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The Company obtained the main award “Stellar Container” for the categories of Food and Security; Vitro reaffirms its total commitment to fulfill and exceed the needs of its customers in the market    The Asociación Mexicana de Envase y Embalaje (…
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The First Plaza is a commercial complex located in the quaint, historic town of Metz in France. The Lazard Group Real Estate has developed this sustainable building, based on design by Unanime Architects.
As a result of its level of advance in the management of greenhouse gas emissions, the Company reached the GEI3 level, which is the maximum recognition for the GEI Mexico Program.
REEL Solar Inc.(RSI) announces 1.5 square meter cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules which will be available from RSI's exclusive regional manufacturing partners.
iPhotonic Corp., manufacturer of Building-Integrated Photovoltaic products (BIPV) and Solar Power Solutions LLC, an SBK Holding Group affiliated company, signed today an agreement establishing a joint venture company based in the United Arab…
Until now, designers of buildings have no choice but to use black or bluish-gray colored solar panels.
The world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry and its partners gets underway     Munich, June 19, 2013 – Today, the doors to the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry reopened at Messe München.
Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA), announced that with an investment of USD $50 million to carryout major maintenance works on one of its furnaces in the Vidriera Querétaro Plant, it was able to convert said furnace into the largest of its kind in…
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A new police headquarters in Madrid is the latest architectural landmark in the city. With its transparent design created from extensive use of Technal’s GEODE-MX curtain walling system, the building aims to change the relationship between this…
Dr Chiara Bedon (University of Trieste) and Mr Paulo Carvalho (University of Minho) visit ICOM-EPFL to collaborate on Structural Glass.
New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: NENE), developer of see-through solar cells for generating electricity on glass windows, today announced that researchers have successfully achieved faster fabrication time, improved transparency, and a two-fold…
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Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA) (“Vitro” or the “Company”), one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, announced today that it plans to invest more than $1,777 million pesos this year, after having observed and…
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A new residential building is rising at the upper end of New York's skyline. Located on the corner of 56th Park Avenues, this slender building, which almost looks fragile, will be 420 meters high (approx. 1,377 feet).
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA), hereinafter “Vitro” or the “Company,” announced today that it has closed the transactions contemplated by the agreements that will enable the Company to definitively conclude its restructuring process.
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