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MONEYWEB: David Shapiro, you will remember the PG Group, the glass manufacturer. DAVID SHAPIRO: I did all my auditing there – three years of articles.
Czech Glass" may earn a place as the largest and richest exhibit ever assembled at the Corning Museum of Glass.The new three-part display features today's exuberantly over-the-top glass sculptures and some trailblazers from the 19th…
Sunbeams streaming through the stained glass windows of Sacred Heart would shower color on the interior of the church and the worshippers within.
In a mesmerizing display of art, science, fire and endurance, Hiram Toraason twirls a puntil rod in his 2,050-degree furnace.A bluegrass CD wails the high, lonesome sounds of Old Crow Medicine Show.
Glass and chemicals copmany PPG Industries Inc. (PPG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to issue a eurobond after a European roadshow, the banks managing the sale said on Wednesday.
The Clio Area Art Society presents a stained glass exhibit featuring local glass artists. It runs from June 7-28, with a reception at 6 p.m.
Joseph Stas, with more than 25 years of experience at PPG Industries has been named the company's vice president, automotive original-equipment-manufacturer glass, effective July 1.
Iridescent glass was made by many glass factories in the United States in the late-19th and 20th centuries.
Fenton Art Glass, the largest manufacturer of handmade colored glass in the United States, will mark its centennial anniversary May 4, 2005, 100 years to the day since the company opened for business.
The next chairman of PPG Industries Inc. expects the $9 billion company to grow by acquiring primarily coating and optical products businesses and expanding in regions such as Asia and Eastern Europe that are primed for industrial growth.
The massive renovation of Churchill Downs includes $1 million of commissioned art. The artists were hitting the homestretch this week, painting, uncrating and installing their work.
PPG Industries recently outlined a number of expansions to its glass fibre production in response to growing demand in the US and Asia.
Since the first time someone thought to heat and combine sand, sodium carbonate and lime, the drive to create original pieces of glasswork has skyrocketed in popularity.
The United States' Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled against PPG Industries in a breach-of-warranty case brought against it by Marvin Windows and Doors.
They were Irish immigrants who chipped in spare change earned from digging coal and building railroads to buy hundreds of stained glass windows for Catholic churches.From about 1870 until the Great Depression, divisions of the Ancient Order of…
Well-known American abstract artist Alan Held's designs for laminated art glass windows for the Orlando federal courthouse annex and expansion are on loan to the Orlando Museum of Art through April 3.
Although everyday a number of tourists pass by the Christ Church on the Ridge in Shimla, hardly a few care to peep inside.
Vintage Italian glass, bursting with color and fantastical forms, is back in the limelight after a late-1990s bust that shattered many buyers' dreams of ever-rising prices.
Sales improved across the three major business units at PPG Industries Inc., but an 8 percent gain in its coatings business was the major driver behind a 6 percent gain in second-quarter revenue, the company said Thursday.
Glass artist Michelle Walker wanted to use her craft to honor fellow artists who'd served in the military -- and to celebrate art as a form of peace.``With all the stuff going on in Iraq,'' she said, ``it seemed appropriate.'…
Two museums, the Orlando Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, have collaborated in displaying an artist known for his glass bowls, vases, floats and chandeliers.
PPG Industries reported fourth quarter net income of $122 million, or 71 cents a share, including an aftertax charge of $8 million, or 5 cents a share, to reflect the net increase in the current value of the company's obligation under the…
Stained-glass windows in the Basilica of the Assumption, I would like to paraphrase Groucho Marx and say: "Be gone, and never darken my church again." I'm voting for transparency.
An auctioneer who sold his house to buy a pier has uncovered a 1930s masterpiece in stained glass - only to discover workmen broke half the panes in the 1960s.
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,…