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Joining Saint-Gobain means joining women and men with the convictions and talents to invent a more sustainable future.
Saint-Gobain is committed to ensuring that our activities, our employees and our partners are jointly involved in building a more sustainable and inclusive world.
Saint-Gobain designs and delivers innovative and high performance solutions that improve our habitat and our daily lives.
The diversity of our business and the strong awareness of our brands (ISOVER, PAM, Weber, Placo®, Gyproc, CertainTeed, Jewson, POINT.P...) allow us to be the reference of Habitat and industrial applications markets.
Becoming the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction means offering high-performance, sustainable solutions to our customers in the construction markets. Saint-Gobain High Performance Solutions is committed to this.
Saint-Gobain’s focus on high-performance innovative building solutions, and ability to provide detailed certification on the environmental impact of each of its market leading products, has ensured its position as a key supplier of building materials for Dubai’s highly anticipated WORLD EXPO 2020.
In France Saint-Gobain PAM Canalisation is continuing its efforts to conserve resources and limit the impact of its activity by installing a furnace powered by decarbonized electricity. As a result, it has reduced its CO2 emissions and is able to recycle 100% of cast iron waste.
High urbanization also means architectural prowess and improved comfort. The United Arab Emirates, a past master in this field, has once again demonstrated this with a 75-story double tower designed with the help of numerous Saint-Gobain solutions.
Recovering and recycling to create more sustainable cities are major challenges for the building sector and therefore for the flat glass industry. Find out how Saint-Gobain uses its know-how to limit waste and promote a circular economy that has become crucial in an increasingly urbanized world.
The new Saint-Gobain Ecophon® SoundCircularity™ service launched in France is part of a circular economy approach with a complete support solution for recycling end-of-life products.
The longest bridge ever built using 3D printing is located in Nijmegen, Netherlands, at the Saint-Gobain Weber Beamix factory.
The French retailer's export department, which was stopped in its tracks by the health crisis, is once again taking to the skies to supply its customers' construction sites abroad.
In France, the Aniche flat glass plant has launched a "Tri Calcin" [Cullet Sorting] project. The aim is to significantly reduce its CO2 emissions and recycle the glass available from local renovation sites.
In the UK, a biomass heating system, a photovoltaic solar panel and insulation solution, and air source heat pumps will be financed through the Carbon Fund launched in Northern Europe.
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
Building the future means designing solutions that ensure that the buildings of today and tomorrow contribute, throughout their life cycle, to the wellbeing of each person and to protecting the environment.
38.1 billion euros in turnover in 2020
More than 167,000 employees
Committed to achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050
Ce jeudi 7 octobre, le distributeur Saint-Gobain présentait sa feuille de route stratégique pour les cinq prochaines années. Appelé « Grow and Impact », ce programme est placé sous le signe de la durabilité, avec plusieurs angles d’attaque : responsabilité ESG, relation client à travers le monde, innovation et numérique.
Trois mois après sa nomination au poste de directeur général, Benoît Bazin a marché, ce 7 octobre, dans les pas de son ancien chef Pierre-André de Chalendar. Lancée fin novembre 2018, la stratégie « Transform & Grow » devient « Grow & Impact ». Malgré la hausse des coûts de l'énergie et des matières premières, le spécialiste de la fabrication et de la distribution de verres et de matériaux de construction vise un taux de croissance organique de 3 à 5% d'ici à 2025.
Saint-Gobain ouvre un nouveau plan stratégique de cinq ans, avec l’objectif de renforcer sa croissance et son profil financier, tout en devenant leader mondial de la construction décarbonée. Le groupe français prévoit aussi une enveloppe d’acquisitions de 5 milliards d’euros jusqu’en 2025 et vise une augmentation de 30 à 40% de ses investissements industriels.
Invité de BFM Business, Benoit Bazin, directeur général de Saint-Gobain, estime être le mieux placé pour accompagner les grands projets de rénovation en Europe et aux Etats-Unis.
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"Just as in the past, we have seen the transformation of buildings used for World Fairs, the facilities of the future Olympic Village of Paris 2024 have been designed to meet new uses once the sporting event is over.
When constructing or renovating a building, we should not always assume its final purpose; we should consider housing and construction more and more with this state of mind."
Benoit Bazin, CEO of Saint-Gobain Group.
"Pitting large corporations against start-ups is already an outdated cliché. I strongly believe that the traditional opposition between these two worlds makes no sense! In recent years, start-ups and large corporations have been building more and more bridges. And we are witnessing a winning hybridization, which is becoming a reality at Saint-Gobain."
Claire Pedini, Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Digital Transformation - Saint-Gobain.
Know where you want to go... or try some things out?
“Where do you want to go?” ,
Valerie Gervais, Vice President Saint-Gobain University.
"Future mobility will not only be more intelligent and sustainable, it will also focus more on user experience."
Houchan SHOEIBI, Chief Executive Officer at Saint-Gobain Sekurit.
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Dans Le défi urbain paru en mai 2021 aux éditions Odile Jacob, Pierre-André de Chalendar, président de Saint-Gobain, s’interroge sur un modèle qui n’a jamais été aussi fragile et demande à être repensé.
With its centralized cooling, automated trash collection and car-free town center, could Singapore's new eco-town offer a roadmap for slashing the city-state's carbon emissions?
Nearly 70% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals highlight the need to ensure these cities are safe and sustainable for all.
These metrics show why commercial buildings have become an important focus for the World Green Building Council (WGBC). Its Advancing Net Zero buildings initiative aims to have every building produce net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. That’s every building on the planet.
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La #France a vu ses demandes de #brevets croître en 2020 malgré la pandémie, selon l'OEB.
En tête des 3 organismes français qui génèrent le plus de demandes de brevets se trouvent le Groupe Saint-Gobain avec 413 demandes. #innovation
Saint-Gobain indique figurer au palmarès des 100 entreprises les plus innovantes au monde, d'après le classement 'Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator 2021', et ce pour la dixième année consécutive.
Le centre de recherche Saint-Gobain spécialisé dans les céramiques a créé les filtres du masque anti-Covid Precimask
"La France, 2ème pays le plus innovant d’Europe". Nous sommes fiers d'y contribuer par le dépôt de nos brevets !
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