• Verallia has reported 3.0% organic growth across 2011 (1.7% in the second half), reportedly spurred by favourable trends in sales prices, which gained 2.7% as a whole and 2.8%…
Read MoreHindusthan National Glass Industries has announced plans to invest approximately Rs 2500 crore over 7-8 years on a new manufacturing facility in the Neemrana region of Rajasthan, India. The company…
Read MoreSamples of decorative glass bottles made by PacificGlas. Credit: PacificGlas. It has been announced that PacificGlas will commission a new electric furnace and two production lines in June 2013, at…
Read MoreJoint venture partners Owens-Illinois Inc., Berli Jucker Public Company and Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Company have announced the opening of a glass container manufacturing plant in My Xuan A Industrial…
Read MoreHere’s what we’re hearing (from press releases, news stories and blogs) Lancaster Products introduces the Model K-3.5 Hi-intensive industrial mixer Lancaster Products has added the new model K-3.5 Mixer to…
Read MoreHere’s what we’re hearing (some info from news releases): Kyocera Supplies 2MW of modules for solar power plant in France Kyocera announced that is has supplied 8 solar modules for a…
Read MoreI Enthusiasm always runs high at the Materials Science and Technology conferences. MS&T’11 is Oct. 16-20 in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: ACerS. The Refractory Ceramics Division extends a general invitation to…
Read MoreArtist’s rendition of DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic aircraft. Credit: DARPA. It’s not often that the latest issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society to hit the newsstands…
Read MoreRefractory castables paddle mixer. Credit: Refractory and Applications Blog. Much of the research we report on can be compared to thoroughbred racehorses: it’s elegant, confident, stunning and promising. Now and…
Read MoreHere is what we are hearing: Unifrax announces three more acquisitions Unifrax, the Niagara Falls, NY based manufacturer of ceramic fiber insulation products, announced today that it had acquired three…
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