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Following the search for strategic partners for its specialty bottles business, the Saint-Gobain Group has selected the project of a consortium of two investment funds, Sagard and Cognetas.
Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system has been used to stunning effect at a new library in the southwest seaport town of Turku, Finland.
While restraining the United States glass manufacturer Guardian from setting up a 100 per cent subsidiary in India, the Delhi High Court ruled that foreign companies would have to establish their units in collaboration with Indian companies.
The annual amount of glass recycled to make new bottles and jars has increased to a record 756,000 tonnes according to estimates from British Glass.
The Crescent City Depression Glass Society will hold its 31st annual show and sale on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and again on March 18 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Pontchartrain Center, 4546 Williams Blvd., Kenner.
The average price of manufactured products in the U.K. recorded an increase of 0.3 per cent in February, the Office for National Statistics said a report Monday.
BBC reported that union officials say the announcement that St Helens Glass has gone into liquidation, leaving hundreds of workers jobless, is tragic.  Rumours of the announcement were circulated before staff were given official confirmation at…
McMullen Architectural Systems has set up McMullen Inc in North Carolina in a bid to to meet demand in the US for the company's products and growing international order book.
Japan's Asahi Glass Co. (ASGLY) has begun supplying glass for Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.'s (3009.TW) advanced 7.5-generation liquid-crystal-display panels, the Economic Daily News reported Monday, citing unnamed industry sources.
Pilkington Group Limited has announced the purchase of AG Glass and Glazing Limited. AG Glass and Glazing Ltd is a leading IGU manufacturer averaging more than 20,000 units per week from its state of the art manufacturing unit in Tankersley, near…
The German tech company Schott AG inaugurated a plant in central South Korea on Thursday that will produce glass substrates for use in liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.
In a major coup for the event, Pilkington Activ™ has demonstrated its commitment to the new-look Glassex with the announcement that it will sponsor the popular Conservatory Design Competition next March.
Polytron Technology Inc is combined all supplier partners to offer a new choice for architect / decoration market in the world.
Although it has not explicitly said so, leading LCD glass supplier Corning appears willing to forsake market share in the first half of this year when demand is slow, with the company instead focusing on maintaining more stable price drops in a…
Corning Incorporated announced that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan of $160 million to further expand its capacity to manufacture large size glass substrates for active matrix liquid crystal displays (LCD) at its…
Bystronic Glass UK has developed a seminar programme that will be introduced at Glassex but will be extended beyond the arena of the exhibition.
Fenton Art Glass Co. production employees are getting a three-week break this month and into February. Company President George W.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48704) has announced the addition of “Glass Container Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its Foreign Trade (1996-2008)” to their offering.
An optical glass and thermo-electric products factory started operation on December 11 in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Zone of southern Binh Duong province.
Emhart Glass, is investing EUR 15 million in a new research facility in the USA. In so doing, Emhart Glass is seeking to develop and bring to market enhanced methods for improving the glass forming process.
Reuters reported that specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said it expects LCD glass pricing to decline again in the fourth quarter and reiterated its outlook for the period.
Corning announced on November 2 that its wholly-owned subsidiary in China hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new LCD glass substrate finishing facility. ¸Corning was the first TFT LCD glass substrate supplier to announce that it would locate a…
On July 27, Saint-Gobain and Owens Corning announced plans to establish a joint venture, bringing together the two companies’ reinforcements and composites businesses.
Corning yesterday announced third-quarter sales of US$1.28 billion, slightly up on quarter and 8% on year. The company saw gross margin for the third quarter remain strong at 44% and had net income of US$438 million, or US$0.27 per share, Corning…
Isoclima S.p.A., a licensee of Research Frontiers Incorporated (Nasdaq: REFR), announced today that Isoclima will feature its new CromaLite™ smart automotive glass products at two shows in Germany this month.