Operations
BPB is one of the top three players in the plasterboard market in the United States. In Europe its main rivals are Lafarge of France and Knauf of Germany (who have a UK plant at Immingham).
Plasterboard is mainly used for internal partition walls. BPB's other products include insulating materials, fastenings, decorative wall covering and ceiling components. British Gypsum have plants at Kirkby Thore in Cumbria, Robertsbridge in East Sussex, Sherburn-in-Elmet in North Yorkshire and East Leake. It also has a training centre in Erith, south-east London.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)