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Saint-Gobain has finalized the acquisition of 100% of the equity capital of Wattex, a business owned by the founding family Baert and manufacturing non-woven specialty products for the bitumen roof market.

Like almost no other building material, gypsum and the boards produced from it fulfil the demand for sustainable building. Specialised demolition and recycling companies are able to reprocess gypsum building materials at the life cycle end of a building into fully usable raw material. Therefore, the building material gypsum is particularly well suited to meet the requirement of the German Closed Cycle Management Act as regards recycling raw materials to the highest possible degree. By starting a highly modern proportioning and feeding plant at the Gelsenkirchen-Scholven location, Rigips now gives a clear signal within the frame of its sustainability strategy. On 13 July 2017, the plant was inaugurated as the first of its kind in North Rhine-Westphalia. “By taking this step, we live up to the sustainability concept and our responsibility as a leading provider to come up with forward-looking solutions,” declared Werner Hansmann, Chairman of the Management at Rigips, in his welcoming speech

ith a new edition of the "Schallschutz-Lösungen von Rigips" (Sound Protection Solutions from Rigips") brochure, which has been completely revised in terms of content and appearance, the manufacturer is bundling up the latest practical knowledge about sound insulation and sound protection.

Nearly 200 participants attended the 8th Architectural Forum on Building Physics and Energy Efficiency in March 2017, which was jointly organized by Saint-Gobain's affiliated companies ISOVER, Rigips and Weber as well as ENOTherm GmbH together with Ingenieurbüros Andreas + Brück and IWS Ingenieurgesellschaft Willems and Schild.