SAUDI ARABIA Exhibition – A GLOBAL BUSINESS POWER FOR THE GLASS , ALUMINUM AND FENESTRATION INDUSTRY.

May 1 -4, 2016 at Riyadh International Exhibition Centre will be staged again Glass & Aluminum Saudi Arabia Exhibition with more than 110 exhibitors from the Saudi key players and global manufacturers, technology suppliers and distributors; taking part in the region’s exclusive and complete event for glass, aluminum and fenestration industry.

The Saudi construction sector looks set to expand by 7.8% between 2015 and 2019.The sector's sustained growth - supported by government policies, an expanding population and economic prosperity. With more than $732bn, the Kingdom Saudi Arabia currently boasts by far the largest construction sector in the MENA region and one of the most rapidly growing globally. These expansions leads to the growth of the window and door market substantially as well as the flat glass usage

Glass & Aluminum Saudi Arabia 2016 will take place alongside with WinDoorEx Saudi Arabia Exhibition, the international exhibition for doors, windows and facades, provides exhibitors with a powerful marketing platform that will position your brand among the regional industry leaders and global suppliers and create an even better visitor.

Riou will repackage its float glass

The company saw Riou Glass historic hours. After 15 years of service, the oven of Eurofloat plant near Lyon needs a major maintenance.

"THE ONLY INDEPENDENT LAUNCH FOUR"

Specializing in glass processing, the company installed near Pont-Audemer has engaged in a risky venture: producing its own glass to be completely autonomous. In 2008, the glass shortage pushes the founding president Pierre Riou to secure supplies. The group employs around 1,000 employees in six locations in France and four overseas (Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar) going one step forward in 2012 by partnering with Saint-Gobain. The redemption half the Eurofloat plant in Salaise-sur-Sanne (38) seals the covenant in terms of production.

For Eurois from nothing 38 years ago, the act is not trivial. "A marriage between people of the CAC 40 and a peasant's been a shock! "Jokes the contractor who last year received the prize" heart stroke "of the jury of the 25th Victoires Autodidactes. "Today, we are the only independent in France to launch an oven. Groups have already done, but not peasants "proudly insists, Pierre Riou, head of a company that generated € 165 million in turnover in 2015.

If these days are historic for Riou Glass, this also is investment that represents this new oven: € 26 million. They are in addition to € 50 million for the purchase of half of the plant, partly with the help of the Public Investment Bank. "I had the audacity to do so, I found the money," said Pierre Riou who claims to have perpetuated this site. "Employees [some 200 people, Editor's note] were skeptical. There was always a question mark over the future of the plant. "

If everything goes as agreed, Eurofloat proceed with the ignition on April 28, for a first glass poured on 19 May.

A project more in assets of this insatiable entrepreneur who does not stop there. "There is much to do in the United States and Canada," the boss slips 63 years. It opened, there is still a month using a company laying in Boulleville involved throughout France to help customers put large volumes. More no area is untouched by Riou Glass

Africaver, an investment in automotive glass.

Created thanks to the spin of the Enava in 1997, the company Africaver think about setting up a production unit in the west of the country to approach the future automotive division.

Located in the industrial area of ​​Ouled Salah (Taher, Jijel), the Spa Africaver economic public company seriously considering settling in joint venture with a French company in Oran to enjoy the setting Place the automotive cluster in the region and provide automotive glass to the various plants that will take up residence there.

This choice is also explained by the desire of both partners to approach the free zones of Oujda but also Spain and its plants, to enjoy a cheaper cost than transfer of eastern countries export more than being a necessary objective, as the representative of the French company, met at the seminar on subcontracting.

2 new records for Vedip, Italian wheels on Internet  for flat glass processing machines

Vedip, the online sales site of Italian wheels for mirrors machinery broke  2 records in January . The number of orders received (+ 14%) and the total amount of orders received (Euros) (+ 9.5%). The average basket has fallen  slightly to 453 Euros