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Bigwigs from Korean electronics giant Samsung have given their approval to a recycling plant on Merseyside, which will recycle old televisions and computer monitors.
Owens Corning and Saint-Gobain have agreed to merge Owens Corning’s Reinforcements Business and Saint-Gobain’s Reinforcements and Composites Business (a part of the entity known as Vetrotex) into a new company that will be named OCV Reinforcements.
President and Chief Executive Wendell Weeks of Corning Inc. received total compensation valued at $8.23 million last year, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.
One of the largest Unitary Authorities in the UK – Kirklees – is launching a new district-wide Recycling Plan, which should see kerbside glass collections increasing recycling rates from 21% to 28%.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that Lawrence D. McRae, senior vice president, strategy and corporate development, has become a member of Corning’s Management Committee.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer James B. Flaws will participate in a “fireside chat” with investors at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in Las Vegas tomorrow, Feb. 27.
Recycling firm Recresco has confirmed that its state-of-the-art glass processing plant in Cheshire, capable of sorting 125,000 tonnes of glass a year, is now fully operational.
Corning Incorporated announced that Vincent P. Hatton has been elected senior vice president and general counsel, following the retirement of William D.
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Although it has not explicitly said so, leading LCD glass supplier Corning appears willing to forsake market share in the first half of this year when demand is slow, with the company instead focusing on maintaining more stable price drops in a…
Corning Incorporated announced that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan of $160 million to further expand its capacity to manufacture large size glass substrates for active matrix liquid crystal displays (LCD) at its…
Beer producer Adnams is aiming to reduce its impact on glass packaging waste by over 500 tonnes a year, with the launch of a new lightweight beer bottle.
Corning Incorporated announced that James R. Houghton, 71, will step down as non-executive chairman of the board at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on April 26, 2007.
Somerset County Council is backing a new television advertising campaign which encourages people to recycle more glass bottles and jars.
Corning Incorporated announced fourth-quarter sales of $1.37 billion and net income of $646 million, or $0.41 per share. The net income includes net after-tax special gains of $158 million, or $0.10 per share.
The container industry recycled record levels of glass in 2006, according to new industry figures – but worryingly the nation's growth in glass recycling has slowed.
Glass recycling is saving the country NT$525 million (US$16 million) in garbage disposal costs and creating NT$180 million worth of business opportunities per year, Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) officials said Tuesday.
The Glass Recycling Company is South Africa's new national organisation responsible for facilitating the recovery of waste glass for recycling, endorsed by the Ministry for Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
UK glassmakers have to accept that the supply of colour-separated collections will dwindle and find new ways of using more mixed glass, according to WRAP.
Two weeks into the new year, and the recycling industry is working overtime. The festive season created 750m extra glass bottles, most of which seemed to be lined up in my kitchen ready for the council to pick up.
A doorstep glass recycling scheme in two Northumberland villages is proving to be a success. BBC reported that around 1,400 households in Longhoughton and Shilbottle were given a plastic box for bottles and jars at the beginning of August.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) Senior Vice President - Finance, Katherine A. Asbeck will address investors at the 9th Annual Needham and Company Growth Conference in New York tomorrow, Jan. 9 at 9:30 a.m.
Jeannine Warren is doing more than her part to "reduce, reuse and recycle." She's got at least five tons of green, brown and clear class pebbles atop a weed barrier with flower beds surrounding her central Kentucky home.
Waste firm Biffa has expanded its commercial glass recycling service to cover the West Midlands, South Wales and the M1 corridor including Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield.
The proportion of recycled glass used to make new glass containers in the UK has fallen, according to newly-published figures for the 12 months up to August 2006.