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| You have probably seen it at many schools - a type of glass used in windows that has wire embedded inside. A Longview teenager has learned just how damaging that type of glass can be, after he ended up in the hospital with serious cuts to his arms.
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co, Japan's second-biggest flat glass maker, up 2.92 percent at 388 yen a day after it announced a profit forecast for the current business year that beat expectations.
| Construction of a float glass factory will begin at the My Xuan A Industrial Zone in Tan Thanh district of the southern coast province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau this September.The factory, the third of this kind in the country, will be built by the…
| To counter the threat of windows shattering under the extreme conditions of Australia's notorious summer bushfires, DuPont and Pilkington Australia have developed a bushfire resistant glass incorporating Pilkington coated glass and DuPont…
| China and North Korea have agreed to start building a glass factory in the north on July 1 as a Chinese grant, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.
| Billions of glass bottles once filled with beer and other cold drinks are leaving more than a trail of quenched thirst in California.
| Debate rages on the tattoo.about.com forums as to whether you can get sunburned through glass. The tatoo community is interested in this because as well as causing sunburn and skin cancer sunlight also causes tattoo ink to fade.Sunburn is caused by…
| Workers at Visteon Corp.'s Rawsonville plant near Ypsilanti have approved a new labor contract with the company.United Auto Workers Local 898 reached a tentative agreement with the company on May 21 - less than two hours before the union's…
| The 32-storey building, which has a heliport at the top, is the tallest in downtown Buenos Aires. It has been designed as the new headquarters of a leading Argentine bank, bringing together a number of corporate offices, which are currently…
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. will form a new joint venture with a local partner to manufacture float glass in Vietnam responding to increasing demand from the promising local market.
| Pilkington, the UK glass manufacturer, on Wednesday delivered flat full-year profits in weak market conditions which it warned would not improve during the current financial year.
| 25-year-old Twinsburg man was killed last week when a 6- by 7-foot piece of glass he was carrying shattered and cut his neck at a Northfield Road glass manufacturing plant, police said.
| Though in the forefront of many environmental trends, Californians are backsliding when it comes to recycling, throwing away nearly half of the glass bottles they use.
| Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (TSE: ) has decided to branch out into the business of manufacturing and marketing non-alkali glass substrates for TFT LCDs (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Displays), for the first time for the Company, inGumi, the…
| Pilkington Plc, the world's largest maker of car windshields, said fiscal second-half profit rose 18 percent after the U.K. company cut costs and sold assets to help counter slowing demand in some of its markets.
| 3M Co. has seen the future, and it is flat. Surging global demand for flat-panel displays on everything from cell phones to notebook computers and television sets has the manufacturer _ as well as nearly every other player _ scrambling to keep pace.
| Asahi Glass Co said Monday it will start manufacturing and marketing glass substrates for thin film transistor liquid crystal displays in Gumi, South Korea, by establishing a new subsidiary by the end of May to meet the projected rise in local…
| Jeremy Lancaster, in his final announcement as Chairman of Rexam prior to handing over to Rolf Börjesson at todays Annual General Meeting, is due to make the following statement:Following a strong group performance in 2003, Rexam continues to…
| In an effort further develop leading-edge system on glass (SOG) display solutions, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* today announced it is demonstrating a full-color version of its "system on glass" (SOG) input display…
| Film Technologies International Inc. (FTI) of St. Petersburg, Fla., has announced that David Fletcher has joined the company as president and member of the board of directors.