- 16 May 2008 -
OC named EPA Green Power partner
Owens Corning has been named a partner in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership.
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- 15 May 2008 -
LM receives funding for new blade technology
LM Glasfiber of Denmark has received DKK 30 million for the development of novel wind turbine blade technology using new types of fibre.
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- 14 May 2008 -
Zoltek turns loss to profit in H1
Zoltek Companies Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, USA turns red to black in the first six months of its 2008 fiscal year.
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- 14 May 2008 -
Further delays in A380 production
Airbus says it has reviewed the Airbus 380 programme and is changing its delivery schedule as the steep ramp-up planned in 2006 proves not to be fully achievable.
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- 14 May 2008 -
AGY raises E-glass prices
AGY of Aiken, South Carolina, USA, says it is increasing its prices on E-glass yarns from June in response to increasing production costs.
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- 12 May 2008 -
SAERTEX acquires OMFA’s machinery
SAERTEX GmbH & Co. KG of Saerbeck, Germany is acquiring three warp knitting and one coating machine from OMFRA Fabrics of Slovakia.
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- 12 May 2008 -
Gurit divests remaining Swiss winter sport business
Gurit is divesting the remaining part of its winter sport business in Worb, Switzerland, to French group Socrep.
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- 12 May 2008 -
ACG’s prepreg in British sports car
Advanced Composites Group’s (ACG) BPS240 carbon fibre prepreg is being used for the British sports car Farbio GTS.
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- 8 May 2008 -
Spanish Air Force selects MFG Galileo for radome contract
US manufacturer will supply six 77-ft radomes.
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- 7 May 2008 -
Composites boost OC's Q1 results
Acquisition of Saint-Gobain businesses takes company's first quarter 2008 consolidated net sales to US$1.35 billion.
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- 7 May 2008 -
BASF targets India's automotive industry
Chemicals company to build engineering plastics compounding plant in Thane.
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- 7 May 2008 -
Global wind energy market to reach 240 GW by 2012
Global Wind Energy Council releases new figures to take account of unexpectedly strong increase in wind energy deployment around the world.
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- 6 May 2008 -
OC completes sale of plants in Belgium and Norway
Owens Corning finalises sale of two composite manufacturing plants to mergers and acquisitions company Platinum Equity.
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