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In the UK and Ireland, Saint-Gobain operations span across 3 operating sectors and over 1000 sites.

 

• Construction Products
• Innovative Materials – Flat Glass and High-Performance Materials
• Building Distribution

 

Outlined below is a list of Saint-Gobain businesses in the UK and Ireland by sector.  If you would like to know more about any of our individual companies, click here.

 

Construction Products

The Construction Products sector includes the insulation, pipe, industrial mortars, exterior products and gypsum activities.

 

Insulation

• Saint-Gobain Isover
• Saint-Gobain Cultilene

Gypsum

• Artex
• British Gypsum
• Formula
• Gyproc 
• Saint-Gobain Ecophon

Pipe

• Saint-Gobain PAM

Industrial mortars

• Weber

 

Innovative Materials – Flat Glass

The Flat Glass division produces flat glass, processes and distributes glass for the construction and automotive markets and produces specialty glass, including products for home appliances, fireproof glass and glass for electronic applications.

 

• Saint-Gobain Glass
• Saint-Gobain Sekurit
• Solaglas 
• Swisspacer
• Vetrotech
• Quantum Glass

 

Innovative Materials – High-Performance Materials

High-Performance Materials focus on products for industrial and construction markets. Its expertise lie in three families of materials: mineral ceramics (ceramics, grains, powders, abrasives and crystals), performance polymers (performance plastics) and glass fabrics (textile solutions).

Ceramics

• Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics

Plastics

• Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
• Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Ireland
• Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Rencol
• Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Tygaflor

Abrasives

• Saint-Gobain Abrasives

Textile solutions

• Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics

 

Building Distribution

The Building Distribution sector is Europe’s leading distributor of building materials and the number one distributor of tiling in the World. In the UK and Ireland, the Building Distribution division has over 900 sites, including general and specialist merchants, plus distribution and logistics operations.

Architectural Ironmongery

• George Boyd

Decorative Surfaces

• International Decorative Surfaces
• The Makeover Centre

General Builders Merchants

• Easter Ross Building Supplies
• First Stop Builders Merchants Ltd
• Gibbs & Dandy 
• J.P. Corry
• Jewson 
• Normans
• Parkhead Building Supplies Ltd
• Roger W.Jones
• Chadwicks

Insulation and drylining

• Minster Insulation and Drylining

Pipeline, drainage and waste solutions

• Ashworth
• Frazer

Plumbing, heating and sanitaryware

• Bassetts
• Domestic Heating Services (DHS)
• Graham
• Ideal Bathrooms Ltd
• Neville Lumb

Sustainable solutions and water conservation products

• Greenworks

Tiles

• Ceramic Tile Distributors
• Swedecor
• The Makeover Centre
• Tile Base
• World's End Tiles

Timber

• Calders and Grandidge
• International Timber
• Kantor Ltd
• Pasquill
• PDM
• Tyneside Timber

 

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