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Sage Electrochromics Inc., a maker of energy-efficient glass for windows, has closed on $20 million in financing, the company said Tuesday.Faribault-based Sage will put the capital toward expanding into international markets, ramping up…
AMA Research have published the fourth edition of the report "Door & Window Fabricators Market -UK 2009-2013" -incorporating original input and primary research, it represents an up-to-date and informed report on the fabrication sector…
Pilkington energiKare™, the UK’s leading energy efficient glazing, has taken another stride forward in its quest to help householders prevent heat loss through their windows, following its partnership with Zenith Windows.
A highly unusual window replacement scheme has taken place at Leicester University. Pilkington Activ™ Blue glass has helped transform the Attenborough Tower, a 19-storey tower block built in the early 1970s on the main campus.
With a palette exceeding 30,000 color choices finishes, Wausau Window and Wall Systems offers three-week shipping on its standard SuperWall systems to meet the accelerated pace of construction timelines for low- and mid-rise buildings.
Previously known as Pilkington Australia, the Geelong factory specialised in automotive glass. It opened in 1936 to support the Geelong Ford plant, which opened 11 years earlier.
Vesuvius USA annouces the opening of our New Fused Silica Factory and Sales Office in Dillon, SC. Continuing our global standardization and our commitment to continous improvement, Vesuvius has upgraded and relocated the Beaver Falls Factory and the…
Auburn Hills, Mich., January 13, 2009, 2008 — SunGuard® advanced architectural glass by Guardian Industries now offers architects and designers five new performance and appearance glass options by combining its Guardian CrystalGray™ float glass with…
Pilkington NSG Group Flat Glass Business, 300 Northridge Drive, sent an e-mail to employees on Thursday, advising them that the plant will close for two weeks for approximately 180 of 263 employees from Jan. 19 to Feb. 2 due to slow sales and…
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) commercial coatings group has increased its involvement in the global wind turbine industry.
Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Asahi Glass Co., and a Nippon Sheet Glass Co. unit were fined a record 1.38 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by the European Union over claims the companies fixed the price of car windows.
DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) recently launched a new website -- www.pc.dupont.com. --designed to give customers quick and easy access to information about all DPC brands.
If there is one way to prove that you really believe in a product, then it must be to use it yourself, which is precisely what happened recently with Britannia Windows (UK), a fabricating business in Clevedon in South West England when it used…
PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) industrial coatings business has published a new color guide for Duranar liquid coil and extrusion coatings.
As a result of the decision of NASDAQ OMX PHLX, formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, to terminate its equity trading platform effective Oct. 24, 2008, PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has announced its intention to voluntarily delist from the…
Smart-Builder are putting a Methuselah (6 litre bottle) of Champagne up for grabs at Glasstec this month. World leading software deserves to be represented by a premium product and Smart-Builder think a bottle, 8 times normal size, from a famous…
Glasstec 2008 is just about upon us and the staff at Smart-Builder have nearly completed their mammoth preparations.
Lister Trade Frames is the latest company to partner with Pilkington energiKare™ and the energy efficiency evolution.
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace transparencies business and Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ:GNTX) will supply electrochromic window shade systems to Hawker Beechcraft Corporation for the passenger-cabin windows of the 2010 Beechcraft King Air 350i…
Divestiture reinforces PPG focus on coatings, specialty products PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) on Oct. 1, 2008 completed the divestiture of its automotive glass and services business to a new company formed by funds managed by Kohlberg & Company,…
Pilkington Planar™ glazing has made a splash at a multi-million pound regeneration of a leisure complex in Swansea.
Top insulation with SGG PLANITHERM® ONE II The two variants SGG CLIMAPLUS ONE and SGG CLIMAPLUS® ONE SAFE are high-insulation glasses which provide efficient climate protection.
A major part of Pilkington North America’s multi-year, $70 million improvement and repair project is nearly complete.
Pilkington Activ™ Neutral is a revolutionary new double-coated glass that combines dual-action, self-cleaning properties with solar control performance and is perfect for use in glass extensions and conservatory roofs and windows.
The research and innovation teams working on Solar power are making progress with practical and effective solutions. Multiple teams across the globe are focused on thinner materials and concentrators that can take sunlight and turn it into…