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Trakya Cam, the Turkish glass maker owned by the country’s biggest publicly traded bank, plans to invest 49.5 million euros ($76 million) to produce glass for solar panels.
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Toyota Motor Corp. plans to install a solar power generation system on its Prius hybrid car, when the vehicle goes through a complete makeover as early as next spring, according to a media report Monday.
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Currently, a new solar tower power plant is under construction in Jülich near Aachen. This research and power-generation project is planned to go into operation at the end of 2008.
ST. LOUIS, June 25, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) today announced the establishment of its Saflex(r) Photovoltaic business, which serves the rapidly growing market for thin-film solar panels.
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Nippon Sheet Glass Co., the world's largest maker of car windows, fell the most in a month in Tokyo trading as European regulators may fine the company and its rivals for price-fixing as early as next month.
Saint-Gobain’s Construction Products sector has gained a foothold on the Japanese insulation market through its acquisition of the 43.64% stake held by Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) in MAG.
The 10th International Exhibition of Glass Products, Manufacturing, Processing and Finishing Technology – MIR STEKLA’2008 (World of Glass) was successfully held in Moscow during 9-12 June.
With business in China and South East Asia in general continuing to expend SORG has now established a subsidiary company in China.
Martin Roscheisen of Nanosolar on the need for aggressive innovation in technology.The future’s bright for thin-film cells but not everyone will benefit...MUNICH, Germany – ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – May 30, 2008 - Spectacular growth is seen in…
Emerson will engineer and install PlantWeb digital architecture with DeltaV automation systems, and Emerson intelligent field devices using Foundation fieldbus, in new glass production plants in China.
Zhejiang Glass Co Ltd (0739.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) was selling as much as $48 million worth of shares at a 7.8 percent to 14.2 percent discount to the firm's closing price on Wednesday, according to a document sent to investors on…
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Nippon Sheet Glass Co., the world's biggest maker of car windows, forecast its first profit decline in five years on energy costs and falling prices in Europe, its largest market following the 2006 acquisition of…
Zhejiang Glass Co Ltd., a Hong Kong-listed mainland glass maker, said on Friday that it aimed to raise up to HK$388 million through new share offering, the firm said in a statement filed to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today.
Conference seeks answer to unlimited solar energy MUNICH, Germany and ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, May 22 – Managing director Stephan Hansen of First Solar (GmbH) – one of the worlds fastest growing manufacturers of thin-film solar modules – will…
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- A Botswanian official called for more Chinese companies and entrepreneurs to invest in her country's glass manufacturing industry here on Monday.
Less than 2 years after its inauguration, Fenzi China Paints and Sealants Company Limited, the Fenzi Group company in China set up in June 2006, has already received two important recognitions by the Chinese authorities for the safety of its…
Asahi Glass (Head office: Tokyo; President: Kazuhiko Ishimura) has decided to acquire SCHOTT Processing Korea Co., Ltd. (Head office: Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea; hereafter, “SPK”), a wholly owned Korean subsidiary of Germany’s SCHOTT AG…
Applied Materials, Inc. on May 12, 2008 announced another first for the solar industry with its SunFab Performance Service™ program.
The Carlyle Group, a U.S. buyout fund, said Friday that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in a fifty-fifty joint venture between Nippon Sheet Glass Co. and Hoya Corp. that makes glass substrates for liquid crystal displays.
The NSG Group is pleased to announce that its Pilkington Building Products business in North America is proposing an investment of around $100 million in its float glass facility in Lathrop, California.
Photo: Doug Muzyka, president – DuPont Greater China (middle) at the signing ceremony. To Doug’s right is Secretary-General Gao Guo Hui, Shenzen municipal government, and to his left is Nicholas Brooke, chairman, Hong Kong Science and Technology…
Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik, a leading supplier of sealants and adhesives for the glass and glazing market will be exhibiting, on Stand B5.110 its latest range of adhesives and sealants designed specifically for use in solar and photovoltaic…
By Masumi Suga May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Nippon Sheet Glass Co., the world's biggest supplier of car windows, said it will book a 12.5 billion yen ($119 million) charge for 220 Japan-based managers who took early retirement.
MUNICH, Germany and ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Could thin-film solar technology be the shortcut to grid-parity?