Source: Door & Window Market Magazine Quanex Building Products Corp. has released its fiscal 2013 second-quarter results for the period ended April 30, 2013. The company’s Engineered Products Group, which includes Edgetech IG, reported second-quarter 2013 net sales of $125.2 million compared to $108.8 million a year ago.
Source: New Energy Technologies, Inc. New Energy Technologies, Inc., developer of the world’s first-of-its-kind, see-through technology capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, announced today that researchers have achieved important device design, architecture, and transparency goals which now allow the Company to advance and expand development efforts of its electricity-generating coatings.
Source: GLASSOLUTIONS Lead-free toughened enamelled glass EMALIT® EVOLUTION can now be manufactured into sealed units in a range of 11 standard colours in 10 days, as a result of a £50,000 investment in new production facilities by GLASSOLUTIONS.
Flat Glass Manufacturing in The UK Industry Market Research Report Now Updated by IBISWorld6/5/2013
The Flat Glass Manufacturing industry is expected to return to consistent growth over the five years through 2018-19 as the UK economy undergoes a tentative recovery, and conditions in key downstream construction and automobile industries improve. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has updated its report on the Flat Glass Manufacturing industry.
Source: EASTMAN Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN), a global leader in performance materials and specialty chemicals, announces that its EnerLogic® 35 low-e window film has received EcoSpecifier Global GreenTag certification, a green product certification based on lifecycle assessment.
Source: Furniture Today U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D- N.Y.) said another New York furniture manufacturer may be owed money from uncollected duties on Chinese made bedroom furniture.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Confirms Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization5/30/2013
Source: GLOBE NEWSWIRE Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, a global manufacturer of sustainable, high performance glass products for the building, energy and industrial markets, announced that its Modified Third Amended Plan of Reorganization was confirmed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, effective late yesterday. The confirmation leads the company one step closer to emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Pittsburgh Corning has operated under Chapter 11 protection since April 16, 2000.
Source: Glass Canada Hufcor has announced it has teamed with Monarch Glass Wall Systems, a leading Canadian source of all-purpose, custom-built bi-folding glass walls. The partnership introduces Monarch by Hufcor, a luxurious line of movable exterior glass wall systems and sliding doors now available for the first time to the mainstream home building industry in the United States.
Source: GlobeNewswire Glaston has closed a EUR 3.4 million deal with the Chinese company Jin Jing Group. Glaston has a long-term customer relationship with Jin Jing Group and this time the deal includes two Glaston CCS900™ double-chamber tempering furnaces, one Glaston FC500™ flat tempering furnace, one Glaston XtraEdge™ 2640-10 double-edging line and one real-time iLooK™ quality measurement system. The machines were included in Glaston’s Q1/2013 order book.The heat treatment lines and iLooK™ are manufactured in Tianjin, China and the pre-processing line in Bregnano, Italy. The machines will be delivered to the customer to Beijing, China during the third and fourth quarter of 2013.
Source: smartplanet By David Worthington Startup New Energy Technologies says that it has made a significant advancement toward large-scale production of “spray on” solar power generating windows.
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