Hints and tips:
...Saint-Gobain, which is known for making the mirrors in the palace of Versailles, had until recent years struggled to boost its profit margin....
...“I think we need a European wake-up on this point,” French president Emmanuel Macron told executives from domestic industrial companies such as glassmaker Saint-Gobain and cement maker Lafarge in a speech...
...In Stoke-on-Trent, the boxy, red-brick All Saints Church seems at first an unlikely location for the city’s foremost cultural event....
...At university, however, she opted for product and industrial design at Central Saint Martins in London. “I dropped out because it wasn’t conceptual enough for me,” she recalls....
...Arconic and Saint-Gobain did not immediately respond to requests for comment....
...“When I feel the energy of the wood, I’m aware how much humans have intervened in the creation of industrial-made furniture....
...Saint Gobain, the French glassmaker and building materials company, told investors in a call earlier this year that higher prices for sand and other materials continued to drive its costs up in the first...
...Some of that imagery has been incorporated into ceramic panels in the new Boydell cabinet (£39,600, edition of 10)....
...“If Germany is not able to supply . . . that will have ripple effect all across Europe,” says Saint-Gobain’s d’Iribarne....
...Benoit d’Iribarne, head of manufacturing at building materials giant Saint-Gobain, agreed. “General subsidies are not the best way to spend money,” he said....
...Activist investor Bluebell Capital is calling for Saint-Gobain, one of France’s oldest industrial companies, to reshape the business and replace its chair to counter what it called an “underwhelming performance...
...The construction chemicals business fits nicely into Saint-Gobain’s attempt to take advantage of US infrastructure spending plans....
...In recent years, he has been marketing a highly lucrative legal strategy that has enabled Johnson & Johnson, Saint-Gobain, Trane Technologies and Georgia Pacific, which is owned by Koch Industries, to halt...
...the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow . . . churches full of saints...
...Subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson, Georgia Pacific and a US unit of French company Saint Gobain have all made Chapter 11 filings in recent years in an attempt to halt litigation — a move personal injury...
...Bluebell, which has bought a stake worth less than 0.5 per cent in the company, is also calling for Saint-Gobain to take more radical action to reshape the industrial company and further capitalise on what...
...Holcim, the world’s biggest cement producer, and French building materials conglomerate Saint Gobain said they were confident of passing price rises on to their customers and believed that efforts to renovate...
...The main one used came from Celotex, a subsidiary of manufacturer Saint- Gobain, but a small portion of the facade used boards fabricated by Kingspan, an Irish company....
...But as demand for this renewable material prompts industrial farming, such ecological wisdom is being ignored....
...Saint-Gobain raised its profit guidance in July. It will need average price rises of 8 per cent in the second half of 2021 to meet its targets....
...Saint-Gobain, Nippon Sheet Glass, Guardian Glass and Ardagh Group are other large foreign glass manufacturers with a presence in the UK....
...There are colour, industrial-chic statements, and fine craftsmanship everywhere you look, from the ceramics (of course) to the detailed bamboo surfaces....
...French construction company Saint-Gobain said on Wednesday that it anticipated energy and raw material costs would rise by about €1.5bn this year but it expected to pass on the majority of its higher costs...
...The renovated 1930s industrial building has a fully glazed roof and is shaped like a letter A, “and we just put the letters C and B around it,” says Bonnet, when I ask him what CAB means....
...Banks like Banco de Sabadell, Banco BPM and Société Générale, carmaker Porsche and glassmaker Saint-Gobain are all up more than 40 per cent in 2021....
International Edition