The week's business headlines

Glaston Technologies' August orders near record highs
Officials from Finland’s Glaston Technologies, a subsidiary of Kyro Corp., announced an August order intake totaling nearly $33 million, the second largest monthly sales ever, according to a Sept. 11 company release.

The record order intake occurred in December 2005 when sales reached nearly $35 million, according to the release.

Glaston’s glass machinery group received nearly $22 million of safety glass machines orders, according to the release.

Labor shortage doesn’t stop Graham Architectural
Graham Architectural Products of York, Pa., flourishes in the retrofit commercial window market despite a shortage of young workers, according to a Sept. 13 article in The York Dispatch… read more

Octillion enters agreement for photovoltaic window development
In a Sept. 11 company release, officials from Octillion Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia, announced an agreement with scientists at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign to develop a patent-pending technology that uses nanosilicon photovoltaic solar cells in home and office windows to convert solar energy into electricity.

Officials say they expect the technology to offer limited transparency loss and minimal change in manufacturing infrastructure, according to the release… read more