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International trade fair for window and facade fensterbau/frontale 2006, which takes place together with Holz-Handwerk in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 22-25 March 2006, has two premières to offer this year.The first one is expert discussion…
EMAP Maclaren, organiser of Glassex, has announced advanced sales for the 2006 event are well ahead of the previous event year-on-year.
Guardian Industries Corp. announced at the 2006 International Builders’ Show its newest glass innovation, ShowerGuard™, the first and only temperable, permanently protected shower glass.
China Glass Holdings Ltd said yesterday it would pay 416 million yuan (US$53 million) to buy controlling stakes of seven rival domestic glassmakers, making it the largest listed flat glass producer in China.
Finnish Glassrobots and Tamglass that operate in the Tampere area, in Finland, are competing in glass production lines. In November 2005, Tamglass announced its record-fast flat tempering furnace (Sonic), and now Glassrobots has broken this record…
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After nearly a year in design/build/test, the first TLC Summit Gen-5® High-Accuracy Mechanical Glass Cutter will ship later this month.
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.
Corning Inc. has approved funding to establish a liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate finishing facility in the People's Republic of China.
Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon's western rim, announces new features planned for The Skywalk, which will push the project's completion date to later this year.
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GlassTech Asia, the 5th International Glass Products, Glass Manufacturing, Processing & Materials Exhibition and Conference, gave Thailand’s and the region’s glass makers convenient access to relevant glass making technology and equipment from…
Saint-Gobain Vetrotex has created a Specialty Reinforcements Group (SRG) for the North American market, as a part of a strategy to move closer to the market.
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Bold use of color dominated the entries in this year’s seventh annual 2005 Solutia International Design Awards, which honor excellence in designing with laminated glass.
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.
GlassTech Asia 2005, which opened on 30 November at Challenger Hall 3 of IMPACT, has on first show day generated orders totaling US$6 million (250 million baht) from both Thai and international buyers.