Certainteed Corporation: Addition Of Insulsafe Line

CertainTeed Corporation's Insultaiton Group recently completed the addition of a new production line at its Kansas City, US plant to manufacture InsulSafe, blowing wool insulation products. The new line boosts CertainTeed's nationwide manufacturing capacity to make InsulSafe by 30%. The new K22 line receives molten glass from the same furnace that supplies the plant's K21 line, which entered service in 1998. K22 employs some of the latest technology in fibre production and also uses new hydraulic-actuated packaging machinery for faster cycle times, coupled with i