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The family that owns a controlling stake in Swiss chemicals firm Sika said on Monday it has filed a lawsuit to help push through a 2.75 billion Swiss franc ($2.73 billion) takeover by French building materials company Saint-Gobain.
Tourists visiting Tower Bridge can see a unique view of the bridge mechanism and road below – through two new glass walkway floors 42 metres above the River Thames.
Tutorial explains how to specify glass to reduce heat-related cracking and fissures - PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has posted a new video about specifying glass to prevent thermal stress breakage in the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive…
Signature brand marks half-century as trailblazer in energy-efficient glass - With its gothic spires and subtly reflective glass façade, PPG Place has been a signature monument on the Pittsburgh skyline since it was erected in 1984.
NRW Bank is a business development bank exclusively commissioned by the authorities to support the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in its structural and economic tasks. North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany and the…
The possibilities of digital printing extend the design spectrum with glasses in both indoor and outdoor areas with space for individual designs and motifs produced in small series.
Glass producer Pilkington, a unit of Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass Co (NSG), lost its challenge on Wednesday to a 357 million euro ($445 million) cartel fine after a top EU court said regulators had come up with the correct sanction.
With over forty presented glasses, a multimedia stand concept and new pioneering solutions, within the context of glasstec 2014, Saint-Gobain Glass impressively underlines its innovation leadership as Europe's largest flat glass manufacturer.
SOLARBAN glass by PPG, trailblazer for energy-efficient glass, marks 50th anniversary - Citigroup Center and KPMG Tower, two landmark skyscrapers that have been fixtures on the Los Angeles skyline for more than 30 years, are part of an online…
In response to numerous requests from shareholders and with the intent of entering into a constructive dialogue, Sika will discuss the situation resulting from the planned transaction between the Burkard Family and Saint-Gobain with its investors,…
Glass panels etched with soldier photographs and quotations - STARPHIRE(R) ultra-clear glass by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) is integral to one of the country’s newest landmarks, the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington, D.
The Board of Directors and the Group Management of Sika were informed Friday evening, December 5, 2014, that the French Group Saint-Gobain intends to indirectly acquire all shares held by the Burkard family, Sika's current majority shareholder.
Effective from December 1, 2014, the Board of Directors of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain will have two new members, Alain Destrain and Pascal Laï, appointed under the French Law on Securing Employment of June 14, 2013.
Low-emissivity glass (low-E glass) is a type of energy-saving glass with low rate of thermal radiation, high heat-resistance performance, good light- and thermal-control abilities, mainly used in building, electronics, automobile and other fields.
Companies to jointly promote self-tinting and low-emissivity glass - PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) and Pleotint, LLC, have renewed their agreement to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines self-tinting SUNTUITIVE® glass by…
For the fourth year in a row, Saint-Gobain has been included in the Thomson Reuters Top 100 global innovators ranking.
Fuyao Glass Group provided further details Tuesday for the remodeling of its facility near Mount Zion by selecting a general contractor for the project. It has retained Henry F.
Let imagination run riot. Let the words flow. Chalk out new plans. Erase the roadblocks. With the new Planisafe for writing boards, Saint-Gobain is giving reason to redefine traditional methods of writing on the chicked white boards.
The SOLARBAN(R) glass brand debuted 50 years ago, and for the past four decades, the PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) product has been selected for application on many prominent buildings that define the Dallas skyline.
The DoC Dortmunder Centrum fur Medizin and Gesundheit (Dortmunder Center for Medicine and Public Health) at Dortmund, Germany, is the result of restoring a former building of WestLB near the main station.
Hauser Plads is situated in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. A public square, it is separated by the more popular and larger square, Kultorvet by the former Copenhagen Central Library Building.
By Derek Malmquist - This year’s Greenbuild show was held in New Orleans and the Big Easy witnessed some big innovation in green building technology.
Oregon’s first Earth Advantage Platinum-certified building conserves energy while maximizing daylight and outdoor views - A new technology center at Central Oregon Community College is using SageGlass® dynamic glass, a product of Saint-Gobain, to…
Sophisticated low-e glasses block heat, transmit daylight to help buildings save energy - Two prominent Oklahoma City landmarks, constructed more than 20 years apart and both featuring SOLARBAN® glass by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), are part of a…