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When photographer Johan Brun decided to display his dramatic images of coastal Norway on the wave-lashed rocks where he captured them, he needed a way to protect them.
Asahi India Glass Ltd sees 13-14 percent growth in automotive glass segment and 50 percent growth in architectural glass in FY08, a senior company official said on Thursday.
The Linden, Utah-based Glazex is serving as a Sapphire sponsor for the Second Annual Walt Gorman Memorial Windshield Repair Olympics (WRO).
When the Saints went marching in to this year's Carnegie Challenge Cup Final - the first to be played at the new Wembley Stadium - they took Pilkington Activ™ self-cleaning glass with them.
Clemens Miller has been appointed Managing Director, Building Products Europe, with effect from 1 September 2007. Clemens succeeds Mark Lyons, who will now concentrate on his global BP role as Head of Building Products Regional Operations.
Everyone setting foot in the new extension of the historic John Rylands Library in Manchester will be enjoying the surroundings with added clarity, thanks to glazing from Pilkington.
NSG announces the start of construction of an Automotive fabrication plant in Vishakhapatnam, India. The plant, which is expected to begin production by summer 2008, will be operated by Pilkington Group Limited (“Pilkington”), a member of NSG Group.
Stourbridge’s glass-making heritage is being showcased during an exhibition in the town centre.The History of Stourbridge exhibition will be held in the Crown Centre, opposite the library, until Saturday.
Pilkington Denmark has acquired a small glass processing company located close to its branch in Glostrup.Carlberg Glass supplies IGUs and cut sizes to the joinery trade.
Pilkington continues to expand its Automotive Glass Replacement business in Mexico with the opening of a new AGR service center in Villahermosa.
PPG Industries and iGlass Projects Pty. Ltd. of Australia announced today they have signed an agreement to develop and commercialize dimmable glazing for automotive sunroofs.
A number of organisational changes within Pilkington Building Products UK and Ireland and Pilkington Building Products Europe have taken effect.
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.
ABRA Auto Body & Glass announced today that Peterson Santos, Vice President of ABRA-Georgia, has been elected to chair the Atlanta I-CAR Committee.
Glasstech, Inc., developer of glass bending and tempering equipment, will highlight its innovative technology that has set the worldwide automotive standard for precision and efficiency at Vitrum 2007, October 3 – 6, Milan, Italy.
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…
Nanoprotect AG from Nanotec is a unique transparent nanotechnology treatment specifically developed for automotive glass.
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.
Fuyao cracked the local auto glass market, now it’s making a name for itself overseas.CAO Tok-wong travelled to Canada in the early 1990s, taking auto glass samples with him.
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.
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™ .