Performance
Plastics, a recognised authority in advanced polymer technology,
is part of Saint-Gobain, a global force in engineered materials.
Performance Plastics produces and markets more than 800
standard and custom polymer products through our four businesses:
Precision Products, Fluid Products, Fluid Systems, Foams/Films/Laminates,
Composites. And each demonstrates our innovation, our
responsiveness to customer needs and industry leading polymer
expertise.
PRECISION
PRODUCTS
Uses advanced molding and machining techniques to create
narrow tolerance products such as bearings, gaskets and
Seals used in the automative and chemical industries. This
business's Norglide bearings are used by every major automative
company in the world in applications such as car door hinges,
shock absorbers etc.
FLUID
SYSTEMS
Produces plastic tubing and other components for handling
liquids and gases. Perhaps the best known product of this
business is Tygon flexible tubing used for medical, food
and laboratory applications.
FOAMS,
FILMS AND LAMINATES
Produces flexible foams, speciality films and laminates.
The foams based on PVC or polyurethane, are used for gasketing,
mounting, sealing and sound-proofing in automotive and construction
applications.
Performance
Plastics brings a world of possibilities...with ideas that
open new doors...solutions that bring new opportunities...and
innovations that shape new standards of performance excellence.