Glass Industry articles from January 2001

Glass Industry archives from January 2001

Float glass plant to be built in Poland.(Saint-Gobain and Pilkington )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Saint-Gobain and Pilkington are setting up a joint venture to build a float glass plant in Wykroty, in the southwest of Poland. The jointly owned facility will have a capacity of 260,000 tons per year to accommodate the needs of both companies....

PPG plans restructuring.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PPG is pursuing a number of restructuring actions that could result in a charge of US$50 million--US$100 million in the first quarter of 2001. The actions are in response to weakening economic conditions that emerged in late summer and are not...

CertainTeed plant receives environmental award.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In recognition for the plant's recycling efforts, Governor Tom Ridge presented CertainTeed's Mountaintop, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility with a Governor's Award for environmental excellence on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of...

Price increases for pure and mixed gases.(Air Liquide America )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Air Liquide America increased prices for oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium and all other pure and mixed gas merchant products in liquid and gaseous form effective January 1, 2001. The increase addresses the escalating...

RecycleNet acquires fiberglass.com.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... RecycleNet has completed the acquisition of fiberglass.com, inc. This gives RecycleNet vertical integration of its business-to-business marketplace, Internet portal, and online exchanges into the glass, fiberglass and composite market supply...

Johns Mansville announces acquisition agreement.(Skloplast)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Johns Manville has agreed to acquire Skloplast, a fiberglass manufacturing company located in Trnava, Slovakia. The acquisition is expected to close during the first quarter of 2001, subject to various European regulatory approvals. ...

Plant expansion planned.(Corning )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Corning has announced it will spend US$150 million to expand a Pennsylvania manufacturing plant, adding 1,500 jobs by autumn, 2002. The expansion will increase its size to nearly 300,000[ft.sup.2]. With the additional workers, the company will...

Corning unveils' 2001 strategy.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... At its annual investors' conference in New York City, Corning's newly elected CEO John Loose, outlined the company's strategy in high-technology markets with its optical fiber and photonic technologies for optical networking, and flat-panel...

Pirelli acquired.(Corning)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Corning closed its acquisition of Pirelli's optical technologies business in December 2000. Fourth quarter pro forma net income will exclude a non-tax deductible in-process research and development charge for the acquisition of the Pirelli...

Production increased.(Nam Tai Electronics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Nam Tai Electronics has announced a decision to expand its chip on glass (COG) production capacity. Production capacity has been increased sharply as of January 2001. Based on the demand and customers' order forecasts for LCD modules, the...

IPS shareholders approve plan.(Image Processing Systems)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Shareholders of Image Processing Systems, a developer of e-Vision technology for the display and automotive industries, have voted to approve the previously announced Plan of Arrangement whereby Photon Dynamics will acquire 100% of voting...

Australian container plant.(Amcor Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Heye-Glas and its subsidiary, Glastechinik Winckler will be supplying a complete glass production facility for the Australian manufacture of wine bottles. They have signed an engineering contract with Leighton Contractors, the construction...

Expansion completed.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Horizon Photonics, a wholly owned subsidiary of LightPath Technologies, has recently completed the expansion of its automated manufacturing facility in Walnut, California. The 10,000[ft.sup.2] facility is dedicated to large volume isolator...

CITSA auto glass expansion.(International Pages)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PPG is the technical and training advisor for a US$10 million expansion at the Cristal Laminado o Templado S.A. de C.V. (CITSA) automotive glass fabricating plant in Tepeji del Rio, Mexico, 30 miles north of Mexico City. The expansion...

Lithium price increases.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... FMC Lithium, one of the world's largest producers of lithium chemicals, has increased its US list prices for lithium carbonate--technical grade and lithium hypochlorite. The increases went into effect during fall 2000. In addition, FMC issued a...

Fiberglass yarns facility planned for China.(International Pages)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PPG of the United States and Nan Ya Plastics of Taiwan plan to build a plant at Kunshan, China, to make fiberglass yarns. Pending government approval, PPG will produce electronic yarns in a Kunshan industrial development zone west of Shanghai....

Glass packaging awards.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) has announced its 2000 Clear Choice Awards, which recognize products that make glass packaging an integral and successful part of their marketing mix. The Republic of Tea, a line of bottled green tea, won...

Fiber optic exhibit opens.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Corning Museum of Glass has opened a permanent exhibit on optical fiber technology, `Glass and the Speed of Light' The exhibit is designed to demonstrate how much information a single optical fiber call carry. A single optical fiber runs...

OIT assessments.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Faculty and students from Rutgers University and Hosfstra, together with the glass team from the Office of Industrial Technologies, have completed an IAC energy audit at Leone Industries plant in Bridgeton, New Jersey. The audit uncovered...

2001 Glass industry forecast.
January 1, 2001... The glass industry is used to dealing with thermodynamic forces, but as we enter the year 2001, the industry finds itself in a crucible that is not constrained by the laws of physics, but rather by the laws of economics and politics. On...

TNO furnace operation support system.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Introduction TNO has integrated proven technologies into a system called MOSS: the Melting Operation Support System. This new system gives a 3D mathematical representation of your total furnace. Not only can you simulate the reaction of...

Furnace design improvements.(International Pages)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... FIC (UK) Ltd Recent design and material advances have resulted in most segments of the industry obtaining, by necessity, longer furnace lives. Float glass companies are increasingly looking towards 15 years, and container furnace...

The refining bank.
January 1, 2001... The various processes of glass melting, such as initial reaction, melting, homogenization and conditioning take place more or less simultaneously. Any partial separation between these processes occurs only as a result of the natural currents...

Digital technology advantages to power control in glassmaking.
January 1, 2001... Summary Using advanced Digital Signal Processing technology in high-temperature applications, makers of flat glass and fiberglass can employ multi-zone SCR control for annealing and tempering lehrs, electric forehearths, and float glass...

The commonality of glass & ceramics.
January 1, 2001... Glass -- an amorphous or unstructured inorganic material -- is the basic product of a $100 billion industry worldwide, with historic roots dating back at least 4000 years. Its myriad applications, whether mundane or exotic, are inextricably...

People.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PPG -- David Sharick, director of corporate development, has been elected vice president. He joined the company as internal audit manager in 1985. Most recently he has been controller for PPG's glass, fiberglass and chemical businesses. Aziz...

Products.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... * Five station screen printing Isimat GmbH of Germany has designed.the 5017 FP screen printing line to perform automatic multi-color printing of different flat parts. The linear transfer system consists of a circular guideway with 17...