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Saint-Gobain Vitrage, Saint-Gobain’s Flat Glass Sector, and Shell (Shell Erneuerbare Energien GmbH) announce the foundation of a 50/50 joint-venture for the production and sale of next generation photovoltaic panels.
Solutia  will soon begin construction on a third production line for PVB films used as interlayers for laminated glass ("Saflex") at its Ghent / Belgium site.
Work has started on the £300k refurbishment project for the Melton Road Leicester manufacturing facility. The 20,000 sq ft premises is being re-roofed and clad with the latest high tech composite panel system.
Receivers represent a key component of solar thermal parabolic trough power plants that are capable of converting solar energy into heat and then using this to generate electricity. “Parabolic trough power plants offer enormous potential for meeting…
The market for solar thermal power plants is only now beginning to offer one of the most important energy supply options for the future.
CiSol, the solar research center at the Architectural College of Valles at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, has been awarded the “Environmental Prize 2006” in the area of “Research, Development and Innovation for Sustained Building…
The Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) awards a prize for the "Adherent antireflection coatings on borosilicate glass for solar collectors" project - Technology transfer prize awarded to scientists of the Technical…
Xinyi Glass Holdings (0868), China's largest exporter of auto glass, said it plans to invest 600 million yuan (HK$592.5 million) over the next two years to raise production capacity in order to meet rising demand, particularly in the mainland.
Historically high raw material costs combined with continued growth in demand for PVB interlayers have created an environment where higher pricing is required.
Sunergy, from AGC Flat Glass is a hard, pyrolytic coating which involves applying a thin uniform coating of metal oxides to glass by the Chemical Vapour Deposition process.
When Supertyphoon Paka, one of the worst typhoons in recorded history, struck Guam on December 16, 1997, Jim Adkins was prepared.
Kommerling UK, leading manufacturer and supplier of sealants and resins is launching a number of new products into the IG and glazing market.
The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (China) is located in Pudong City’s Lujiazui financial and business district.
DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions today announced a global price increase of 10 percent for all grades of DuPont™ Butacite® polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers, DuPont™ SentryGlas® Plus structural interlayers and DuPont™ Spallshield® composite films…
Agr International, Inc. will be exhibiting at Glasstec 2006, Hall 12, Stand C50. An array of Agr products for the quality management and testing of glass containers will be featured at this year’s show.
The FPS-50M3 is the largest capacity straight line vertical edger produced by SCHIATTI ANGELO Srl. This model which completes the FPS-50 series was designed to increase the performance of the older model FPS-50M2.
The company CBM – Blamar Group has developed and patented a new railing system based on quality, flexibility and easy installation.
Basler AG, one of the leading companies in the field of Vision Technology (the technology of machine-based vision), is expanding its business activities in the Vision Systems corporate division (inspection systems for industrial mass production) to…
Ameron International Corp. completed the sale of its worldwide Performance Coatings & Finishes business to PPG Industries on Aug. 1, the company said Wednesday.
Inspired by the port The Law Courts, located on the southern edge of Antwerp, cover a surface area of 78,000 m² and features six levels: one underground and five above ground, the highest of which is just 15.75 m off the ground.
A series of architectural projects featuring laminated glass railings enhanced series of architectural projects featuring laminated glass railings enhanced with DuPont™ SentryGlas® Plus, DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ and DuPont™ Butacite®…
A 350 m2 (3,767 sq ft) laminated glass entrance canopy that is elegant, frameless, "weightless" and completely free of fixings to the eye, and an ´invisible´, tightly curved, laminated glass balustrade, both built for Grovenor House, a…
Solutia Inc., a leading manufacturer and provider of interlayers for laminated glass, aftermarket window films, specialty chemicals and an integrated family of nylon products, today announced that its subsidiary, Solutia Europe SA/NV ("SESA…