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GLASS giant Pilkington looked on the bright side of tough trading conditions yesterday after seeing a robust performance from its UKbased business.
Curvet has made its name as one of the foremost companies in this sector. Thanks both to its continuous work of research into ever new and avant-guard technical solutions, and to the commitment of specialised personnel who work with enthusiasm and…
At its meeting of Thursday, March 28, 2002, the Board of Directors of Saint-Gobain reviewed theGroup's consolidated financial statements for 2001.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide a dlrs 12 million loan to modernize Ukraine's oldest and biggest glass packing producer, bank officials said Tuesday in a statement.
Four Pilkington Plc joint ventures and Shanghai-listed Fuyao Glass Group Industries Co Ltd, China's largest auto glass manufacturer, said they will be affected by proposed US anti-dumping tariffs on replacement automobile windshield imports…
With its 1999 goal of sales expansion outside Europe, Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics set up a fabric cutting unit in Mexico for grinding wheels, in November 2001.
Chemical and glass producer PPG Industries Inc. said it would appeal an award to privately held Marvin Windows and Doors by a federal jury here on Thursday.
A jury awarded Marvin Windows and Doors $135.8 million from PPG Industries on its claim that a PPG wood preservative failed to prevent wood rot as promised.The decision was handed down Thursday in U.S.
"With a product like Pilkington Activ™ Glass, people are naturally going to be skeptical until they actually see it work," said Leland Ogdahl, general manager and co-owner of Kent Window Inc./Harbor Windows™, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Officials at Pilkington North America were pleased with the recent decision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to delay the implementation of the new Energy Star criteria for windows in order to further review the changes that are being made in…
While dark glass on today's vehicles provides passenger privacy and symbolizes status, tomorrow's automotive designers see glass tops, spanning from the windshield across the roof to the back window, on luxury vehicles so that occupants…
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the company founder Otto Schott (1851 – 1935) the international technology concern Schott (headquartered in Mainz) organized a scientific colloquium at the Friedrich Schiller University in…
Apogee Enterprises Inc., a maker of glass products for the building and auto industries, on Wednesday posted higher third-quarter earnings and affirmed its outlook for the current and next fiscal years.
Evan J. Mellott, a 2001 Lampeter-Strasburg High School graduate and member of Willow Street Boy Scout Troop 58, has earned the Eagle Scout Award.
Pilkington has announced that it is to close one of it three automotive glass production lines at its Eccleston plant in St.
Consolidated sales for Groupe Lapeyre amounted to Ï1,084.1 million at September 30, 2001, an increase of 15.3% compared with the first nine months of 2000.
When University of Kansas decided to rebuild the original Hoch Auditorium, which had been destroyed in a fire, several Vistawall Architectural Products were chosen to complete this detailed reconstruction project.
MIT Museum announced the Glass, Glorious Glass program, an interactive workshop designed to teach children and their families about the art and science of glass.
In autumn of this year the term "k-value" for the heat transition coefficient for windows and doors will be completely replaced by the term "u-value".
The Institut fr Fenstertechnik (ITF Rosenheim) will host the Rosenheim Window Days for the 29th time from Thursday, October 18 to Saturday, October 20, 2001.
Nippon Sheet Glass, a large Japanese manufacturer, has increased its holding in Pilkington, the UK glass group, from 10 to 21 per cent over the past fortnight, but has ruled out mounting a full bid.
Thermal Industries today announced that it will offer windows containing SunClean self-cleaning glass from PPG (NYSE:PPG) beginning next spring - making it the first window and patio enclosure manufacturer to offer the latest in PPG's glass…