Vetrotex Saint Gobain - Mena-Cd. Industrial Xicohtencatl

Learn more about Vetrotex, your worldwide partner in fiberglass solutions for technical textiles, including history, locations, environmental policy and other facts and figures. With 350 years of experience in fiberglass manufacturing, Vetrotex works in partnership with our customers, continuously investing in research and development for improved technologies and product solutions. We offer a complete range of service and products tailored and focused on customer needs. Our clients, in conjunction with our technological competence, state of the art technology and an innovative spirit, have allowed us to position ourselves as a market leader servicing building, industrial and a wide spectrum of other applications requiring technical textiles. With over 80 years of experience, Vetrotex is the historical leader.

Our presence and services have become global. Today we have sales offices in Australia, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Korea, USA, France, China, Malaysia and production facilities in Europe as well as in North America.

Our aim is to serve our customers anywhere in the world with our global presence while focusing on local service. We promise to our customers to be reliable in Quality and in Service, to be an innovative company and to be a true business partner.

Our parent company, Saint-Gobain, is the world’s largest glass producer. At Saint-Gobain Vetrotex, we are able to use Saint-Gobain’s vast resources to develop and manufacture superior glass fiber products.

Embedded in the solid foundation of the Saint-Gobain Group and their more than 300 years of experience in glass manufacturing, Vetrotex is able to continuously invest in research and development for improved technologies and product solutions in partnership with our customers.

Saint-Gobain is the world leader in the habitat and construction markets. It designs, manufactures and distributes building materials and other industrial products, providing innovative solutions to meet the growing demand for energy efficiency and environmental protection.

SAINT-GOBAIN BY NUMBERS

• Saint-Gobain is one of the 100 most innovative companies in the world
• Operates in 68 countries
• Approx. 171,000 employees
• Worldwide/European leader in each of its businesses
• 8 transversal R&D centers worldwide

OUR COMMITMENT

Vetrotex is a worldwide producer of glass fiber materials for use in many diverse applications, mainly technical textiles. Our product range includes E-glass single yarns, texturized and voluminized yarns, ZeroTwist^®, textile chopped strands and C-glass staple fiber yarns.

FACTS & FIGURES

• Annual capacity of about 1 billion km of glass fiber: 6x the distance between the Earth and sun
• More than 1200 highly motivated employees
• Filament/yarn with more than 240 km length
• Glass fiber production speed of 200 km/h
• R&D support by Saint-Gobain Research Centers investing 300 million € per year
• Highest market share in Europe and North America
• Supplying the most textile applications on the market
• Supporting widest range of final applications