Glass Industry articles from February 2001

Glass Industry archives from February 2001

ATG processes LLMW at vitrification facility.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... ATG, a provider of waste processing and on-site waste management services, announced the successful start-up of the GASVIT melter and the processing of low level mixed waste (LLMW). The waste, contaminated with low levels of radioactivities,...

Enron signs agreements with O-I and Pilkington.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Enron Energy Services and Owens-Illinois have announced a ten-year energy management agreement. Covering 53 Owens-Illinois manufacturing facilities in 20 states, it involves projected energy purchases in excess of US$2 billion. Through this...

Saint-Gobain meets expectations.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Saint-Gobain announced that its net profit before capital gains increased 16.2% to 1.0 billion [European Dollars] in 2000, broadly in line with forecasts. Taking into account the slower economic growth being experienced by the United States,...

Ceradyne opens Beijing office.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Ceradyne has opened its first office in mainland China. During the last five years the company has been marketing its industrial technical ceramics in China. Its primary product is Ceradyne, the thermo materials division's fused silica ceramic...

AFC reports second quarter fiscal 2001.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Applied Films Corporation reported that net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2001 ended December 30, 2000 were US$10.3 million, an increase of 24% over the fiscal 2000 second quarter ended January 1, 2000. Coated glass revenues were...

Uniglass to supply tempering lines.(Scholl Glastechnik Sachsen GmbH to provide Uniglass e/ furnaces)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Uniglass has contracted with Scholl Glastechnik Sachsen GmbH i.G. in Hefinitz-Lehden to supply two single chamber radiant furnaces, one type UGF 2600 X 6000 - I and the other a UGF 1800 x 3600 - I. The minimum glass thickness for both furnaces...

Vitro anticipates preliminary FY 2000 figures.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Vitro, SA de CV has announced unaudited preliminary figures for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2000. In US dollars, consolidated net sales for the period rose year-over-year by 8.7% to US$2,857 million. Among the main drivers of...

FreeMarkets enters into agreement with Pilkington.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... FreeMarkets has signed an agreement to provide Pilkington with access to its B2B global marketplace, which Pilkington will use to purchase goods and services for its operations around the world. The agreement follows the successful completion...

Southwall revises sales projections.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Southwall Technologies announced that sales revenues for the year ending December 31, 2000 reached US$85.9 million, an increase of 57.3% over 1999. Revenues for the fourth quarter were US$21.5 million, a decline of 18.6% from third quarter....

PPG reports 4th quarter.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... PPG Industries' fourth-quarter 2000 net income was US$126 million, or 75 cents a share, on sales of US$1.99 billion. This compares with fourth-quarter 1999 net income of US$162 million, or 92 cents a share, including an acquisition-related...

Owens-Illinois sees Q4, Q1 profits below forecasts.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Owens-Illinois has commented that when its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2000 are released, they will fall below prior year levels. Despite increased unit shipments by the company's worldwide glass containers and plastics packaging...

Corning sees market softness as temporary.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Corning has noted a slowdown in the fiber-optic and telecommunications market in the first quarter of 2001. Due to a weaker retail environment the company is expecting some of its customers to temporarily readjust their orders to fit the...

SOFA NY 2001.
February 1, 2001... The fourth annual international exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art will be returning to New York City on May 31-June 4. SOFA New York 2001 exhibiting galleries and dealers will include Venetian artist Laura de Santillana. De...

Isolator Orders for Metro/Access Markets.(Horizon Photonics releases line of isolator assemblies)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... LightPath Technologies, a manufacturer of fiber optic components for the telecom industry, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Horizon Photonics, has released a line of isolator assemblies for application in the metro and access telecom...

Photonics Spectra Award goes to Corning.(Corning Inc. wins award for MetroCor fiber)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Corning has received the Photonics Spectra 2000 Circle of Excellence Award for its MetroCor fiber. Presented at a ceremony held in conjunction with the Photonics West Conference in San Jose, California, it recognizes the year's 25 most...

WPI becomes Jewell.(WPI Magnetec Inc. sale results in new company Jewell Instruments L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The private sale of WPI Instruments and WPI Magnetec has resulted in a new company, Jewell Instruments. Jewell will continue to operate out of its current facility in Manchester, New Hampshire, with additional manufacturing operations in...

Eastman adds LCP capacity.(Eastman Chemical Co. adds liquid crystal polymer capacity)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Eastman Chemical's recently announced liquid crystal polymer (LCP) capacity of 6.5 million pounds annually will be marketed under the trademark Titan and is expected to come on-stream in April 2001. The expanded capacity is the result of...

Oxy-fuel upgrade at PPG's Pennsylvania plant.(PPG Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... PPG has announced that it will invest more than US$23 million to rebuild a melting tank and install oxygen-fuel firing technology on one of the two float glass production lines at its Meadville, Pennsylvania plant. The oxy-fuel technology will...

O-I declares dividend.(Owens-Illinois Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Owens-Illinois, a manufacturer of glass containers and plastic packaging products, has announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend on each share of the company's convertible preferred stock, payable to holders of...

Schott acquires Applied Power.(ARL Applied Research Laboratories S.A. changes name)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Schott Corporation has acquired Applied Power Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of IDACORP. The newly formed company will be named Schott Applied Power Corporation. Applied Power is a manufacturer and distributor of photovoltaic power...

Owens Corning reports financial results for 2000.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... Owens Corning has reported financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2000 and also for the full year 2000. For the fourth quarter 2000, the company had net sales of US$1.107 billion compared to US$1.275 in the same period in...

Reclaiming particulates.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Various devices are used to separate particulates from the exhaust stream of glass melting furnaces. These are primarily bag houses and electrostatic precipitators, but can include other precipitation or mechanical systems. For economic and...

Motors provide direct control of tin flows.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The tin bath serves several functions. Not least of these is removing heat from the molten glass ribbon, which has to be transported away from the glass and dispersed within the tin. For this and other reasons, control of tin flow within the...

Recycling -- Keeping containers in the loop.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The arrival of container recycling has resulted in major changes to batch formulation. Glassmakers are melting green glass from almost entire batches of cullet in some regions. Elsewhere, recycled material is used to a far lesser degree because...

Glassman Europe 2001.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Glass manufacturing managers and technical personnel representing all stages of glassmaking--flat, container, tableware, TV and special glass--will converge on the Palais des Congres in Lyon, France, for the Glassman Europe meeting on April...

People.(Gerrit Fulling to manage glass division of Chemetall GmbH)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Chemetall--Gerrit Fulling is taking over the management of the glass division of Chemetall GmbH. He succeeds Klaus Henrich who is retiring after 41 years of service with Chemetall, more than 35 of that with the glass business. Fulling joined...

Products.(Fluke Corp. offers new electronic test tools)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... * Compact test tools for process industries Fluke Corporation has added two instruments to its product line of compact professional electronic test tools for process industries, the 724 temperature calibrator and an updated 744 series...