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Pilkington, one of the world’s largest glass manufacturers, on 13 September inaugurated the construction of a factory of automotive glass in Chmielow (Podkarpackie voivodship), in the Tarnobrzeg Special Economic Zone (TSSE).
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Excellent thermal efficiency and aesthetics have won AGC Glass a place in the new Business School and Student Hub at Manchester Metropolitan University's city centre campus.
ST HELENS council has unanimously backed plans for a £36m plant at St Helens glass giant Pilkington, which will create 50 jobs.
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.
Reykjavik’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference centre was recently opened, showcasing the design talents of artist Olafur Eliasson who developed the glass facade of the building in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects.
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.
According to the abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "Disclosed is a solar panel capable of bifacial light reception that can improve power generation efficiency by using two monofacial light-reception power…
Glazed area of office buildings in Bucharest exceeds one million square meters, according to estimates of Saint-Gobain Glass Romania.
After years of research and development AGC is now presenting Lacobel T, a unique range of painted glasses that processors can toughen.
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.
New Delhi, July 27: Asahi India Glass has reported a marginal increase in consolidated net profit for the first quarter ended June 30, 2011 to Rs 2.79 crore.
Construction costs again outpaced other producer prices in June but contractors remained unable to recoup the costs through higher bid prices, according to an analysis of producer price index figures released today by the Associated General…
Japan’s Asahi Glass Company concern is interested in joint projects in glass industry with Belarus, said the concern’s director general for CIS Vladimir Shigaev as he met with Belarus’ Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich.
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.
Leading glass and glazing manufacturer, Pilkington, won a top prize at last night's prestigious Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Environmental Leadership Awards ceremony in London.
* 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…
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%.
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.
For the first quarter of fiscal 2011 (from January 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011), the global economic environment surrounding the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "AGC Group" or simply as…