History | SaintGobain North America
Here's a history of our history. 1880s 1885 Norton Emery Wheel Company, later to become part of SaintGobain, was founded to manufacture the world's first precisionmade, massproduced grinding wheel. 1900s 1904 General Roofing Manufacturing Company (later to become CertainTeed) was established in East St. Louis, Illinois, by George M. Brown. 1910s