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| Saint-Gobain has announced the acquisition from HeidelbergCement of Maxit group, manufacturer of industrial mortars.
| The work of the German glass sculptor Nabo Gass links innovative finesse with the highest standards for creativity.
| Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has reported a 6% rise in sales for the first half of 2007, on an actual structure basis, to €21.78bn (US$29.75bn).
| With a total of 100,000 square metres of exhibition area, Stuttgart's New Trade Fair Centre offers abundant floor space.
| It’s not every new development project that turns established processes on their head, but according to experts, dynamic sorting is just such an innovation.
| SCHOTT Solar, a 100 percent subsidiary of the worldwide SCHOTT group, and WACKER Chemie AG plan to set up two joint ventures to produce and market silicon wafers for solar applications.
| SALES: up 6.0% to €21,779 million up 6.9% like-for-like*OPERATING INCOME: up 15.3% to €2,093 million up 16.6% like-for-like*RECURRING NET INCOME**: up 31.2% to €1,067 millionNet income amounts to €465 million, taking into account the €650 million…
| Blue LEDs set into the road surface of the B 311, similar to those used as runway markings on airfields, show the way at night as drivers enter St.
| Saint-Gobain has announced the acquisition of the Norandex group in the United States from Owens Corning. Norandex has 2,200 employees and delivered sales of $866 million in 2006 split into two activities: building materials distribution and vinyl…
| Saint-Gobain announces that definitive agreements to sell its Reinforcements and Composites activities to Owens Corning were signed on the 27th of July, 2007.
| SALES: up 6.0% to EUR21,779 million up 6.9% like-for-like(*) - OPERATING INCOME: up 15.3% to EUR2,093 million up 16.6% like-for-like(*) - RECURRING NET INCOME(**): up 31.2% to EUR1,067 million Net income amounts to EUR465 million, taking into…
| The “four-cylinder” building located inside Munich’s Olympiapark has helped create public awareness of BMW for many years now.
| Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on its acquisition of Owens Corning’s Siding Solutions business.
| WACKER Chemie AG and SCHOTT Solar GmbH, a 100 % subsidiary of SCHOTT AG, intend to set up a joint venture to produce silicon wafers for solar applications.
| Alumcon LLC, a specialised aluminium facade contractor and major glass manufacturer, has announced the start of its new Dh55 million glass processing factory located in the Dubai Investments Park.
| Manufacturing laminated safety glassThe Bystronic glass Group booth at Vitrum in Milan will focus particularly on “Production of Laminated  Safety Glass.” Bystronic’s smart´lamiline represents a versatile entry solution that can be used to  produce…
| Saint-Gobain announces that discussions regarding the plan to merge its Reinforcements and Composites activities (part of the entity Vetrotex) with the Reinforcements business of Owens Corning, are now focusing on a sale project of Saint- Gobain’s…
| CNN reported that Sales Intended to Address Regulatory Concerns Associated with the Previously Announced Joint Venture with Saint-Gobain's Reinforcement and Composites BusinessOwens Corning also in Discussions with Saint-Gobain to Convert the…
| The world’s most powerful laser is now being built at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California and will feature several thousand specialized glass components from SCHOTT.
| On July 13, the Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC) on the Canary Island of La Palma will officially be put into operation.