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Owens Corning World Headquarters
One Owens Corning Parkway
Toledo
Ohio 43659
USA
[t] +1 419 248.5939
[f] +32 2675 2559
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Owens Corning, the company that invented glass fibre, boasts a fascinating history of innovation and entrepreneurship. This legacy has continued as the company grew into the world leader in advanced glass and building material systems, and expands globally through today's competitive, international markets. Today, Owens Corning is a $5 billion global, industry leader with more than 17,000 employees around the world and with manufacturing, sales and research facilities including joint venture and licensee relationships in more than 30 countries on six continents. |
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Owens Corning, the manufacturer of America's No. 1 brand of shingles, has announced a new technology for its Oakridge PRO(R) Series Shingle that offers faster installation, higher wind performance and a better appearance immediately after installation. The higher wind ratings offer contractors an attractive solution that complies with new, more stringent building codes in high-wind areas. Initially available in the Northeast, SureNail(R) Technology is currently planned to be rolled out to the rest of the U.S. market over the course of the next several years. |
11 June 2006 |
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Owens Corning announced at the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition in Athens, Greece, a breakthrough single-end roving and knitted fabric, WindStrand(TM), which will allow the wind energy market to take another step forward in competing successfully against other alternative energy sources by reducing the cost per kilowatt-hour. |
10 June 2006 |
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Builders know that the original is still the brand of choice, according to results of the just-released 2005 Brand Use Study by 'BUILDER' magazine. Owens Corning (OTC Bulletin Board: OWENQ) Cultured Stone(R) is the nation's most recognized and most used manufactured stone veneer, and it's selected by builders more than twice as often as the next closest competitor, a ranking repeated in study after study in other leading industry publications. |
09 June 2006 |
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Owens Corning today announced three industry-leading new products that will join the company's comprehensive insulating accessory line, giving building professionals unmatched choice to protect against heat loss, moisture penetration and air filtration for a highly-effective thermal envelope. These products, unveiled to attendees of the International Builders' Show in Orlando, are only available from Owens Corning and represent the latest advances in insulating technology from the company that first invented fiber glass. |
08 June 2006 |
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TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ To help mattress manufacturers comply with California's open-flame-resistance standard TB603 without making any manufacturing process changes, Owens Corning (OTC Bulletin Board: OWENQ) today introduced the first one-step composite solution, Owens Corning Fire Resistant (FR) Filler Cloth. |
07 June 2006 |
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To help mattress manufacturers comply with California's open-flame-resistance standard TB603 without making any manufacturing process changes, Owens Corning today introduced the first one-step composite solution, Owens Corning Fire Resistant Filler Cloth. Comprised of fire- resistant and self-extinguishing fibers, Owens Corning (FR) Filler Cloth is seamlessly bonded directly to standard non-FR filler cloth, which then looks, feels and installs just like traditional materials that are applied to the bottom of no-flip mattresses. |
06 June 2006 |
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Owens Corning announced today that it has completed construction of two new fiberglass pipe insulation lines at OC Mexico, the company's recent $71.5 million manufacturing operation acquisition in Mexico City (formerly known as Vitro Fibras). The expansion, which doubles the plant's pipe capacity, is part of a series of strategic moves and significant investments by the company to fill a void in the North American fiberglass pipe marketplace caused by a major loss of market capacity in mid-2003. |
05 June 2006 |
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Advantex Type30 roving provides non-corrosive, dielectric properties for pultruded high-voltage electrical transmission & distribution applications; prevents brittle fracture |
05 April 2005 |
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To meet increasing builder demand, Owens Corning in October announced a $31
million initiative was underway to expand capacity for its Cultured Stone brand
stone veneer by 70 percent by the end of 2005. |
16 March 2005 |
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At the NAHB Green Building Conference at Atlanta, Owens Corning has announced that its line of fibreglass insulation products has been certified to contain an average of 35 percent recycled content by leading third-party certifier Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). |
14 March 2005 |
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Owens Corning and RheTech have announced a licensing agreement under which RheTech will manufacture and sell in North America a proprietary long-fiber glass/polyolefin thermoplastic (LFTP) developed by Owens Corning. |
11 March 2005 |
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Owens Corning is initiating plans to build a 150 million pound per year greenfield light density fibre glass insulation plant. |
31 October 2004 |
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