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Johns Manville: ComforTex® - the Mineral wool facing
(Bad Homburg, April 8, 2003) --- Johns Manville will introduce its new fine and lightweight polyester spunbond ComforTex® at the Techtextil fair in Frankfurt from April 8-10, 2003 (hall 5.1, booth no. C 81).
The newly developed mineral wool facing with a weight of only 15 g/m² offers exquisite product performance – e.g. optimum air permeability, a uniform coverage and excellent adhesive properties. The product provides an optimal fiber facing und therefore also a very good trickling protection. Thanks to its textile surface, ComforTex® ensures comfortable handling on-the-job.
Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building and industrial products. In business since 1858, the Denver, USA-based company has sales in excess of $2 billion and holds leadership positions in all of the key markets that it serves. Johns Manville employs approximately 9,000 people and operates 46 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.
The Engineered Products Group (EPG), one of Johns Manville‘s four strategic business units, produces glass fibers, glass fiber nonwoven, polyester spunbond, meltblown and glass fiber fabrics at 15 manufacturing locations worldwide: Spartanburg, SC, Waterville, OH, Richland, MS and Etowah,TN, USA; Berlin, Bobingen, Karlstein, Steinach and Wertheim, Germany; St. Helens, UK, Oskarstrom and Helsingborg, Sweden; Trnava, Slovakia; Lubliniec, Poland and Shanghai, China.
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