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PITTSBURGH, August 17, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) added three new architect specification tools to its PPG IdeaScapes Web site.
As part of its development strategy for solar energy, Saint-Gobain is acquiring Shell's share of Avancis, a joint venture between the two companies.  Avancis has developed highly competitive technology for thin-film CIS (Copper, Indium and…
Boeing requests windshield liner to keep glass from flight deck in bird-strike event HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 13, 2009 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace transparencies business has been awarded a contract by Spirit AeroSystems to redesign the…
An imaginative property regeneration scheme called “Changing Streets” has been established by East Riding of Yorkshire Council (EYRC) and is dramatically improving a swathe of privately owned housing in Goole.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has granted the plaintiffs' motion to compel Guardian Industries to produce several documents that were reviewed during the European Commission's (EC) price-fixing…
Auburn Hills, MI (July 14, 2009) – Guardian Industries has expanded its one-of-a-kind product by offering its patented ShowerGuard technology in a new acid-etched substrate manufactured by Guardian called ShowerGuard SatinDeco.
Auburn Hills, Mich. (August 7, 2009) – Guardian SunGuard’s commercial glass website www.sunguardglass.com was chosen “Best of the Web” for primary glass manufacturer websites in USGlass magazine’s second annual Web Awards contest.
Its new brand of conservatory glass for roofs and side panels.Replacing the previous Climaplus Comfort+ range, the new range has been developed and simplified to include three options for the roof and ClimaControl Vertical – a clear product for…
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Cie. Saint-Gobain SA, Europe’s biggest glassmaker, is turning to electrically charged “smart” windows that adorn Ferrari SpA’s Superamerica to counter slumping sales and fulfill European Union energy-saving norms.
According to the motto “Our building-material - for more growth in Germany”, Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Deutschland GmbH presented itself for the first time in its entirety at the Congress of German Construction Industry on 27th May in…
New blue tints create numerous energy-efficient color options Solarblue glass (left) displays a light sky-blue tint.
Auburn Hills, Mich. (July 15, 2009) – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries continued to build its solar glass product portfolio by announcing EcoGuard Pattern Glass, a new low-iron pattern glass designed to maximize solar energy…
The plaintiffs in a class-action suit alleging that several glass manufacturers engaged in a conspiracy to fix prices have filed a motion to compel Guardian Industries to provide several documents to the court that were produced in the European…
Auburn Hills, MI (July 14, 2009) – Guardian Industries has expanded its one-of-a-kind product by offering its patented ShowerGuard technology in a new acid-etched substrate manufactured by Guardian called ShowerGuard SatinDeco.
First-half 2009: amid a sharp slowdown in markets, acceleration and extension of action plan unveiled at the beginning of the year.
Sustainability campaign earns 2009 Pro-Comm Award These images show two examples of “Greening of Architectural Glass” campaign materials that helped PPG and five Pittsburgh-based agencies to win a 2009 Pro-Comm Award of Excellence from the Business…
PITTSBURGH, July 20, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has announced the following corporate appointments: Denise R.
and chief executive officer. “Clearly, we are continuing to experience very challenging conditions in many of our end-use markets.
On July 10, 2009, Chief Executive Officer Pierre-André de Chalendar inaugurated in the presence of José Socrates, Portugal's Prime Minister and Fernando Texeira dos Santos, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Saint-Gobain’s first and largest…
PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2009 – The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has named its top 10 “green” building projects for 2009, and four of them are glazed with architectural glass made by PPG Industries (NYSE:…
SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER G+H AG was able to increase its sales by 3.9% to 379 mill. Euros in the 2008 financial year.
Auburn Hills, Mich. (June 23, 2009) – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries will present the newest addition to its line of solar glass products at the third annual Concentrated Solar Power Summit US, June 30 – July 1 in San Francisco.
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio, July 6, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has introduced Audioguard coating – a waterborne, spray-applied coating that provides vibration damping and reduces vehicle noise – for commercial coatings customers.
Saint-Gobain’s newly redeveloped Innovation Centre in London Docklands opened its doors to customers this month as the company hosted a series of sessions designed to provide architects, specifiers and contractors with the chance to view products…
Saint-Gobain Glass has clocked up 1.5 million man-hours without reporting a ‘lost-time’ incident, which includes accidents.