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French building materials group Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA (SGO.FR) Thursday said it is confident it will achieve its 2011 targets as it reported net profit rose to EUR768 million in the first half of from EUR501 million in the same period of 2010.
CHANDIGARH: To save visitors from the stench of nocturnal birds and animals like barn owls, jackals and porcupines, the Chhatbir zoo authorities are planning to install a glass sheet in the nocturnal house.
Urges U.S. Senate committee to fund small business energy efficiency initiativesWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Low interest loans to help small businesses improve their energy efficiency is one of the best ways to grow jobs in rural America.
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.
Mr. Mukul Somany (left), President , All-India Glass Manufacturers' Federation (AIGMF) and Vice-President and MD of HNG & Inds Ltd, and Mr Arun Kumar of AGI Glaspac, at a seminar on 'Glass Recycling In India' in Hyderabad on…
Major players in the glass industry have lined up investments worth Rs 7,000 crore for capacity expansion and new technologies over the next 2-3 years.
French construction materials maker Saint-Gobain on Monday postponed indefinitely the initial public offering of glass container unit Verallia, the latest sign of ailing demand for European stock flotations.
Automotive glass manufacturer Saint Gobain Sekurit India said that Sreeram Srinivasan has resigned as Managing Director as well as Director of the company with effect from June 11, 2011.
* Indicative IPO price range 29.50 to 36 euros/share * Price discounted to account for tough market * To raise 958 mln-1.1 bln eur in IPO of 40-46 pct stake * Shares due to start trading on June 22 * Verallia eyes 3-5 pct annual organic net sales…
Light transmittance (Tv) 62 %, solar factor 29 % – a selectivity that is higher than factor 2. These excellent technical values have now become reality with the new solar control glass ipasol ultraselect 62/29 by Interpane (Laufenfoerde, Germany).
Sezal Glass touched an intraday high of Rs 4.30 and an intraday low of Rs 3.90. At 10:54 hrs the share was quoting at Rs 4.30, up Rs 0.20, or 4.88%.
KOLKATA -- The Somany family, founders of India's largest glass-container manufacturer, Hindusthan National Glass and Industries, is looking to sell about 7.5% of the company's shares to invest in an "unrelated business."…
Saint-Gobain Sekurit, a China-based manufacturer of automotive glass, has announced that it is constructing its second Chinese automotive glass plant in the Shandong province of Qingdao.
Saint-Gobain, the world's largest building materials company, reported a stronger-than-expected 12.2 percent rise in first-quarter sales on Thursday, helped by a recovering building sector in Europe and favourable weather conditions.
Glass and Orientation for Green Buildings: Glazing of a green building should reflect harmony of daylight and shading, views and protection, energy conservation, cost of material as well as highlight the individual character of the building.
French glassmaker Saint-Gobain said on Tuesday that its Verallia glass packaging unit had taken the first step towards an initial public offering by filing documents with the French AMF regulator. "Saint-Gobain is thus pursuing the process…
During a recent visit to Finland, Indian Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Mr Farooq Abdullah, met Finnish Minister of the Environment, Mrs Paula Lehtomäki, together with Cleantech Finland officials and member companies, including Beneq.
Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, inaugurated the new solar glass furnace at the Saint-Gobain Glass Renedo plant in Spain, 15 kilometers from Santander.
India is an investment hot-spot, as far as glass manufacturer Saint Gobain is concerned. One in every 4 euros it spends is spent in India, reports CNBC-TV18's Swathi Narayanan.
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) has published a new fact sheet on daylighting and energy savings, detailing how top-lighting and side-lighting contribute to a building design that integrates natural light and can help…
World leader in habitat, Saint-Gobain has just organized its third global innovation competition, aimed at rewarding start-up companies offering the most innovative solutions in the fields of habitat, energy and the environment.
Gujarat-based float glass maker Sezal Glass Ltd, a major architectural glass processor, today said it is investing Rs750 crore for a second float glass facility at Bharuch, in Gujarat.
The panel will include Roland Matzig, founder of RMP Architects which consulted on the world’s only Passive House skyscraper built to date in Germany; Bill Butcher, who developed ‘Denby Dale’, one of the UK’s first Passive House developments and…
A surprising number and variety of participants joined the first day of the conference, attending the two sessions held yesterday.
This is a substantial increase compared to the first edition that started with 137 exhibitors in New Delhi in December 2009.