Johns Manville to exhibit at Mosbuild 2002:

Johns Manville, known as a global market leader in nonwoven products, fabrics, roofing and insulation products, will, for the seventh time, be exhibiting its nonwovens for roofing and textile glass fabric wall covering businesses at Mosbuild - Russia's leading building fair from 9 to 13 April 2002.

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 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.

Glass fiber wall coverings and fabrics will constitute another important feature of the presentation.

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 a single product.

As in previous years, Johns Manville looks forward to demonstrating its new products and new booth concept to visitors from all parts of the Russian Federation, White Russia and the Ukraine, as also from Western Europe. The greatest demand for building materials in the Russian Federation is recorded in the Moscow Region, which has more than 15 million inhabitants within its immediate commuter zone.

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 for roofing felt industry products and from users of glass textil fabric wall coverings in an optimal manner.

Marketing, technical service and, not least, a particularly broad assortment of high-quality nonwovens and fabrics makes Johns Manville the first choice as a supplier of inorganic carriers for the production of bituminous roofing felts.

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 9,500 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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