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Dubai Investments PJSC has announced that the construction of Emirates Float Glass, the first ever float glass plant in the UAE, is set to commence in October 2005 at the Industrial City of Abu Dhabi.

A FAMOUS Torrington company that went into receivership during difficult trading conditions last year is now fighting back under new owners with an ambitious expansion plan.

Packaging company Alcan has said it plans to close its Cayey pharmaceutical glass vial operation, based in Puerto Rico, in order to streamline its North American vial manufacturing network.

Italy's Lanua Engineering is in final negotiations for the estimated $200 million lump-sum turnkey contract to build the proposed Emirates Float Glass plant in Abu Dhabi Industrial City in Mussafah, according to a recent report in the Middle…

Zhejiang Glass, the second-largest Hong Kong-listed mainland glassmaker by market value, will probably postpone its 920 million yuan (HK$864.24 million) investment in ultra-thick and low-emissivity coated glass production lines, first mooted early…

The Glass Art Society of America conference held in Adelaide in May 2005, has inspired a special temporary exhibition, Contemporary Australian Glass, from the Art Gallery of South Australia collection.

The largest auto glass maker in China, the Fuyao Glass Industry Group, is celebrating the launch of three new float glass production lines, which is expected to help ease the nation's lack of production technology of float glass, a kind of…

BOC has secured a 15-year, multi-million pound contract with international glass manufacturer Pilkington for the continued supply of nitrogen and hydrogen to the company's main UK manufacturing facility at St Helens, Merseyside.

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.

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.

Luoyang Glass, China's largest publicly traded flat glass maker, which issued a profit warning last month, plans to set up two joint ventures with its parent to produce ultra-thin glass and process raw materials with a total investment of 550…

Traditionally the keynote speakers have been visionaries in the industry. They have tended to focus on new ideas, trends and subjects for the glass industry as a whole.

Consolidated sales for the Saint-Gobain Group in the first quarter of 2005, calculated in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), came in at €7,633 million, compared with €7,261 million for the same period in 2004 (…

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 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.

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.o-i.com .

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 amount of recycled glass used in making new containers has increased by more than ten times over the past year, according to figures released by trade confederation British Glass.

Glass bottle maker Owens-Illinois Inc. said it expects to improve profits with its newly acquired European container company by trimming 950 jobs and production overseas.

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.

Dubai Investments PJSC is planning to set up a manufacturing plant for float glass in the UAE at an estimated investment of Dh735 million.