page_title: Kingspan Group
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kingspan Group / History
caption_attribution_description: English: This image was taken outside the Kingspan Head Office in Kingscourt, County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland on the 15th May 2014.
context_page_description: Kingspan Group plc is a building materials company based in Ireland trading in over 70 countries with over 100 factories employing some 13,500 people. The company operates with 5 divisions.
context_section_description: Founded in the 1960s by Eugene Murtagh, the company floated on the Irish Stock Exchange in 1989 with a value of IR£20m. It expanded into insulated panels and rigid insulation board via numerous greenfield plants, and acquisitions including the European insulation arm of CRH plc in 2010 and the construction division of ThyssenKrupp Steel in 2012. The year 2010 showed the first growth in sales for three years.
  In August 2012 the company bought Rigidal Industries.
caption: Kingspan Head Office in Kingscourt, Ireland
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