Knauf Gips KG is a multinational, family-owned company based in
Iphofen,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
, well known for drywall
gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula . It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard or sidewalk chalk, and drywa ...
boards, founded in 1932. The company is a producer of
building materials and construction systems comprising construction materials for
drywall
Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, wallboard, sheet rock, gypsum board, buster board, custard board, and gypsum panel) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum), with or without additives, typically extruded between thic ...
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
Glass wool is an insulating material made from glass fiber arranged using a binder into a texture similar to wool. The process traps many small pockets of air between the glass, and these small air pockets result in high thermal insulation pro ...
,
stone wool and other insulation materials under the company
Knauf Insulation.
It has more than 150 production sites worldwide. 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).
In 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Yale University published a list of companies that chose to remain active in Russia. According to this report, over 600 companies have withdrawn from Russia — but some remain. Knauf is still operating across 14 sites in Russia but suspend new investments.
See also
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Chinese drywall
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Knauf Insulation
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Knauf USG Systems
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Companies based in Bavaria
Building materials companies
Multinational companies headquartered in Germany
Manufacturing companies of Germany
Manufacturing companies established in 1932
German brands
German companies established in 1932