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PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) and Pleotint, LLC, have agreed to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines Sunlight Responsive Thermochromic, or SRT(TM), interlayer technology by Pleotint, with SOLARBAN(R) low-emissivity (low-e)…
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Solar panels have become true investment goods. Manufacturers have been able to reduce their production cost and are now offering long warranties on performance with panel lifetime increased to twenty years or more.
Konarka Technologies, Germany, will join Lapp Kabel GmbH, Bayer Sheet Europe, Bischoff Glastechnik, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology to manufacture organic solar cells for building-integrated applications.
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Texas Court Grants Chapter 15 Recognition for Vitro SAB?s MexicanProceeding, Staying Further Actions Against It in the U.
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