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Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has reported a 6% rise in sales for the first half of 2007, on an actual structure basis, to €21.78bn (US$29.75bn).
SCHOTT Solar, a 100 percent subsidiary of the worldwide SCHOTT group, and WACKER Chemie AG plan to set up two joint ventures to produce and market silicon wafers for solar applications.
SALES: up 6.0% to €21,779 million up 6.9% like-for-like*OPERATING INCOME: up 15.3% to €2,093 million up 16.6% like-for-like*RECURRING NET INCOME**: up 31.2% to €1,067 millionNet income amounts to €465 million, taking into account the €650 million…
Saint-Gobain has announced the acquisition of the Norandex group in the United States from Owens Corning. Norandex has 2,200 employees and delivered sales of $866 million in 2006 split into two activities: building materials distribution and vinyl…
Saint-Gobain announces that definitive agreements to sell its Reinforcements and Composites activities to Owens Corning were signed on the 27th of July, 2007.
SALES: up 6.0% to EUR21,779 million up 6.9% like-for-like(*) - OPERATING INCOME: up 15.3% to EUR2,093 million up 16.6% like-for-like(*) - RECURRING NET INCOME(**): up 31.2% to EUR1,067 million Net income amounts to EUR465 million, taking into…
As part of its strategy to be the leader in developing some of the key materials for more efficient solar panels, DuPont will manage the critical phase of prototype development and applications testing for the newly formed DuPont-University of…
Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on its acquisition of Owens Corning’s Siding Solutions business.
Akeena Solar, Inc. a leading designer and installer of solar power systems, announced the expansion of its Board of Directors and appointed two new members.
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…
This September, the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition will be taking place for the 22nd edition.
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”.
Seven leading international solar panel makers have expressed interest in investing in Hungary, with projects totaling EUR 3 bln, Hungary's Economy Minister Janos Koka announced late Thursday in Washington D.C, without naming the potential…
Schott Solar Closes The Gap To The Global Leaders - Substantial Expansion Of Photovoltaic Capacities
SCHOTT Solar GmbH is seeking to strengthen its position as one of the world’s technology and market leaders in the field of Photovoltaics.
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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.
As the country faces acute power shortage and global warming debate hots up, energy conservationists caution against growing number of buildings with glass facades dotting the landscapes of cities as being responsible for energy consumption much in…
Saint-Gobain Isover is launching an unrivalled programme of insulation training for merchants and distributors that kicks off in the classroom.
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.
The Saint-Gobain Reinforcement & Composites Activity has increased its European production capacity for TWINTEX ® by 25% in its Chambéry plant (FR) as of April 2007.
What was an industrial brownfields site, became a role model for environmentally compatible conversion in the fall of 2006.
At the annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in Texas, the largest solar race of its kind in the U.S.A., the Sundancer team from Houston, Mississippi, was victorious for the sixth time in a row.