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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.
Sharp, the second-largest Japanese maker of liquid crystal displays, will invest ¥380 billion, or $3.2 billion, on an LCD factory to help narrow the gap with Sony in the $56 billion global flat-panel market.
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…
Blue LEDs set into the road surface of the B 311, similar to those used as runway markings on airfields, show the way at night as drivers enter St.
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…
The “four-cylinder” building located inside Munich’s Olympiapark has helped create public awareness of BMW for many years now.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced second-quarter sales of $1.42 billion and net income of $489 million, or $0.30 per share.
Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on its acquisition of Owens Corning’s Siding Solutions business.
WACKER Chemie AG and SCHOTT Solar GmbH, a 100 % subsidiary of SCHOTT AG, intend to set up a joint venture to produce silicon wafers for solar applications.
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…