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In the automotive industry, expectations in terms of design, comfort and safety are steadily increasing. Of course, this also extends to the requirements for car glazing.
On February 11, 2006, the ground-breaking ceremony for the "Nevada Solar One" solar power plant took place in Boulder City, Nevada.
Touch panels for navigation systems in cars are factory-built into cars and must fulfil rigid requirements. Schott Spezialglas AG's thin borosilicate glass is claimed to be much harder wearing and higher quality than the plastic foil still used…
The rapid growth of the European subsidiary witnessed at Edgetech over the past months is set to continue in the new year.
Soaring gas prices and the loss of a major client have forced one of the UK’s hard-pressed glass companies into administration putting 165 jobs at risk.
At Vitrum: Hall 15/2 Stand B 68LEMA Srl is the first Company in the world, manufacturer of ovens for application of glass chemical tempering process, starting in the 1972 manufacturing equipment for tempering optical and sunglasses lenses.
SCHOTT has established itself for more than 25 years as a fire-rated glazing specialist across Europe and Asia and now has entered the American markets with the introduction of two new glass-ceramic product lines, PYRAN® Crystal and PYRAN® Star --…
A large company in Luzerne County is cutting jobs. Dozens of glass workers at the Schott plant in Duryea will get pink slips.
Pavel Hlava, an artist who cut glass into sculptures that gained recognition worldwide, has died. He was 78. Hlava, whose works can be found in more than 20 modern art museums throughout the world, died in Prague on Saturday, the news agency CTK…
With virtually constant sales of 1.98 billion euros (2.004 billion euros in 2000/2001) and a satisfactory profit comparable to that of the previous year the Schott technology concern stood up well to the weak world economy. “Overall Schott performed…
Schott is expanding its activities in the field of biotechnology and with effect from October 2002 has founded Schott Nexterion AG, based in Mainz, Germany.
A spate of layoffs hit France this week, with U.S. computer-maker Hewlett-Packard detailing 1,400 cuts and transfers, and glass and construction group Saint-Gobain announcing it will move positions to the Czech Republic.
As in previous years, the SORG® Group of Companies will be exhibiting at the glasstec fair in Düsseldorf, to be held this year from 28th October to 1st November.
One worker was killed and another seriously injured when unspecified chemicals exploded in a glass factory in a northern Czech town, Czech radio reported Wednesday.The radio said the explosion occurred shortly before noon in a glass factory in…
At 3.20 x 1.20 meters it is fourteen times bigger than a standard cooktop and it has more than 40 cooking zones: With the biggest ever glass-ceramic cooktop Schott has its sights on an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
Schott, the international technology company based in Germany, announces a new broadband erbium-doped fiber based on its newly developed compact oxide glass, which will provide up to 50% more bandwidth.
In spite of the weakness of the world economy and negative influences from industry the Schott Group anticipates sales of 2 billion euros in the current fiscal year (to Sept. 30, 2002).
The Glaverbel Group closed its financial year 2001 with record performances, confirming the correctness of the strategy which the Group has followed for the past 10 years, namely profitable growth through geographical diversification and increased…
“Research is the In Thing” was the title chosen for a ceremony staged on Friday in the new Chemistry and Pharmacy building at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz where 86 entrants presented their work for the regional “Jugend-forscht/Schler…
The torch which carried the Olympic flame to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games is crowned with borosilicate glass from Schott. 11,500 glass crowns were produced by Schott Boral in Croatia for the 13,500 mile relay which passed through 48 states on its…
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the company founder Otto Schott (1851 – 1935) the international technology concern Schott (headquartered in Mainz) organized a scientific colloquium at the Friedrich Schiller University in…
The founder of the modern science of glass and glass technology was one of the most important scientists, technologists and industrialists of his day.
Schott increased its sales in the 2000/2001 fiscal year (to September 30) by 6 percent to more than 2 billion euros (1999/2000: 1.9 billion euros).
Suppliers, representatives of the authorities and members of the Corporate Management Committee attended the official opening of a further 1230 square meters of production space at Schott Guinchard in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
Dr. Leopold von Heimendahl, Chairman of the Board of Management of Schott Glas, Mainz, has been elected to serve for a further two years as President of the Bundesverband der Glasindustrie, known as BV Glas for short or Federal Glass Industry…