SAINT-GOBAIN IN EVERYDAY LIFE Each day, everyone in North America probably sees, touches, or benefits from something made by Saint-Gobain. The company’s technological know-how in glass, high-performance materials, and building materials contributes to thousands of products that help make our lives livable and enjoyable. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, headquartered in Paris, is one of the world’s top 100 industrial companies, providing high-technology materials and associated services to customers around the globe. In North America, more than 200 manufacturing plants, with 30,000 employees, operate in such diverse industries as industrial ceramics, plastics, glass containers, reinforcements, flat glass, abrasives, building materials, and insulation. Here are just a few examples of how Saint-Gobain touches our everyday lives. Health and Beauty Crystals used in ultra-small gamma cameras designed to detect breast tumors. Food and Drink Wine bottles for Inglenook, Mogen David, Beringer and Robert Mondavi family of wines. Grinding wheels used to grind the corn for snack chips. Bottles for Tabasco® hot pepper sauces. Glass jars for Hormel® bacon bits, Kraft® and Hellmann’s® mayonnaise, Ragu® spaghetti sauce, and Claussen® and Aunt Jane’s® pickles. Beer bottles for Anheuser-Busch. Jars for Beechnut® baby food and glass containers for Similac® and Enfamil® infant formulas. Liquor bottles for Southern Comfort® whiskey, Jim Beam® whiskey, Smirnoff® vodka (and Smirnoff Ice™ malt beverage), Bacardi® rum, Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails® cordials, Mike’s Hard Lemonade® vodka coolers and more. On the House Millennium® vinyl siding for 25 homes built in the Indianapolis area by Habitat for Humanity to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Roofing tiles for the homes of actor and comedian Eddie Murphy, movie director John Hughes, and NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal. Roofing for the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York, and the Henry Ford Home in Detroit, Michigan. Vinyl fence and roofing products for the home of NASCAR driver Ward Burton. Vinyl windows for more than 16 million U.S. homes. Planes, Trains, Boats, and Automobiles Windshields and other glass for Amtrak’s Acela® high-speed trains, New York City’s subway, and the monorail system in Las Vegas. Insulation for the main hangar at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in New York. Radomes that make it possible for JetBlue Airways to offer live TV at every seat. Abrasives used by Rolls Royce in the manufacture of jet engine components. Windows for Cadillac’s LAV® Sport Utility Vehicles, Seville®, and Catera® -- for Buick’s LeSabre® -- and for Volkswagen’s New Beetle™. Reinforcement fabrics for sails on most of the boats that compete for the America’s Cup. In Space Gamma ray spectrometer for NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft to help determine what materials are found on the moon. Scintillation material for neutron spectrometers aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey to help analyze the chemical and mineral makeup of the planet’s surface. Seals for external oxygen and hydrogen tanks that fuel the Space Shuttle. And More Roofing tiles for buildings at Ellis Island National Monument in New York Harbor -- for the Medina Country Club in Illinois -- and for Clint Eastwood’s Tehama Golf Club in California. Engineered abrasives to polish steel and titanium golf clubs. Fiber glass insulation at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, home of the world’s largest laser. Reinforcement tape for hockey sticks used by the NHL.