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Libbey Inc. (NYSE: LBY) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire from Vitro, S.A. de C.V. (Vitro) its 51 percent of Vitrocrisa Holdings, S de R.L. de C.V. and related companies (Crisa), bringing Libbey's ownership of…
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Vitro, S.A. de C.V. announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its 51 percent interest in Vitrocrisa Holdings, S de R.
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Scott Sinetar, general manager of sales and marketing for architectural coatings, has been named vice president, architectural coatings, North America, PPG Industries officials announced today.
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PPG Industries Inc. paid Chief Executive Charles E. Bunch $2.25 million in salary and bonus last year.
Plans to set up the textbook sustainable enterprise - creating 200 jobs converting contaminated waste into recycled glass on a brownfield site in a deprived area - look to have collapsed.
PPG Industries Inc. will pay $60 million to settle a lawsuit that alleges it conspired with other glass makers to overcharge for flat glass products.U.S.
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Baltic Glass Company, the subsidiary of Russian Soda Company from St.-Petersburg and American PPG Industries, Inc. agreed on concerted efforts in the implementation of the sheet glass project in St.-Petersburg.
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PPG Industries has begun construction of a facility in Taiwan that will apply the company's electrocoat and dip-spin coatings to fasteners and small parts.
The growing use of coated glass, especially newly introduced Low-E's with emissivities as low as 0.02-0.04 combined with the trend of continuous seek of superior optical quality has set the glass processing companies in a challenging situation.
Bekaert, the premier supplier of rotatable sputtering technologies delivering lower cost of ownership and higher coater throughput, has announced that Lance Sides has joined the company as the Market Manager for North American Operations.