The week's business headlines

Oldcastle Glass announces Atlanta fabrication plant
Officials from Oldcastle Glass of Santa Monica, Calif., announced a 207,000-square-foot glass fabrication facility in Atlanta to serve the Southeast United States, according to a March 29 company release. The plant will be operational in September, according to the release… read more

Flexible solar panels in the news
Two scientists at the University of Delaware’s Institute of Energy Conversion, in Newark, Del., developed a way to produce efficient, light and flexible solar panels quickly and cheaply, according to a March 31 delawareonline article.

The technology from Ersten Eser and Shannon Fields is attracting attention from high-tech companies and the military, according to the article … read more

Sage Electrochromics announces Texas manufacturer’s representative
Sage Electrochromics Inc. of Faribault, Minn., named MacDonald Systems Inc. of Houston, as its manufacturer's representative for commercial and residential design markets in southeastern Texas, according to a Sage news release April 1… read more

Rochester Insulated Glass to expand facility
Rochester Insulated Glass Inc., headquartered in Manchester, N.Y., will invest $8.7 million into its Manchester facility, retaining 62 jobs and creating 75 more during the next three years, according to a March 27 Rochester Business Journal article.

The company will add 70,000 square feet to its 128,000-square-foot facility, with equipment and capabilities for a new product line, officials said, according to the article … read more

Calif. developer to transform 200 acres into sustainable community
Codding Enterprises of Rohnert Park, Calif., plans to turn a 200-acre former high-tech campus into a high-density community with 1,900 housing units and 750,000 square feet of commercial space, according to a March 28 GlobeSt.com article.

Codding already has spent $7.5 million to install 90,000 square feet of solar panels that can generate enough power to run 1,000 homes, according to the article.

The estimated $1 billion project would use green technology and new urbanism principals and take 10 to 15 years to build, according to the article ... read more

Glass manufacturing energy efficiency discussed at Vienna meeting
The Industrial Energy Efficiency Projects in the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation seminar took place in Vienna March 19-20, according to a March 25 article from the International Institute for Sustainable Development in collaboration with United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

At a panel session, Wolfram Kägi, chief executive officer, B,S,S. of Germany, described a glass project in Firozabad, India, where several efficiency improvements could be made in local glass manufacturing, resulting in savings of up to 110,231 tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the article … read more