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Federal Minister of Education and Research, Dr. Annette Schavan, announced the founding of a technological initiative on Organic Photovoltaic (OPV), together with the companies BASF, Bosch, Merck and SCHOTT, at the “Neue Börse Frankfurt”.

Seven leading international solar panel makers have expressed interest in investing in Hungary, with projects totaling EUR 3 bln, Hungary's Economy Minister Janos Koka announced late Thursday in Washington D.C, without naming the potential…

Glassex-GP&T 2008 will be promoted by CIB, the current Construction Marketing Awards “Agency of the Year”.

SCHOTT Solar GmbH is seeking to strengthen its position as one of the world’s technology and market leaders in the field of Photovoltaics.

By building solar power plants in sparsely populated provinces in China and other regions of the world, SCHOTT is contributing towards improved living conditions and developing a new market for the future.

MyIris.com reported that a meeting of the board of directors of Gujarat Borosil will be held on Jun. 27, 2007 to recommend dividend and to consider and approve the annual accounts and audited financial results for the year ended Mar. 31, 2007.

The up-coming International Congress on Glass 2007 will take place in Strasbourg from 1 to 6 July 2007.

Apogee Enterprises, Inc. announced that Russell Huffer, chairman and chief executive officer, will host the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., on Wednesday, June 27, at 9 a.m.

As the country faces acute power shortage and global warming debate hots up, energy conservationists caution against growing number of buildings with glass facades dotting the landscapes of cities as being responsible for energy consumption much in…

After months of planning, work is ready to begin next week on the installation of the new curtain wall at Indiana Square.

Building on the growing demand for value- added glass products, the laminated and tempered glass market for residential and nonresidential construction is expected to clear $4.8 billion in the U.

In early June, the “Nevada Solar One” parabolic trough power plant located in Boulder City, near Las Vegas, Nevada (USA), will begin supplying power to the grid.

Asahi India Glass on Monday posted 86.64 per cent decline in profit after tax at Rs 8.94 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, as compared to Rs 66.95 crore for the same quarter previous year.

With prices of steel and cement on an upswing, glass is the only building material industry that has registered a drop of 25% in prices in the face of inflation.

What was an industrial brownfields site, became a role model for environmentally compatible conversion in the fall of 2006.

Listed as one of the Top 200 trade shows in the U.S. by Tradeshow Week magazine, GlassBuild America is clearly THE place to be in 2007.

Co-organized by Messe Düsseldorf China Ltd. and China Foreign Trade Centre (Group), China International Exhibition for Glass Technology (All in glass for short) will be debuted from Nov.21 to 24, 2007, at Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou…

This is a revelation of sorts for Mumbaiites who are standing on the threshold of a power crisis. Buildings with glass facades—like the many malls and corporate structures mushrooming around the cities—are guzzling unimaginable amounts of…

At the annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in Texas, the largest solar race of its kind in the U.S.A., the Sundancer team from Houston, Mississippi, was victorious for the sixth time in a row.

The Bystronic Glass Group’s first-time participation as an exhibitor at a photovoltaic trade fair exceeded all expectations.

Southwall Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: SWTX) announced first quarter 2007 revenue of $10.5 million, up 5% from the first quarter of 2006 and up 14% from the fourth quarter of 2006.

The American Ceramic Society and NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University will hold the 2007 Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting & 18th University Conference on Glass in Rochester, New York, May 20-23, 2007.

Saint Gobain a state-of-the-art glass manufacturing company in the country, has brought all its solar control products under a single umbrella brand – Sun Ban Reflective Glass.

Consolidated first-quarter sales for the Saint-Gobain Group came in at EUR10,447 million, compared with EUR9,745 million in the same year-ago period, representing a rise of 7.2% on an actual structure basis and 9.0% at constant exchange rates.

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has succeeded in  volume production of a fluorine insulating material featuring relative permittivity of 2.4 - 2.5,  which is among the lowest in the industry.