Soaring crude prices shatter returns for sheet glass makers

With the price of furnace oil, used by sheet glass makers to fire kilns, rising in line with that of crude oil, most firms have reported falling profits or losses in the quarter up to March...

Zimbabwe: Glass Plant Construction Hampered

THE construction of a US$ 120 million state of the art glass manufacturing plant in the city of Kadoma is being hampered by a critical shortage of water and the current power...

Astiglass abrirá en septiembre mayor nave manufactura de vidrio de Andalucía

La empresa ecijana Astiglass prevé abrir el próximo mes de septiembre sus nuevas instalaciones en el Parque Empresarial Sedesa, junto a la pedanía astigitana de Villanueva del Rey, que serán la mayor nave industrial dedicada a...

Astiglass

Abu Dhabi float glass plant to open this summer

The greenfield float glass plant being built by Dubai Investment in Abu Dhabi is set to begin operations by the middle of this...

EMIRATES FLOAT GLASS LLC

Duurzame architectuur: harmonieus verenigd in het Chinese SIEEB-gebouw

Op de campus van de Tsinghua-universiteit (Peking) staat sedert enkele maanden het Sino-Italian Ecological Energy Efficient Building, kortweg...

AGC Flat Glass Europe

Rioglass y Fenosa abren una planta para fabricar vidrio para paneles solares

La factoría, con 32 millones de inversión y 59 empleos, suministrará espejos parabólicos para las nuevas centrales termosolares de la compañía...

Rioglass, S.A.

La nueva fábrica de vidrio O Barco en primera línea del desarrollo tecnológico

José Mará Villanueva, presidete de Rioglass destaca la apuesta de Unión Fenosa por las energías...

L´usine d´AGC Verre Plat à Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures fermera ses portes

L´usine d´AGC Verre Plat à Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, près de Québec, fermera définitivement ses portes d´ici la fin de l´année dans le cadre d´un important plan de restructuration adopté par...

Hawkins County glass plant work force cut in half

A restructuring of AGC Flat Glass North America is resulting in 250 layoffs at a company plant in East Tennessee and the loss of 63 administrative jobs in...

AGC Flat Glass North America

PPG still seeks glass-unit sale

PPG Industries Inc. still wants to sell its automotive-glass business this year, which includes its Creighton plant in East Deer, CEO Charles Bunch told shareholders at the company´s annual meeting...

PPG Industries, Inc.

Viracon Chooses AeroScout for Asset Visibility Across Three Glass Man

Leading Glass Fabricator Increases Throughput and Improves Labor Productivity by Tracking Status of Thousands of Work in Progress...