Saint-Gobain
French glass and construction material manufacturer
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| 2025 | Saint-Gobain demolished its Merrimack facility after acknowledging over 20 years of PFAS contamination in the local water supply. |
| 2023 | Saint-Gobain's India arm acquires Twiga Fiberglass, a glass wool manufacturer with production facilities near Delhi and Mumbai. |
| March 1 2023 | Saint-Gobain divested and sold its UK business to Stark Group. |
| October 2022 | Saint-Gobain Films & Fabrics is renamed to Saint-Gobain Composite Solutions. |
| 2021 | Acquired GCP Applied Technologies. GCP and Saint-Gobain's CHRYSO were merged into the new Construction Chemicals division. |
| 2018 | Acquired UK-based Farécla Products, one of the largest polishing compound manufacturers in the world. Also invested in Sriperumbudur, increasing glass production capacity to 3850 tons per day. |
| 2016 | Elevated levels of PFAS (perfluoroalkyl substances) were discovered near the Saint-Gobain plant in Merrimack, New Hampshire, revealing long-term environmental contamination of groundwater. |
| 2014 | Saint-Gobain Glass invested in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, adding another 950 tons of glass production per day. |
| 2012 | Acquired SAGE Electrochromics, an innovative manufacturer of glass that tints on command. In the same year, its BPB subsidiary purchased Celotex. |
| June 2011 | Saint Gobain Glass India acquired Sezal Glass float-line business in Gujarat, adding 550 tons per day of glass production capacity for approximately US$150 million. |
| April 2010 | Saint-Gobain Gyproc Middle East opened its first plisterboard manufacturing plant on a seven-hectare site in Abu Dhabi. |
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