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Nippon Sheet Glass Co. announced Monday it agreed to acquire 80 percent of British glassmaker Pilkington plc in a strategy to expand its global production capacity.
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. said Monday that it will acquire the 80 percent stake it doesn't have of Britain's Pilkington PLC in a deal worth 358.5 billion yen (US$3 billion; euro2.6 billion).
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Pilkington's chairman, Sir Nigel Rudd, stands to make £4.25m if, as expected, Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass returns with an agreed £2.2bn takeover offer this month.
Emirates Float Glass (EFG) LLC, founded by Dubai Investments PJSC has announced that the ground breaking ceremony of its 320,000 square meters plot at Industrial City of Abu Dhabi (ICAD 2), will be held on February 14, 2006.
Saudi Guardian International Float Glass Co., Ltd. (GulfGuard), along with its joint venture partners, Guardian Industries Corp., National Company for Glass Industries Ltd. ("Zoujaj") and Al Zamil Group will hold a groundbreaking ceremony…
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd., creator of the Selfoc lens and a supplier of gradient index lenses, has partnered with Optical Zonu, a Van Nuys, Calif., manufacturer of fiber interface modules.
Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass is unlikely to agree to buy Pilkington Plc for several more weeks as it continues to plough through the glassmaker's books, sources familiar with the situation said.
Sevasa, amongst the leading companies of high quality satined and engraved glass, has presented its new design CriSamar® ICE at the glass international exposition Vitrum 2005, held in Milan this past October.
Offering a broad range of flat glass pre-processing and processing technology through a global network of sales offices and technical expertise, providing customers with consultancy and after-sales assistance.
Dubai Investments PJSC has announced that the construction of Emirates Float Glass, the first ever float glass plant in the UAE, is set to commence in October 2005 at the Industrial City of Abu Dhabi.
Zhejiang Glass, the second-largest Hong Kong-listed mainland glassmaker by market value, will probably postpone its 920 million yuan (HK$864.24 million) investment in ultra-thick and low-emissivity coated glass production lines, first mooted early…
The largest auto glass maker in China, the Fuyao Glass Industry Group, is celebrating the launch of three new float glass production lines, which is expected to help ease the nation's lack of production technology of float glass, a kind of…
BOC has secured a 15-year, multi-million pound contract with international glass manufacturer Pilkington for the continued supply of nitrogen and hydrogen to the company's main UK manufacturing facility at St Helens, Merseyside.
Luoyang Glass, China's largest publicly traded flat glass maker, which issued a profit warning last month, plans to set up two joint ventures with its parent to produce ultra-thin glass and process raw materials with a total investment of 550…
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Dubai Investments PJSC is planning to set up a manufacturing plant for float glass in the UAE at an estimated investment of Dh735 million.
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The boards of leading automotive glass makers Asahi India Glass and FloatGlass India (FGI) on Thursday approved the amalgamation of FGI with its parent company Asahi India subject to requisite approvals.
The board of Taiwan Glass Industrial Corp. (Q.TGI) has approved plans to invest US$30 million in a new plant in China's Guangdong province, the glass maker said Friday.
DuPont and the U.S. State Department (DOS) have been working closely together for the past two years on a test and development programme to creat the next generation of blast-resistant window installations.
The market value of fabricated glass (encompassing basic flat glass as well as all value-added products, such as laminated, tempered, insulating and mirrored glass) is forecast to increase 5.2 percent per year through 2006.
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A western Pennsylvania town that once relied on a glass manufacturer for employment now believes the company is the key to luring new business there.