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The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority board approved tax incentives for companies, including Pilkington North America and Stanley Black & Decker, that are considering new investments in the state at its monthly meeting Thursday.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28, 2011 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) announced that three projects featuring PPG glass were among the winners of the 2011 Crystal Achievement Awards from Glass Magazine.
Agreement extends partnership for the manufacture of high-performance, phosphorescent OLED materials for the growing OLED display and lighting marketsEWING, N.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27, 2011 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has introduced ACCU-TAB(R) wastewater tablets that provide enhanced erosion control and reduced wicking to effectively kill bacteria, control algae and destroy organic contaminants in small-…
MIL-TOUGH ICB blast/ballistic panels provide asset protection and blast mitigationPITTSBURGH, Sep. 27, 2011 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE: PPG) fiber glass business has announced the extension of its partnership with Ebtech Industrial, a global supplier…
Consumers take different colour paths on quest for intensityThe four trend palettes in THE VOICE OF COLOR(R) program of in PPG PITTSBURGH PAINTS(R) for 2012-2013 are (clockwise, from top left) Local Revival, Beauty Queen, Quiet Tech and Deco Candy.
Meeting facilitates development of industrial electrocoat sector in ChinaTIANJIN, China, Sept. 23, 2011 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) hosted the first PPG China Industrial Electrocoat Conference in Wuxi today.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22, 2011 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) announced today that it is increasing its global precipitated silica production capacity by more than 18,000 tons per year in response to growing global demand.
BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2011 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE: PPG) aerospace business will highlight its coating, transparency and sealant products at Booth M-1L during Aviation Expo China 2011, Sept. 21-24 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing.
Chances are that you haven't heard of the Green Deal yet, but a crucial consultation period for this Government initiative has now begun.
Situated on the site of the outdated St Aidan’s County High School, the Richard Rose Central Academy is the first of four schools in the Cumbrian region set to become flagship educational establishments in the UK.
Saint Gobain Solar announced that construction of its solar thermal mirror plant in Goodyear, Arizona has begun.
Saint-Gobain Corp.    plans to open a solar mirror manufacturing facility in Goodyear later this year with the prospect of creating 50 jobs.
In a filling submitted statement to the Public Disclosures Platform, Trakya Cam stated that the company will sign a 70-30 JV agreement with Saint Gobain to produce 800k units of auto glass in addition to their flat glass activities in Russia.
PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) and Pleotint, LLC, have agreed to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines Sunlight Responsive Thermochromic, or SRT(TM), interlayer technology by Pleotint, with SOLARBAN(R) low-emissivity (low-e)…
The move towards sustainability has changed the industry forever.   The challenge now is not just to build affordable, quality homes on a scale that will meet the needs of our growing population and also the environment but to refurbish an estimated…
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).
A Fortune 500 company is moving its Toronto-area operations to Barrie.Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries will be setting up its glass plant at 200 Fairview Rd., occupying approximately 80,000 square feet of the 300,000-square-foot location which once…
PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) announced that Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, Ga., has earned an Innovation in Design credit from the U.
Richter to lead coatings operations in Asia/PacificPITTSBURGH, Sept. 8, 2011 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) announced today that Diane Kappas is appointed vice president, environment, health and safety (EHS), effective Oct. 1, reporting to Michael H.
PPG products, expertise to support new coatings quality initiativePITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2011 – Caterpillar Inc. has selected PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) industrial coatings business as the sole heavy-duty equipment coatings supplier for a new motor…
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.