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Pilkington Planar™ has been used to transform a Grade II Listed building into a state of the art youth centre in Middlesbrough.
The 20-year history of the once-great diversified conglomerate CSR is littered with monumentally large and poor asset purchases.
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA’s record European Union cartel fine was reduced to 880 million euros ($1.15 billion), or less than two percent, after regulators said they corrected a calculation error in the original penalty.
And now it‘s what their training facility wears too – 9,000 square feet of Pilkington Eclipse™ Sunset Gold has been used in the renovation and expansion of the legendary football team’s administration building at their training complex in New…
Wrightstyle is a leading UK steel glazing company that has supplied systems for transportation projects in Hong Kong, Dubai and the UK – and has just won a prestigious contract for the new frontage of the iconic King’s Cross station in London.
• A previous ruling declaring Pilkington’s opposition to a shareholder meeting that confirmed a Vitro Plan/Viméxico merger was without merit.
With a recent move into much larger premises, orders on the increase and new products to display, Fullex are hoping for good things from the FIT show at Telford International exhibition centre in April 2013.
The Minister of State for Climate Change, Rt Hon Gregory Barker MP, saw first-hand the benefits of NSG Group’s investment in a new high-tech off-line glass coating facility, during a visit to the company’s Cowley Hill glass factory.
During the third quarter of the year, the Group faced continuing difficult conditions in its main Automotive and Architectural markets.
Day three of the 2013 Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) Annual Conference opened today with member recognition as well as a workplace safety presentation. David Cooper (standing), Guardian Industries, attends his final conference as…
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GMB has pledged to resist compulsory job losses and changes to pensions at Pilkington Glass.The union has more than 500 members in St Helens and is undertaking a consultative ballot on proposed changes to pensions that could reduce final pensionable…
Chris Barry had just returned from two years hitchhiking around the world when he was offered his first job with Pilkington, in Canada.
Pilkington Planar™ Crystal Connect™, powered by Dow Corning, allows architects to create continuous glass façades with no protrusions.Architects have unprecedented opportunities to bring their design visions to life with the launch of Pilkington…
Safety glass industry professionals from different companies around the globe took part a Real Technical Seminar about glass processing organized by Safety Glass Experts International Ltd in Dusseldorf on 22nd of October a day prior to Glasstec 2012…
Pilkington Planar™, structural glazing system, helps create an impressive entrance for the new Blackfriars station.With thousands of visitors descending on London in 2012, some of the city’s more aged infrastructure desperately needed upgrading.
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A leading UK steel glazing company has supplied fire-rated systems to several Olympic, FIFA and other major stadiums.
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Pilkington MirroView™ is ideal for concealing televisions and video screens. With its highly reflective mirror coating on a clear substrate, it gives your televisions and video screens a modern, transitional look.
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A UK steel glazing company has brought together videos of its systems being tested against a lorry bomb, car bomb and ballistic attack and posted them on YouTube.