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Guardian Industries Corp. announced at the 2006 International Builders Show its newest glass innovation, ShowerGuard, the first and only temperable, permanently protected shower glass.
Pilkington's chairman, Sir Nigel Rudd, stands to make £4.25m if, as expected, Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass returns with an agreed £2.2bn takeover offer this month.
Finnish Glassrobots and Tamglass that operate in the Tampere area, in Finland, are competing in glass production lines. In November 2005, Tamglass announced its record-fast flat tempering furnace (Sonic), and now Glassrobots has broken this record…
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein ups Pilkington (PILK.LN) to hold from sell, raises target price to 163p from 140p due to ongoing takeover discussions and following a sector re-rating.
Pilkington (PILK.LN) could come under pressure from Asahi Glass's (5201.TO) reduction in '05 operating income for its glass division, traders say.
Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon's western rim, announces new features planned for The Skywalk, which will push the project's completion date to later this year.
Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass is unlikely to agree to buy Pilkington Plc for several more weeks as it continues to plough through the glassmaker's books, sources familiar with the situation said.
Glass factory workers in Denbighshire could soon be working for a new, Japanese owner.Nippon Sheet Glass Company looks likely to acquire glass maker Pilkington after reportedly beefing up its takeover offer to £2.2bn.
A new company has been founded to complement Kyro Group's main business area,Glaston Technologies. DiaPol S.r.l. manufactures tools meant for glass and stone pre-processing.DiaPol continues and expands the existing Tools division operations of…
SAFTI FIRST Fire Rated Glazing Solutions recently presented over 50 awards at their Annual Safety Awards Luncheon to internal personnel who achieved perfect safety records over the past year.Over 99% of the employees qualified to participate by…
Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass is discussing a takeover of glassmaker Pilkington at more than 160 pence a share, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
More than 40 production and concept vehicles on display at the 2006 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) tout laminated glass in side and rear windows, as well as roof applications, as reported by the Enhanced Protective Glass Automotive…
Pilkington +4.6% at 154.75p amid press speculation that talks between the company and its rebuffed suitor Nippon Sheet Glass (5202.
Bold use of color dominated the entries in this years seventh annual 2005 Solutia International Design Awards, which honor excellence in designing with laminated glass.
Lacobel is a clear glass, one side of which is coated with a high-quality paint. The painted side is always protected by positioning it against the supporting structure.
Pilkington, Britain's leading glassmaker, has been forced to move from using gas to oil to run its UK operations because it could no longer afford to pay its enormous gas bill.
Slaughter and Mays famed boardroom connections have snared it a lucrative instruction from Pilkington on its potential £2bn takeover despite Herbert Smith having already been given the role.
Sevasa, amongst the leading companies of high quality satined and engraved glass, has presented its new design CriSamar® ICE at the glass international exposition Vitrum 2005, held in Milan this past October.
Over 8,000 m2 of Stopray glass was used in the Montevideo apartment complex in Rotterdam and over 6,000 m2 in the Westpoint apartment block in Tilburg.Glaverbel's Stopray glass combines a high light transmission rate with a low solar factor.
At Vitrum: Hall 15/2 Stand B 68LEMA Srl is the first Company in the world, manufacturer of ovens for application of glass chemical tempering process, starting in the 1972 manufacturing equipment for tempering optical and sunglasses lenses.
VITRODODI INT.CO.SPA, established in 1927, since 1980, in its factory in Settimo Milanese, has been producing horizontal and vertical washing machines, lines for insulating and laminated glass, straight line edgers and for shaped glass, straight…
PAV. 14/1STAND C01, C19-E04For.El.s proud association with Muranos The Wings of Venice Le Ali di Venezia continues at Vitrum with a fantastic display from the glassmaking masters.
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At Vitrum: Booth B23 C16 Hall 14/1The CEFLA Finishing Group GLASS DIVISION presents its program called Glass Coating Technology: a complete and versatile product line suitably designed to offer the best application techniques for the glass…