Knauf

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Knauf Gips KG
IndustryBuilding materials
Founded1932; 92 years ago (1932)
Headquarters,
Germany
Number of locations
150 (2012)
Subsidiaries
Websiteknauf.com

Knauf Group is a multinational, family-owned company based in Iphofen, Germany, well known for drywall gypsum boards, founded in 1932. The company is a producer of building materials and construction systems comprising construction materials for drywall construction, plasterboard, cement boards, mineral fibre acoustic boards, dry mortars with gypsum for internal plaster and cement-based external plaster and insulating materials; glass wool, stone wool and other insulation materials under the company Knauf Insulation.

It has more than 150 production sites worldwide.[1] It is one of the six producers which hold approximately 81% of the worldwide wallboard market (Georgia Pacific, Knauf, Siniat, National Gypsum Company, Saint-Gobain, and Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd).[2]

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  1. ^ "Knauf site". Knauf.com. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
  2. ^ "Lafarge Annual Report 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2020-02-18.

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