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Saint-Gobain announces that discussions regarding the plan to merge its Reinforcements and Composites activities (part of the entity Vetrotex) with the Reinforcements business of Owens Corning, are now focusing on a sale project of Saint- Gobain’s…
CNN reported that Sales Intended to Address Regulatory Concerns Associated with the Previously Announced Joint Venture with Saint-Gobain's Reinforcement and Composites BusinessOwens Corning also in Discussions with Saint-Gobain to Convert the…
Lifts in The Shires shopping centre in Leicester have been created using 400 metres square of Pilkington Planar™/Sentry Glas Plus with Pilkington OptiWhite™ .
Since February, the main stock trading hall in Frankfurt/Main has been glowing in new splendor. The seven round trading areas are particularly striking.
ISRA VISION AG is one of the 100 most innovative  small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in Germany according  to this year's nationwide Top 100 corporate benchmarking  competition.
Glassex-GP&T 2008 will be promoted by CIB, the current Construction Marketing Awards “Agency of the Year”.
Emirates Glass, one of the leading processors of architectural flat glass in the Middle East and a subsidiary of Glass LLC, which is wholly owned by Dubai Investments (DI), has recently announced its Q1 2007 results indicating an increase of 35%…
Britain is now home to two of the world’s most advanced plaster and plasterboard manufacturing plants following a £120-million investment in production capacity by British Gypsum.
Saint-Gobain Isover is launching an unrivalled programme of insulation training for merchants and distributors that kicks off in the classroom.
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.
The Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Compagnie de Saint-  Gobain was held in Paris on Thursday, June 7, 2007.
Top brands, bottle manufacturers, retailers and technology experts have teamed up under a UK-government programme to cut 20,000 tonnes of glass from beer, cider and spirit packaging.
Pilkington Australia launched Activ™, the world's first self-cleaning glass, in May 2002 as a laminated safety glass incorporating DuPont™ Butacite® PVB.
The Saint-Gobain Reinforcement & Composites Activity has increased its European production capacity for TWINTEX ® by 25% in its Chambéry plant (FR) as of April 2007.
Winemakers and retailers will learn this week how to reduce their impact on climate change by bottling imported wines within the UK – and boost recycling as they do so.
Burj Dubai, on course to becoming the world's tallest tower, is taking its final shimmering form as installation of curtain wall glass panels commenced on Level 19 of the super-structure developed by Emaar Properties.
Bekaert announces its participation in GPD China (Shanghai, May 14-15, 2007) and China Glass (Shanghai, May 16-19, 2007).
It has been called "the world's longest bridge", not because of the distance it should cover -- 94 meters, but because of the time it has taken to build -- 11 years and counting.
Saint-Gobain Sekurit India’s plants at Bhosari and Chakan have obtained, on January 17th 2006, the OHSAS 18001: 1999 certification to reward their management of healthy/safety risks and the ISO 14001:2004 certification for their environmental…
Glaziers in Yorkshire will be able to recycle their waste glass, wood and plastics, across a network of depots in the region - believed to be one of the first networks of its kind.
Saint Gobain a state-of-the-art glass manufacturing company in the country, has brought all its solar control products under a single umbrella brand – Sun Ban Reflective Glass.
Thrillseekers can now take in a unique view of Melbourne from a glass-floored cube hanging from the side of the city's tallest building.
Consolidated first-quarter sales for the Saint-Gobain Group came in at EUR10,447 million, compared with EUR9,745 million in the same year-ago period, representing a rise of 7.2% on an actual structure basis and 9.0% at constant exchange rates.