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COUNTRY OUTLOOK

glass and 30,000 tons of glass is branded ClearVue, PG Group has grown from factories and has some 200
high quality patterned glass while Intruderprufe is the a glass merchant in Cape outlets and warehouses
products a year. PFG also company’s laminated glass Town in 1897, to being the around the world. Exports
produces value added glass range. The company’s mir- only sub-Saharan African account for a significant
products such as laminated ror products are branded float glass manufacturer portion of the Group’s rev-
glass, mirrors, and sealant Images. In addition to operating two float lines enue.
products. supplying flat glass to the and exporting flat glass PFG Glass’s first float glass
These products are sup- South African building in- products worldwide. As manufacturing plant was
plied to customers in vari- dustry, PG also supplies part of the PG Group, PFG set up in 1977 with an in-
ous industries around the automotive glass to local is a Rand 2.5 billion (USD stalled capacity of 150,000
world from PFG’s head motor vehicle assemblers, 300 million) a year or- tons per annum. In 2005,
office and through its de- who are making major in- ganisation which employs the company decided to in-
pot in Springs. PFG’s float roads in the global market. 3,000 people at several stall a second float glass line

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