Saint-Gobain To Build Uk Plant

Saint-Gobain has announced it is to build a flat glass production line in Britain, representing investment of FFr600m ($103m). The plant will have annual capacity of 170,000 tonnes and is expected to start production by the end of 1999 at the latest, a spokeswoman said. Up to now, Saint-Gobain has sourced its annual sales in Britian of 17m square metres of flat glass from plants in France, Belgium and Germany. The British plant is aimed at "optimising our logistics," the spokeswoman said. She declined to say where the plant would be located.