"Pour Benoit Bazin, directeur general de Saint Gobain depuis juillet 2021, les priorités en matière de soutien financier face à la crise de l'énergie doivent être repensées."

Sreedhar N, CFO of French multinational manufacturer Saint-Gobain, discusses the company's growth areas, energy hedging, and offloading costs to consumers off the back of their half-year report.

« Il faut tripler le nombre de rénovations énergétiques annuelles pour rester sur la trajectoire de la neutralité carbone », estime Benoit Bazin, le directeur général de Saint-Gobain. Il sera l’un des intervenants du plus grand forum économique d’Europe, organisé par le Cercle des économistes, à Aix-en-Provence, qui démarre ce vendredi 8 juillet.

"First of all, I am tempted to take a step back. I know that every era produces its own concepts, and that many of them are quickly forgotten. The field of HR is not immune to certain fads either, and when we look at the numbers, we see a more complex reality."

Claire Pedini, Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility.

"As a leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain recognizes that the health of our employees, our customers and our partners is an integral part of our responsibility."

Claire Pedini, Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility.

"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"Pitting large corporations against start-ups is already an outdated cliché.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.

When one imagines a future city, we often tend to imagine a scene from some sci-fi movie wherein technology has the reins to the world, robots steer the economy and we completely rely on gadgets. While all this is a probability that might come true, the predominant concept that needs to be adopted in the future is of a smart yet sustainable city.

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.

En remplaçant le sable par du calcin, un matériau issu du recyclage, Saint-Gobain a inventé un nouveau substrat de verre dont l’empreinte carbone est la plus faible au monde.

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