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| According to one environmental consultancy recycling glass back into glass products delivers maximum environmental benefits.
| Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), the industry leader in specialty fiber, today announced the introduction of a ytterbium-doped double clad fiber with all-glass cladding enabling output power in excess of 100 Watts.
| PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) and Kansai Paint today announced they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding and entered into negotiations for the creation of an alliance.
| Receivers have been called in to the glass-making firm Caithness Glass. The move places 150 jobs under threat at the company which has manufacturing centres in Wick, Perth and Oban.
| UK reprocessors recycled 18% more glass packaging last year compared to 2002, new figures have revealed. Figures from British Glass show that 875,000 tonnes was recycled last years, compared with 747,000 in 2002 and 736,000 in 2001.
| DuPont has acquired Retrim, a safetyglass interlayer company, with plant operations in Zlin, Czech Republic. Terms were not disclosed.
| She may not be a magician, but Margie Shanahan feels that way sometimes.That's how she describes the work she does to create glass beads and jewelry, some of which are now on display at the Passageway Gallery in downtown Omaha.
| Nicholas Ashton will tell you that if necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is the father. Both were present when Irish Republican Army bombs bloodied London in the early 1970s. Ashton and business partner Gary Blake decided to…
| Owens-Illinois has entered into negotiations to acquire Europe's second largest glass manufacturer, BSN Glasspack, leaving the door open for a possible sale of its plastics business.
| Rexam, the UK-based global consumer packaging company, has confirmed the acquisition from Dutch group Hunan of all of the shares in Poland Glassworks Holding, the holding company of Polish glassworks, Polglass.
| Owens-Illinois, which has a plant in Godfrey, Ill., plans to become Europe's largest maker of glass beer bottles through the potential $1.4 billion acquisition of BSN Glasspack S.A. of France.The Toledo, Ohio-based firm counts St.
| Vitro S.A. de C.V. producer and distributor of glass products, today announced 4Q03 and 2003 year end un-audited results.
| Change will continue to be an important aspect for the SCHOTT international technology group in the current 2003/2004 fiscal year (to Sept. 30).
| Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI) today announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire BSN Glasspack, S.
| Essex-based commercial glass collector Raw Glass Recycling is preparing to open a second glass sorting depot in Scotland.
| The DuPont Center for Collaborative Research & Education and partners, Science Service, American Honda Foundation, and Dow Chemical Company, have announced the launch of a new science and technology website www.sciencenewsforkids.org for…
| In an effort to keep jobs at The Glass Group Inc.'s Millville facility, Local 219 of the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers Union has made some concessions in its contract with the company, said Les Orange, Local 219 president.
| A company that sells glass designed to withstand blowtorch flames said its product could help protect buildings from future terrorist attacks.Pilkington North America opened a processing facility in Toledo in December to sell the fire-resistant…
| Empty snapple bottles may be worthless now, but they could be worth something in the future.Bills are being introduced in the state Legislature to expand New York's bottle law to include containers not covered under the original bill.
| A company that sells glass designed to withstand blowtorch flames said its product could help protect buildings from future terrorist attacks.Pilkington North America opened a processing facility in Toledo in December to sell the fire-resistant…