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More than 450 people logged on to an exclusive webinar from Pilkington which gave an insight to the changes to Part L of the Building Regulations 2010, what they mean for architects and specifiers and how glazing is an essential product to help meet…
Brand new energy-efficient glazing Pilkington energiKare™ Legacy has featured in a pioneering refurbishment of a London council property in Islington.
New blue tints create numerous energy-efficient color options Solarblue glass (left) displays a light sky-blue tint.
Auburn Hills, Mich. (July 15, 2009) – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries continued to build its solar glass product portfolio by announcing EcoGuard Pattern Glass, a new low-iron pattern glass designed to maximize solar energy…
The plaintiffs in a class-action suit alleging that several glass manufacturers engaged in a conspiracy to fix prices have filed a motion to compel Guardian Industries to provide several documents to the court that were produced in the European…
GLASSMAKER Pilkington has sold its Swiss processing operations to a German company in a £20m-plus deal. Flachglas Wernberg, in which Pilkington's Japanese parent NSG Group holds a 49 per cent stake, has bought three businesses employing 255…
Auburn Hills, MI (July 14, 2009) – Guardian Industries has expanded its one-of-a-kind product by offering its patented ShowerGuard technology in a new acid-etched substrate manufactured by Guardian called ShowerGuard SatinDeco.
Pilkington’s high performance glass, Pilkington Activ Suncool™, which brings together the self-cleaning properties of Pilkington Activ™ and the solar control properties of Pilkington Suncool™, has added two new performance features to the…
Sustainability campaign earns 2009 Pro-Comm Award These images show two examples of “Greening of Architectural Glass” campaign materials that helped PPG and five Pittsburgh-based agencies to win a 2009 Pro-Comm Award of Excellence from the Business…
PITTSBURGH, July 20, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has announced the following corporate appointments: Denise R.
Glassmaker Pilkington has sold its Swiss processing operations to a German company in a £20m-plus deal.Flachglas Wernberg, in which Pilkington’s Japanese parent NSG Group holds a 49 per cent stake, has bought three businesses employing 255 staff.
Pilkington energiKare™, the energy-efficient glazing from Pilkington has been a huge hit with homeowners this year with the number of supplier searches on its website so far in 2009 exceeding those for the whole of 2008.
and chief executive officer. “Clearly, we are continuing to experience very challenging conditions in many of our end-use markets.
Glassmaker Pilkington is to cut another 90 jobs in the region as it continues to make massive cost savings.
PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2009 – The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has named its top 10 “green” building projects for 2009, and four of them are glazed with architectural glass made by PPG Industries (NYSE:…
The Croydon Adult Learning and Training (CALAT) Centre in New Addington, Surrey, has drafted in the help of solar control glazing Pilkington Eclipse Advantage™ to create a stunning curtain walling system for the centre’s entrance.
Auburn Hills, Mich. (June 23, 2009) – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries will present the newest addition to its line of solar glass products at the third annual Concentrated Solar Power Summit US, June 30 – July 1 in San Francisco.
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio, July 6, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has introduced Audioguard coating – a waterborne, spray-applied coating that provides vibration damping and reduces vehicle noise – for commercial coatings customers.
A Mississauga realtor is listing the massive former PPG building on 73 acres for $6.1 million. City officials released the news yesterday afternoon. The building is 600,000 square feet – that’s 16 acres under its roof.
Archaeologists have analyzed the origin of 131 flakes of obsidian, a volcanic glass, to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Auburn Hills, Mich., June 23, 2009 – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries will present the newest addition to its line of solar glass products at the third annual Concentrated Solar Power Summit US, June 30-July 1 in San Francisco.
Pilkington glass has provided a clear vision for a new development at Casement Park stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Coatings with neutral appearance to reduce heat load for comfort, lower operating costsPARIS, June 12, 2009 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace transparencies business is developing coating technology for aircraft cockpit and passenger-cabin…
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace transparencies business is launching the brand name of its controllable electrochromic systems for aircraft passenger-cabin windows at the Paris Air Show, where a full-scale working demonstration enables visitors…
PITTSBURGH, June 11, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has named Mark Seeton director of sales, performance glazings.