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Glass Container Industry develops strategies to increase efficiency at manufacturing level

Dec 13, 2012

Earlier this week, both the House and Senate passed H.R. 6582, which places a focus on important energy efficiency measures that provide opportunities for the glass container industry, in coordination with the Department of Energy (DOE) and ...

Tags: Glass Container Industry, Glass Container, Glass Industry

Mdina Glass Produced a Limited Edition Glass Bauble Christmas Tree

Dec 13, 2012

A team of glassmakers have recently installed the giant Christmas tree in front of the new Parliament building at the entrance to Valletta. The tree is made up of around 2,000 individual glass baubles made by Mdina Glass artisans, and ...

Tags: Mdina Glass, glassmakers, glass baubles, glass Christmas baubles

Lou Cerny Joined The Team at Arlington Glass & Mirror

Dec 13, 2012

Lou Cerny, who attained national prominence as the project manager for two Chicago landmarks, Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate (aka “The Bean”) and the retractable all-glass ledges (The Ledge) at Willis Tower, has now joined the ...

Tags: Glass, Mirror, glass ledges

Residents of a Particular Zip Code Are More Likely to Install Solar Panels

Dec 13, 2012

The researchers studied clusters of solar installations throughout California from January 2001 to December 2011 and found that residents of a particular zip code are more likely to install solar panels if they already exist in that zip ...

Tags: solar power, California, solar panels

Smuggling of Rare Earths Outside of China Continues to Increase

Dec 13, 2012

Over the weekend we saw a number of articles make reference to a China Daily article titled “Smuggling blights rare earth industry“, whose authors report that a “senior official from the General Administration of ...

Tags: rare earth industry, rare earth, rare earths export, rare earth products

Guardian Industries Corp. Has Begun Production at Its Krasny Sulin

Dec 13, 2012

Guardian Industries Corp. has begun production at its Krasny Sulin (Rostov region), Russia float glass manufacturing plant. The initial ribbon pull marking the beginning of production took place yesterday. The Rostov region plant will ...

Tags: Float Plant, float glass, glass, glass products

In San Francisco:High-Rise Condo Living

Dec 13, 2012

ROUGHLY two decades ago,during an earlier Internet start-up boom,many entrepreneurs and fast-typing coders and engineers set up shop in a still-gritty area of this city:South of Market Street. The young tech crowd rented—and ...

Tags: San Francisco, High-Rises, construction

Construction Employment Rose in 27 U.S. States From The Month of September 2012 to October

Dec 13, 2012

A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that construction employment rose in 27 U.S. states from the month of September 2012 to October 2012. The largest increase was seen in Alaska, where those employed in construction rose ...

Tags: Construction Employment, construction industry, construction market

Swell Is Exported by Bangladesh Apparel in Nov

Dec 13, 2012

The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh rose by 8.8 percent year-on-year to US$ 1.36 billion in November 2012, according to the data released by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). While woven garment exports fetched ...

Tags: Export Promotion Bureau, readymade garments, garment exports

Startups Awards for Woolen Innerwear Goes to Armadillo Merino

Dec 13, 2012

The UK garment maker Armadillo Merino has won an award at the ‘Startups Awards 2012’ for its high quality woolen innerwears manufactured for professional risk takers such as military personnel, fire fighters and police. ...

Tags: Armadillo Merino, garment, Startups Awards 2012, woolen innerwears

Saint-Gobain to Increase The Size of The Facility to Euro 1.5 Billion

Dec 13, 2012

The facility, initially planned for an amount of Euro 1 billion, was significantly oversubscribed with bank commitments reaching in excess of Euro 2.2 billion. This enabled Saint-Gobain to increase the size of the facility to Euro 1.5 ...

Tags: credit facility, construction markets, building materials

Glass Tableware Market - Global and Egypt Industry Analysis

Dec 13, 2012

The "Glass Tableware Market - Global and Egypt Industry Analysis, Market Size, Trends and Forecast, 2011 - 2017," published by Transparency Market Research, reports that the highest contribution to the net market growth is expected by the ...

Tags: glass tableware market, glass tableware, glass tableware industry

Josef Ziegler Will Also Produce Finger-Jointed Carcassing and Glulam Timber

Dec 13, 2012

From 2013, the German medium-sized sawmill company Josef Ziegler will also produce finger-jointed carcassing (KVH) and glulam timber. The new plant building, designed for annual performance of roughly 15,000 m3 in single-shift operations, ...

Tags: glulam production, sawmill, carcassing, glulam timber

The Svenska Teaten, or Swedish Theatre, in Helsinki Is a Case in Point

Dec 13, 2012

Finland - In 1954 the novelist C.P. Snow wrote animatedly about the tension between the arts and the sciences: the traditionalists and those wanting to engage with new technologies. The New Men was recognised as an iconic twentieth century ...

Tags: Finland, loudspeaker, PA system

Luvata Is Introducing a Certified Training and Licensee Programme

Dec 13, 2012

Luvata, a world leader in metal solution manufacturing, heat transfer technology and engineering and design services, is introducing a certified training and licensee programme that will quickly bring its branded Insitu® spray-applied ...

Tags: metal manufacturing, polymer coating, design services