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| Southwall Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SWTX) plans to release its financial results for fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2002 on Wednesday, February 26, 2003, following the close of market.
| Effective March 1, Solutia Inc. will increase the price of adipic acid $0.05/lb. "The increase is being driven by demand, which has remained strong since 2002, and increasing raw material costs," said Mike Berezo, director, nylon…
| Milly Glass Works Limited, one of the largest glass manufacturers in the country, has closed down.The company belongs to Mombasa-based business tycoon and former nominated MP Rashid Sajjad.
| Bridgend County Borough Council has awarded waste management company, Biffa Waste Services Ltd, a six-year contract to provide the council’s household waste, trade waste, bulky waste and clinical waste collection services.
| In occasion of the installation of a new continuos-casting plant for the aluminium production and of an ultramodern cold rolling-mill (to put beside the plants of the same kind already working) Profilglass SpA has decided to organise an inauguration…
| During Glasstec 2002 in Dusseldorf, Bystronic Inc. and Maschinenbau Gerold GmbH & Co, KG (Nettetal, Germany) announced an agreement whereby Bystronic Inc. will represent and support Gerold's screen-printing and related equipment for the…
| Solutia Inc. closed the sale of its resins, additives and adhesives businesses to UCB S.A. for U.S. $500 million cash. John C.
| Gemco Furnaces b.v. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has acquired the Stein Atkinson Stordy (SAS) Glass business unit. The acquisition was completed on Monday February 4th 2003.
| The Darby Group has invested in excess of £1 Million in 3 new automated Lisec Insulating Glass Unit Lines.
| On a cold, gray, damp New York winter morning, Virginia Raguin is a model of enthusiasm--basking in interior light and eager to argue the case that stained glass isn't merely a decorative art or craft.
| An almost full-scale model of a float bath forms the centre of a major new float glass display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
| Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Thursday that it had revised the outlook on its long-term corporate credit rating on Japan's Asahi Glass Co Ltd (Tokyo:5201.
| Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that AFG Industries, one of the largest glass manufacturers in North America, will locate a new glass coating operation in Washington County, creating 80 new jobs.
| Florida-based Anchor Glass Container Corp. late Friday sold $300 million of 10-year senior secured notes in the 144a private placement market, said market sources on Monday.
| Pilkington Automotive has installed a highly innovative cylindrical furnace at its São Paulo plant in Brazil.
| Dow Chemical Co. DOW.N , the No. 1 U.S. chemical maker, said on Thursday it would eliminate up to 4,000 jobs this year as high energy costs and an asbestos charge widened its fourth-quarter loss.The high cost of crude oil and natural gas wiped out a…
| Mexican stocks followed the Nasdaq lower, but limited their losses Friday morning, while glassmaker Vitro, soon to be included in the country's benchmark stock index, bucked the losing trend.
| Two men and a 17-year-old girl have returned a security camera stolen from outside the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma police spokesman Jim Mattheis said.The three suspects turned themselves into Tacoma police…
| This year may not raise hopes of a great economic recovery, but for some stalwarts, ‘02-’03 will definitely be worth writing home about, at least compared to the last year.
| In a bid to avoid possible anti-dumping charges by the U.S. and other countries, a major Chinese autoglass maker has set up a factory in Hong Kong, bucking the decades-long drift of manufacturers from the territory to the mainland.