US-based Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) is the only pure-play exception, but trades at a premium.
He also led the Owens Corning Technology Center as Chief Technology Officer for a time.
Manufacturers like Owens Corning, whose CEO is here today, they win because they produce this stuff.
Owens Corning ( OC - news - people ) (19, OC) can't get a break.
Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions.
While Rockwool was no bargain basement stock, it looked relatively attractive compared to Owens Corning this spring when I bought it.
Owens Corning is well known in North America for its ubiquitous pink fiberglass insulation, but also makes a wide range of insulation and roofing products.
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Owens Corning sued testing labs and at least one lawyer in 1996, but ultimately entered a confidential settlement as part of a larger agreement to pay off asbestos claims.
All the asbestos cases were filed in plaintiff-friendly Mississippi, where lawyers wrested hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from defendants including Halliburton, Ingersoll-Rand, Owens Corning and Georgia Pacific .
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Ravi Sikund, who has spent most of his career representing Owens Corning and other firms in India, thinks there is money to be made from training Indians to talk like Britons or Americans.
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In an intriguing reversal of roles, the Manville Trust, along with several other defendants in asbestos cases, will go before a Federal Appeals Court next month to get clearance for multi-billion-dollar claims against tobacco manufacturers (Owens Corning has filed a similar suit in California).
Finally, consider homebuilding, which is taking off all across the country for the first time in over five years, creating a potential for positive opportunities associated with everything related to a home, from Home Depot (HD) and Owens Corning (OC), to Lennar (LEN) and Whirlpool (WHR).
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So, as Painter sees it, you would buy a Duesenberg with, say, an engine built by Toyota, a chassis by Dana and exterior panels by Owens-Corning.
Owens- Corning has protection for its pink insulation.
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