Owens Corning, involved in materials for buildings and industry, and Yapi Merkezi, an international heavy construction contractor and leading builder of mass housing and Light Rapid Transit Systems, h…
Owens Corning, involved in materials for buildings and industry, and Yapi Merkezi, an international heavy construction contractor and leading builder of mass housing and Light Rapid Transit Systems, have announced the completion of a project that built homes for 24 families displaced by the recent earthquake in Turkey. Owens Corning and Yapi Merkezi first came together as partners in a joint venture making large-diameter glass-fibre-reinforced pipe for water and wastewater projects in 1996. The factory is in Adapazari, Turkey. During a special ceremony in Adapazari, the keys to the new homes were distributed by the joint venture to the families who will live in the homes free of charge. Yapi Merkezi and Owens Corning said that long before the earthquake struck in August this year, they had given considerable time and energy to the idea of combining their respective financial and market power to form a partnership in the business of developing and selling pre-engineered building systems for the housing sector in global markets.