Residential habitat

To meet the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection, Saint-Gobain offers innovative solutions for residential buildings, offices, hospitals, daycare centers, schools and other service buildings. With a unique and diversified portfolio of materials and services that improve the energy efficiency and thermal, acoustic, visual and health comfort of buildings, Saint-Gobain provides solutions for both the external envelope (facade, external insulation systems, insulating glazing, etc.) and the internal lining (insulation, plasterboard, ceilings, etc.). 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.

Plasterboard systems

An essential material for the internal finishing of buildings, plasterboard is used for partitions, wall linings, ceilings and floors. Via its various commercial brands, Saint-Gobain provides a wide range of efficient solutions that adapt to all types of building projects: new and renovation residential buildings.

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.

The Norton® 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.

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.

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.