Others also read

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the worldwide automotive industry is now available to its catalogue.
Smart film is an intelligent high-grade functional film, which can adjust light under different voltage to switch between direct and scattered light, carrying out the dual requirements of transparency of glass and privacy protection.
The Round Rock, Texas-based Equalizer Industries has upgraded from an Emerald sponsorship to a Sapphire sponsorship for the Third Annual Auto Glass Technician Olympics (AGTO).
Schuco USA L.P., American supplier of solar power systems, markets building-integrated photovoltaic modules "Made in Germany".
PPG Industries has signed an agreement with Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills, Calif., under which the company would divest its automotive original equipment manufacture (OEM) glass and automotive replacement glass (ARG) and services businesses.
Asahi India Glass Ltd sees 13-14 percent growth in automotive glass segment and 50 percent growth in architectural glass in FY08, a senior company official said on Thursday.
The Linden, Utah-based Glazex is serving as a Sapphire sponsor for the Second Annual Walt Gorman Memorial Windshield Repair Olympics (WRO).
Edgetech I.G. Inc. in Cambridge, Ohio, announced that it has been ranked in the inaugural Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States with 61.9 percent growth from 2003-2006.
PPG Industries and iGlass Projects Pty. Ltd. of Australia announced today they have signed an agreement to develop and commercialize dimmable glazing for automotive sunroofs.
Dubai Investments', or DI's corporate arm, Glass LLC, will be developing three more glass producing facilities in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan over the next three to six months as part of its ongoing expansion to address the region…
Since 1959, Pittsburgh Plate Glass has had an automotive glass division in Crestline.While that’s not likely to change soon, other changes, including employee layoffs, are still possible for PPG Crestline by the end of the summer.
Sharp, the second-largest Japanese maker of liquid crystal displays, will invest ¥380 billion, or $3.2 billion, on an LCD factory to help narrow the gap with Sony in the $56 billion global flat-panel market.
ABRA Auto Body & Glass announced today that Peterson Santos, Vice President of ABRA-Georgia, has been elected to chair the Atlanta I-CAR Committee.
Glasstech, Inc., developer of glass bending and tempering equipment, will highlight its innovative technology that has set the worldwide automotive standard for precision and efficiency at Vitrum 2007, October 3 – 6, Milan, Italy.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced second-quarter sales of $1.42 billion and net income of $489 million, or $0.30 per share.
Nanoprotect AG from Nanotec is a unique transparent nanotechnology treatment specifically developed for automotive glass.
PPG Industries Inc. workers at the automotive glass plant in East Deer will have to wait another month or so before learning the fate of the facility, officials said Thursday.
Fuyao cracked the local auto glass market, now it’s making a name for itself overseas.CAO Tok-wong travelled to Canada in the early 1990s, taking auto glass samples with him.
About US$8.6 million worth of capital has been poured into the nation’s economic zones to date, according to a report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Cape Town - Remgro, the country's largest investment holding firm, has bought a 25 percent stake in privately owned glass maker PG for R700 million.
ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a national damaged vehicle repair company, announced the appointment of Doug Voss as District Manager for its Utah market.
A California man has admitted conspiring to steal highly valuable flat-panel-glass blueprints from Corning Incorporated and turn them over to a rival business in Taiwan.
Belron US and Diamond Triumph Auto Glass Inc. said Tuesday the auto-glass replacement companies have agreed to drop all remaining claims against each other in a five-year-old lawsuit.
Shortly after participating at the GPD in Shanghai, Bekaert has now also been invited as a guest speaker at the Glass Processing Days convention, taking place from 15-18 June in Tampere, Finland.
FT:com reported that as companies in the flat-screen television business struggle to maintain profit, Corning, the US company that supplies most of the specialist glass for these products, has looked on with satisfied detachment.