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Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced plans to expand its optical fiber manufacturing facility in China.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share on the company's common stock and approved the repurchase of $500 million of common stock between now and the…
Saint-Gobain announces that discussions regarding the plan to merge its Reinforcements and Composites activities (part of the entity Vetrotex) with the Reinforcements business of Owens Corning, are now focusing on a sale project of Saint- Gobain’s…
CNN reported that Sales Intended to Address Regulatory Concerns Associated with the Previously Announced Joint Venture with Saint-Gobain's Reinforcement and Composites BusinessOwens Corning also in Discussions with Saint-Gobain to Convert the…
The world’s most powerful laser is now being built at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California and will feature several thousand specialized glass components from SCHOTT.
On July 13, the Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC) on the Canary Island of La Palma will officially be put into operation.
Following certification of the integrity rated glass SCHOTT "Pyran" S last year, the CE conformity has now also been certified for SCHOTT "Pyranova" by the "Notified Body“ in Warrington.
The Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award competition today launched its call for papers. In its inaugural year, this award competition from Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), made possible through an endowment to the OSA Foundation, will debut at…
This year’s Otto Schott Research Award was presented to the two researchers Prof. Himanshu Jain (Lehigh University, Bethlehem/PA, U.S.A.) and Prof.
SCHOTT celebrates 40 years in Japan:  From a three-man company to a diversified high-tech partner When SCHOTT Nippon first started off with three employees in Tokyo in 1966, SCHOTT ranked among the very first German companies who placed enough trust…
Federal Minister of Education and Research, Dr. Annette Schavan, announced the founding of a technological initiative on Organic Photovoltaic (OPV), together with the companies BASF, Bosch, Merck and SCHOTT, at the “Neue Börse Frankfurt”.
SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), the aircraft-mounted observatory developed by the US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), will be presented to the media in…
Since February, the main stock trading hall in Frankfurt/Main has been glowing in new splendor. The seven round trading areas are particularly striking.
SCHOTT Solar GmbH is seeking to strengthen its position as one of the world’s technology and market leaders in the field of Photovoltaics.
By building solar power plants in sparsely populated provinces in China and other regions of the world, SCHOTT is contributing towards improved living conditions and developing a new market for the future.
Corning Incorporated Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer James B. Flaws will participate in discussions with investors at meetings in Denver and Chicago on June 18 and 19, respectively.
A California man has admitted conspiring to steal highly valuable flat-panel-glass blueprints from Corning Incorporated and turn them over to a rival business in Taiwan.
Britain is now home to two of the world’s most advanced plaster and plasterboard manufacturing plants following a £120-million investment in production capacity by British Gypsum.
Saint-Gobain Isover is launching an unrivalled programme of insulation training for merchants and distributors that kicks off in the classroom.
FT:com reported that as companies in the flat-screen television business struggle to maintain profit, Corning, the US company that supplies most of the specialist glass for these products, has looked on with satisfied detachment.
The Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Compagnie de Saint-  Gobain was held in Paris on Thursday, June 7, 2007.
In early June, the “Nevada Solar One” parabolic trough power plant located in Boulder City, near Las Vegas, Nevada (USA), will begin supplying power to the grid.
In speaking to investors today at the Sanford C. Bernstein 23rd Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York City, Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Wendell P.