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In 1990, Gujarat Glass Pvt. Ltd. merged with its parent company Nicholas Piramal India Ltd. to become one of its many divisions. [4] [5] In 2020, The Blackstone Group announced that it would acquire Piramal Glass for US$ 1 billion. After the acquisition was completed in March 2021, the company was renamed to PGP Glass. [6] [7]
PPG expanded quickly. By 1900, known as the "Glass Trust", it included 10 plants, had a 65 percent share of the U.S. plate glass market, and had become the nation's second largest producer of paint. [4] Today, known as PPG Industries, the company is a multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 corporation with 150 manufacturing locations around the world.
Flat Glass Group (FGG; Chinese: 福莱特玻璃集团; pinyin: Fúláitè Bōlí Jítuán) is a publicly listed Chinese glass production company headquartered in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. It is the world's second largest producers of photovoltaic (PV) glass used in solar power. In 2019, it had a daily capacity of 5,400 tonnes. [2] [3] [4]
Marsco Manufacturing (later Engineered Glass Products) was founded in 1947 as a manufacturer of specialized glass products, most importantly customized dials and gauges. [1] With the arrival of television , Marsco became one of the first manufacturers to produce protective gray glass shields for television tubes.
Kroonstad Railway Station serves the town and is located on the important railway junction from Cape Town to Johannesburg via Bloemfontein. On 4 January 2018, a passenger train, operated by Shosholoza Meyl, collided with a truck on a level crossing near Kroonstad/Hennenman. The train was derailed, and at least one of the carriages caught fire.
The Voorspoed mine is one of the largest diamond mines in South Africa and in the world. [1] The mine is located in the center of the country in Kroonstad, Free State. [1] The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million carats of diamonds and an annual production capacity of 800,000 carats.
A hand-worked glass operation was also added at Tiffin, Ohio. The plants all received a letter designation. The plants all received a letter designation. The main office started at South 9th and Bingham Streets, Pittsburgh, PA , in the former Ripley Glass facility, and moved to Tiffin in 1938. [ 1 ]
General Glass Industries was a United States–based wholly owned subsidiary of General Glass International. Also known as "GGI", this company manufactured sheet glass from 1988 until 1993 using the Fourcault process. GGI also produced cut sheet and window glass from flat glass produced by other manufacturers.