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  • AGC: PPI plunges, but not for all construction inputs
    December 16, 2008
    The Producer Price Index for finished goods dropped 2.9 percent before seasonal adjustment (-2.2 percent, seasonally adjusted) in November, and rose only 0.4 percent from November 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. The PPI for inputs to construction industries fell 3.2 percent for the month but was 4.9 percent higher than in November 2007. The segment...

  • Nippon Sheet's Pilkington to appeal cartel penalty
    December 16, 2008
    Japan's major glass maker, Nippon Sheet Glass Co., said on Tuesday its British unit, Pilkington, would appeal a 370 million euro cartel penalty imposed by the European Commission.Nippon Sheet Glass, which makes sheet glass for cars and buildings, said in a statement it would keep unchanged its earnings guidance for this year, which allows for the penalty, as it expected any court decision on the...

  • Riots increase glass repair business
    December 15, 2008
    Riots in Greece leave hundreds of businesses cleaning up heavy damage, but, one business remains booming.Glaziers.They're on-call 24 hours a day, barely able to keep up with the demand for replacing windows, according to a Dec. 14 keyc.com report.

  • Window repairers are a glass apart
    December 15, 2008
    Repairing a broken window is usually not too taxing an affair.But it took a crane and four men four days to replace a broken pane in the world’s largest single-span glasshouse.When a crack first appeared in one of the 785 windows of the Great Glasshouse of the National Botanic Gardens in Carmarthenshire [County, Wales, U.K.] almost three years ago, the garden’s publicist David...

  • Glass panels to hold names of fallen officers
    December 15, 2008
    A gleaming monument to the county's fallen law enforcement officers was erected on the San Diego County Administration Center's southwest lawn months ago.The majestic glass panes – etched with the names of officers who died while on duty – keep cracking for no clear reason, according to a Dec. 15 SignOnSanDiego.com report.

  • As 'green' architecture advances, glass buildings pose hazard to birds
    December 15, 2008
    Boston is striving to become a leader in green building. But glass siding and atriums, common features of green architecture, carry an unintended side-effect: a mortal danger to birds.An estimated 5 percent of the country's bird population--or about a billion birds--die each year by crashing into buildings they cannot see, according to Daniel Klem, an ornithologist at Muhlenberg College in...

  • AAMA's Skylight Council publishes Fall Protection paper
    December 12, 2008
    Responding to heightened industry and public concerns about fall prevention, the American Architectural Manufacturers Association's Skylight Council has published a position paper entitled Fall Protection, which provides practical suggestions for minimizing and preventing falls through roof openings, according to a Dec. 12 AAMA release.Highlighted within the paper, Fall Protection notes the...

  • Midlothian company offers residential window tinting
    December 12, 2008
    While tinted windows on your car might look cool - and help keep you cool - tinting the windows of your home is an entirely different matter.But a Midlothian [Chicago] company that franchises automotive repair and accessories shops was getting requests from customers to do just that.The result is an entirely new franchise that has nothing to do with Moran Industries Inc.'s core business.

  • China stocks slip 3 percent as auto shares slide
    December 12, 2008
    China's stock market fell sharply on Friday as auto-related shares slid in response to the apparent failure to get a bailout bill for the U.S. auto industry through Congress.The market had already been weak because of poor Chinese economic data in the past few days, and the auto news sent the Shanghai Composite Index down as much as 3.06 percent to 1,969.492 points in the early afternoon.Fuyao...

  • Poland sees lower average glass prices
    December 12, 2008
    The average price of glass and glass products sold by Polish manufacturers in the first nine months of this year was 4.2 percent lower than in the same period in 2007, according to a Dec. 11 report from Poland’s Central Statistical Office. In comparison, the average price of industrial goods sold in Poland was 2.6 percent higher year-on-year.
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