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A World Leader in all its business
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Saint-Gobain specializes in the design, production and distribution of functional materials, including glass for the automotive and construction industries, bottles, pipes, mortars, plaster, refractory ceramics, and crystals. The Group is organized into five business sectors: Flat Glass, Packaging, Construction Products, Building Distribution, and High-Performance Materials. Established in more than 50 countries, Saint-Gobain is the market leader in each of its core businesses.
It is among the Global 5 hundred companies (110th in 2008) and is among the world's hundred leading industrial corporations.
Saint-Gobain is listed on the stock markets in Paris, London, Frankfort, Zurich, Brussels, Amsterdam.
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Do you know that ...Saint-Gobain
- Was created in 1665 by Colbert and built the Hall of Mirrors at the Chateau
 de Versailles?
- Provides glass for fifty percent of all cars in Europe?
- Supplied the glass for the Louvre pyramid?
- Supplied the glass fiber needed to strengthen the bitumen the access
platform to the Eurotunnel?
- Insulates one-third of all homes in Europe and one-fifth in the United
States?
- Has equipped 80 capitals and more than 1000 major cities throughout the
world with water supply ducts?
- Manufactures 30 billion bottles, flasks and jars a year?
- Manufactures the crystals used in airport security detectors and for
medical diagnosis?
Key figures
- more than 1400 consolidated companies
- industrial operations in 57 countries
- It employs about 207,000 people worldwide
- Euro 43.4 billion in sales
- Euro 2.1 billion in net income
- Euro 3.8 billion in cash flow
- Euro 2.3 billion in capital expenditure
- Saint-Gobain devotes euro 345 million to research and development
- At Saint-Gobain, 2 out of 3 employees work outside France
| Flat Glass |
N¡ã 1 European producer, N¡ã3world producer |
| Packaging |
N¡ã 1 european producer, N¡ã2 world producer |
| Ceramics & Plastics |
N¡ã 1 world producer for thermal and mechanical applications |
| Abrasives |
N¡ã 1 world producer |
| Industrial Mortars |
N¡ã 1 world producer |
| Pipelines |
N¡ã 1 world producer for ductile iron pipes |
| Insulation |
N¡ã 1 world wide in wall coatings and glues for tiling |
| Gypsum |
N¡ã 1 world producer |
Building
Distribution |
N¡ã 1 european distributor of building materials
N¡ã 2 world distributor for tiles |
Our markets
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