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March 16, 2011The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded Saint-Gobain, France, the Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award. The award recognizes the company's leadership in energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Through its U.S. subsidiaries, the company becomes the first and only manufacturer of glass containers or fiber glass insulation ever to receive the award, according to a...
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March 16, 2011Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., will expand its current operations in Chester County, S.C., according to a March 16 release. The $45 million investment is expected to generate 50 new jobs.“We are pleased to be able to expand our operations in South Carolina," said Tom Wunderlich, plant manager for Guardian’s Chester County facility, in the release. "Chester County has provided us...
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March 15, 2011The strong earthquakes and tsunamis that hit the northern part of Japan on March 11 impacted the AGC Group’s operations, according to a March 14 release. Four plants in Kashima, Chiba, Yonezawa and Koriyama were affected by the natural disaster. Other than the above locations, production has been suspended at some of the plants for architectural processed glass in the Tohoku/North Kanto...
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March 15, 2011Glaston Corp., Finland, published its annual report and financial statements 2010. The report is published in English and Finnish, in PDF format, and can be ordered by phone, +358 10 500 6105 or on the company’s Web site.Glaston also has published a summary of the company's 2010 stock exchange releases, available here. ...
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March 15, 2011The board of directors for the Placerville, Calif.-based California Glass Association/Americas Glass Association announced the retirement of Donn Harter, its president and technical director, in a March 14 release. And “with Harter’s retirement, no equal replacement, and the current economic conditions,” the AGA board of directors has discontinued the operations of the AGA, effective...
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March 14, 2011PPG Industries Inc., Pittsburgh, paid Chairman and CEO Charles Bunch $12.4 million in total compensation last year, a 47 percent jump from $8.4 million in 2009, according to proxy materials filed March 10. His salary remained about $1 million, according to a March 11 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.
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March 14, 2011Trainor Glass Co. will consolidate several core business units and plant production to match the projected marketplace, according to a March 11 release.The contract glazier is consolidating its Champaign, Ill., and South Bend, Ind., facilities, and scaling back its Las Vegas and Wyoming operations, which will be handled out of Phoenix and Denver, respectively. These four locations...
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March 14, 2011Glass industry giant Pilkington, U.K., will build a new car window plant in Poland for an estimated 450 million zloty (US$155 million), its Polish arm said on March 11. The plant is expected to turn out 1.7 million windscreens a year, and between 4 million and 5 million side and rear windows. The site will be operational in 2012, according to a March 14 Industry Week report.
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March 11, 2011The joint Webinar of Glass Association of North America, Topeka, Kan., and the Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance, Ottawa, ON, titled Fatalities and Injuries During Flat Glass Handling, is now available to view on each organization’s Web site, according to a March 10 release. The Webinar, which looked at the tragic results from the mishandling of flat glass in a manufacturing...
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March 11, 2011DyeTec Solar has secured $1 million from the Ohio Third Frontier Commission for the development and mass manufacture of glass-based BIPV (building-integrated photovoltaic), BAPV (building-applied photovoltaic) and AIPV (automotive integrated photovoltaic) products. The technology, which will be produced alongside glass maker Pilkington North America at DyeTec’s Toledo facility, is aimed at...
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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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