Owens Corning inaugurated its new production facility in the Yuhang Economic and Development Zone, Hangzhou, China the other day. The plant significantly expands the company’s capacity in China and represents a major milestone in the 73-year history of Owens Corning.
“Building a new facility in China is part of our global business strategy to supply our customer’s locally in growing regions of the world,” said Owens Corning Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mike Thaman. “The new Yuhang plant represents Owens Corning’s commitment to serve our customers and the fast-growing China market.”
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 fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) applications such as wind turbine blades, pipe and pressured vessels.
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