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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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June 8, 2011Xinyi Glass Holdings Ltd. ignited the furnace for a trial run at its new float glass production line in the Wuqing Development Zone in Tianjin, China. According to a June 8 TodayIR news release. the production line has a daily melting capacity of 1,000 tons, and is one of the largest capacity, specialized glass production lines in the country.
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June 8, 2011In a June 2 letter to customers obtained by Glass Magazine, Pilkington North America, Toledo, Ohio, announced it would increase prices of its float glass products, effective June 30, 2011, as follows:Clear products: 2.3 mm through 12 mm by 10 percent; 15 mm and 19 mm by 7 percentTinted products by 8 percentPilkington Optiwhite low-iron glass by 8 percentPyrolytic coated products by 6...
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June 7, 2011Germany's Odersun AG, a manufacturer of custom solar modules, and the FranzenGroup, a designer and installer of façade and solar systems, have announced that they will work together in the sector of integrated building photovoltaics, according to a June 7 release. Together, they will further promote the integration of solar components in curtain-wall type, rear-ventilated façades."...
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June 7, 2011Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Vitro Architectural Products and Tubelite have all announced price increases. All increases will take effect in late June, according to letters sent to customers.Oldcastle BuildingEnvelopeIn response to flat glass manufacturer price increases, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope announced a price increase of its own. In a May 31 letter to customers obtained by Glass Magazine,...
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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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