Owens Corning ProminenceTM and Classic shingles are produced with a richer appearance and higher production line speed thanks to Battelle's revolutionary manufacturing technology.

The home is a source of pride and a place of refuge. Yet the home represents a complex system of shelter, comfort, entertainment, security, and utility. Technology plays a major role in all elements of the system, from durable building materials to heating and cooling efficiency, kitchen and laundry appliances, personal care products, office equipment, home furnishings, and outdoor leisure and work products. Battelle helps companies discover and develop new products to meet the future needs and desires of consumers. In our Breakthrough Center, clients engage in assessing, futuring, conceptualizing, validating, and planning to find and commercialize products and services that provide growth and competitive advantage. Supported by Battelle's expertise in creative design and engineering, materials and manufacturing processes, software development, and codes and regulations, customers rapidly move from strategies to marketable products. In 1996, Battelle was instrumental in helping our clients discover breakthrough products and business opportunities. We helped a major building products company define a market-driven strategy for new materials and advanced product opportunities. We worked with a large industry association to find new ways to use their commodity material in building applications. We found advanced technology solutions for major and small appliance manufacturers and their suppliers and applied specialized technical knowledge to assess new heating and cooling products. We make complex technologies simple, and we differentiate simple technologies for complex products - to bring the future to home and office.

Battelle identified a coating and applied it to Explore Technologies' unique requirements to commercialize the Odyssey Atlasphere TM (interactive globe). Battelle produced prototype polarizing films to validate the concept for PacificVision Network Inc.'s Leonardo Sundials® , next-generation sunglasses which can be instantly adjusted for darkness, lightness, and color to fit changing lighting conditions. My Best Toys, Inc. approached Battelle with the concept for SandZTM, a non-toxic, granular, free-flowing material that molds like wet sand - without the water - and, within 30 days, Battelle developed a product that exceeded specifications.