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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.
SCHOTT forma vitrum has tripled its production capacity with glass and polymer syringes in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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.
Yahoo reported that Corning Inc. reaffirmed its second-quarter outlook ahead of an investor meeting Wednesday and forecast rising demand for its liquid crystal display glass used in flat-screen televisions and computers.
Corning Incorporated Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer James B. Flaws will participate in a "fireside chat" with investors at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco on May 16.
China’s largest optical telescope will be officially unveiled on May 12, 2007 at the Gaomeigu observatory in Yunnan province.
Corning Incorporated announced that its EAGLE XG™ glass substrates have been honored with two major industry awards: an Advanced Display of the Year (ADY) award and the Display Component of the Year award from the Society for Information Display (…
The Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Roadshow is setting up near the spot where glassmaking was first attempted in North America.
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.
SCHOTT, one of the pioneers in the field of LEDs, is extending its VisiLED Series, well-established for many years, with an additional product range, specifically developed for use in stereomicroscopy.
Corning will shift all its LCD glass substrate capacity to the Eagle-XG segment, which is completely free of heavy metals, including arsenic, by the end of 2007, according to Corning Taiwan.
No other material is associated more closely with modern architecture than glass. In combination with new technologies, this versatile material offers a broad range of possibilities ranging from lighting to construction using solar technology.
On March 11, 2007, a glass memorial was inaugurated in Madrid by the King and Queen of Spain. It pays tribute to the victims of the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.
Saint-Gobain Sekurit India’s plants at Bhosari and Chakan have obtained, on January 17th 2006, the OHSAS 18001: 1999 certification to reward their management of healthy/safety risks and the ISO 14001:2004 certification for their environmental…