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Executives from Verallia’s 101- year-old Sapulpa glass container manufacturing plant Tuesday in Washington, DC, accepted an ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S.
Site provides answers about designing, specifying and building with glass - PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has launched the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website to help architects, specifiers, students and construction industry…
I just returned from the BEC Conference in Las Vegas and wanted to share a few golden nuggets from the show floor.
GLASSOLUTIONS has strengthened its interior glass sales team with the appointment of Nigel Higgins.     Nigel brings 20 years’ sales experience within the interiors industry and heads the team that is being enhanced as part of the Saint-Gobain Group…
Glass and glazing specialist GLASSOLUTIONS is offering architects and designers the opportunity to advance their knowledge with its new RIBA approved CPD seminar on interior glass specification.
The Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre is a showcase for innovative and sustainable products and solutions for the buildings of today and tomorrow.
The major theme of the 2013 BEC Conference can be summed up in the title of its keynote presentation: Battle for the Wall.  "Our true competitors are solid surface walls," said Scott Thomsen, president of the Global Flat Glass Group,…
According to the motto “Keep calm”, Saint-Gobain Glass Deutschland GmbH is starting this year's Noise Protection Challenge.
CertainTeed Corporation is bolstering its capacity for industry-leading innovation through the appointment of Minas Apelian as vice president of research and development (R&D).
Saint-Gobain Glass not only boasts the UK’s leading energy-saving flat glass coatings with its SGG PLANITHERM range; it is also working with a growing group of processors to develop and expand its innovative Cullet Returns Scheme and is now turning…
Despite ongoing snow storms, nearly 100 architects traveled to Hauppauge (Long Island), N.Y., on March 7 to further their knowledge of glass products.
Saint-Gobain has named Stéphane Nicoli as General Manager of their Specialty Films business, the group responsible for the company’s window films and Solar Gard brand, effective March 31st.
Lancashire Double Glazing (LDG) are a long standing business operating since 1978. With 34 years experience in the industry any business working with LDG knows that they are buying with confidence.
Scott Thomsen, president of Guardian Industries Global Flat Glass Group, will engage glass industry glaziers in a keynote speech at the Glass Association of North America’s annual Building Envelope Contractors (BEC) Conference & Tradeshow next…
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA’s record European Union cartel fine was reduced to 880 million euros ($1.15 billion), or less than two percent, after regulators said they corrected a calculation error in the original penalty.
Dynamic glass from SAGE is part of a new state-of-the-art Habitat Lab in Corsico (close to Milan), Italy, that showcases how the most advanced building technologies can work in concert to create comfortable, eco-friendly working and living…
SAGE, the world’s leading manufacturer of dynamic glass for windows, skylights and curtain walls, is giving visitors of Ecobuild in London the opportunity to experience firsthand its electronically tintable glass and glazing solutions.
The success of Guardian Plus continues to grow as word spreads around the industry. The innovative new business support programme from Guardian Industries UK provides benefits to companies from all areas of the glass and glazing industry, whether…
Saint-Gobain Glass has glazed the facades of the House of Astronomy, located at Heidelberg, Germany.      Saint-Gobain Glass at House of Astronomy, Germany - Via Saint Gobain Glass India Flickr Photo streamThe building, which is used to give…
Michael McGarry, PPG executive vice president, has assumed leadership responsibility for the company’s flat glass businesses.
In the course of the standardization of all websites in the Verallia countries, the page of Verallia Germany has now been given a new look.
Visitors will be invited to experience a ‘day in the life’ of Saint-Gobain products, systems and technologies at Ecobuild 2013 on stand N310.
A rated windows are now common place within the industry, more companies sell A rated windows as standard than ever before.
Strengthening the partnership RIOU Glass / Saint-Gobain Glass through the modification of the Eurofloat's capital    RIOU Glass has completed the acquisition from Saint-Gobain Glass France, 50% stake in Eurofloat, a company specializing in the…