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| Kyro Corporations's main business area, Glaston Technologies, organized asignificant glass industry conference in Beijing on 23-24 April.
| Schott, the international technology group, continues to achieve growth. The companys Management Board projects a double-digit increase in both sales and profitability for the current fiscal year 2005/2006.
| Asahi Glass Fine Techno Taiwan (AFT), a 100% owned subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass, on April 7 broke ground for its third glass substrate plant in Taiwan.
| China's demand for flat glass has grown at a fast pace in the past decade. In the next five years, both production and demand will continue to grow.
| Digitimes.com reported that Asahi Glass Fine Techno Taiwan, a 100% owned subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass, is set to add two glass substrate production lines, including one sixth-generation (6G) and one 7.5G line, in Taiwan, with volume…
| On March 27, 2006, H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE:FUL) announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Henkel KGaA under which H.B.
| Construction glass makers are lobbying the Government to suspend the licensing of new glass-making projects until 2010 amid concerns of an imminent surplus crisis in the domestic market.
| A 70ha glass plant with a design capacity of consuming 900-1,000 tonnes of sand a day is to be built in the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone, according to trade officials in the central province of Quang Nams Tam Hiep District.
| Pilkington shareholders will vote in April on a formal offer by Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) for the remaining 80 per cent of the shares in Pilkington they do not currently own.
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co. said the potential benefits of its planned 616 billion yen acquisition of Britain's Pilkington Plc far outweigh the risks.
| Prices soar in Sriperumbudur, the tongue-twister of a place that every Indian knows. Sriperumbudur, a town 40 km southwest of Chennai, became notorious in 1991, when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated there.
| The rapid growth in Chinas construction sector as well as the current liquidity- and sentiment-driven appetite for Chinese paper are likely to be key themes during the road show for China National Building Material Cos initial public offering that…
| Staff at Swansea's Pilkington Glass have been reassured that their jobs are not at risk. The UK glass king, based in St Helens, Lancashire, is the latest in a string of British companies to be sold to foreign investors.
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co. announced Monday it agreed to acquire 80 percent of British glassmaker Pilkington plc in a strategy to expand its global production capacity.
| Emirates Glass, a Dubai Investments subsidiary and the regions leading supplier of premium architectural flat glass products, has announced the latest addition Charmline to its range.
| Nippon Sheet Glass Co. said Monday that it will acquire the 80 percent stake it doesn't have of Britain's Pilkington PLC in a deal worth 358.5 billion yen (US$3 billion; euro2.6 billion).
| In keeping with its commitment to introduce state-of-the-art glass products, the Paris-based Multinational Saint-Gobain announced introduction of a rage of solar control reflective glass products.
| Pilkington's chairman, Sir Nigel Rudd, stands to make £4.25m if, as expected, Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass returns with an agreed £2.2bn takeover offer this month.
| Industrial Development Bureau, Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), indicated that Taiwan panel makers will invest NT$260 billion (US$8.04 billion) this year, with the overall industry value to exceed NT$1 trillion (US$30.1 billion) in Taiwan…
| China Glass Holdings Ltd said yesterday it would pay 416 million yuan (US$53 million) to buy controlling stakes of seven rival domestic glassmakers, making it the largest listed flat glass producer in China.