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The 10th GPD conference is scheduled 15-18 June 2007. This leading forum for trendsetters and decision-makers of the glass industry has traditionally attracted an audience of some 800 and has featured some 200 professional presentations.
About 100 glass and metal companies will participate in V Fenavid - Glass and Aluminum National Fair, that will happen in September 7 to 9 at the Centro Sul Pavillon, in Florianópolis (Santa Catarina), Brazil.
PPG Industries has installed a $1.6-million unit to recycle waste fiber glass at its fiber glass manufacturing plant in Hoogezand, the Netherlands.
A nationwide glass recycling crisis is forcing a Wairarapa rethink on managing waste tonnages – including a call to drink more beer from cans not bottles.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. (NSG), the world's sixth-largest glass maker, will move alongside front-runner Asahi Glass Co., in terms of sales, after the 616 billion yen acquisition of third-ranked British glass maker Pilkington PLC, by the end of…
Businesses in the glazing and window replacement sector are the latest to benefit from a series of WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) trials to improve recycling services for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
A new group has been established to address the problem of what to do with a mountain of recycled glass in New Zealand. Recyclers say glass recycling in the South Island is in crisis, with huge glass mountains piling up because it is too expensive…
International trade fair for window and facade fensterbau/frontale 2006, which takes place together with Holz-Handwerk in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 22-25 March 2006, has two premières to offer this year.The first one is expert discussion…
EMAP Maclaren, organiser of Glassex, has announced advanced sales for the 2006 event are well ahead of the previous event year-on-year.
Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of the Diamon-Fusion® patented hydrophobic nanotechnology, is the recipient of multiple marketing annual awards as announced by the prestigious US Glass…
Viet Nam’s glass-makers are now in an ideal position to step up exports of construction-grade glass, according to Viet Nam Glass Association.
Baltic Glass Company, the subsidiary of Russian Soda Company from St.-Petersburg and American PPG Industries, Inc. agreed on concerted efforts in the implementation of the sheet glass project in St.-Petersburg.
GlassTech Asia, the 5th International Glass Products, Glass Manufacturing, Processing & Materials Exhibition and Conference, gave Thailand’s and the region’s glass makers convenient access to relevant glass making technology and equipment from…
Saint-Gobain Vetrotex has created a Specialty Reinforcements Group (SRG) for the North American market, as a part of a strategy to move closer to the market.
Bekaert, the premier supplier of rotatable sputtering technologies delivering lower cost of ownership and higher coater throughput, has announced that Lance Sides has joined the company as the Market Manager for North American Operations.
Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) together with Conference & Exhibitions Management Services Pte Ltd, Singapore Glass Association and Thai Glass Dealers Association will organise “GLASSTECH ASIA 2005” for the first time in…
Thai glass manufacturers will no longer need to fly to Singapore to attend GlassTech Asia 2005 as it has been moved to Bangkok by its organizer Conference & Exhibitions Management Services (CEMS), Singapore Glass Association and Thai Glass…
Johns Manville plans to build a new nonwoven glass mat production line, capable of producing one billion square metres of glass mat per year, at its facility in Etowah, in the US.
As RFID tags' use become more prevalent, with source tagging of individual packs on the horizon, trade federation British Glass is advocating more work to tackle the potentially serious problem of recycling glass bottles that may still contain…
On 15th July, 2005, Pilkington announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the US assets of Autostock Distribution, with an asset value of around $US 18 million.
Leelanau County's seven recycling collection sites will no longer accept any type of glass. The county collected brown, green and clear glass during previous years but will stop doing so because of changes in the county's processing…
The Big Recycle campaign has been launched across the UK in a bid to tackle the landfill crisis. The government is trying to induce more people to adopt recycling as a way of life as it seeks to control the ever-growing waste mountain.
Major glass users in New Zealand have agreed to pay a voluntary levy on imported glass to cover a shortfall between the costs of collecting the glass and the price paid for it by glass recyclers.
Major glass users in New Zealand have agreed to pay a voluntary levy on imported glass to cover a shortfall between the costs of collecting the glass and the price paid for it by glass recyclers.
Glass and beverage companies, consumer groups and government yesterday launched a national glass recycling campaign that follows the plastic bag recycling campaign launched two years ago.