Tempered Glass The initial development can be traced back to the mid-17th century, a man named Robert Rhine king sub, has done an interesting experiment, he put a drop of molten glass liquid on the cold water, and the results made an ...
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The NSG Group, manufacturer of Pilkington glass in the UK, will be exhibiting at the first ever FIT Show in April, bringing customers up to speed with the latest developments from one of the UK’s most trusted glass brands. At ...
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North West MEP, Chris Davies, saw first-hand the benefits of NSG Group’s investment in a new high-tech off-line glass coating facility, during a visit to a Pilkington Glass factory in St Helens. The North West of England MEP and ...
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At least 150 workers at CSR’s Viridian glass-making factories in western Sydney confront the closure of their plants and the destruction of their jobs, in the latest of the swathe of job cuts sweeping through the manufacturing sector ...
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Pilkington Planar™ has been used to transform a Grade II Listed building into a state of the art youth centre in Middlesbrough. Prior to renovation the Georgian building, last used in 2001, was in a virtually derelict state. ...
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The United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Climate Change, Gregory Barker, recently visited Pilkington’s Cowley Hill, St. Helens, United Kingdom, plant to see its new off-line glass coating facility. The line began production ...
Safelite AutoGlass® has implemented a quality inspection program named the Goods-In Survey (GIS) for two of its distribution centers. "In addition to receiving windshields manufactured by sister company Safelite® Glass Corp., ...
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Pilkington Building Products – the manufacturers, distributors and processors of glass for architectural applications – are set to get FIT and unveil a host of exciting new additions to their current product portfolio across all ...
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GMB has pledged to resist compulsory job losses and changes to pensions at Pilkington Glass. The union has more than 500 members in St Helens and is undertaking a consultative ballot on proposed changes to pensions that could reduce final ...
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Saint-Gobain SA’s record 896 million-euro ($1.2 billion) cartel fine may be reduced by European Union regulators within weeks as officials seek to correct a calculation error, according to a Jan. 30 Bloomberg report. Regulators will ...
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Remember the hologram of Princess Leia in Star Wars? Now you can turn yourself into a holograph with this new smartphone play-set: HolograFX. Inventor Andre Armenante demonstrated it to ToyNews in this world-first video - see below - ...
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Chris Barry had just returned from two years hitchhiking around the world when he was offered his first job with Pilkington, in Canada. Dismayed by this evidence of a free spirit, one of his new bosses warned: "He's not stable - he's not ...
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John Adams’ new HolograFX interactive entertainment show allows users to star in their own 3D holographic video show. The latest offering from John Adams represents a significant dynamic shift for the company, offering a combination ...
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Architects have unprecedented opportunities to bring their design visions to life with the launch of Pilkington Planar Crystal Connect. The latest addition to the world’s leading structural glazing system, Pilkington Planar Crystal ...
With thousands of visitors descending on London in 2012, some of the city's more aged infrastructure desperately needed upgrading. Blackfriars and Stratford Regional were among the railway stations chosen for major redevelopment. Pilkington ...
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