To meet the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection, Saint-Gobain offers innovative solutions for offices, hospitals, day-care centres, schools and other service buildings. The building projects carried out under the Multi-Comfort Program demonstrate that it is possible to build or renovate these types of buildings with currently available materials and technologies.
Performance Plastics
The Performance Plastics Activity gathers solutions combining material science, processing technology and design to save energy, provide protection, improve comfort and sustain the environment for a variety of industries: Thermalbond® for Panel stiffener bonding, providing a structural glazing gasket with design freedom; Norseal®for Sandwich panels and window sealing, providing protection against water, dirt and air infiltration and resist weathering and UV oxidation; Greenglue® for soundproofing, used in panel or wall.
Besides, the high performance films provided by Saint-Gobain can also be used as protective cap stock film adhesively laminated to graphics / signage in outdoor construction and indoor decoration applications. The films could provide anti-graffiti, anti-stick, and easy-cleaning properties.
The NORGARD™ ETFE film provided by Saint-Gobain could be used as the front panel film of flexible photovoltaic cell modules. The high-transparent, easy-cleaning, anti-scratch properties could be helpful for the high efficiency of the modules.
Saint-Gobain Ceramic Materials
For habitat, Ceramic Materials provides ZirPro zirconia powders used to manufacture pigments for coloring ceramic tiles.
Surface Conditioning ’s product can be used in photovoltaic (PV) and LED lighting industries: highly engineered coolant, cleaner, polishing slurry and diamond powder are important consumables in silicon and sapphire processing, which bring reduction of cost and efficiency improvement into PV and LED.
Saint-Gobain Zirpro’s ceramic beads "Zirblast" are widely used for blasting on door & windows aluminum profile and stainless steel for building construct part. With its treated aesthetic aspect gives added value for the metallic part.
Abrasives
Norton Clipper® machines and diamond tools deliver extraordinary performance in drilling and cutting all materials on building and construction sites.
In the habitat sector, plumbers, builders, carpenters, tilers, painters and decorators also benefit from Saint-Gobain Abrasives solutions.