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14 Feb 2008
PPG quarterly earnings per share up 30 percent on best volume growth in 3 years
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) recently reported record sales for the fourth quarter of $2.9 billion, surpassing the prior year’s fourth quarter results by 15 percent. Fourth quarter net income was $200 million, or $1.21 per share, and was comprised of net income from continuing operations of $193 million, or $1.17 per share, and income from discontinued operations, net of tax, of $7 million, or 4 cents per share. Fourth quarter earnings per share from continuing operations represents a 30-percent increase over the prior year’s quarter.
14 Feb 2008
Moog FCS Provides Motion Control Test System for China’s New ARJ-21 Regional Jet
Shanghai, February 14th, 2008 — Moog FCS, a part of Moog’s Industrial Systems Group and a leader in providing motion control solutions for high performance flight simulation and leading-edge testing systems to the automotive, aviation and aerospace markets, today announced that they have completed the contract to provide a motion control test system serving the iron bird test of the flight control system of China’s new ARJ-21 regional jet.
AMSTERDAM, February 13, 2008 – Moog FCS, a part of Moog’s Industrial Group and a leader in providing motion control solutions, high performance flight simulation and leading-edge testing systems to the automotive, aviation and aerospace markets, today announced completion of a ride and comfort testing solution in Europe for Mercedes-Benz.
London, February 7, 2008: China, already acknowledged as the fastest growing trading nation in the world, continues to look outward for project partners to aid its further economic expansion and share in its rewards. The variety and scale of China’s current industrial needs offer major business opportunities for companies seriously seeking entry into this huge market. Importantly, the nature of many of the projects now being tended have the potential to provide stable platforms on which to build sustainable future growth in China for partnering companies.
TIELT, BELGIUM – February 2008 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (Quadrant CMS) of Tielt, Belgium, working in close co-operation with Tier-1 automotive supplier TRW - Dalphimetal of Madrid, Spain, has developed all three front airbag housings for the new Citroën C5. The housings for the driver airbag, passenger airbag and knee airbag are moulded in impact-modified Akulon® Polyamide 6 from DSM with 40 percent glass-fibre reinforcement. 
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces the appointment of Lorenzo Delorenzi as Executive Vice President for its Polyolefins business group and member of the Executive Board, effective immediately.