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The glass manufacturing works is purposed to create the national glass industry, satisfy the construction industry needs, achieve multiplicative effect for the development of other sectors, the Bank’s press service informs.
Theherald.co.uk reported that the building industry is facing the threat of a dramatic rise in the price of glass this year after private warnings by Europe's major manufacturers that they are withdrawing capacity and introducing quota supplies.
Isra Vision AG, supplier of industrial image processing systems (Machine Vision), saw a seamless continuation of its excellent business development of the past few years in the first quarter of the new 2006/2007 fiscal year (October 1 to December 31…
Pilkington’s joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KZ (PKZ) LLP, yesterday announced the start of infrastructure work on the site of the new float glass production line to be built in Kyzylorda, in the south west of the country.
Vitreous fused silica rollers are used specially as transport rollers for tempering flat glass. This method has been used for many years in the manufacture of tempered safety flat glass.
Vitro one of the world's largest producers and distributors of glass products, announced 4Q'06 unaudited results. Year over year consolidated sales increased 7.7 percent and EBITDA rose 3.6 percent.
Emirates Float Glass (EFG), the UAE’s first integrated glass processing facility and a subsidiary of Glass LLC which is wholly owned by Dubai Investments, has signed a 15-year nitrogen and hydrogen supply agreements with worldwide leading industrial…
Vitro  recently signed an agreement with the Center for University Studies (CEU), a  higher learning institution focusing on middle school, under graduate and post  graduate levels of education, located in Monterrey, N.L.
Vitro  Cristalglass, Vitro’s subsidiary in Europe, held a ceremony today to celebrate the  inauguration and start-up of its new furnace in the La Rozada facility, located in  the vicinity of Villadecanes, Leon with the capacity to temper the largest…
Vietnam’s largest float glass factory project worth VND1.3 trillion (US$81 million) got off the ground Friday in the central Chu Lai Economic Zone.
Reuterts reported that Pilkington, the UK-based unit of Japanese glassmaker Nippon Sheet Glass, said on Friday it had launched legal action against Mexico's Vitro  over a move to merge a unit Pilkington part-owns into another company.
The Club of Rome has introduced an initiative aimed at bringing Europe, the Middle East and North Africa together in building solar thermal power plants.
Romania has inaugurated a float glass factory in Calarasi following a 100 million EUR investment implemented over 18 months.
Solar thermal power plants make use of direct solar radiation that is not dispersed by clouds and concentrate it using mirrors.
Shares of Mexican glass maker Vitro SAB de CV shattered a 52-week high Thursday after the company said it is refinancing its debt.
Vitro,  S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VTO and BMV: VITROA), announced that its  subsidiary Vitro Envases Norteamérica, S.
Vitro’s  dedication and strong commitment in developing innovative and top quality  containers continues to give very positive results, as it received the top award  “Prize for Excellence” for three different containers in a recent “WorldStar” …
George Rode fixes cars, and now he's trying to do his part to get a few extra miles out of Mother Earth. Rode is preparing to install solar photovoltaic electric systems on the roofs of his two Eugene auto repair shops, Euro-Asian Automotive…
The chief executive of Pilkington is to take on a beefed-up executive role at its Japanese parent months after steering the British glassmaker through its £2.2bn takeover.
Vitro,  announced that it had  finalized the sale of real estate currently occupied by its subsidiary Vidriera  Mexico (Vimex) in Mexico City for US$100 million.
Business.inq7.net reported that the Department of Trade and Industry has extended by three years the general safeguard measure against imported float glass, saying the local industry needs more time to adjust to become competitive.
Photovoltaic panels produced by the new joint venture company AVANCIS will use an innovative film coating and glass processing technology.
The objective of solar control measures Increased user convenience and lower energy consumption are among the main demands placed on modern building design.
Saint-Gobain Vitrage, Saint-Gobain’s Flat Glass Sector, and Shell (Shell Erneuerbare Energien GmbH) announce the foundation of a 50/50 joint-venture for the production and sale of next generation photovoltaic panels.
The construction of a large-scale modern glass producing and processing center by Jingniu Group, one of the renowned Chinese glass producers, is in full swing in Kadoma, an industrial city in central Zimbabwe.