1.   The tube is a flat glass panel like a thick picture frame.

2.   Both flat glass and glass containers also came under threat from imported glass-made substantially cheaper to UK users by exchange rates prevailing at the time.

3.   But LCDs are expensive to produce in the large sizes that consumers like for televisions because they require perfectly flat glass and hundreds of thousands of high-grade crystals.

4.   Copper, aluminum and plywood prices also fell less than in June, while the price of flat glass turned higher.

5.   Cristaleria will build and operate a plant to produce flat glass in Mexico and also plans to build a factory to produce reinforced construction fibers in China.

6.   Growth was strong in flat glass, fiber reinforcements, containers, industrial ceramics and abrasives, the company said.

7.   Melrose said supply in the flat glass market was very tight and there was no new capacity coming on.

8.   The outlook for higher profits at builders helped boost shares of Tribasa and Vitro, the leading supplier of flat glass to the construction industry.

9.   The passion she shows for banning land mines or labeling Saddam Hussein a war criminal deserts her in debates on stealing intellectual property or eliminating tariffs on flat glass.

10.   There are signs that exports of flat glass to Japan are on the rise, after an agreement reached last fall.