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 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
Our products are at the heart of modern architecture, engineering and construction. They play a beneficial role in addressing some of the major environmental challenges of buildings, new and old. Architects increasingly seek to bring ...
Tags: glass, decoration, environment
Despite the apparent severity of the early, and not easily interpreted, statistical data, 2013 seems to be ending positively for Italy's manufacturers of hollow glass; and the forecast for 2014 is also quite rosy. Confirmation comes from ...
Tags: Hollow Glass, Construction Glass
PPG Industries has named Deron Patterson international sales manager, flat glass international. A 14-year sales veteran in the U.S. glass industry, Patterson has been handling architectural accounts in Texas, Louisiana and Mexico for the ...
A recent article in Decorative Glass Magazine reports decorative glass products continue to be hot ticket items for interior design. Glass is being used extensively in projects that range from walls to floors. With this in mind, Elite ...
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Market fundamentals are sufficient to support rhodium prices near the current $1,000/oz level, despite reduced usage in automobile catalytic converters, according to analysts with A-1 Specialized, one of the largest recyclers of ...
Architectural glass sales for Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) continued to improve in North America, thanks largely to increases in private residential construction, according to the company’s quarterly financial statement released on ...
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PPG Industries reported record second-quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year, but company glass sales dipped in what chairman and chief executive officer Charles E. Bunch calls a ...
AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Plc (AGC), the country's largest glass maker, foresees a 10% drop in revenue this year following the closure of one of its plants to pave way for a 2.4-billion-baht factory with upgraded technology. Its plant in ...
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US demand for high-performance flat glass products is forecast to rise 4.4 percent per year to 910 million square feet in 2017, valued at nearly $9.2 billion. This will represent a substantial improvement from the performance of the ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Construction Glass
U.S. demand for high-performance flat glass products is forecast to rise 4.4 percent per year to 910 million square feet in 2017, valued at nearly $9.2 billion, according to a report released yesterday by the Freedonia Group. This will ...
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US wine consumers are continuing to trade down to wine-by-the-glass in the on-trade, but paying more for servings, latest figures show. Wine-by-the glass sales accounted for 61% of the category's US on-trade sales in this year's first ...
Tags: Wine Drinkers, glass sales
Shahe city is engaged in glass industry, which is the famous glass cite in China. Currently, there are 47 glass enterprises in Hebei Shahe Economic Development Zone; 4000 processing enterprises; 34 qualified float glass lines; 33 rolled ...
Tags: Shahe Glass, Glass
Following a significant period of product development, ESG Ltd has appointed James Mott as Business Development Manager for its switchable glass product range, which includes ESG Switchable Glass™, the largest sized privacy glass on ...
Tags: Business Development, ESG Switchable Glass Division, Glass