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“Tailor-made” solutions IT at the service of the glass sector. The company R.O. (the acronym stands for Operational Research) has been producing cut optimization, CAD, and management (orders, bills, invoices, drafts, warehouse, etc.) software and…
Artopia closes.Flame Run opens.The king is dead. Long live the king.Art appreciation in Louisville is booming, but increasingly it seems to be appreciation of art glass.
A ground-breaking ceremony of the Dae-an glass factory, donated by the Chinese government to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), was held Thursday morning.
Vitro, S.A. de C.V. ("Vitro") (NYSE: VTO; BMV: VITROA) announced today thatits subsidiary Vitro Envases Norteamerica S.A. de C.V.
CE-Europe’s largest glass factory could emerge in Székesfehérvár, western Hungary, as glass maker Jüllich Glas Holding is poised to build a 11,000 sqm plant in a multi-phase project.
Glass containers plant construction will give 2000 new workplaces with project capacity of 900 tones of transparent and brown glass per 24 hours.
As part of a big push into Southeast Asian glass markets, Ocean Glass Plc is buying two new forming machines and is updating its Thai factory at a cost of Bt670 million in order to raise production by 20 per cent.
Irish glass container manufacturer Ardagh Glass has bought a Polish glass plant for E8m. Ardagh said it has agreed to buy 82.4pc of Polish company Huta Szkla Ujscie which operates a plant near Poznan in western Poland and controls around 13pc of the…
In the light of steadily increasing demand for good quality insulation in Russia and in the neighbouring countries, Saint-Gobain Isover has decided to more than triple its glasswool capacity in its Yegorievsk Russia glasswool plant, in the Moscow…
Libbey Inc. announced that it successfully refinanced its bank debt under a new $250 million unsecured revolving credit agreement on June 24, 2004.
Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI), global developer and exclusive supplier of the Diamon-Fusion® hydrophobic nanotechnology, recently unveiled the launching of a new expansion plan for some of the largest US metropolitan markets that include…
William Davidson, president and CEO of global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries Corp., has earned a place in professional sports history, becoming the first team owner to win championships in different sports in the same year.
Everybody wants to be the first to spot new talent — witness the success of television's "American Idol." In a process far less public and less painful, art-glass gallery owner Marta Hewett puts the spotlight on new talent for the…
The Turkish Sisecam Group has signed a loan agreement which will provide for the financing of its glass factory to be established in Bulgaria.
The rags to riches story may sound like a cliché but when it comes to the birth of Glazing Botswana, one cannot help but use it, after-all this is a company that was born out of sweat, determination and the desire to succeed.
The San Salvo toughening plant celebrated a record yield result for April. The plant achieved a 91.1 per cent yield for the first time ever - the target figure is 90.5 per cent.
The world's priciest piece of glass, a 1,700-year-old Middle Eastern bowl, will be the star of an antiquities auction in London next month.
Mexican glass maker Vitro said on Wednesday it was analyzing various forms of financing, including the possibility of a private bond placement for $150 million, to refinance other debt.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has succeeded in the development of "QC-i" a synthetic quartz photomask(1) substrate, which complies with the liquid immersion technology used in ArF (argon fluoride) laser steppers(2) that use ArF lasers as a light…
Interpane has filed a plant closing notice with state officials, saying it will shut down operations in Deerfield and eliminate 68 jobs.
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. today at its annual meeting of shareholders elected Jerome L. Davis, 49, to its Board of Directors.
The Mexican Packaging Association (AMEE) awarded 36 of Vitro glass containers the “2004 Stellar Container” Annual Contest award.
State and local officials have opened the door for Guardian Fiberglass to expand its manufacturing operations in Albion, but a Guardian official said the company may be months away from a final decision.