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A number of organisational changes within Pilkington Building Products UK and Ireland and Pilkington Building Products Europe have taken effect.
On a hot summer day, PPG Industries Inc. workers at its automotive glass plant near Altoona are fabricating specially coated windows the company says can save motorists money at the gas pump.
Since 1959, Pittsburgh Plate Glass has had an automotive glass division in Crestline.While that’s not likely to change soon, other changes, including employee layoffs, are still possible for PPG Crestline by the end of the summer.
The ‘Palazzo Tendenza’, the shopping wing of the NET Center in Padova, Italy, now boasts the country’s tallest fin-supported glazing system, thanks to the installation of the latest glass technology from Pilkington.
Directors of PPG Industries have elected Martin H. Richenhagen a member of the company's board, effective Sept. 1, 2007.
Yahoo.com reported that the Board of Directors of PPG Industries, Inc. ("PPG") elected Martin H. Richenhagen as a director to serve in a class whose term expires at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2010, effective as of September 1,…
Shaded Pilkington green and wearing a beaming smile, the cheery windscreen man is believed to be the first ever mascot figure employed by a Pilkington business."We are expanding into far-flung regions of Europe and dealing with small…
PPG Industries announced an offer to purchase SigmaKalon Group, a worldwide coatings producer based in Uithoorn, Netherlands, from global private investment firm Bain Capital.
PPG Industries Inc. workers at the automotive glass plant in East Deer will have to wait another month or so before learning the fate of the facility, officials said Thursday.
PPG Industries Australia Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of PPG Industries, has reached agreement to acquire Barloworld Coatings Australia, the architectural paint unit of South African-based Barloworld, Ltd., a multinational industrial brand management…
The board of directors of PPG Industries declared a regular quarterly dividend of 52 cents a share, payable September 12 to shareholders of record August 10.
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) today announced that it had named Barry N. Gillespie to the position of vice president, aerospace products.Gillespie was formerly president, actuation systems, for Smiths Aerospace, Los Angeles, until its recent acquisition…
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), a leading global provider of coating and specialty products, today announced that it received ISO 9001:2000 certification for the design and production of its chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) products, Fast Pads.
PPG Industries will release its second quarter 2007 earnings before the New York Stock Exchange opens Thursday, July 19.
A prestigious leisure complex in Athens has combined the qualities of the Pilkington portfolio to produce a visually stunning and practical venue.
A sail boat and a sports car with a stained glass roof have earned the two top prizes in this year's Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards.
Global flat glass demand is likely to go beyond 39 million tons by 2010, according to a Global Industry Analysts, Inc. market research report.Greater use of varieties of glass by architects and car designers for civil construction and automotive…
State regulators were wrong to give a PPG Industries plant in Marshall County a two-year waiver of state water pollution limits for the toxic metal mercury, a circuit judge has ruled.
Construction of Pilkington's new automotive plant in India has begun.The laminated windscreen facility is the first phase of a three-stage, five-year investment project which will also include a toughened and laminated OE facility and a float…
AUSTRALIA'S third-largest building-products maker CSR has paid $690 million for glassmaker Pilkington Australasia. The deal for the Melbourne business, which has 1700 employees, saw CSR beat offers from consortiums reportedly led by private…
Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles E. Bunch today called upon industry and government to work together and provide necessary solutions to energy security and climate change issues.
PPG Aerospace – PRC-DeSoto and Systems and Materials Research Corp. (SMRC), Austin, Texas, are developing a system for precoating aircraft fasteners with sealant that will eliminate the need to apply wet sealant at the point of installation for…
Yahoo.com reported that PPG Industries, which makes paints, coatings and other specialty products, said Friday one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a $35 million contract to provide cockpit windows to Brazilian airplane manufacturer Embraer.
PPG Performance Glazings, a business of PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), has won a 2007 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Award for its development of Solarban 70XL glass, a transparent architectural glass that is up to 29 percent more energy efficient…