sain t-gobain annu al report 2008 annual report

Main subsidiaries
by country and delegation
All of the subsidiaries are wholly owned, unless otherwise stated.
FRANCE
Saint-Gobain Glass France: flat glass and flat glass
products. Sales: €313.2 million. Employees: 1,059. These figures
include Eurofloat, a float glass plant. Subsidiaries:
Saint-Gobain Produits Industriels (SGPI), M.O. Pays de Loire,
Comptoir Général des Glaces et Produits Verriers (C.G.G.), Les
Vitrages de Saint-Gobain Normandie, M.O. Semiver-Climaver,
M.O. Charentes-Limousin, M.O. Armorique, Miroiterie du Rhin,
Société Verrière Française (SVF), Sovedys, Sivaq, Centre Est
Vitrage (CEV), Charles André, Soprover, Société Verrière de
l’Atlantique (SVA), Le Vitrage du Midi (LVM), Glassver, Gobba
Vitrage, Auvergne Isolation, Vitrages Isolants d’Auvergne,
Alp’Verre, Courbu Vitrages, Verrerie Aurys, Pierre Pradel, Wehr
Miroiterie, Emaillerie Alsacienne, Techniverre: construction
glass products manufacturing and distribution. Employees
of the subsidiaries: 3,108.
Eurokera (50%). Employees: 143. Keraglass (50%).
Employees: 109. Glass ceramic hobs.
Saint-Gobain Sovis: tempered glass for household appliances,
industrial and scientific optics, anti-radiation glass.
Employees: 121.
Verrerie de Saint-Just: decorative glass. Employees: 50.
Saint-Gobain Sully: flat glass for the train and aircraft
industries. Employees: 506.
Saint-Gobain Glass Logistics: transport.
Saint-Gobain Recherche: glass and building materials research
center. Employees: 400.
Samin: quarry operator. Employees: 137.
Saint-Gobain Sekurit France: automotive glass products.
Sales: €234.5 million. Employees: 906. These figures include
Société Verrière d’Encapsulation: encapsulated automotive
glass. Subsidiary: Saint-Gobain Autover: automotive glass
products manufacturing and distribution.
SEPR - Société Européenne des Produits
Réfractaires: fused-cast refractory products used mainly
for glass furnaces and various special ceramic products
(beads, grains and powders). Sales: €213.7 million.
Employees: 900. Subsidiaries:
Savoie Réfractaires: special refractories. Sales: €41.6 million.
Employees: 191.
Saint-Gobain Cristaux et Détecteurs: optical crystals
and artificial monocrystals for chemical analyses.
Sales: €29.7 million. Employees: 146.
Saint-Gobain Quartz SAS: silica parts for the chemical
industry, silica crucibles and reactor tubes for the semiconductor
industry, silica wool and yarn for the space
industry, Micaver insulating materials, piezoelectric ceramics.
Sales: €17.6 million. Employees: 114.
Saint-Gobain Matériaux Céramiques: seeded gel abrasives.
Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes Européennes:
European ceramics research center. Employees:
Valoref SA: recycling.
Saint-Gobain Solcera: fine ceramics for industrial use.
Sales: €15.4 million. Employees: 111.
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Europe: holding
company. Subsidiaries: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
España, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics France:
manufacture and sale of high-performance plastics.
Employees: 406.
Saint-Gobain Abrasifs (France): bonded abrasives,
grinding wheels and superabrasives. Sales: €171.2 million.
Employees: 765.
Saint-Gobain Isover: glass wool and rock wool insulation
products. Sales: €341 million. Employees: 933. Subsidiaries:
Saint-Gobain Eurocoustic: rock wool insulation products.
Sales: €63.2 million. Employees: 190.
Saint-Gobain Ecophon SA: acoustic ceilings. Employees: 28.
Plafométal: metal ceilings. Sales: €38.9 million.
Employees: 114.
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Saint-Gobain – Financial Report 2008