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A People’s Daily report highlights how NorthGlass is driving innovation and sustainability in China’s rapidly evolving glass industry.
With LamiPress, LiSEC is expanding its range with an innovative, economical, highly flexible solution to manufacture laminated safety glass.
Glaston supports the more demanding automotive glass market with advanced processing technologies and consistently superior optics.
Eastman and Sunny SmartLead Technologies partner to tackle transmitted double image in ADAS cameras.
Markets remained challenging, relative profitability improved
Forterro announces the acquisition of Klaes, strengthening its presence in the European windows, doors, and façades software market.
Architecture firm billings held steady in March, indicating market stability despite global economic concerns.
Glaston Corporation will publish its January–March 2026 Interim Report on Wednesday April 29, 2026 at around 8.30 a.m. Finnish time.
Basing on a 2026 report, companies that only consider the purchase price, end up paying from 40% up to 60% more during the useful life of the equipment, in comparison to who calculates the Total Cost of Ownership.
Glaston Corporation’s Annual Review 2025 has today been published in Finnish and English on the company’s internet pages at www.glaston.net.
Apollo announced that Apollo-managed funds have entered into definitive agreements to execute a series of transactions to acquire Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited.
Architecture billings improved in February (ABI 49.4 vs. 43.8) but remained in decline.
The SANCO Group is pleased to welcome VAK Insulating and Design Glass from Slovakia as a new member of its Europe-wide network.
The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index® (ABI) dropped to 43.8 in January, down from 47.1 in December, signaling a greater number of firms experienced a decline in billings compared to the previous month.
Şişecam, a global player in the glass and chemicals industries, announced its financial results for 2025.
Soft market continued, profitability supported by productivity improvements.
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Industrial manufacture of solar building components and their integration into the building planning process
In the European Union, Member States are allowed to set minimum performance requirements to construction products available on their market.
A clean, safe and sustainable source of energy, solar continues to power the world at a faster pace than ever before.
This article is dedicated to dynamic glazing in the façade. This is an update of the articles on smart products in the façade I and II published in March 2019 and May 2020.
Best Practices in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines.
glassonweb.com contacted the major players in the flat glass industry, asking for their statements regarding the Brexit vote results and how they see it affecting the near future of the European glass and construction markets.
A new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of ‘designer glasses’ with applications in advanced photonics, whilst also facilitating industrial scale carbon capture and storage.
A new report has confirmed that the World Health Organization has warned that a post-antibiotic era, where basic healthcare becomes far more dangerous due to risk of infection during routine operations, could arrive this century unless something drastic is done.
Was Fukushima like Chernobyl? There are those who say yes, and those who lean toward no. That is, from a purely technical point of view. But, in the eyes of the media, or of people’s awareness in general, the difference is huge.
In the design of interior spaces, glass is taking on an increasingly prevalent role. Offering numerous new products, innovative refining techniques and stepped-up information activities, the glass industry has successfully opened the door to this major market segment.
