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| Top brands, bottle manufacturers, retailers and technology experts have teamed up under a UK-government programme to cut 20,000 tonnes of glass from beer, cider and spirit packaging.
| David Workman, Director General of the British Glass Manufacturers’ Confederation, was re-elected President of CPIV, the Brussels-based European Glass Manufacturers’ umbrella body, for a second two-year term at its General Assembly on 15 May 2007.
| Glaston Corporation, a leading maker of glass processing machines, expanded its footprint in China with the inauguration of a production facility in Tianjin on Friday.
| In early June, the “Nevada Solar One” parabolic trough power plant located in Boulder City, near Las Vegas, Nevada (USA), will begin supplying power to the grid.
| Glaston acquires German Albat + Wirsam Software AG Group (“A+W Group”) - A+W Group is the global leader in production management and ERP software for flat glass, window and door industries - A+W Group net sales amounted to 23.1 MEUR in 2006, up by…
| SCHOTT forma vitrum has tripled its production capacity with glass and polymer syringes in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
| The Saint-Gobain Reinforcement & Composites Activity has increased its European production capacity for TWINTEX ® by 25% in its Chambéry plant (FR) as of April 2007.
| Turkish glass giant Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari (Sisecam) is freezing plans that it had to double its investments in Bulgaria, until problems in the country’s labour laws are solved.
| Winemakers and retailers will learn this week how to reduce their impact on climate change by bottling imported wines within the UK – and boost recycling as they do so.
| What was an industrial brownfields site, became a role model for environmentally compatible conversion in the fall of 2006.
| The workers of Trakia Glass Bulgaria, the local unit of Turkish glass and chemicals group Turkey Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari (Sisecam), will go on strike from Saturday after the management and the trade unions failed to agree on new pay benefits.
| The new Matelux Antislip is a satin finish glass that has been specially treated to make it slip-resistant (antislip performance classified R10 under the German national standard DIN 51130).
| China’s largest optical telescope will be officially unveiled on May 12, 2007 at the Gaomeigu observatory in Yunnan province.
| At the annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in Texas, the largest solar race of its kind in the U.S.A., the Sundancer team from Houston, Mississippi, was victorious for the sixth time in a row.
| Kyro Corporation (Glaston Corporation as of 1 June 2007) has formed a new management team and business areas. The company now fully focuses on developing Glaston now that the Energy business area is divested.
| SCHOTT, one of the pioneers in the field of LEDs, is extending its VisiLED Series, well-established for many years, with an additional product range, specifically developed for use in stereomicroscopy.
| Kyro Corporation (Glaston Corporation as of 1 June 2007) has published a new corporate identity, which is connected, moreover, with the company’s imminent name change.
| The Board of Directors of Kyro Corporation has approved a new share-based incentive plan for the Kyro Group's (Glaston Corporation as of 1 June 2007) key personnel.
| No other material is associated more closely with modern architecture than glass. In combination with new technologies, this versatile material offers a broad range of possibilities ranging from lighting to construction using solar technology.
| Saint-Gobain Sekurit India’s plants at Bhosari and Chakan have obtained, on January 17th 2006, the OHSAS 18001: 1999 certification to reward their management of healthy/safety risks and the ISO 14001:2004 certification for their environmental…