Littlejohn & Co has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Strategic Materials, Inc., a leading environmental services company and the largest glass recycler in North America, from Willis Stein & Partners and Vision Capital. Financial ...
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One change will certainly be deeply felt in China's economy in 2016 and more time come: supply-side structural reform. "Supply-side structural reform is an urgent task that cannot afford any delay, otherwise the 'sickness' will become ...
Solid State Supplies has announced availability of a new high-power and high-performance ultra-violet (UV) light emitter that targets a wide range of industrial applications. Manufactured by LED Engin, the new LZ4-04UV00 365nm LuxiGen ...
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Against the complex and changeable situation in Eurasia in 2014, China’s Ministry of Commerce braved challenges and firmly seized the opportunity to make breakthrough. China-Russia bilateral trade rose in spite of the unfavorable ...
Tags: Silk Road Economic Belt initiative, trade and economic cooperation
LED Engin, Inc. announces a new world record in both flux and power density for high power, multi-color LED lighting with its latest LZP family of red, green, blue and cool white (RGBW) emitters. The 25-die, 80-watt emitters deliver 3800 ...
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PPG Industries has completed the expansion work worth $27m at its coatings manufacturing facility in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico. Work under the expansion included the addition of space for production, product development and ...
PPG Industries has announced that it has restored normal operations at its Fresno, California, glass manufacturing facility and lifted the force majeure on architectural, residential and specialty glass products for customers located in the ...
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PPG Industries and Walker Glass Co., Ltd., have combined proprietary technologies to create AviProtek with SOLARBAN® glass, an advanced architectural glass that unites bird-friendly, acid-etched patterns by Walker TEXTURES™ glass ...
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Output of China's building materials sector fell in the first quarter as the property market remained weak, the country's top economic planner indicated on Wednesday. Cement output was down 3.4 percent year on year to 428 million tons, ...
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PPG Industries reported fourth quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.71 billion, up $207 million, or 6 percent, versus the prior-year figure of $3.5 billion. Net sales in local currencies grew 10 percent year-over-year, ...
Tags: portfolio management, earnings-accretive cash deployment, Construction
PPG Industries has posted a new video about specifying glass to prevent thermal stress breakage in the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website that helps architects, specifiers, students and construction industry professionals ...
Global demand for industrial silica sand is forecast to advance 5.5 percent per year to 291 million metric tons in 2018, with a value of $12.5 billion. Accelerations in construction spending and manufacturing output worldwide are expected ...
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PPG Industries and Pleotint, LLC, have renewed their agreement to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines self-tinting SUNTUITIVE glass by Pleotint with SOLARBAN low-emissivity (low-e) glass by PPG to increase occupant ...
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After falling by about 50% from 2009-2014, pricing for solar glass is set to commence a rebound starting in 2015, as anti-dumping duties levied by the European Union go into effect on China suppliers. Average global pricing for glass used ...
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PPG Industries reported third quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.94 billion, up $161 million, or 4 percent, versus the prior year. Third quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $377 million, or ...
Tags: PPG, Construction Coating