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point of view: reducing the gap between carbon and glass

interview
ARNAUD GENIS, GROUP PRESIDENT, COMPOSITE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS OWENS CORNING

Owens Corning was a main contributor to the development of composites both in terms of materials and in the education of end users. Recognized worldwide, this glass fibre specialist has seen the arrival of new competitors over the past few years. To maintain its position, the company continues to invest in production capacity as well as in the development of new products. The recent JEC Composites Show in Paris provided an opportunity to ask a few questions to Arnaud Genis, their “Group President of Composite Solutions”.

Owens Corning: Enhancing & spreading glass fibre

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Mr. Genis graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (French Business School in Paris) and spent one year at Kobe University in Japan during his studies. He is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Italian and is conversant in German,

About Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a leading global producer of residential and commercial building materials, glass fibre reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems. Founded in 1938, Owens Corning is a marketleading innovator of glass-fibre technology with sales of US$ 5 billion in 2010 and about 15,000 employees in 28 countries on five continents. It has been a Fortune® 500 company for 57 years now. Owens Corning’s Composite Solutions Business (CSB) is the world leader in the production of glass fibre reinforcements with more than 30 manufacturing

Japanese and Portuguese.

Arnaud Genis is the Group President of Owens Corning’s Composite Solutions Business (CSB). He was appointed to the position in December 2010.

Before joining Owens Corning in 2007, Mr. Genis worked for 21 years at Saint-Gobain in various international assignments in sales, marketing, strategic planning and general management in Japan, Spain, Italy, Belgium and France. He was named President of the company’s Textile Solutions business in 2005.

In 2006, Mr. Genis led the SaintBRIC countries and Mexico Gobain team through Owens represent a full third of Corning’s acquisition of its total demand Reinforcements business and played a major role in the strategy and structure

locations in 15 countries. Sales of multiple products for a variety of end-use industrial markets including automotive, wind energy, building materials, ballistics and aerospace exceed US$ 2 billion annually. CSB uses industry-leading furnace and glass technology developed in its science and technical centres located in Granville, Ohio, US; Chambery, France; and Ibaraki, Japan. Among the new products launched in spring 2011, the following ones are specifically designed for the automotive industry: - non-woven glass fibre veil to improve performance of

of the new Composites businesses. This was the largest acquisition in Owens Corning’s history and transformed the reinforcements industry globally as Owens Corning and Saint-Gobain were the market leaders. Immediately after this acquisition in November 2007, Mr. Genis was named vice president and managing director for Owens Corning’s Reinforcements business in Europe and its Global Technical Fabrics business. In June 2010, he was also given responsibility for the company’s Non-Woven Technologies and

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