Fiberglass Insulation For Your Home

Incredibly thin fibers are used to make fiberglass

Fibers that are incredibly thin are used to make fiberglass. The glass serves to strengthen a variety of plastic products. This plastic material reinforced with glass is technically called glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) or glass-fiber reinforced epoxy (GRE), but is commonly called fiberglass.

Using glass fibers is nothing new; people have been experimenting with them throughout history. The process that is used to make modern fiberglass, however, required the relatively modern invention of specialized tooling. We see a dress exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition by Edward Drummond Libbey which used glass fibers that were the texture and diameter of silk fibers. We see the invention of what we now refer to fiberglass in 1938 by Russell Games Slayter who was an employee of Owens Corning. He specifically designed the material to be used as insulation and it was given the trade name Fiberglass.