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Hall 9 / Stand 9G52Having been exhibiting its pioneering ClearShield Low-M (Low-Maintenance) Glass® technology since 1986, Ritec International will be making its tenth appearance at Glasstec 2004.On display will be the ClearShield RevolutionTM,…
The Protecting People First Foundation announced it is returning to Southwest Florida to continue an on-site study to document the contribution of impact resistant glass, safety film, hurricane shutters and other protective glazing technologies in…
All-glass construction to present Croatia’s architecture.
A 60-year-old man was crushed to death Friday by a load of glass panels at a construction site, officials said.
As early as next month, Wichita residents may have a new place to take their empty cereal boxes, milk jugs, old newspapers and glass bottles.
Insurers should put pressure on car manufacturers to raise their security standards according to the July Which? Report.
A Eugene father-turned-activist and a local legislator this week pulled off their biggest victory yet in their three-year crusade to limit the use of wired glass.
Roberto Caliari has been appointed Senior Vice-President in charge of the Ceramics & Plastics, Abrasives and Reinforcements Branches.
Tomorrow's automotive designers see hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles as not only environmentally friendly but also friendly to innovative glass applications, giving them the freedom to create vehicles with gondola-like glass tops,…
Saint-Gobain Group consolidated net income for the first half of 2003 amounted to EUR 470 million, a decrease of 5.6% on the same period of 2002.
Sterling Commerce today announced an agreement with Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. to deploy a trio of Sterling Commerce value-added services to upgrade critical business transactions and remove manual processes between the glass container supplier…
The recent decision by British Airways and Air France to retire their Concorde fleets will end a fantastic era in world aviation.
VITRUM 2003 will be held in Milan fairgrounds from 25th to 28th June.As in 2001, VITRUM will take place in halls 14, 15 and 16 of the Portello pavilions, now the organizers tried and tested, which proved the ideal venue for such a demanding…
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), is just around the corner. GPD 2003 will take place on 15–18, June 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
Gopal Krishna, working with an advertising agency, sees only with one eye. Not because he was born this way but because his Maruti 800 had a tempered windshield when he met with an accident late one night in May 1995.
Earthquakes, which have proved to be the most destructive of natural hazards, destroy fragile buildings and civil infrastructures.
New York City may not meet its July 2004 deadline for bringing back glass recycling, city officials said yesterday.The city suspended the recycling of glass and plastics in July as a budget-cutting measure, leaving only paper and metal recycling in…
Francesco Davalli, CSM Tecnologies Sales Manager, in cooperation with YKC closed an important contract with Saint Gobain group to supply a full automated line for thier glass processing plant HPG in Korea.
French glassmaker Saint-Gobain SGOB.PA has no plans to follow the example of Swiss firm ABB by making a major payment to settle U.S. asbestos claims, a senior executive said on Thursday.
French business confidence slid in January amid resurgent uncertainty about the prospect of war in Iraq, snapping what had looked like a budding recovery in the last two months of 2002, a report published on Thursday showed.
Bystronic acquired Armatec Vierhaus GmbH, effective January 1, 2003. For Bystronic, a global supplier of system solutions for fabricating and processing of architectural and automotive glass, the aquisition of Armatec, which specializes in laminated…
After a year under construction, the new Bergen City Parkinghouse in Norway is now complete and is proudly displaying Pilkington glass.
Emhart Glass had another very successful show at Glasstec 2002 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The company highlighted its strength as a complete system supplier to the glass container industry.
Saint-Gobain announced the syndication of its EUR1.0 billion 5-year syndicated loan facility was closed successfully. The transaction was well oversubscribed allowing Saint-Gobain to increase the size of the facility to EUR1.2 billion.
RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security(R), today announced that Saint-Gobain Corporation has chosen its RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication solution to help provide more than 3,000 U.