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The partnership between Pilkington Automotive and General Motors (GM) - still going strong after more than 70 years - will continue with two important new programmes.
The Safety Glass Technology business area within the Kyro Group have contracted machinery deliveries worth approximately EUR 15 million in total.
Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington Glass Co Ltd said its Board of Directors approved a proposal to invest in a joint venture which will produce automobile glass.
Tamglass Group of Finland, fully owned by Kyro Corporation listed on the Helsinki Exchanges, and Bavelloni Group of Italy, fully owned by the Bavelloni family, and the above owners are in negotiations over mutual co-operation.
Tamglass strengthens the competitiveness and productivity of its customers through new innovationsTamglass – the technology and market leader in safety glass machinery – has continued its growth.
Hall : 12Stand : 12C19Range of products : Heat-resistant separation materialBEKITHERM (R) products, knitted, woven, braided or needle-punched, are used during the production of complex glass forms (car windows, bottles, ...) as separation cloth…
G.F.P.M. has been engaged in the construction of machines and plants for cutting flat glass for over 20 years. It manufactures automatic tables for straight and shaped cutting and automatic tables for laminated glass.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), will take place on June 15–18 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
Central Glass Co. of Japan is tying up with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain of France to strengthen its global business of making glass for Japanese automakers.
Tamglass has launched a new technology concept of convection heating for Low-E tempering in order to provide higher production capacity and better optical quality for the glass processors in North America.
AMJ Logistics announced today that it has finalized the development of eDirectGlass based on Microsoft's .Net Framework, a move that solidifies AMJ's position as the leader in providing e-commerce solutions for the automotive glass…
Diamond Triumph Auto Glass, Inc. announced today that net sales for the year ended December 31, 2001 increased $17.4 million, or 9.5%, to $201.4 million as compared to $184.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2000.
Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries has announced that executive vice president of glass and chemicals, Frank A. Archinaco, will retire July 1.
Solutia Inc., the manufacturer of the Vanceva(TM) brand of advanced interlayer products for automotive glass, recently introduced a new Web-based tool that allows automotive designers to visualize Vanceva(TM) Color as part of their next concept or…
With its 1999 goal of sales expansion outside Europe, Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics set up a fabric cutting unit in Mexico for grinding wheels, in November 2001.
With savvy consumers demanding greener automobiles and government agencies raising the fuel-economy bar, Guardian Industries' SilverGuard(TM) infrared reflective glass is engineered to help meet today's tough vehicle standards.
Glaverbel SA said it expects a contraction in its net result during 2002 because of the economic slowdown and said it will cut its production capacity.
The trend of using colored auto glass as a design element continued with the unveiling of two of GM's latest concept vehicles at the Chicago Auto Show on February 5th and 6th.
Glasstech, Inc., the Perrysburg Township firm that has claimed to be the world's leading maker of equipment for tempering and bending glass for the automotive industry, filed for bankruptcy for the second time in 10 years.
World demand for flat glass is forecast to rise more than 4 percent per year to nearly 4 billion square meters in 2004, with a market value of over $40 billion.
Tamglass new technology concept ProConvection, which was launched at Vitrum, has attracted wide interest. The company has already received several orders for the new flat tempering furnace, designed especially for tempering coated glass.
Demand for flat glass in the United States is forecast to rise three percent per year to almost seven billion square feet in 2005, valued at $9.1 billion.
Diamond Triumph Auto Glass, Inc. announces the appointments of Norman Harris as Chief Executive Officer and Michael Sumsky as President.
The glazing industry of the 21st century uses these days increasingly float glass integrated with special coating materials.
While dark glass on today's vehicles provides passenger privacy and symbolizes status, tomorrow's automotive designers see glass tops, spanning from the windshield across the roof to the back window, on luxury vehicles so that occupants…