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Leybold Optics, based in Alzenau, Germany, has introduced the “Hot Apollon”, the latest version of its innovative glass coating system.
Guardian EcoGuard receives Glass Magazine’s Crystal Achievement Award for Most Innovative Solar Glass ProductAuburn Hills, Mich. (September 16, 2010) – Guardian Industries has received a prestigious industry award for its EcoGuard Solar-Boost LP, a…
Talks with the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Valery Shantsev / Visit to the German-language secondary school no.1 in Nizhny Novgorod  The Chairman of the Board of Management of SCHOTT AG from Mainz, Germany, Prof.
Scheuten Solar has introduced f | solarfloat HT (High Transmission) glass on the new P6-60 and P6-66 modules.
The world’s highest efficiency with high-performance multicrystalline silicon solar cells Unprecedented efficiency of 17.6 percent for multicrystalline modulesThe solar cells used combine proven production technology with a novel approach  Mainz,…
Despite having customers in more than 70 countries, and currently more than 250 furnaces operating worldwide, there is one major sector of the glass industry that SORG has not been intimately involved in until now – the float glass sector.
SCHOTT Solar AG’s new headquarters in Mainz faces south and is therefore ideally suited for making use of photovoltaic technology. 82 ASI THRU modules from SCHOTT Solar with a total capacity of 10 KW have been integrated into the façade and a 26-kW…
If the very idea of a spray-on film that can turn windows into solar collectors sounds too good to be true, think again.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 16, 2010 – Wayne Boor, manager, solar technology transfer, PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) performance glazings business, said industry forecasters expect solar glazings to account for 10 to 20 percent of flat glass sales, if not…
Rioglass Solar, the primary manufacturer for Abengoa Solar Inc., today announced it will open its headquarters and North American manufacturing facility in Surprise, Ariz., making it the fifth solar company set up operations in Greater Phoenix under…
SURPRISE, Ariz. - A Spanish manufacturer of glass for commercial solar plants announced Wednesday that it will build a $50 million U.S. headquarters in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise. Rioglass Solar said the 130,000-square-foot facility will employ…
Diedorf, August 2010 – between 28th September and 1st October 2010, the glass sector’s most important leading trade fair will be taking place in the form of the glasstec.
Taipei, Aug. 4, 2010 (CENS)–To boost market share, Taiwan Glass Corp., the largest manufacturer of glass in Taiwan, announced to budget approximately NT$5 billion to set up new production lines for advanced glass used in solar-energy in China,…
In October, Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp., a subsidiary of German glass finishing firm Flabeg GmbH, opened a manufacturing facility in Findlay’s Clinton Commerce Park that was expected to create up to 200 jobs building solar mirrors.
Vesuvius is a worldwide leader of Fused Silica products for the Solar, Glass Fabricating, Glass Forming and Foundry industries.
August 2, 2010 (Albuquerque, NM) — SCHOTT Solar CSP, Inc. today announced the appointment of Richard Gruber to the position of Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development.
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of GBI Research’s new report, “Thin-Film Photovoltaic (PV) Cells Market Analysis to 2020 — CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide) to Emerge as the Major Technology by 2020,” to their collection of…
Solarpraxis AG and Messe Düsseldorf will bring together solar and glass industry representatives at the launch of the new “SOLAR MEETS GLASS” conference on 27 and 28 September 2010 as a side event to accompany the two trade fairs glasstec and…
Ferro Electronic Materials has developed a new metallization paste that supports the commercialization of a more efficient solar cell design.
Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) today announced that it will expand its operations in China to include the production of Vistasolar(R) ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulant at its Suzhou, China facility.
Guardian Industries has made its money through glass, particularly building and automotive glass, over many years and done so quite successfully.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Gujarat Borosil Limited (GBL), a member of the BOROSIL Group, announces production of high performance low iron extra clear Solar Glass.
Xinyi Glass has six manufacturing bases, with manufacturing floor areas well over 20 million square feet.
The NSG Group and Saint-Gobain Glass have announced plans for the construction of a new float glass plant in Jacarei, close to São Paulo, in Brazil.