US Patent Issued to ETEX SERVICES, ETEX BUILDING PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL on Feb. 18 for "Fiber cement products and methods for the production thereof" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,456, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ETEX SERVICES NV (Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Belgium) and ETEX BUILDING PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL SAS (Avignon, France).

"Fiber cement products and methods for the production thereof" was invented by Ruben Bordin (Mechelen, Belgium) and Julien Soulhat (Avignon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to fiber cement products comprising a first layer, which first layer is covered by at least one second layer, characterized in that said first layer is the top layer and the first layer material has a density of between about 0.4 and about 0.9 g/cm3 inclusive, and at least comp...