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Day three of the 2013 Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) Annual Conference opened today with member recognition as well as a workplace safety presentation. David Cooper (standing), Guardian Industries, attends his final conference as…
GMB has pledged to resist compulsory job losses and changes to pensions at Pilkington Glass.The union has more than 500 members in St Helens and is undertaking a consultative ballot on proposed changes to pensions that could reduce final pensionable…
Chris Barry had just returned from two years hitchhiking around the world when he was offered his first job with Pilkington, in Canada.
Pilkington Planar™ Crystal Connect™, powered by Dow Corning, allows architects to create continuous glass façades with no protrusions.Architects have unprecedented opportunities to bring their design visions to life with the launch of Pilkington…
Pilkington Planar™, structural glazing system, helps create an impressive entrance for the new Blackfriars station.With thousands of visitors descending on London in 2012, some of the city’s more aged infrastructure desperately needed upgrading.
A leading UK steel glazing company has supplied fire-rated systems to several Olympic, FIFA and other major stadiums.
With thousands of visitors descending on London in 2012, some of the city’s more aged infrastructure desperately needed upgrading.
Pyroguard EI30 INT fire resistant glazing from CGI International has been installed at a new student residence in Leicester, to deliver fire protection far superior to current building regulation requirements.
Jane Embury, a director of steel glazing company Wrightstyle, looks at fire safety in shopping centres.
Britain’s recent wintery weather may start causing some homeowners to feel the effects of the cold, experiencing draughts or cold spots because of old or poorly fitted glazing units.
Pilkington MirroView™ is ideal for concealing televisions and video screens. With its highly reflective mirror coating on a clear substrate, it gives your televisions and video screens a modern, transitional look.
The appalling fire in Bangladesh at the weekend, in which over one hundred people, mainly women, were killed, brings the total to over 500 people who have died in similar garment factory fires in the country since 2006, according to a rights group.
1988 is the year in which Helmut Kohl is German Chancellor, Steffi Graf wins all of the four Grand Slams, the GDR enters into diplomatic relations with the EC – and the trained flat glass merchant Günter Befort leaves IG producers Wolff + Meier and…
SAPULPA – The Sapulpa Fire Department responded to an electrical fire at a business early Monday.Firefighters were called to Saint-Gobain Containers, a glass manufacturing plant, at 1000 N.
A UK steel glazing company has brought together videos of its systems being tested against a lorry bomb, car bomb and ballistic attack and posted them on YouTube.
SAFTI FIRST’s 2-Hour Fire Rated Curtain Wall Passes Rigorous Dynamic Tests Fire as Prescribed by CDC
CDC (Curtain Wall Design and Consulting) is a leading independent firm providing a wide range of building envelope design, engineering, and consulting services to design professionals nationwide.
The NSG Group – manufacturers of Pilkington glass – is welcoming customers to view its new £36 million off-line coater facility, before it starts manufacture in November.
The latest results from independent tests at leading Notified Body IFT Rosenheim confirm Pilkington Spacia™ achieves a U-value of 1.1W/m2K.
If a statement sent to the Laurinburg Exchange Wednesday via its website is accurate, the Pilkington plant may have delayed a decision to lay off 75 people.
An impressive full height glazed atrium is the stunning centre piece of a West End office building featuring fire-resistant glass manufactured by GLASSOLUTIONS, the largest processor, distributor, installer and repairer of glass and glass systems in…
Wrightstyle Limited is an international glass and steel glazing company. Lee Coates leads research, development and testing for the company’s systems which mitigate against fire, bomb/blast and ballistic attack.
The latest results from independent tests at leading Notified Body IFT Rosenheim confirm Pilkington Spacia achieves a U-value of 1.1W/m2K.
The Challenge: TELUS and The Globe and Mail award Toronto glass company top contest prize to expand production across North America TORONTO, ON (September 26, 2012) – Toronto-based glass company Glassopolis developed a fire-resistant glass that has…
Around 300 current and retired employees and family members marked the occasion at an Open House event which included a barbecue, prizes and plant tours.
A 60,000 sq ft industrial unit in Tankersley occupied by Pilkington UK has been acquired in a £2m deal brokered by CBRE.Acting on behalf of a fund, the capital markets team at CBRE sold the unit on Wentworth Industrial Estate to a private Yorkshire…