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| Over 200 amazing glass artworks, from the red hot furnaces on the island of Murano, will illuminate the galleries of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in the very cool exhibition Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection.
| David Vogt pulls a five-foot, stainless steel hollow rod with a small glob of molten glass at the end out of a red-hot oven.Vogt rolls the glowing glob across a stainless-steel surface, blows through the tube to expand it, and then re-heats it.
| Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Libbey Glass Incorporated has announced plans to stop production at its Walnut, California, glass tableware manufacturing plant.
| Federal jurors on Thursday cleared Pilkington North America of allegations that it allowed arsenic waste at the company's glass factory in Naplate to contaminate the surrounding village.
| In the run up to the exhibition there was never any doubt that glasstec 2004 would once again justify its claim to be the world’s no. 1 exhibition in the glass sector.
| Saint-Gobain, one of the world's leading glass companies, is considering entering the business of highly pure glass for liquid-crystal display screens, a booming area of the electronics industry, the Financial Times reported, citing the company…
| When it comes to glass-making "everything old is new again." Well, at least sometimes. Creative glass techniques used in ancient Egypt and Rome have been rediscovered and used in new ways by such important glassmakers as Louis Comfort…
| Ultraframe shares crashed 16pc yesterday after the conservatory specialist effectively issued a fourth profits warning this year alongside its annual results.
| Analysts at Lehman Brothers maintain their "overweight" rating on Applied Films. The target price has been raised from $18 to $24.
| Glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell spends his days working and teaching in the state-of-the-art Corning Corhart Philips Lighting Hot Glass studio at Centre College.
| The finance and purchasing director of a major UK glass reprocessing firm has called on the government to take the lead in creating a "credible economic environment" for glass recycling.
| Airports are full of drama. At airports, thousands of people say goodbye to each other. "Departures" and "Arrivals" are great mythic doorways that frame every life.
| WRAP has announced positive results for a research study into another possible alternative market for waste glass. The University of Sheffield "ConGlassCrete" study concluded that waste container, plate, automotive and fluorescent tube…
| Consol, AVI's packaging subsidiary, which is due to be listed early next year, aimed to promote glass recycling to bring South Africa in line with First World countries and to create informal sector jobs, said Mike Arnold, the managing director.
| Arcadia Precision Waterjet Cutting & Metal Supply is fighting a Pennsylvania company to win a lucrative account with General Electric Polymershapes.
| Asahi India Glass Ltd. said on Friday that the Board of Directors has approved setting up of its single largest integrated glass plant at Roorkee in the State of Uttaranchal, with an estimated projected cost of Rs60bn.
| Binswanger Glass is closing the Salisbury store that operated as Pritchard Glass for years on Main Street in Salisbury. The operation is moving to Charlotte at year's end.
| Asahi India Glass on Friday announced the setting up of its single largest integrated glass plant at Roorkee in Uttaranchal with an estimated investment of Rs 600 crore (Rs 6 billion).
| Super thin glass backs the trend towards increasingly flat and light-weight products. As a result, this material is of increasing importance for modern flat-panel or cellular phone displays.
| Catching the company flatfooted, two of Corning's Taiwan customers cut orders for flat-panel liquid crystal display screens.