Founded in 1665, Saint-Gobain Group is headquartered in France. It specializes in manufacturing, processing and distributing high-tech materials and provides associated services. Saint-Gobain develops and meets challenges concerning energy and environment with its innovative solutions. Saint-Gobain Group is the global or European leader in each of its five core businesses, including flat glass, packaging, high-performance materials, construction products and building distribution. It does multiple businesses in each of the industries, providing products and services for almost every area of people’s daily life.

Saint-Gobain employs more than 206000 employees in over 1400 subsidiaries located in 57 countries throughout the world. As one of the top 100 companies in the global industries, Saint-Gobain realized a total revenue of EUR43.4 billion in 2007 and ranked 110 of the Fortune 500 2008.

A history of more than 300 years demonstrates Saint-Gobain’s excellent capabilities of thinking, innovation and continuous growth

Saint-Gobain grows the fastest with its international business in the Asia-Pacific region, in which China is one of the most attractive countries. Since 1985 when Saint-Gobain entered the Chinese market, it has established 46 enterprises and trading companies in China, serving different markets including auto glass, packaging, thermal and acoustic insulation materials, reinforced glass fibers, ceramics plastics, abrasives, pipelines and building distribution. By 2007 Saint-Gobain Group has employed more than 11700 employees in China, with sales revenue amounting to CNY7.6 billion.