Owens Corning Siding
Owens Corning Siding
Owens Corning, which was founded in 1938, is a Fortune-500 company that manufactures glass fiber products. A leader in technological advances in glass fiber products, Owens Corning is a publicly-traded company with 2008 sales of &u6 billion and 16,000 employees. The company has facilities located in thirty different countries.
Owens Corning's product line is vast; the company manufactures building products for the residential, commercial and industrial markets that include insulation, roofing, asphalt, and masonry products. In addition, Owens Corning uses glass fiber technology in numerous high-performance products for transportation, electronics, telecommunications, wind energy and consumer markets.
For the home exterior market, Owens Corning siding and exterior products have been previously available under a number of brands, including:
- Owens Corning,
- Norandex/Reynolds,
- HomeSide,
- Builder's Pride,
- Vytec,
- Accord,
- Oakview,
- Walnut,
- Town Hall,
- Generations, and
- Americal Classic.
In 2007 after a strategic review of its siding business, Owens Corning sold its Siding Solutions business unit to Saint-Gobain in exchange for $371 million. The sale included the 153 Owens Corning siding distributions centers as well as three Owens Corning siding manufacturing facilities. Since its acquisition of Owens Corning siding, Saint-Gobain has become the largest building materials company in the world.
Saint-Goban's exterior siding is sold under the Norandex brand name and includes vinyl siding and shakes, fiber reinforced cement, composite siding, aluminum siding, steel siding, stucco, and manufactured stone. Besides its siding products, Norandex carries other materials for remodeling and construction, including windows, doors, roofing, shutters, decking materials, railings, and accent lines. Norandex was originally founded in 1946 and was eventually acquired by Owens Corning. The Norandex building and remodeling product line is distributed through a network of approximately 150 branches located throughout the United States. Product offerings in the different branch locations vary somewhat according to geographical location.
To learn more about the former Owens Corning siding products as well as the Norandex siding products, take the time to meet with siding contractors from your local area. These professionals are experts in the realm of exterior home remodeling and can advise you regarding the features and benefits of the former Owens Corning siding products. In addition, local siding contractors can provide you with cost estimates for your home's siding remodel project so that you can have a better idea of the financial costs involved.