1. Innovation
Uncommon Company

2. Wallboard – Great Innovation
Gypsum wallboard – one of the 85 greatest innovations

3. NGC Innovation Today Technology Innovation Center
Opened July 2002
Centerpiece for NGC Innovation
Houses:
Research & Development
Building Codes & Regulatory Liaison
Quality Services

4. R&D – Technology Innovation Center
To deliver results we must provide fact-based analysis. This includes:
Testing new ideas stemming from our customer or marketplace needs that could ultimately lead to new patents and new products
Provide product, materials, and process testing data that maintain and improve product quality
Provide decision-making data and information that could provide solutions or lead to new processes and products
Generating / testing new ideas and technologies
New product development
Providing decision-making data

5. Innovation – Collaborative Effort
Manufacturing
Engineering
Technical Services
R&D
Marketing
Technology Partners – Companies, Universities & Customers

6. Sophisticated Tools Accolade Software Manage the innovation process
Investigation of technology
Financial feasibility
R&D
Testing
Plant Trials
Commercialization
Accelerate cycle time
Keeps project on target

7. NGC Innovation Process
Ideation
Investigation / Feasibility
Plant Trials
Development
Commercialization
Gate 1
Gate 2
Gate 3
Gate 4
Gate 5
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Ideas
Launch
Preliminary Investigation
Detailed
Investigation
Testing and
Validation
Development

8. What’s New for Gypsum Board?
Response to customers
Easier to install
Works well for vertical, horizontal, ceiling applications
Incredible response
Available throughout U.S.
Patented

9. GridMarX - Vertical
Studs in example are 24” OC

10. Studs in example are 16” OC
GridMarX – Horizontal
Studs in example are 16” OC

11. Mold-Resistant Gold Bond XP
Gold Bond XP Gypsum Board
Mold resistant
Gold Bond Hi-Impact XP
Mold resistant wallboard with superior impact resistance
Gold Bond Hi-Abuse XP
Mold resistant wallboard with superior surface durability
Gold Bond Fire-Shield Shaftliner XP
Shaftwall and area separation systems

12. Hi-Impact XP Gypsum Board
Pic to come
Super wallboard
Tough wall for demanding projects
Schools, prisons, hotels, retail
Abuse-, impact-, mold-, moisture-resistant
Can replace concrete or masonry walls
Standard installation and finishing

13. Gold Bond SoundBreak
Acoustically enhanced wallboard for cost effective high STC wall partitions
Thinner walls per STC relative to existing solutions
Less complicated, more reliable installation techniques