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Johns Manville: UniTex™ – New C-glass sliver
(Bad Homburg, April 8, 2003) --- Johns Manville presents its latest development, UniTex™ at the Techtextil fair in Frankfurt from April 8-10, 2003 (hall 5.1, booth C81). It’s a uniform C-glass sliver with high volume and excellent strength, which improves product properties significantly for processes like weaving, multi-axial, braiding etc.
UniTex™ is targeted for technical fiber systems, e.g. friction yarns, used in the production of automotive clutch facings meeting excellent abrasion behavior and even resin admission requirements.
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. Additional information can be found at www.jm.com and www.jmeurope.com.
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