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Glassmaker Pilkington has sold its Swiss processing operations to a German company in a £20m-plus deal.Flachglas Wernberg, in which Pilkington’s Japanese parent NSG Group holds a 49 per cent stake, has bought three businesses employing 255 staff.

Pilkington energiKare™, the energy-efficient glazing from Pilkington has been a huge hit with homeowners this year with the number of supplier searches on its website so far in 2009 exceeding those for the whole of 2008.

Glassmaker Pilkington is to cut another 90 jobs in the region as it continues to make massive cost savings.

The Croydon Adult Learning and Training (CALAT) Centre in New Addington, Surrey, has drafted in the help of solar control glazing Pilkington Eclipse Advantage™ to create a stunning curtain walling system for the centre’s entrance.

Pilkington glass has provided a clear vision for a new development at Casement Park stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (“GTT”), (OTCBB: GTLT), a leading global network integrator, announced today that Pilkington, a worldwide manufacturer of glass products for the building and automotive markets and part of the NSG Group of Japan…

Glass manufacturer Pilkington is hosting a webinar on 23rd June 2009 at 11am to give unrivalled insight into the new Part L of the Building Regulations, offering advice and solutions from some of the key players in the consultation process.

Pilkington is delighted to announce that from May 5 2009 it will be providing its energy efficient glazing, Pilkington energiKare™ Classic, as standard in all IGUs which incorporate Pilkington K Glass™ and Pilkington Optifloat™.

Leading glass-maker Pilkington is imposing huge price rises on its customers - just as house-builders are struggling to survive.

Thermoseal Group is set to be the UK nationwide distributor of ScreenLine® Integrated Blinds – an advanced tilting and lifting blind system which is encapsulated within a double glazing unit and operated without compromising the unit’s hermetic seal.

Glassmaker Pilkington has announced it is to cut 76 jobs at one of its St Helens sites as part of a £170m global restructuring programme.

Pilkington Automotive has appointed Briggs Equipment, the Cat lift truck distributor, to manage its materials handling operations, in a five-year deal worth £1.2 million.

Hundreds of jobs are under threat at the British operations of Pilkington, the Japanese-owned glass maker, amid falling demand for its products from the automotive and construction industries.

Ensuring Understanding Is Key for a Company With Different Cultures Stuart Chambers, chief executive of Nippon Sheet Glass Co., is in a unique position: he runs the Japanese firm that acquired U.K. glass manufacturer Pilkington PLC, which he headed…

Pilkington has pushed the boundaries of innovation and unveiled its new range of Pilkington energiKare™ energy efficient glazing - making it even easier to achieve the highest window energy performance and combine it with strong consumer branding to…

Pilkington Planar™ glazing is on the right track following its specification in the brand new entrance at Salford Central Railway Station, situated in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester.

Pilkington takes another step forward in the energy efficient evolution with the introduction of Pilkington K Glass™ OW - the first development in the Pilkington K Glass™ range of energy efficient glazing products designed for use within the new…

Scheduled for opening early 2009, the new Ivy House School in Derbyshire follows modern guidelines for sustainable construction, utilising advanced materials to provide an ideal environment for learning.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…