Whois & Analysis for owenscorning.com

Owens Corning is a global company that develops and produces insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composites.

It was formed in 1935 as a partnership between two major American glassworks, Corning Glass Works and Owens-Illinois.

The company employs approximately 15,000 people around the world.

Owens Corning has been a Fortune 500 company every year since the list was created in 1955.

Asphalt (occasionally), also known as bitumen is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

It may be found in natural deposits or may be a refined product; it is a substance classed as a pitch.

Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.

The word is derived from the Ancient Greek ἄσφαλτος ásphaltos.

A Composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.

The individual components remain separate and distinct within the finished structure.

The new material may be preferred for many reasons: common examples include materials which are stronger, lighter, or less expensive when compared to traditional materials.

More recently, researchers have also begun to actively include sensing, actuation, computation and communication into composites, which are known as Robotic Materials.

Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.

Thermal insulation can be achieved with specially engineered methods or processes, as well as with suitable object shapes and materials.

Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements.

These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive course overlapping the joints below.

Shingles are made of various materials such as wood, slate, flagstone, fibre cement, metal, plastic, and composite material such as asphalt shingles.

Ceramic roof tiles, which still dominate in Europe and some parts of Asia, are still usually called tiles.

Roof shingles are a very common roofing material in the United States, but may deteriorate faster and need to repel more water than wall shingles.