Owens Corning opens new facility in Hangzhou

Owens Corning, a leading producer of glass fibre reinforcements, officially opened its new production facility in the Yuhang Economic and Development Zone, Hangzhou. The new plant is part of the company's global business strategy to supply its customers in growing regions of the world. Capacity from the new Yuhang plant, currently in its first phase of operation, will augment output from an existing facility nearby, and will supply rovings to the Asia Pacific market which are currently being imported from Europe and the Americas. The new facility employs approximately 280 people and brings the number of composite production sites in Asia to eight.
 The new plant is designed for world-class energy efficiency, combining Owens Corning's patented Advantex? glass formulation together with its advanced glass melting technology. A proven product introduced to the global market in the late 1990's, Owens Corning's proprietary Advantex? glass is both an E-glass and a boron-free corrosion resistant E-CR glass and possesses superior corrosion resistance in acidic, water and alkaline environments. Advantex? glass also offers high mechanical properties, high fatigue resistance and strength - to - weight ratio ideal for a wide variety of fibrereinforced plastic (FRP) applications such as wind turbine blades, pipes and pressured vessels.
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