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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.
At five years old, Tacoma’s Museum of Glass has achieved popularity, but has some serious work ahead as it tries to grow its support and numbers.The Museum of Glass turns five years old on Friday.
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™ .
There may be no hotter spot in Saskatchewan this weekend than Ron Anderson's Odd Ball glass-blowing shop. With the equipment up and running, the shop can reach temperatures of 43 C, he says.
AwardThe NSG Automotive business has won a Superior Quality Award for its performance in supplying Toyota.Awards are based on quality performance and on recommendation from Toyota factories.
Pilkington has launched a new ultra-efficient insulating glass unit which performs twice as well as a standard Part L IGU.The Pilkington energiKare™ IGU helps windows to achieve a minimum of band C under the new UK Window Energy Ratings scheme.
With all that is happening with "Pittsburgh Celebrates Glass!" there's been a lot of talk about the American studio glass movement lately.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) announces the revisions made to its outlook of consolidated and non-consolidated operating results published on 6th July 2007 and the recognition of extra-ordinary loss for the full fiscal year 2007 (…
Pilkington has taken a leaf out of children's favourite, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and helped to create two glass elevators.
The Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Roadshow is setting up near the spot where glassmaking was first attempted in North America.
Shining and beautiful examples of stained glass have graced churches and historical buildings in Britain for centuries, and now the tradition is being kept alive by a class held in Somerset.
Pilkington North America Inc. has taken down 203,245 sf of industrial space at Buckeye 75 Distribution Park in the southwest Valley.
Saint Gobain a state-of-the-art glass manufacturing company in the country, has brought all its solar control products under a single umbrella brand – Sun Ban Reflective Glass.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“NSG”) confirms that Pilkington Group Limited (“Pilkington”), a member of NSG Group, received a further Statement of Objections on 20 April 2007 from the European Commission.
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery is celebrating the second element of its name with a quartet of exhibitions devoted to glass.
key feature of the new restoration of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California (USA), originally dedicated in 1889, is the reopening of an interior central dome, which had been covered over since the 1930s.
Four glass artists from Stankard Studio will talk about and sign their work at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the GlassMarket at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning.
Rockford Art Museum opened HE & SHE: Vallien and Hydman-Vallien, showcasing the work of internationally acclaimed glass artists Bertil Vallien and Ulrica Hydman-Vallien in a joint exhibition on March 31.
Carlyle Group and Gresham Private Equity may bid more than $400 million to buy Pilkington Australia, which makes glass for buildings and cars, from its Japanese owners.
Modern technology will be used to unlock the secrets of the world's largest expanse of stained glass.
The Redlands Glass Museum is featuring a collection of rare mercury glass through the end of May. Featured are a silver-colored doorknob, several candle holders and salt cellars, a variety of vases and a pair of drapery tie-backs.
Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system has been used to stunning effect at a new library in the southwest seaport town of Turku, Finland.
Curiosities of Glassmaking pays tribute to unusual collections that date back centuries known as "cabinets of curiosities." "The cabinet of curiosities typically included botanical specimens, insects, unusual horns or tusks, and…