CertainTeed Debuts Roof Cover Board with Enhanced Moisture, Mold, Fire Resistance

VALLEY FORGE, PA — Through a introduction of GlasRoc® Roof Board, CertainTeed Corporation is charity blurb thatch contractors a high-performance choice to fiberboard and perlite thatch cover boards. Certified by FM Approvals, a personality in acceptance and capitulation of thatch products, GlasRoc Roof Board is designed privately for mechanically trustworthy thatch systems and offers extended moisture, mold and glow resistance.

GlasRoc Roof Board facilities law Embedded Glass Reinforced Gypsum™ (EGRG™) technology, that combines reinforcing potion mats, entirely embedded into a water-resistant gypsum core. This singular record provides higher continuance by preventing delamination of a potion pad facers and offers easy doing with reduction skin exasperation as compared with other potion pad gypsum cover boards. The performance-proven record is also featured in a company’s existing GlasRoc sheathing and shaftliner products as good as Diamondback™ Tile Backer.

“GlasRoc Roof Board contributes to a altogether success of blurb thatch projects by a impediment of dampness and mold repairs and extended glow resistance,” says Ashwin Himat, executive of selling during CertainTeed Gypsum. “This subsequent era product also facilities well-developed compressive strength, that provides higher insurgency to repairs caused by feet trade and hail.”

GlasRoc Roof Board offers softened earthy opening in comparison to perlite insulation and fiberboard and meets UL Class A and FM Class 1 fire-resistance ratings. The house is lightweight, easy to hoop and install, and cuts like unchanging gypsum board.

GlasRoc Roof Board can be used with several blurb thatch systems, including those from CertainTeed Roofing.

“GlasRoc Roof Board is an glorious further to a blurb thatch product line,” adds Mark Stancroff, ubiquitous manager of blurb thatch for CertainTeed Roofing. “By expanding a product portfolio, CertainTeed is strengthening a position as a singular apparatus for blurb thatch contractors.” 

GlasRoc Roof Board is being rolled out opposite a United States and Canada during 2011. For some-more information on GlasRoc Roof Board, visit www.certainteed.com

About CertainTeed
Through a obliged growth of innovative and tolerable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Valley Forge, Pa., has helped figure a building products attention for some-more than 100 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, a firm’s aphorism “Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed,” fast desirous a name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is North America’s heading code of extraneous and interior building products, including roofing, siding, fence, decking, railing, trim, foundations, pipe, insulation, gypsum, ceilings and entrance covers.