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As FrameXpress makes the transition to incorporate aluminium as a mainstream item into its portfolio of products, the company has already made considerable headway as a supplier.
A UK steel glazing company has supplied to a prestigious HK $500 million (£40.7 million) mixed-use development in Hong Kong.
Negotiations between the representatives of Italy's Lames, the town of Sremska Mitrovica Serbia and the Ministry of Economy have been successfully, meaning the project will start producing automatic glass lifters for automobiles in the town on…
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The ASTM F2912 - 11 Standard Specification for Glazing and Glazing Systems Subject to Airblast Loadings, was published August 11.
Wrightstyle Limited, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of advanced glass and steel glazing systems, has appointed Jimmy Chiu as Business Development Manager, north of England and Scotland.
Italy´s booming solar power market is expected to grow nearly four times to 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2020 as part of incentive-driven efforts to fight climate change, the head of Italy´s top utility said.
One of the UK’s leading steel glazing companies has warned the government not to make further cuts to infrastructure projects amid signs that the construction sector remains firmly in the grip of a workload gap that the private sector cannot fill.
GIESSE North America, a subsidiary of the Giesse Group headquartered in Bologna, Italy, announced that Roger Daugherty has joined its sales team.
With the work on draping its Churchgate building almost over, WR realises employees inside will swelter in absence of ACs.
Universal Aluminium’s new MU4200 curtain walling system has combined with SFS intec’s VDS canopy attachment system to meet the brief of creating a complementary but architecturally distinctive new access tower for an important Grade II Listed…
As a result of frenetic developments in the warm edge market, the most qualified producers are inevitably raising their production levels.
The dates for Vitrum 2011 were announced at Glasstec last Fall. Slated for October 26th to 29th, the vitality that drives international excellence in the glass processing machinery sector will be on display for all the world to see.
Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme broadcast from 6:00am to 8:30am for the British commercial ITV network anchored by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley.
A leading international supplier of steel glazing systems has called on the Abu Dhabi Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA) to ensure that only glass fire protective systems that have been tested as one compatible unit should be accredited within…
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CRL announces the establishment of their latest branch in Italy commencing operation on the 1st October 2010, with the new branch only 10 minutes drive from the RHO Milan Fairgrounds.
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BEng Civil & Structural Engineering undergraduate Paul has been investigating the effect of lateral torsional buckling of glass fins.