France’s Saint-Gobain knows this because it has been learning new tricks for more than 350 years — and its latest is solar energy.
Saint-Gobain was founded as a mirror maker during the reign of Louis XIV — the Sun King — with the intention of weaning France off imported Venetian mirrors.
Today, it is among Europe’s biggest industrial companies and one of the world’s largest, most innovative producers of construction materials, chalking up revenues in excess of €40bn ($57bn) last year.
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