SAINT GOBAIN plans to invest Rs1,000 crore more in the glass business in Tamil Nadu.

The company will expand its World Glass Complex at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. A new floatglass plant will be set up and will be equipped to manufacture a range of products that cater to the needs  of sustainable habitat and affordable luxury. It will be an automated, energy-efficient, scalable and flexible integrated glass facility. Through a new magnetron coater plant, the Complex will have the capacity to manufacture 144 million sq-ft of high-performance, energy-efficient glass catering to the entire Africa, Middle-East, ASEAN and Oceania regions.