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World leader in the habitat and construction markets
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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 64 countries, Saint-Gobain is the market leader in each of its core businesses.
It ranked the world 132 on the 2010 Fortune 500 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 nearly 30 billion bottles and jars a year?
- Manufactures the crystals used in airport security detectors and for
medical diagnosis?
Key figures for 2010
£ industrial operations in 64 countries
£ employs about 190,000 people worldwide
£ Euro 40.1 billion in sales
£ Euro 1.1 billion in net income
£ Euro 1.5 billion in cash flow
£ devotes Euro 400 million to R&D
£ 30% sales come from energy-saving/environment
protecting products or services
£ registers 361 patents
£ 3 out of 4 employees work outside France
| Flat Glass |
N¡ã 1 European producer, N¡ã2 world producer |
| High Performance Materials |
N¡ã 1 or 2 worldwide leader in most sectors |
| Construction Products |
World leader in all businesses |
| Building Distribution |
N¡ã 1 European producer |
| Packing |
N¡ã 1 European producer |
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