India: Saint-Gobain has commenced construction of its fifth Indian mineral wool insulation plant at Oragadam near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The plant will have capacity of 50,000t/yr of mineral wool. It will also produce acoustic insulation panels, gypsum wallboard, plaster and float glass. The Times of India newspaper has reported that the plant is France-based Saint-Gobain’s largest investment in the Asia-Pacific Region to date.
Saint-Gobain Asia Pacific Regional Senior Vice-President and CEO Sreedhar Natarajan noted the upcoming plant’s reliance on automation technology to ‘Enhance our ability to deliver high-performance and differentiated solutions to our customers.’
