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A glass maker hailed for its efforts to revive downtown Cherokee is leaving the northwest Iowa city.Bogenrief Studios moved to Cherokee from Merrill 15 months ago after being courted by several cities in Iowa and other states.
Saint-Gobain Containers announced it will close a 45-year-old glass factory in Carteret and cut 200 jobs by Dec. 10 in a move aimed at reducing manufacturing capacity and cutting costs.
The United Kingdom’s Waste & Resources Action Programme has launched a program that aims to provide guidance to generators on how to successfully establish glass collection programs at licensed retail premises.
Fifteen months ago Mark Buschkamp took his place at a press conference in Des Moines and hailed Bogenrief Studios as the crowning jewel in the renaissance of downtown Cherokee.On Tuesday, Buschkamp confirmed the business is leaving town.
Russian Soda Co., or RCK, plans to build a 220 million euro ($271 million) glass factory in St. Petersburg, Vedomosti said, citing Valeri Zakoptelov, RCK’s chief executive.
Owners of the Fontainebleau plan a modern structure where a 16-story building now stands. Twenty feet away, the Eden Roc wants a new building, too.
Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) announced today that it has signed definitive agreements with Ford Motor Company, outlining terms and conditions of a new business arrangement announced by the two companies on May 25, 2005.
The Competition Commission (CC) has today published an issues statement as part of its inquiry into the completed acquisition by Ardagh International Holdings Ltd of Redfearn Glass Limited (previously Rexam Glass Barnsley Limited).
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. announced that it plans to build a new architectural glass fabrication plant as part of the company's strategy to grow in this market.
GlassKote USA formally announces the launch of its national program to license the GlassKote Process with the addition of three licensed applicators: Manhattan Shade & Glass in New York City, Inspired Designs in Kansas City, and Glass Design…
Rusty Zay is vice president of Jenn-Air, Maytag Corp., based in Newton, Iowa. Here, he answered a question about new technology on home appliances.Q: What's new in large appliance design?A: Floating-glass-panel appliances offer a fresh…
The state Department of Community and Economic Development has provided $300,000 in additional funding toward continuing efforts to renovate the former Lenox Crystal glass-manufacturing plant.
Pilkington PLC said pretax profit for the year to March 31 2005 rises to 183 mln stg under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) compared with the 165 mln stg reported originally under UK GAAP.
Garvin Sealy discovered his passion for creating stained glass quite accidentally.Studying barely a semester under a master craftsman at Eckerd College, he found himself yearning to learn more about the centuries-old art and its intricate use of…
Bankrupt glassmaker Glass Group Inc. plans to continue operating the Flat River Glass factory in Park Hills for another week because it hopes to get an offer to buy the plant in that time.
PPG Industries and the Idaho National Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, have agreed to extend their cooperative research-and-development effort by one year.
BPB, the world's largest plasterboard maker, will attempt to fight off a £3.7bn ($6.8bn, E5.5bn) hostile bid by French building materials group Saint-Gobain this week by emphasising its growth prospects as the central plank of its defence…
Brockway Moran & Partners, Inc., a Florida-based private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired GED Integrated Solutions, Inc. ("GED" or the "Company"), a provider of high quality equipment, integrated system…
Private equity firm Morgenthaler Partners of Cleveland has sold GED Integrated Solutions Inc. to a Florida-based private equity firm.
Local glass manufacturer PFG Building Glass yesterday celebrated an official groundbreaking ceremony for its capacity-expansion programme, which will see the construction of a second float-glass production line on site at its PFG Building Glass…
The launch of the InvisaGuard High Security Glass(TM) (HSG) this fall will help protect valuables consumers keep in their vehicles that criminals aim to steal.
GlassKote USA takes the next steps in setting the standard for glass color coatings in the U.S. by announcing test results that demonstrate 'green' means 'strong.' The GlassKote(TM) process, a durable and time-tested color…
Two of the world's biggest flat-panel display makers, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc., are expanding and investing in panel production as competition increases in the big-screen TV sector.
The German major Schott AG is planning to commission special glass tubing facility for its brand Fiolax in Vadodara with an investment of Rs 40 crore. These project will come up along with its 100 percent subsidiary company, Schott AG Schott…
From outside Plant No. 6, the whirl of machinery, crash of scrap glass and rumble of trucks carting caramel-colored sand resonates business as usual on Griffith Street.