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Leading international construction materials company Saint-Gobain has signed the Copenhagen Communiqué, a statement put together by The Prince of Wales' Corporate Leaders' Group on Climate Change which calls for an ambitious, robust and…
NANJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Construction began Tuesday on a soda ash project with an investment of 1.14 billion U.
On September 23, 2009, an addendum to the Group's 1992 European Social Dialogue Agreement was signed by Pierre-André de Chalendar, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's Chief Executive Officer, the delegation responsible for implementing the…
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16, 2009 – PPG Industries has donated 23 gallons of Pittsburgh Paints Pure Performance and Manor Hall exterior paints and 12,400 square feet of Starphire ultra-clear glass to Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens to help the…
"Solar energy generation" is the subject of a special show that is premiering at GLASSPEX INDIA, International Exhibition for Glass – Production-Processing-Products, which is being held in New Delhi from 2 to 4 December 2009.
Glass façades specialist Solaglas Contracting has been shortlisted by Contract Journal magazine in its prestigious Construction Industry Awards for the second year running, fending off stiff competition from a host of major competitors across a…
New Delhi After importing a glass curtain wall from China, the private developer of IGI Airport will soon get 42 Chinese workers to install it at the under-construction terminal building, T3.
Cambridgeshire-based Trade fabricator, Tradelink, has recently switched to Saint-Gobain Glass as its sole low-e glass provider, a move that immediately lifts its standard energy rated window from a C to a B.
On the 12th June Maxit Netherlands opened the new dry mortar production tower "Maxima 1" in the presence of customers, employees and many other guests.
As of autumn, Weber-maxit and Weber-Deitermann will again be regularly organizing one to two-day practical seminars for dealers, architects and processors.
Silvassa: Sejal Architectural Glass Limited (SAGL) has chalked out an ambitious plan of investing Rs1500 crores for meeting increasing demand of float glass in the country, a top company official said.
As part of its development strategy for solar energy, Saint-Gobain is acquiring Shell's share of Avancis, a joint venture between the two companies.  Avancis has developed highly competitive technology for thin-film CIS (Copper, Indium and…
An imaginative property regeneration scheme called “Changing Streets” has been established by East Riding of Yorkshire Council (EYRC) and is dramatically improving a swathe of privately owned housing in Goole.
The new bi-directional Kalzip FC Façade System is stylish, non-penetrative and extremely costeffective. Installed on vertically fixed modular click rails, each lightweight panel is simply hooked at the top and then clicked into place at the bottom…
Its new brand of conservatory glass for roofs and side panels.Replacing the previous Climaplus Comfort+ range, the new range has been developed and simplified to include three options for the roof and ClimaControl Vertical – a clear product for…
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Cie. Saint-Gobain SA, Europe’s biggest glassmaker, is turning to electrically charged “smart” windows that adorn Ferrari SpA’s Superamerica to counter slumping sales and fulfill European Union energy-saving norms.
The announcement by Messe Duseldorf to set up an offshoot of its leading world fair glasstec on the Indian subcontinent has already attracted the attention of numerous leading companies from the glass industry.
According to the motto “Our building-material - for more growth in Germany”, Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Deutschland GmbH presented itself for the first time in its entirety at the Congress of German Construction Industry on 27th May in…
First-half 2009: amid a sharp slowdown in markets, acceleration and extension of action plan unveiled at the beginning of the year.
On July 10, 2009, Chief Executive Officer Pierre-André de Chalendar inaugurated in the presence of José Socrates, Portugal's Prime Minister and Fernando Texeira dos Santos, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Saint-Gobain’s first and largest…
SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER G+H AG was able to increase its sales by 3.9% to 379 mill. Euros in the 2008 financial year.
Saint-Gobain’s newly redeveloped Innovation Centre in London Docklands opened its doors to customers this month as the company hosted a series of sessions designed to provide architects, specifiers and contractors with the chance to view products…
Saint-Gobain Glass has clocked up 1.5 million man-hours without reporting a ‘lost-time’ incident, which includes accidents.
Saint-Gobain shareholders responded favorably to the dividend reinvestment option, with 64.8% of the total dividend to be paid in stock.