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Photos courtesy of Four Seasons Hotels Limited The Aer bar and lounge at the Four Seasons Worli in Mumbai, India, has a highly transparent laminated glass balustrade that provides guests with an unobscured view of the city.
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SUGAR and building products company CSR yesterday reported a net annual loss of $111.7 million as its poorly performing Viridian glass business continued to drag earnings down.
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The Green Glue Company, a provider of soundproofing technologies, announced that the company has entered into an agreement with CertainTeed Gypsum, a North American gypsum board and finishing products manufacturer, to become the exclusive sales…
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From planes, trains and automobiles, the new animated Pilkington Sound Simulator helps to understand noise control glazing with more ease than ever before.
On April 27, 2009, The Board of Directors of Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. passed the resolution to acquire the polyvinyl alcohol resin (“PVOH resin”) business from subsidiaries of U.S. chemical company, Celanese Corporation.
Energy efficient Low E glass is being successfully produced for the first time in Australia using the CVD coating process following the completion of a major upgrade at Viridian’s glass making plant at Dandenong in Victoria.
MP Richard Marles has met with union delegates in a last-ditch bid to save jobs at Geelong’s Viridian plant.
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DuPont Building Innovations recently provided the building envelope material for Australia’s largest national building cladding competition, the James Hardie Scyon Man Challenge.
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Created through CSR’s acquisition and merger of Pilkington (AU & NZ) and DMS Glass, Viridian offers new, advanced technology which will allow architects and designers to use glass in different ways.
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CSR Limited announces a new name in glass. It’s Viridian™. Representing a $1 billion plus commitment to more sustainable, market-responsive building products and technologies, Viridian is the sum of two impressive parts.
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Exports from Solutia Inc.'s plant in the Indian Orchard section of Springfield has won the attention of the Massachusetts Alliance for International Business.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has placed CSR Ltd on CreditWatch negative after the building materials group flagged the $690 million acquisition of glass maker Pilkington Australasia.
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