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A highly unusual window replacement scheme has taken place at Leicester University. Pilkington Activ™ Blue glass has helped transform the Attenborough Tower, a 19-storey tower block built in the early 1970s on the main campus.
Previously known as Pilkington Australia, the Geelong factory specialised in automotive glass. It opened in 1936 to support the Geelong Ford plant, which opened 11 years earlier.
Pilkington NSG Group Flat Glass Business, 300 Northridge Drive, sent an e-mail to employees on Thursday, advising them that the plant will close for two weeks for approximately 180 of 263 employees from Jan. 19 to Feb. 2 due to slow sales and…
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Asahi Glass Co., and a Nippon Sheet Glass Co. unit were fined a record 1.38 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by the European Union over claims the companies fixed the price of car windows.
If there is one way to prove that you really believe in a product, then it must be to use it yourself, which is precisely what happened recently with Britannia Windows (UK), a fabricating business in Clevedon in South West England when it used…
Completed Expansion Project Highlights Saflex Global Investment Program; New Resin Capacity Focuses Upon USA, Belgium On Oct. 23 at the Glasstec 2008 exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, the Saflex(R) unit of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), announced that…
Lister Trade Frames is the latest company to partner with Pilkington energiKare™ and the energy efficiency evolution.
Pilkington Planar™ glazing has made a splash at a multi-million pound regeneration of a leisure complex in Swansea.
A major part of Pilkington North America’s multi-year, $70 million improvement and repair project is nearly complete.
Pilkington Activ™ Neutral is a revolutionary new double-coated glass that combines dual-action, self-cleaning properties with solar control performance and is perfect for use in glass extensions and conservatory roofs and windows.
DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions announces commercial availability of new 35-mil (0.9-mm) DuPont™ SentryGlas® clear interlayer for use in making strong, protective windows, doors and safety-glazed building elements.
Trade Price Conservatories have announced the availability of Pilkington Activ self cleaning glass throughout their conservatory product range.
Created through CSR’s acquisition and merger of Pilkington (AU & NZ) and DMS Glass, Viridian offers new, advanced technology which will allow architects and designers to use glass in different ways.
Effective September 1, 2008 Trosifol North America Ltd. will be increasing prices by 15 percent on all Trosifol/Kuraray Europe PVB films for both the architectural and automotive market in the United States and Canada.
Initial Customers are Large-Scale Module Makers in Germany, Spain and India ST. LOUIS and SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- At the InterSolar North America 2008 exhibition in San Francisco, Solutia Inc. (NYSE:SOA) today announced that…
Pilkington Activ™ self-cleaning glass is now on prominent and permanent display at the brand new IKEA store in the city centre of Coventry.
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Nippon Sheet Glass Co., the world's largest maker of car windows, fell the most in a month in Tokyo trading as European regulators may fine the company and its rivals for price-fixing as early as next month.
Pilkington has gained approval from the largest fire testing facility in the UK, the Building Research Establishment (BRE), for its fire-resistant glazing in a new rooflight from NuLite Ltd.
28/05/2008 Glass-maker Pilkington is to invest £40m in one of its St Helens sites. The investment will enable the facility to use the latest advanced manufacturing technology to produce a range of innovative new glass products.
It’s almost as if an irresistible force is drawing Stuart Chambers towards the Asian continent. He spent the first 16 years of his life living there, and now, aged 51, has just accepted a new challenge that will see him spending 50 per cent of his…
The owner of a construction-glass plant in Lathrop is proposing a $100 million upgrade, contingent on some government financial support.
The NSG Group is pleased to announce that its Pilkington Building Products business in North America is proposing an investment of around $100 million in its float glass facility in Lathrop, California.
PILKINGTON Special Glass has sold the last of its remaining business operations at St Asaph to a local company. Ten people from Pilkington’s Optical Disc business have transferred to Phoenix Optical Glass which is located nearby on St Asaph Business…
The 700 metre square showroom and fitting hall lies alongside the Austrian HQ of worldwide car rental group Sixt.
TOKYO, April 23 (Reuters) - Nippon Sheet Glass Co (5202.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it has tapped former Pilkington executive Stuart Chambers as its new president and chief executive, in a rare move to put a foreigner at the top…