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May 11, 2009PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, has created Building Information Modeling files for its Duranar coatings, Pittsburgh Paints, Porter Paints and architectural glass products, according to a May 11 release. They are housed on the McGraw Hill Construction Sweets Network and Reed Construction Data’s SmartBIM Web sites.The files, which are found on the PPG Ideascapes Web site, enable architects to...
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May 11, 2009Bohle America Inc. has more than doubled its office facilities at its Charlotte, N.C., headquarters in the Ballantyne development in South Charlotte, according to a May 11 release. The company also has increased its staff with the recruitment of a new sales office manager, Summer Zifko. A finance major with several years experience in banking and marketing, Zifko brings...
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May 11, 2009Asahi Glass released its consolidated financial results for FY2009 first quarter, Jan. 1 through March 31, 2009, on May 11.Read full release.
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May 11, 2009Seventy six jobs are to be lost at glassmaker Pilkington's Merseyside [England] headquarters.The St Helens-based company said it was forced to make the redundancies due to the global downturn."It has hit the building industry particularly hard so we are having to reduce our capacity and adjust costs," a company spokesman said, according to a May 8 BBC report.
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May 11, 2009Emirates Glass LLC, one of the leading processors of architectural flat glass in the Middle East and a subsidiary of Glass LLC, wholly owned by Dubai Investments, together with Lumiglass Industries and Saudi American Glass, has posted yet another milestone achievement by securing a 20 per cent stake in the total glass production of Emirates Float Glass in a high-profile business deal worth AED 20...
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May 7, 2009The 11th Glass Performance Days, June 12-15, Tampere, Finland, calls the world´s solar and glass specialists for a rally around renewable energy sources and energy saving. The agenda is strongly focused on solar technology as the fastest growing customer category of glass processors and their supply chain, according to a May 6 release. GPD lecturers and participants explore the...
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May 7, 2009Four independently owned and operated Glass Doctor franchise locations opened in the United States and Canada in April.Glass Doctor of Barrie, Ontario, owned by Dave Hawthorne, is the second Glass Doctor franchise to open in Ontario this year. The shop is located at 551 Bryne Drive. Call 705/721-4527 for service.Glass Doctor of Harriman, Tenn., owned by Amy Castonguay, serves Cumberland, McMinn,...
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May 6, 2009Thanks to Sen. Arlen Specter’s change of party, prospects are improving for the Employee Free Choice Act, or Card Check. Democrats’ expanding majority means passage of “compromise” legislation is significantly more likely. While such a compromise may sound reasonable, there is nothing to stop congressional leaders from reverting back to much of the original Card...
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May 6, 2009Construction spending increased 0.3 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $970 billion, the Census Bureau reported on Monday. The total was down 11 percent from March 2008. Private residential construction fell 4.1 percent for the month and 33 percent from a year earlier, private nonresidential rose 2.7 percent and 1.2 percent and public construction rose 1.1...
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May 6, 2009The chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America, Arlington, Va., Ken Simonson, responded to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau showing a surprise uptick in nonresidential construction spending this past March. Simonson explained that construction can be a lagging indicator and that much of the uptick was from a series of mega energy and...
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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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