The new DR LFTplus allows Johns Manville and its customers to develop new cost effective applications in the European and North American automotive markets. The sizings of DR LFTplus are developed for PP, PA and PET resins.

DR LFTplus, initially displayed at the JEC in 2002 in Paris has two key manufacturing concepts: (1) Direct-LFT, where the glass roving and the polymer resin are compounded on-line into a compression or injection molding operation, or (2) the traditional two-step process, with the initial fabrication of long fiber reinforced granulates via extrusion and the final injection of compression molding process using the LFT granulates.

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building and specialty products. In business since 1858, the Denver-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 and operates 52 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.

Johns Manville Europe is the European operations for the Engineered Products Group (EPG), one of Johns Manville's three strategic business units, and has 11 manufacturing locations in Germany, Sweden, the U.K., Poland, Slovakia and China. Additional information can be found at www.jm.com.