Glass Industry articles from October 2000

Glass Industry archives from October 2000

Chowchilla wins Diamond.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... CertainTeed's Chowchilla manufacturing facility has received a Diamond Award recognizing its outstanding safety record. Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest industrial companies, presented a total of 20 Diamond awards to its manufacturing...

CertainTeed acquires Celotex.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... CertainTeed announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the roofing and fiberglass mat assets of Celotex Corporation of Tampa, Florida. As part of the sale, CertainTeed acquires four asphalt shingle manufacturing plants...

Trona mine receives Mexican approvals.(Morgain Minerals Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The Canadian company Morgain Minerals, through its wholly owned Mexican subsidiary Minera MGM, has received the environmental permits issued by SEMARNAP, the Mexican governmental agency, to mine trona rock and harvest trona brines at its...

Consumers Packaging reports.(2nd quarter)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Consumers Packaging reported its second quarter results. For the three months ended June 30, 2000, the company had a consolidated net loss of US$2.4 million. Sales, however, remained strong and even showed a slight increase over the same...

Tropicana switches.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Tropicana has switched a second line of products to PET packaging. The first change from glass took place with its Tropicana Twister. The replacement bottle for its Season's Best line of juices is currently being test marketed in Florida and...

5 Meter belt annealing lehr.(Rockware Glass Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... At the end of July, Glaseco installed a 5m belt annealing lehr at Rockware Glass in Irvine, Scotland. One of the largest lehrs that Glaseco has built, it is the biggest that Rockware has ever used. The gas-fired unit, designed for lower...

New float glass plant in Belgium.(Glaverbel Group)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Aiming to meet the continuing growth in glass consumption in western and central Europe, Glaverbel Group will be building its 15th float glass plant. The plant to be located at the Moustier site in the Walloon Region of Belgium, bringing the...

Entergy, PPG complete financing for Louisiana plant.(RS Cogen LLC)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... PPG is experimenting with cogeneration to provide power and steam to one of its chemical plants. The company has teamed with Entergy Wholesale Operations to create RS Cogen LLC, which will own and operate the 425-megawat cogeneration plant in...

Heraeus announces doubling of revenues.(Heraeus Holding GmbH)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Heraeus Holding GmbH, the precious metal and technology group in Hanau, Germany, reported half-year revenues of a total of 3,659.2 million, which amounts to an increase by 95% in comparison to the first six months of 1999. The group...

Durand buys Mikasa.(JG Durand Industries)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... JG Durand Industries, parent company of glass and crystal manufacturer Verrerie Cristallerie d'Arques, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to purchase Mikasa for about US$280 million. Cristallerie d'Arques is keen to get a foothold...

Ceramicsources.com launched.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... www.ceramicsources.com, the first e-marketplace for the ceramic and glass industries, matches buyers and sellers on a dynamic and real time basis. Customers can both list and procure products from anywhere in the US$200 billion dollar global...

NAPM: manufacturing down in August but costs are stabilizing.(National Association of Purchasing Managers.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Glass manufacturing is among the top three industries paying higher prices, according to the National Association of Purchasing Managers. However, the report showed the prices index down from July, an indication that pressure may be easing as...

Museum of glass receives $11.8 million.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The Museum of Glass announced nearly US$12 million in new funding during groundbreaking ceremony at its construction site along the Then Foss Waterway in Tacoma, Washington. Since 1996, when community leaders identified the need for a museum...

Howden renamed Burton Corblin.(Howden Group PLC)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... As of August 2000 Howden Process Compressors once again became known as Burton Corblin. Emphasizing its position as an integral part of the international Burton Corblin network, a French company long associated with air and gas compressor...

PPG lowers expectations.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... PPG has lowered its forecast for earnings in the third quarter of this year. CEO Raymond LeBoeuf commented that although sales and earnings for the quarter continue to benefit from recent acquisitions, he believes that a general slowdown in...

ISRI publishes standards on-line.(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced that its Scrap Specifications Circular: Guidelines for Nonferrous Scrap, Ferrous Scrap, Glass Cullet, Paper Stock, Plastic Scrap is now available online in the public area of ISRI's...

Corning to make DNA microarrays.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Corning has announced that it is entering the market for tools used to accelerate genomic research and speed the discovery of new drugs by making the microarrays used by research scientists to simultaneously analyze thousands of genes. ...

iMinEx moves industrial minerals online.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... iMinEx Corporation is creating the first industrial minerals trading exchange and e-marketplace. The exchange will provide a platform for transacting business for what is estimated to be a US$200 billion market. Without giving up their...

German packaging award.(Heye-Glas)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Heye-Glas has won the German Packaging Award 2000 in the 23rd German packaging competition, which was internationally organized by Deutsches Verpackungsinstitue e.V. in Berlin under the leadership of Dr Berndt. It is the only company in the...

PPG plans production run of Starphire.(Starphire glass)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... PPG Industries has scheduled the next production run of its Starphire glass to begin in January 2001 at its flat glass plant in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The low iron content and other formulation enhancements mean Starphire delivers minimal...

Vetrotech opens fire-rated glass facility.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Vetrotech Saint-Gobain North America has opened a five-employee facility in Auburn, Washington that will fabricate a range of clear, fire-rated glass products. Managed by Danny Sullivan, the facility will market its products to the...

International symposium success.(Heye-Glas holds symposium)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Heye-Glas held its International Symposium 2000 in June at the conference hotel, Der Waldkater, in Runteln, Germany. The 83 engineers and glass specialists from 21 countries included a number of owners and managing directors of glass...

Test furnace completed.(Eclipse Combustion)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Eclipse, a producer of industrial combustion systems has announced the completion of a product development test furnace to be used with many different fuels and either air or oxygen. Its maximum operating temperature is 2500 [degrees] F and...

On-site technology expands oxy-fired furnaces.(Fenton Art Glass contract)
October 1, 2000... Cost-effective generators make oxy-fuel a viable option Over the last 25 years, no advancement in melting technology has had as far reaching of an impact as has oxy-fuel. Faster melting times, improved process control and reduced...

Navigating the maze of continuous emissions monitoring.(United Kingdom)
October 1, 2000... As the technologies available for providing continuous emissions monitoring advance, so the decision as to which technology to adopt becomes more complicated. Environmental protection legislation worldwide since the 1980's has made it...

Pollution control regime changes.(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The UK is currently undergoing a major change in its pollution control legislation. Framework pollution prevention control (PPC) legislation became law in the UK in August this year. The change means that the glass industry in general must...

Cleaning up the Nuclear Waste at Hanford.(Washington)
October 1, 2000... The disposal of waste from the nuclear industry is a major problem. One of the worst affected sites is Hanford in Washington where thousands of people have been employed and billions of dollars have been spent just in preparation for a...

NOx control for regenerative furnaces.(glass processing equipment)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... For much of the glass industry, the regenerative furnace is still the most economical way to make glass. However, meeting tighter NOx emission limits is becoming increasingly difficult. There are, however, ways of significantly reducing NOx...

Meeting environmental concerns.(glass industry)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Environmental Benefits and Lower Costs Too! Two recent float glass rebuilds were completed using Air Products' CleanfireHR oxy-fuel combustion systems. With neither regenerators nor flue gas treatment, they have experienced higher fuel...

Technical conference returns to Columbus.(glass manufacturing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... For glass manufacturers, the Glass Problems Conference delivers an unrivalled collection of papers on the latest in glass technology. The format for the conference remains much the same, taking place over two days on the 17th and 18th of...

People.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Saint-Gobain -- SGD Glass Perfume bottle manufacturing of Covington, Georgia has named Tristan Thommasson as its new plant manager. He will be replacing Jean-Paul Vigouroux, who has been promoted to a different Saint-Gobain business in...

Products.
October 1, 2000... * Camera monitors glass process The Lenox Furnace Camera can be permanently installed in the wall of the glass furnace to provide a remote viewing system to monitor furnace combustion and process conditions. The water-cooled...