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| Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA said Thursday that net profit rose 30 percent last year on strong demand across its entire portfolio of construction and building materials, according to its provisional estimate of 2006 results.
| Saint-Gobain Abrasives has appointed Joseph Menendez as company president, effective immediately. He is responsible for all of the company's worldwide operations, which includes 75 plants in 35 countries, generating more than $2 billion in…
| Construction Products sector is strengthening its positions in emerging countries, thanks to six acquisitions completed over the last few weeks in South Africa, Algeria, Turkey and Argentina.
| Managing Director Paolo Sandri of Bavelloni, part of Kyro’s main business area, Glaston Technologies, is leaving the company for private reasons.
| Kyro’s main business area, Glaston Technologies, strengthens its production of glass pre-processing tools in China.
| The Club of Rome has introduced an initiative aimed at bringing Europe, the Middle East and North Africa together in building solar thermal power plants.
| Glaverbel is the leading supplier of glass for the mammoth new Moscow-City business centre currently under construction in central Moscow.
| Romania has inaugurated a float glass factory in Calarasi following a 100 million EUR investment implemented over 18 months.
| The expansion, which the company expects to be operational in August 2008, will increase production capacity to serve markets globally.
| Saint-Gobain's Construction Products sector is strengthening its positions in emerging countries, thanks to six acquisitions completed over the last few weeks in South Africa, Algeria, Turkey and Argentina.
| Solar thermal power plants make use of direct solar radiation that is not dispersed by clouds and concentrate it using mirrors.
| Glaverbel and Flabeg have just signed a Letter of Intent according to which Glaverbel intends to sell its production of automotive mirrors to the German group Flabeg, which specialises in this activity.
| Caithness Glass has received the go-ahead for a new plant and visitor centre, just months after it was rescued from administration.
| Glaston Technologies’ Tamglass again presents new and major flat tempering innovation at the top industry event of the year, Glasstec 2006.
| European equity markets moved higher by mid-morning on Tuesday, helped by strength in the construction and leisure goods sectors, and following overnight gains on Wall Street and in Asia.
| Coming on the heels of reinforcements for wall products, Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics (SGTF) is now proud to offer glass fiber mesh to level floors.
| Compagnie de Saint-Gobain announces the conversion, at a ratio of four new shares for one bond, of 99.42% of the 4,380,953 “OCEANE” bonds (bonds convertible into new shares and/or exchangeable for existing shares of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, ISIN…
| CertainTeed Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of gypsum wall board and ceiling tiles to its CertainTeed(R)-branded line of interior and exterior building products.
| Precision mirrors for telescopes owe their optical qualities to Zerodur®, a special glass ceramic that retains its unique characteristics, despite variations in temperature.
| Our sales of laminated glass are growing sharply every year. In part, this is due to European safety legislation. But it is also due to new advanced glazing products from companies like DuPont that give laminated glass performance capabilities we…