Johns Manville to exhibit at Index 2002:

Johns Manville, known as a global market leader in nonwovens, fabrics, roofing and insulation products will be exhibiting for the first time its nonwovens businesses at Index - European leading nonwoven fair - from 16 to 19 April 2002.

The nonwovens business, as part of Johns Manville's global Engineered Products Group (EPG), is represented in Europe/Asia by Johns Manville Europe headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany. In addition to nonwovens, Johns Manville's European businesses produce textile glass fibers for plastic reinforcement as well as textile glass fabric wall coverings. Its Asian headquarters, containing both marketing and manufacturing capabilities, is located near Shanghai in Qingpu, China. For the first time ever, Johns Manville Europe will be exhibiting under a common corporate identity at the INDEX (booth no. 1410).

The company's display presentation will include polyester spunbond, glass fiber nonwovens and glass fiber fabrics as carrier for bituminous roofing felts, as well as spunbonds and glass fiber nonwovens as carrier for resilient floor coverings. For the acoustics sector, there will be glass fiber nonwovens for backing insulating boards and special glass fiber nonwovens as backings for gypsum panels. Further applications of polyester spunbonds and glass fiber nonwovens comprise batteries, mineral wool facing and others. Geotextile applications are completing the range.

Particular mention should here be made of CombiMat®, an innovative product. This completely new insert serves as a carrier for bituminous roofing felts and combines the advantages of synthetic polyester spunbond and glass fiber nonwoven in one single product.

A further exhibition focus will be a wide range of filter applications, where Johns Manville holds a significant position serving customer needs by high sophisticated lightweight spunbonds, glass nonwovens, glass microfibers and meltblown nonwoven products. Exceeding Johns Manville presents its innovative CombiFil® improving filtration performance through unique filament diameter combinations and the use of special resins.

Following the acquisition last March of Skloplast in Trnava, Slovakia, Johns Manville acquired an additional production and logistics centre in Eastern Europe. The company's global presence enables it to satisfy the growing demand in an optimal manner.

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building, specialty and reinforcement 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 9,500 people worldwide and operates 52 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Johns Manville Europe has over 2,800 employees at 11 European and Chinese manufacturing facilities located in Wertheim, Bobingen, Berlin, Karlstein and Steinach, Germany; Lubliniec, Poland; Helsingborg and Oskarstrom, Sweden; St. Helens, U.K; Trnava, Slovakia and Qingpu, China. Additional information can be found at www.jm.com.

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