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Türkiye Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari A. (Sisecam), the leading glass producer in Turkey, has ordered batch plants from Raute Precision for their glass plants in Russia and in Turkey.
CertainTeed Corp. is expanding within its massive Kansas City, Kan., insulation factory and expects to boost production of three popular fiberglass insulation brands by 15 percent to 20 percent within months.
MOUNTING losses are threatening the future of Penicuik-based Edinburgh Crystal Glass. The firms parent company, Caledonia Investments, admitted the glassware business was going through a "tough time".
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG - News) is the first company to establish international volunteer involvement in the Monarch Watch program aimed at studying the migration of the monarch butterfly.
When Dale Chihuly mixes glass art with plant life, he gets much more than a pretty vase filled with flowers. He gets a blockbuster exhibit featuring intricate and otherworldly works of art set among the plants and ponds of the Franklin Park…
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain confirms that it has recently signed an agreement to sell its subsidiary Saint-Gobain Terreal to a financial company controlled by the Carlyle investment fund.
Subsequent to the announcement in May 2003 that Peter Brown, Managing Director, Amcor Australasia, would be retiring towards the end of 2003, Peter Brown and Amcor have mutually agreed that his retirement will become effective on September 30, 2003.
The people of Waterford have smashed the citys recycling record by depositing over two hundred and twenty thousand bottles and jars in bring banks during the first eight months of this year.
Schott Scientific Glass Thursday announced tentative plans to send work abroad and close its Staunton Avenue plant next year, affecting 190 employees.
Applied Films Corporation (Nasdaq: AFCO) announced today that its follow-on public offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock has been priced at $28.75 per share.
PPG Industries Inc. is among the scores of other U.S. manufacturers that are moving engineering and research and development jobs offshore, the company's chief executive told members of the Pittsburgh Technology Council on Wednesday.
CertainTeed Corporation's Insulation Group has announced its intent to build another manufacturing line in its Kansas City, KS insulation manufacturing facility.
Cardinal Glass Industries will build a 220,000-square-foot plant in Roanoke County to manufacture insulating glass, creating 200 jobs, Gov.
Mr. Lorenzo Barquin has joined Emhart Glass SA as NIS Product Manager in Cham, Switzerland. Lorenzo Barquin holds a B.S. of Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Directors of Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE) have declared a regular quarterly dividend of 14.5 cents per share of common stock.
Vitro, S.A. de C.V. announced that it intends to issue and sell, subject to market and other conditions, approximately US$250 million of senior notes due 2013 (the "Notes") in a private placement pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S…
A potential safety hazard will be barred from new schools constructed in Oregon beginning this week.The state's Building Codes Division will end a long-standing exemption on Wednesday that permitted wired glass to be used in some locations.
ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a Minneapolis-based damaged vehicle repair company, announced today the opening of a repair center in Cumming, GA.
Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (J.NSG or 5202) said Monday it has agreed to buy sales rights for small liquid crystal displays from a Hong Kong subsidiary of Applied Films Corp. (AFCO), a U.S. thin-film coated glass maker, for $1.2 million.
Longmont-based Applied Films Corp. (Nasdaq: AFCO) has finished the sale of its coated glass business in Hong Kong to Nippon Sheet Glass for $1.2 million, plus $130,000 in inventory.
THE Minister of Trade and Industry, Jacob Nkate last week challenged African investors to show confidence in the continent's economies by investing inshore instead of off-shore.
The countdown is now underway for the start of the UKs first and only trade exhibition dedicated to the glass industry: The Glass Processing & Technology (GP&T) exhibition and conference.
ADCO Global Inc., Michigan Center, MI, has announced the purchase of Chemetalls (Frankfort, Germany) primary and secondary insulating glass sealants and casting resins business.
Pilkington plc and Emerging Markets Partnership (EMP), principal adviser to the AIG Emerging Europe Infrastructure Fund, have formed a 50:50 joint venture to construct and operate a float glass plant in the Moscow region of Russia.