Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for wellbeing worldwide. It operates through Innovative Materials Sector, Construction Products Sector, and Building Distribution Sector segments. The Innovative Materials Sector segment provides flat glass products, such as float glass, as well as laminated, patterned, silvered, lacquered, and coated glass; and a range of products for the building industry, including reinforced thermal insulation and acoustic protection glass, solar control glass, decorative, safety and fireproof glass, and active glass. This segment develops and supplies windshields, such as panoramic windshields, sidelites, backlites, and glass sun-roofs for automotive, aeronautics, and railway industries, as well as for trucks and armored vehicles. This segment also offers value-added solutions for the manufacturing, construction, transportation, and healthcare markets comprising grains and powders; abrasives; glass fiber mesh for exterior wall insulation, wall coverings, joint tapes, glass mat for thermal insulation and the production of asphalt concrete overlays, as well as insect screen and paving reinforcement grids; composites, bearings and seals, and fluid systems; and lighting fabrics. The Construction Products Sector segment provides ductile cast iron pipe systems, municipal castings, hydraulic valves, and wastewater and rainwater collection and drainage systems for buildings under the PAM brand; solutions for creating partition walls, wall linings, and ceiling systems; thermal and acoustic insulation products and solutions; mortar-based construction solutions under the Weber brand; exterior products; and dry construction systems. The Building Distribution Sector segment distributes building materials to the renovation, new building, and home improvement markets. The company was founded in 1665 and is headquartered in Courbevoie, France.
