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l&rsquo;usine de Tiel, construite par la filiale n&eacute;erlandaise &ldquo;De Maas&rdquo; (aujourd&rsquo;hui Glaverbel Nederland).</p>             <p></p>             <!--<p>1964 : Cr&eacute;ation de la filiale Maasglas BV                (Glaverbel Nederland aujourd&#146;hui) aux Pays-Bas.</p>-->             <p></p>             <p>1965 : Implantation du premier float sur le continent                europ&eacute;en &agrave; Glaverbel Moustier (BE).</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1972</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Le groupe fran&ccedil;ais BSN (Danone) prend le                contr&ocirc;le de Glaverbel et l&#146;int&egrave;gre avec Maasglas                dans sa branche verre plat.</p>             <p>La mutation technologique vers le proc&eacute;d&eacute;                float entra&icirc;ne l&#146;arr&ecirc;t des fours de verre &agrave;                vitres et conduit l&#146;industrie verri&egrave;re dans une profonde                restructuration.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1974</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Aux effets sociaux dramatiques de la crise verri&egrave;re                s&#146;ajout&egrave;rent ceux de la crise mondiale. Glaverbel souffre                de lourdes pertes.</p>             <p>Pour des raisons &eacute;conomiques et sociales, Glaverbel se lance                dans une politique de diversification dans les activit&eacute;s                de transformation du verre.</p>             <p>Splintex int&egrave;gre le groupe dont il devient                le sp&eacute;cialiste en verre automobile.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1981</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>BSN se d&eacute;fait de sa branche verre plat.                Glaverbel est rachet&eacute; par Asahi GlassCo., Ltd (Japon) son                actionnaire majoritaire actuel</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1987</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Les actions de Glaverbel sont admises &agrave;                la bourse de Bruxelles.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1988</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Glaverbel s&#146;engage dans un strat&eacute;gie                de croissance internationale par la cr&eacute;ation de nouvelles                unit&eacute;s, la constitution de joint ventures et l&#146;acquisition                de soci&eacute;t&eacute;s en Europe occidentale.</p>             <p>Glaverbel lance un float au Canada et acquiert                une participation dans AFG Industries, second producteur nord-am&eacute;ricain.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1990</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Glaverbel est la premi&egrave;re soci&eacute;t&eacute;                industrielle occidentale &agrave; investir en Tch&eacute;quie via                une prise de participation dans le producteur national de verre                plat, l&#146;actuel Glaverbel Czech (aujourd&#146;hui filiale &agrave;                100% de Glaverbel).</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1996</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Le Groupe Glaverbel c&egrave;de, &agrave; Asahi                Glass, sa participation dans AFG Industries afin de se recentrer                sur ses march&eacute;s prioritaires en Europe.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1997</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Glaverbel est le premier verrier occidental &agrave;                investir en Russie en acqu&eacute;rant une participation dans le                premier producteur national, BOR Glass Works. Glaverbel prend ainsi                pied sur le march&eacute; d&#146;Europe orientale.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>1998</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Glaverbel reprend les activit&eacute;s europ&eacute;ennes                en verre plat de PPG Glass Industries, principalement install&eacute;es                en France et en Italie.</p>             <p>Glaverbel red&eacute;finit son identit&eacute;                visuelle et l&#146;appellation de ses soci&eacute;t&eacute;s en                s&#146;appuyant sur le nom &quot;Glaverbel&quot; pour ses activit&eacute;s                dans les divisions B&acirc;timent et Industries, de &quot;Splintex&quot;                pour l&#146;activit&eacute; automobile.</p>             <p></p>             <p><b>2000</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Le float de Sagunto en Espagne, joint venture avec Pilkington (GB),                d&eacute;marre.</p><p>               Le Groupe Glaverbel s&#8217;engage dans les diff&eacute;rents d&eacute;veloppements                li&eacute;s &agrave; la communication et au commerce &eacute;lectroniques.</p> 			  <p><b>2001</b></p>             <p>Le Groupe Glaverbel lance la construction d&#8217;un quatri&egrave;me                float &agrave; Moustier (BE), en joint venture avec Scheuten (NL).</p>             <p><b>2002</b></p>             <p></p>             <p>Le Groupe Glaverbel est int&eacute;gr&eacute; dans l&#8217;organisation                globale de Asahi Glass. Deux entit&eacute;s mondiales regroupent                les activit&eacute;s verri&egrave;res : la Flat Glass Company et                l&#8217;Automotive Glass Company. <br>En Europe, Glaverbel repr&eacute;sente               le verre plat et Splintex, le verre automobile.</p>             <font face="Times"><b></b></font></td>           <td><img src="/images/shim.gif" width="28" height="1"></td>         </tr>       </table>       <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td bgcolor="#666666" colspan="2"><img src="/images/shim.gif" width="665" height="20"></td> </tr> </table> </body>  </html>  
