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Canada Place, located on Vancouver Harbor, will get a new SHEERFILL® skin this year. Built in 1983 - 84 for the Expo '86 World Fair, it is the signature structure of Vancouver and serves as an arrival point for cruise ships.

Reina Beatrix Airport in Aruba will get a new look this year with the addition of a series of SHEERFILL® shade structures around the departure terminal. 

The MGM Hotel in Las Vegas has just completed a terminal for their People Mover train.  The structure incorporates about 20,000 m²  of SHEERFILL® II Architectural Membrane. 

The Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire, recently became ISO 14001-certified, recognizing that the site complies with global environmental management standards.

When Berlin's new airport -- Airport Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) -- opens in Germany next year, it will feature Saint-Gobain products made in the United States.

For the second year in a row, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Saint-Gobain as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for outstanding energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in February 2010. As soon as they end, work will begin on replacing the existing membrane roof on BC Place Stadium.

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics received an order to supply SHEERFILL® II Architectural Membrane for the new Polish National Stadium in Warsaw. 

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics received an order to supply its SHEERFILL® II Architectural Membrane to cover the new Boa An Stadium located in Shenzhen, China.

The new Hilton Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, features an entrance way made with more than 18,000 square feet of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastic's SHEERFILL Architectural Membrane.

After receiving a coveted "cool roof" rating for high energy efficiency from the  Cool Roofing Rating Council of California in 2008, Saint Gobain

SHEERFILL® is the first ever translucent roofing membrane to be certified by both Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) and Energy Star as energy efficient.  

When the Talisman Centre for Sport and Wellness in Calgary, Alberta, replaces its roof next year, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics  can take part of the credit. 

When it opens at the end of 2009, the new stadium of the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer (MLS) will feature a shining, silvery room, thanks to Saint Gobain Performance Plastics.

The newly constructed Battery Park City ferry terminal in New York City features a distinctive, tensile roof canopy made of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics fabric.

The retractable roof panels of the new Dallas Cowboys (Texas) stadium -- made with SHEERFILL® architectural membranes -- are supplied by Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics.