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The Pilkington Product Knowledge training courses are back and the course tutors are all fired up to pass on their know-how and experience.
Dr Chiara Bedon (University of Trieste) and Mr Paulo Carvalho (University of Minho) visit ICOM-EPFL to collaborate on Structural Glass.
The extensive range of Pilkington Decorative Glass turns a basic construction material into a means of injecting style and elegance into the home.     Transforming homes nationwide, Pilkington UK Ltd. offers glass products with superb visual appeal…
The wide range of modern functional glazing now available has opened up remarkable scope for creative design in today’s architecture.
Following the recent announcement of the Pilkington Product Knowledge training programme for 2013, places on the courses are being snapped up.
Pilkington have been invited to address industry on a key subject at the 8th Annual Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB) Technical Conference 'Getting Through the Building Envelope'.
Workers at CSR Viridian glass making plants are being deliberately isolated by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) as the company proceeds with its plans to axe more than 200 jobs and shut the Ingleburn, Sydney plant by mid-July.    An Ingleburn…
An exciting group of new Pilkington products was launched at the Fabricator Installer Trade (FiT) Show, the glass and glazing industry's major exhibition for 2013.
Pilkington will lead an Innovation Masterclass on fire-resistant glass at the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) Woodworking Conference 2013.         The conference - also known as the BWF Members' Day – will take place on 25th April at…
A new residential building is rising at the upper end of New York's skyline. Located on the corner of 56th Park Avenues, this slender building, which almost looks fragile, will be 420 meters high (approx. 1,377 feet).
With the “Zoofenster” building, opened in January 2013 in Berlin City West, the capital has a new urban landmark.
In her last month as head of state, Her Majesty the Queen has opened the new Philips Museum in Eindhoven.
The NSG Group, manufacturer of Pilkington glass in the UK, will be exhibiting at the first ever FIT Show in April, bringing customers up to speed with the latest developments from one of the UK’s most trusted glass brands.
Automobile showrooms demand glazing solutions of the highest caliber. The huge, shimmering facades of glass require the best of clarity & transparency, allowing clear visibility even in passing.       Auto showrooms also see a high frequency of…
The Grenzebach Group will be presenting its complete portfolio at the 2013 Hanover fair. Topics like innovative technology, continuous automation, efficient cross linking of all components all represent parts of the lead topic “Integrated Industry”.
North West MEP, Chris Davies, saw first-hand the benefits of NSG Group’s investment in a new high-tech off-line glass coating facility, during a visit to a Pilkington Glass factory in St Helens.
Introducing My Pilkington™ – a new customised user portal that looks to benefit and educate NSG customers (existing and new), from the glass trade as well as architects and specifiers.
Cantifix was recently invited to install the Pilkington glass façade of The Quiet House – a concept house that will be exhibited at the Ideal Home Show.
Pilkington Planar™ has been used to transform a Grade II Listed building into a state of the art youth centre in Middlesbrough.
The 20-year history of the once-great diversified conglomerate CSR is littered with monumentally large and poor asset purchases.
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA’s record European Union cartel fine was reduced to 880 million euros ($1.15 billion), or less than two percent, after regulators said they corrected a calculation error in the original penalty.
And now it‘s what their training facility wears too – 9,000 square feet of Pilkington Eclipse™ Sunset Gold has been used in the renovation and expansion of the legendary football team’s administration building at their training complex in New…
The 600,000-square-foot Courthouse houses the U.S. District Court, Western Division of Washington, in addition to various court-related agencies.   The building structure has two very distinct architectural designs -- one for the municipal court and…
• A previous ruling declaring Pilkington’s opposition to a shareholder meeting that confirmed a Vitro Plan/Viméxico merger was without merit.
A total of three IQ Glass projects were featured in the RIBA’s London Directory this year where IQ have provided a fully architectural glazing package.       "three IQ Glass projects were featured in the RIBA’s London Directory" Paultons…