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| The Roanoke County Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to repeal covenants on the Vinton Business Center so Cardinal Glass Industries can build a factory on the site.
| There's a new glass in town. The glass, developed with the help of a unique NASA levitator facility, is available for numerous commercial applications including lasers and optical communications.
| Do car windows have to be made from glass? The automotive industry has always answered "yes." But you may soon find yourself gazing through a very different kind of glazing.
| Cardinal IG and its Oregon public partners recognized the $17 million investment of plant and equipment underway at the company’s future location on August 20.
| The window featuring a distinctive red cockerel, survived Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and lay discarded but unbroken in rubble for centuries.
| Amid the gloom of lost jobs in manufacturing a bright light shone through yesterday when GKN Aerospace Services took over Pilkington Aerospace at Kings Norton.
| 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 firm’s 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.
| 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.
| 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…
| 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 city’s 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.