lookout for investigators who can see beyond today’s frontiers of knowledge and will take a stab at the moving frontiers that lie beyond our current horizon, NSF director Arden L.
Pilkington North America Inc. has taken down 203,245 sf of industrial space at Buckeye 75 Distribution Park in the southwest Valley.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has succeeded in  volume production of a fluorine insulating material featuring relative permittivity of 2.4 - 2.5,  which is among the lowest in the industry.
YAhoo.com reported that the following stocks are on the move on Tuesday: **NIPPON SHEET GLASS FALLS AFTER EU CARTEL SUSPICIONS** Nippon Sheet Glass falls 2.2 percent to 627 yen and Asahi Glass Co.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“NSG”) confirms that Pilkington Group Limited (“Pilkington”), a member of NSG Group, received a further Statement of Objections on 20 April 2007 from the European Commission.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (AGC) confirms that its European subsidiary, AGC Automotive  Europe S.A. received a Statement of Objections* on April 20, 2007 from the European  Commission with respect to alleged anticompetitive behavior in the automotive…
Glass maker and major local employer AFG is becoming AGC. AFG Glass, chartered as AFG Industries Inc., is changing its name to AGC Flat Glass North America, a company official has confirmed.
Carlyle Group and Gresham Private Equity may bid more than $400 million to buy Pilkington Australia, which makes glass for buildings and cars, from its Japanese owners.