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July 6, 2011Officials of Sika Corp. announced the company has established a Silicone Competency Center in Lakewood, N.J., to serve the needs of customers in the North American facades, fenestration and insulating glass marketplace, according to a July 6 company release. The Silicone Competency Center will be headed by Steve Rosenberg, senior vice president, research and development. Reporting to...
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June 22, 2011Analysts and delegates attending Harbor Intelligence's Annual Aluminum Outlook Conference in Chicago this week expect "stable to higher" aluminum prices and premiums in 2012, according to a June 21 Kitco News report.Some 210 registered delegates attended teh conference. Late Tuesday [June 21] morning, a survey of participants showed that 75 percent expect relatively...
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June 22, 2011Apogee Enterprises, parent company of Viracon, Harmon Inc., Wausau Window and Wall Systems, Linetec and Tubelite, announced fiscal 2012 first-quarter results. According to a June 21 release, revenues of $153.3 million were up 7 percent, with an operating loss of $3.4 million. Architectural segment revenues increased 7 percent, with an operating loss of $7.1 million."Although...
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June 21, 2011PPG Industries announced the launch of an initiative designed to heighten awareness of the company's brand and support its sales efforts across many of the core markets and industries it serves. The first of its kind for the company, the marketing communications initiative redefines the PPG brand by showcasing the unique ways it brings innovation, sustainability and color technologies to its...
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June 21, 2011Officials of C.R. Laurence announced the opening of its new manufacturing headquarters in Los Angeles, Calif. The 330,000-square-foot facility is the largest CRL facility to date, and brings the company's overall manufacturing and distribution capacity in the area to roughly one million square feet, according to a June 21 release."This new facility reflects upon CRL's...
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June 20, 2011Mexico's Vitro SAB completed the sale of U.S. subsidiaries, including Vitro America and Super Sky Products, to Sun Capital affiliate American Glass Enterprises for about $55 million on June 17, according to a same-day report in The Washington Post. Sun Capital Partners is the private investment firm that purchased Arch Aluminum & Glass in February 2010 and United...
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June 14, 2011Mexican glass maker Vitro SAB received bankruptcy-court approval to sell Vitro America LLC and three other U.S. units, including Super Sky Products, to Sun Capital Partners affiliate American Glass Enterprises, according to a June 13 report from Dow Jones & Co., Inc. Sun Capital has said it intends to integrate the U.S. subsidiaries of Mexico's largest glassmaker to Arch Aluminum &...
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June 13, 2011In a letter to customers dated June 8, 2011, Viracon announced it would increase prices by approximately 8 percent on all quote requests received on or after June 20, 2011. All outstanding quotations prior to that date will be honored for the period stated in the terms of each specific quotation, wrote Kelly Schuller, senior vice president, in the letter obtained by Glass Magazine."By now, I am...
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June 10, 2011In a letter to customers dated June 8, 2011, Viracon announced it would increase prices by approximately 8 percent on all quote requests received on or after June 20, 2011. All outstanding quotations prior to that date will be honored for the period stated in the terms of each specific quotation, wrote Kelly Schuller, senior vice president, in the letter obtained by Glass Magazine."By now, I am...
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June 8, 2011The central stairs of the new Franklin County Common Pleas Courthouse seem almost to float up from the ground floor, suspended in a foyer of light and glass.However, the aesthetic appeal of the stairway has an unfortunate side-effect: People can see up a woman's skirt from the busy walkway under the stairs, according to a June 8 Columbus Dispatch report.For now, security guards have been told to...
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Viracon, Inc. officials announced that the glass fabricator will make an investment of more than $30 million at its Owatonna, Minn., facility, to install a new coater. The company decided to install the new coating technology in Minnesota because the Owatonna facility is centrally located and has the most extensive product capabilities and technical talent, according to a release....
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Officials of PPG Industries announced several executive appointments, February 21, that are effective immediately.Michael McGarry, PPG executive vice president, has assumed leadership responsibility for the company’s flat glass businesses. He will also lead PPG's architectural coatings businesses in the Americas and Asia Pacific, as well as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region....
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As the prognosis for the design and construction industry continues to improve, the Architecture Billings Index is reflecting its strongest growth since November 2007, according to the American Institute of Architects. The January ABI score was 54.2, up sharply from a mark of 51.2 in December.“We have been pointing in this direction for the last several months, but this is the strongest...
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