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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Cardinal FG Company has begun operation at the newest float glass plant in North America.
The Philippines’ Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) has decided to continue applying safeguard measures against colourless floating glass products imported from Vietnam.
A new float plant joins the Group with the warm-up of the CS1 plant at Changsu, China. Construction work has been completed in record time – just 16 months.
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Emirates Float Glass has revealed that a group of investors from across the GCC will contribute to the total equity of EFG, with the overall share ratio comprising 30% for GCC investors and 70% for UAE investors.
The Vietnam Construction Glass Association (VCGA) is reporting a surplus of 21mil sq.m this year, 8mil more than last year.
Construction glass makers are lobbying the Government to suspend the licensing of new glass-making projects until 2010 amid concerns of an imminent surplus crisis in the domestic market.
A 70ha glass plant with a design capacity of consuming 900-1,000 tonnes of sand a day is to be built in the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone, according to trade officials in the central province of Quang Nams Tam Hiep District.
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Emirates Float Glass (EFG) LLC, founded by Dubai Investments PJSC has announced that the ground breaking ceremony of its 320,000 square meters plot at Industrial City of Abu Dhabi (ICAD 2), will be held on February 14, 2006.
Saudi Guardian International Float Glass Co., Ltd. (GulfGuard), along with its joint venture partners, Guardian Industries Corp., National Company for Glass Industries Ltd. ("Zoujaj") and Al Zamil Group will hold a groundbreaking ceremony…
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