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SAINT-GOBAIN PROCESS SYSTEMS
Saint-Gobain’s Process Systems business unit helps customers achieve safety, performance and brand assurance through a broad range of capabilities that rely on superior engineering and customer support. Our product applications include the food & beverage, habitat, aerospace, chemical and electronics sectors. Through our customized solutions and a variety of product offerings, we help customers achieve goals in innovation, efficiency, sustainability and product integrity.
R&D CENTER – SHANGHAI, CHINA
In order to support the key strategies of technology innovation and development in emerging countries of Saint-Gobain group and to meet the requirements of rapidly growing businesses in Asia-Pacific, particularly in China for the group, Saint-Gobain has decided and approved to start the Phase II construction project of our Shanghai R&D center.
R&D CENTER – AUBERVILLIERS, FRANCE
This R&D center complies with the Group’s strategy: innovate to address new markets. Its role is to improve knowledge of customer needs and to convert this knowledge into innovative projects.
SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS
Saint-Gobain's Performance Plastics division emerges as a global leader in high-performance polymer solutions, focusing on demanding applications with innovative technology. It is comprised of three major businesses – Composites, Engineered Components, and Fluid Systems. Saint-Gobain's Process Systems business unit falls under Fluid Systems and provides solutions for fluid transfer, fluid control, sealing and insulation applications.
FURON®
Saint-Gobain acquires Furon®, a leading supplier of highly engineered polymer products. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics division emerged and one year later, CHEMFAB, a major supplier of high-performance plastics is acquired.
NORTON ACQUISITION
Saint-Gobain acquires Norton Company, now a leading worldwide supplier of abrasives, ceramics and high-performance plastics.
R&D CENTER – NORTHBOROUGH, MA
Norton Company opens its R&D Center in Northborough, Massachusetts – now Saint-Gobain's largest research center in the world.
MERGER WITH PONT-A-MOUSSON
The twentieth century is a century of diversification. Saint-Gobain becomes interested in all types of glass products and takes advantage of the considerable growth of the automotive market and contemporary architecture.
The merger with Pont-à-Mousson in 1970 marks a turning point in the history of the Group, deeply transformed by the strong trend toward mergers and acquisitions.
NORTON & US STONEWARE
Norton Company purchases U.S. Stoneware, thus expanding into chemical process products and plastics.
GLOBAL EXPANSION
U.S. Stoneware Company of Akron, Ohio successfully extrudes PVC and launches the Tygon® branded tubing. Emphasis on quality and sanitation enables Tygon® to lead the premium plastic tubing market.
SAINT-GOBAIN CORPORATION
Founded under the reign of Louis XIV, the Royal Mirror Glass Manufactory develops a revolutionary procedure for making mirror glass: table casting. It opened its main production site in a small village in the northeast of the kingdom, Saint-Gobain, from which it took its name.