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Glass manufacturer PG Group opened an R800-million float glass manufacturing facility at its manufacturing division, PFG Glass, situated in Springs, Gauteng, last week, and intends to invest a further R400-million in glass manufacturing facilities…

Glassrobots Oy was founded in October 1982. Today, after 25 years, the company is one of the technology leaders to the safety glass industry.

Limited space is available for next week’s GlassPrint 2007 conference and exhibition, European event for the decoration of container and flat glass.

Tyneside Safety Glass says it has seen major productivity and efficiency boosts across its three production sites, thanks to a Syspro ERP system, a £5 million investment in new machinery and lean manufacturing and Kaizen initiatives.

Laminated glass windows in trains might have prevented a fifth of the deaths at seven of Britain's recent rail crashes, an industry expert has said.

While inter-city trains race past on the outer tracks of the recently-quadrupled mainline (RG 9.07 p570), since June 10 stopping trains between Utrecht and Amsterdam have been calling at a new Utrecht Zuilen station, where passengers from the…

The trend in the building and the interior designing branch shows on larger and more glazing surfaces and bigger glass sheets are required all the time.

The Spanish PV market is growing so fast, by at least 100% in 2007, that the official goal in the Renewable Energy Plan for 2005-2010 (PER) of 400 MW will be reached by the end of this year.

Float glass production is underway on a fast track schedule in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), United Arab Emirates, according to Guardian Industries and its joint venture partners, National Company for Glass Industries and Al Zamil Group.

Ferro Corporation has commissioned its new tile color plant in Castellon, Spain, just a year after breaking ground on its sprawling campus in this southern Spain city.

The Ministry of Construction has asked for the government’s permission to sell the float glass plant of the Vietnam Glass and Ceramics for Construction Corporation (Viglacera).

China's regulators aren't likely to approve new float glass projects in eastern coastal regions and central regions, given regional development strategy and ongoing industrial technology upgrades, the Shanghai Securities News reported…

A consortium of Vietnamese commercial banks and a finance company provided Tuesday a loan of VND845 billion (US$52 million) for building a glass factory in the central Chu Lai Economic Zone (EZ).

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.

GlassBuild America: The Glass, Window & Door Expo is pleased to announce that it has collaborated with the Georgia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to bring a new architect program to its 2007 event in Atlanta.

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the worldwide glass industry is now available to its catalogue.

Ryazan region Governor Georgy Shpak and Guardian Glass Ryazan director Yanos Egud on Wednesday signed an investment agreement on the construction of a plant in the region that will produce float glass, an official from the regional government's…

In response to the strong demand for superinsulating glass on the Italian construction market, Glaverbel is to install the country’s first magnetron unit for applying low-emissivity coatings at its Cuneo plant in North-East Italy (Piedmont).

Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) announces that today its extraordinary Board meeting officially resolved the sale of Flat Glass Business in Australasia.

Glaston is in the process of centralizing its Heat Treatment business area's R&D i.e. safety glass machine product development activities to its Finnish headquarters.

DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ interlayers are being used in the Church of Saint Stephen in Vicenza, Italy, to replace marble slabs with transparent floor panels in decorative laminated glass.

Some 400 people from around the world will gather in Corsicana this weekend to commemorate the retirement of Wally Palma, manager of the Corsicana Guardian Industries glass manufacturing plant for the past 27 years.

DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions recently launched DuPont™ Butacite® G Special Color PVB interlayers, which enhance design possibilities for architects, while maintaining the benefits of safety, sound reduction, solar energy control, UV control,…

The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) signed agreements for 10 new projects worth over Rs. 2 billion last week. Chairman/Director General of the BOI Dhammika Perera signed the agreements on behalf of the Board and Minister of Enterprise…

The tin bath is where the quality of float glass is determined. Here, the thickness of the glass ribbon must be regulated constantly, glass defects must be avoided and, if a defect does occur, it must be corrected as quickly and completely as…