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| Olympus and Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) have jointly developed a technology to create minute irregularities on a glass surface in the orders of 100nm to micrometers and flexibly produce a large types of products in small quantities.
| Weld County commissioners avoided legal action against a Windsor company Monday when they voted unanimously to give Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. a six-month extension to meet certain building code requirements.
| The value of mergers and acquisitions across Europe is forecast to hit $930 billion (£530bn) by the end of the year. Research by United States investment bank JP Morgan had previously estimated deals worth some $883bn (£505bn).
| Glassmaker Pilkington is said to be preparing for official talks with its smaller Japanese suitor, which could see it taken over this week for more than £2 billion.
| Nearly half of Australians are confused about what can and cannot be recycled, leading to tonnes of renewable material being discarded as landfill.The problem is twofold.
| When interacting with a businessman about the glass to be used in a new school building he was promoting, Kunwar Narain, chief operating officer of AIS Glass was taken aback when energy efficiency and effectiveness of air conditioning clauses were…
| SGG Bioclean self-cleaning glass with photocatalytic properties is cleaned thanks to the sun and the rain.SGG Bioclean self-cleaning glass with photocatalytic properties, from Saint-Gobain Glass, is active thanks to the dual action of sun and rain.
| Key Features:•Good results, despite challenging markets and higher energy costs•Increased revenue and operating profits from both core businesses – Building Products and Automotive•Profit before taxation up 22 per cent at £99 million (2004 £81…
| Glass maker Pilkington is said to be preparing for talks with its smaller Japanese suitor which could see it taken over for more than £2 billion.
| Pilkington, the world's second-biggest manufacturer of glass used by the building industry, rejected a proposed bid from Japanese group Nippon Sheet Glass, as it posted in-line first-half results.
| Diamond Triumph Auto Glass, Inc. ("Diamond Triumph"), a leading provider of automotive glass replacement and repair services in the United States, announced today that it will make its annual and quarterly reports, commencing with its…
| On 31st October 2005, Pilkington announced that a preliminary approach had been made which might or might not lead to an offer being made for the Company.
| After 2,000 years of making and breaking glass, one might think there would be a definitive answer. But at the Third International Workshop on the Flow and Fracture of Advanced Glasses, held Oct. 2 to 5 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 50…
| Research Frontiers Incorporated announced that it has granted a non-exclusive worldwide license to SPD Control Systems Corporation (SCSC) to manufacture and sell electronic and total building control systems for SPD-Smart(TM) products.
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co has ended five years of speculation by making a formal takeover approach to Pilkington that would value the century-old St Helens glassmaker at more than £2 billion.
| Standard & Poor's said it has placed its 'BB+' long-term corporate credit and debt ratings for Nippon Sheet Glass Co on CreditWatch with negative implications, following the company's approach to acquire Pilkington PLC of the…
| EPA Region 5 has cited the Anchor Glass Container Corp. for alleged clean-air violations at the company’s container glass manufacturing plant in Indiana.
| Judel Glass Company, Inc. in Salem has announced plans to shut down two of its three manufacturing furnaces. President David Rifenburgh says about 45 workers will be laid off.
| Pilkington, one of the world's largest glassmakers, yesterday joined the growing list of British companies facing foreign takeovers after Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass made an approach thought to value the firm at £2billion.
| The SGTF Composites Group has announced the launch of another development for closed mould processing, “put-in-place” low tack adhesive fabrics.