Glass Industry articles from September 2000

Glass Industry archives from September 2000

Pilkington confident.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... British glassmaker Pilkington is finding strong demand for its products across Europe and North America. Chairman Nigel Rudd attributed increased profits to rising glass prices and increased sales for 2000 over 1999. Pilkington reported in June...

Johns Manville predicts slow down.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Johns Manville expects construction markets and housing starts to slow compared with last year, but still maintain their relative strength. The company reported underlying pre-tax earnings of $93 million in the second quarter ended June 30,...

Kumgang/AGC auto glass venture.(Kumgang Korea Chemical)(Asahi Glass Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Kumgang Korea Chemical and Japan's Asahi Glass Co (AGC) signed an agreement to set up a joint venture for the production and marketing of automobile windshields and rearview mirrors. Starting with total capital of 100 billion won (US$89.6...

Applied Films reports.(Applied Films financial statistics)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Applied Films Corporation, a supplier of thin film coating equipment and coated glass for the flat panel display industry, reported an 819% increase in income for the fiscal 2000 fourth quarter and a 36% increase in sales over the twelve-month...

PPG dedicates furnace and announces earnings.(PPG Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... PPG Industries dedicated its 100% oxygen-fuel glass melting furnace in Fresno, California making it the first flat glass manufacturing plant on the West Coast to use oxy-fuel firing. To keep the plant open, PPG had to switch to use oxy-fuel...

Owens-Illinois reports.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Joseph Lemieux, Owens-Illinois' chairman and chief executive officer, has said that its worldwide glass containers continued to benefit from increased unit shipments in the second quarter. Earnings were adversely affected by higher energy...

Scaroni to speak in Finland.(Paolo Scaroni, Group Chief Executive of Pilkington PLC)(Glass Processing Days conference)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Paolo Scaroni, group chief executive of Pilkington plc, will deliver the opening address to the plenary session of the Glass Processing Days conference in June 2001 in Tampere, Finland. Scaroni, with experience in both the architectural and...

Share sale to fund Chinese research facility.(window glass maker Shanghai Lingyun Zhensheng)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Window glass maker Shanghai Lingyun Zhensheng is to use the proceeds of its listing on China's B share bourse to set up a research center and build a new production line. The company issued 160 million B shares at $0.238 on the Shanghai bourse,...

Fiber-optic cable.(Optical Cable Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The outlook for fiber -- optic cable in the near future looks good according to Optical Cable Corporation which recently estimated income growth for its third quarter at 45%. The strong showing is credited to a demand surge in most of...

SolarFlex.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Solar cell technology may be set to change with the development of a light-weight and flexible plastic substrate solar cell. The technology will compete directly with existing solar power systems that use glass substrates. The system was...

Resin for beer and hot-fill.(KoSa's 2201 PET resin)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... KoSa, one of the world's leading polyester producers, is introducing PET packaging resin for beer and other hot-fill applications. KoSa's 2201 PET resin is designed to provide beer packagers with light-weight, thermally stable bottles that...

Carl Zeiss research awards.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The winners of this year's Carl Zeiss Research Awards are Dr Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth of the Luebeck University Hospital, Germany, and Dr Shuji Nakamura of the University of California Santa Barbara. The awards were presented at the annual...

Corning Invests $250 Million.(active matrix liquid crystal display glass)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Corning Incorporated has announced that it will invest an additional $250 million to increase production of its active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) glass used in computers, Internet and communications appliances. The capital...

Libbey, records double-digit growth.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Libbey announced that its diluted earnings per share for the second quarter ended June 30, 2000 increased 12.2% in the year-ago period. Sales were up for the quarter, with glassware sales to export and industrial customers being among the major...

US pharmaceutical packaging to reach $4.7 billion in 2004.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... US demand for pharmaceutical packaging is projected to increase 3.8% annually to $4.7 billion in the year 2004. Blister packaging will lead the growth, with 5.0% annually and plastic bottle demand will grow 3.8%. Other primary containers,...

Unifrax acquires S-G Fiber.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Unifrax Corporation has agreed to purchase the worldwide ceramic fiber business of Carborundum Insulation Technologies (CIT), an operating unit of Saint-Gobain for an undisclosed price. The deal will reunite Unifrax with its former...

GTI joins Fuchs.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The specialty products division of Fuchs Lubricants has acquired Glass Technology (GTI). GTI manufactures swabbing compounds, IS machine oils, hot end lubricants for glass container manufacturing and also maintenance lubricants. Fuchs will...

Saint-Gobain first half.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Net income of the Saint-Gobain Group for the first half of 2000 is estimated at 542 million (FF3,555 million), up 15.6% compared with the same period of 1999. The glass sector benefited from sustained demand in all of its business lines,...

Henan Anyang places special order with Lynch.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Henan Anyang Color Picture Tube Company has ordered four HDTV machines from Lynch Systems. Scheduled for delivery in 2000, the two funnel presses and the two panel presses have a custom table configuration which allows them to make larger sizes...

Suppliers merge.(Glassworks Hounsell)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Glassworks Hounsell was recently created when Glassworks Equipment took over the specialist machine manufacturer, Hounsell Engineering. It is hoped that combining the two companies' expertise will improve efficiency, reduce production costs and...

New coloring easier on recycling.(Ishzuka Glass' bottle coloring technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ishzuka Glass has developed a technology for coloring bottles using a thin film coating which is easily removable during the recycling process and yielding only flint cullet. The Tokyo-based glass bottle and tableware producer hopes to begin...

Self-service at soda ash website.(FMC Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... FMC has revealed the latest additions to its series of Internet capabilities. FMC can now fully automate the `order to cash' process via an SAP-to-SAP link with a customer. Also demonstrated was a self-service website for FMC's soda ash...

San Miguel first half.(financial results, 2000)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... San Miguel Corporation (SMC), posted strong results in the first semester with consolidated net income rising 26% to P3.4 billion ($81 million), a result of the healthy performance of San Miguel Packaging Products and La Tondena Distillers, as...

Rebottling over recycling?(glass bottles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... There is a report out of the University of Tokyo that indicates that there may be a substantial environmental difference favoring rebottling over recycling of glass bottles. According to researcher Itaru Yasui of the University's Institute of...

Tamglass in South America.
September 1, 2000... Tamglass has received government approval for the establishment of a new company in Brazil. With a new production plant located in Sao Paulo, Tamglass will now have machine production on three continents. The demand for flat glass in Brazil...

Rath acquires Westerwald.(Rath Group, Westerwald Industriekeramik GmbH)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Rath Group, parent company of Rath Performance Fibers, has acquired Westerwald Industriekeramik GmbH, Germany. It will assume the production of Westerwald's line of Alporit lightweight insulation bricks, as well as its line of acid...

Advanced Glassfiber Yarns Second Quarter.(financial results, 2000)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Advanced Glassfiber Yarns announced today that net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2000 increased 11.5%, to $68.7 million and increased 12.6%, to $139.2 million for the six months ended June 30 as compared to the same periods ended June...

Corning in optics talks.(plans purchase of Nortel Networks' fiber-optics parts unit)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... A source close to the deal revealed that Canadian communications equipment maker Nortel Networks was in talks to sell its fiber-optics parts unit to Corning. The Wall Street Journal said the deal is worth more than $100 billion, 100 times...

SLI buys DEMA.(DEMA Glass)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... SLI, Inc., one of the world's largest vertically integrated lighting manufacturers announced its agreement to buy the lighting and pharmaceutical division of troubled DEMA Glass. The amount of the asset purchase has not been disclosed but was...

CertainTeed grant for super sub.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Saint-Gobain's US fiber business, CertainTeed, is getting more involved in the construction business by taking on the role of a `super' subcontractor as part of a government program. The company's insulation group has received a `partnership...

Mexican beer sold in cans.(Grupo Modelo, Femsa)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Femsa and Grupo Modelo are both starting to ship beer in cans for sale in the US. Femsa will now sell both Tecate and Dos Equis lager in US stores in cans. Rival Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo is to sell its popular Corona beer in cans in the...

IPS alliance with PPG.(Image Processing Systems; PPG Industries)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Image Processing Systems, a developer and global supplier of electronic vision technology, announced that it has entered into a multi-year strategic alliance with PPG Industries involving its autoglass inspection systems. PPG, which...

Libbey introduces new lines.(commercial glassware)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2000... Libbey has added three economically priced lines of commercial glassware. Designed to give an elegant presentation yet withstand the rigors of restaurant use, they are available in a variety of sizes and styles. Also introduced this summer were...

Feeder design and gob shape.
September 1, 2000... A study of the effects of orifice orientation and feeder shape on gob formation has demonstrated that it is possible to deliver more consistent gobs through redesigning the spout bowl. Glass gob temperature and fall orientation control is...

Glass conditioning - moving on?
September 1, 2000... While other hot end operations have advanced dramatically in recent years, there seems little apparent change in glass conditioning systems in the last twenty years. However, a closer look shows there have been some significant design...

Glass thermal homogeneity - an essential route to improved pack efficiency.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Simplistically the role of the forehearth is to deliver a required tonnage of glass at a temperature appropriate to the production requirements of its associated forming machine. In the majority of cases this involves removing an amount of heat...

Glassmakers and suppliers return to Dusseldorf.(Glasstec 2000)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... October 2000 will see the next installment of Glasstec - larger than the previous events Glasstec 2000 is expected to feature almost 1,000 exhibitors and attract 50,000 visitors. The glass industry around the world will be making its...

Glasstec Preview.
September 1, 2000... Power under control AEG SVS Power Supply Systems GmbH will be at Glasstec exhibiting its latest development in power controllers, the Thuro-P Thurister. This power controller offers a wide range of operating and control types as well as...

People.
September 1, 2000... SAINT GOBAIN -- the board of directors has appointed Gian Paola Caccini as chief operating officer, replacing Eric d'Hautefeuille who had asked to be relieved of his operational responsibilities. Eric d'Hautefeuille, a Saint Gobain director,...

Products.
September 1, 2000... * Laser marking US Patent No. 6,075,223 was granted to TherMark Corporation of Los Angeles containing 34 claims for its proprietary laser marking technology. TherMark uses lasers to bond proprietary marking materials onto the part...