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Pilkington Optiphon™ has been granted the seal of approval by Quiet Mark the international mark of approval from the Noise Abatement Society Charitable Foundation.
A revolutionary and patent pending technology of manufacturing liquid crystal smart glass has been successfully developed in Scienstry, Inc.
NSG Group, scooped Commercial Project of the Year at the G13 Awards – one of the main highlights in the glazing industry’s year.    NSG Group, scooped Commercial Project of the Year at the G13 Awards – one of the main highlights in the glazing…
It is one of those rare combinations – delicate, yet durable; subtle, yet sturdy and simple, but sophisticated.   It has everything that it takes to style up the interior space with its sleek presence, and yet create a safe, secure ambiance.
Thanks to a £40,000 grant from the Foyle Foundation and a £38,000 Biffa Award, The Catalyst Museum in Widnes was able to replace all the glass in its fourth floor observatory with Pilkington Planar™.
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has resolved a dispute with Uniglass Limited in relation to its UK Registered Design Number 2090474 for Pilkington Texture Glass Contora™ patterned glass.
As part of Network Rails five year plan to overhaul Britain’s railway stations, an investment of £130m was outlined to improve Scotland’s Waverley Station.
A new online utility calculation program has been launched which increases the power available to customers and makes the glass specification process easier.
AGC Flat Glass Ibérica and the labour unions have just signed an agreement aimed at raising the competitiveness of the Sagunto plant in Spain in a lasting way.   The plant produces float glass and also processes it into mirrors, laminated glass and…
Talks are ongoing between union leaders and management at glass giant Pilkington in a bid to determine the future of 140 staff at one the company’s sites in St Helens.
The curtain has come down on another successful Product Knowledge campaign. Kicking off in late Spring with the popular Product Knowledge (PK1) course, the season-ending finale was the Mechanical Strength and Glass Design session held in November at…
By Jason Campbell - Sonny Dhaliwal knows that his efforts to save more 100 jobs at the Pilkington float glass manufacturing facility might fall short.    That’s why he’s bringing in the big guns.
It’s time to get the excitement back into the bedroom; it’s time to switch to privacy glass and make that personal space more private than ever before…    Call it the Switchable Intelligent Glass or simply Privacy Glass, Saint-Gobain’s Priva-Lite…
The 51-year-old Pilkington glass plant in Lathrop will cease production early next year, affecting about 115 workers, its corporate parent confirmed Tuesday.
Glassmakers Pilkington have announced the closure of the Float Glass Line at Cowley Hill in St Helens, England, with the loss of 140 jobs.   This is the latest in a series of job cuts at the firm’s St Helens sites in the last three years.
St Helens is reeling from the devastating news that Pilkington is set to close its Cowley Hill float glass line and shed 140 jobs.
Pleotint, LLC, will exhibit its new Suntuitive® interlayer for laminated glass at booth 642 during the GREENBUILD® International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, Nov. 20–22.
RENOVATE by Berkowitz™, LLC (RbB) has launched a new website at www.RbBWindow.com.
Now that’s a plus! Pilkington Optitherm™ S1 Plus sets new standards   The NSG Group has unveiled Pilkington Optitherm™ S1 Plus; a brand new low-emissivity glass optimised to achieve Ug values of 1.0 in an insulating glass unit (IGU).
A push for a change is growing on a problem first exposed by I-Team 8 last month. Some national experts are now calling for a reconsideration of plans to require high strength, laminated glass on car side windows.
Pilkington K Glass™ S has reached a new milestone! NSG Group’s new coater at Cowley Hill has produced over two and a half million square metres.   As the UK’s first jumbo off-line coating plant, Cowley Hill allows the NSG Group to manufacture a…
In the past, glass was often perceived to be the weak link in buildings. With the advances in high performance glazing over the last quarter of a century, this is no longer the case.
The latest glass product in the Pilkington Optitherm™ range, Pilkington Optitherm™ S1 Plus, is a superior performing low-e glass that is unique in the UK market.
The Niles value added plant in Michigan has clinched a major safety double.   Only a few months after reaching the milestone of two million man hours worked without a lost time incident, the plant has added the achievement of two million man hours…