Who owns fermacell?

fermacell is owned by James Hardie (Ireland, NYSE: JHX), which has owned the brand since 3 April 2018.^[1][2]

Evidence: James Hardie Industries plc Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 May 2026. Verified from filings; last checked 29 October 2026.

Key facts

Current owner: James Hardie Industries plc verified
Owned since: 3 April 2018
Owner HQ: 🇮🇪 Ireland, Dublin
Origin: 🇩🇪 Germany
Category: Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Building materials
Parent ticker: NYSE: JHX
Last verified: 29 October 2026 · 2 sources

About fermacell

fermacell is James Hardie's European brand for fibre gypsum products and cement-bonded boards, manufactured in Europe and reported within the company's Europe segment, per its FY2026 10-K. The current operating entity is James Hardie Europe GmbH, a German company named in fermacell.com's own site footer as the brand's owner. James Hardie's annual report on Form 20-F for fiscal 2019 says it completed the acquisition of Fermacell on 3 April 2018, for €516.4 million; neither that filing nor the fermacell website says when the fermacell brand itself was first established.

What James Hardie's annual report says about fermacell

Sentences about fermacell from James Hardie's latest annual filing^[1], copied word for word.

In flooring, we have launched several new products and solutions in the recent past such as fermacell TM Therm 25 TM , fermacell TM pumpable leveling compound or the new fermacell TM Therm glue.

How often James Hardie names fermacell in its annual report

A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.

Annual report filed	Times fermacell is named
2026	6
2025	5
2024	5

Ownership timeline of fermacell

2018 – present James Hardie ^[1][2] verified

Where fermacell sits in James Hardie

Controlling ownership as of 2026-11-08. Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

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Other brands owned by James Hardie

James Hardie controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in home, garden & diy.

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Other brands in building materials, and who owns them

James Hardie has more brands in building materials on Brandtree than any other owner: 8 of 104.

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Golden Bay	Fletcher Building	🇳🇿 New Zealand
Artevia	Holcim	🇨🇭 Switzerland
Blenture	Votorantim Cimentos	🇧🇷 Brazil
Adbri	CRH	🇮🇪 Ireland
Byggmakker	Kesko	🇫🇮 Finland
Cacique Max	Loma Negra	🇦🇷 Argentina
Alutions	Tecnoglass	🇨🇴 Colombia
Tenigal	Ternium	🇱🇺 Luxembourg

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About the owner: James Hardie

James Hardie is a publicly listed company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: JHX.

James Hardie Industries plc is a building-products manufacturer incorporated in Ireland, with its principal executive office in Dublin, best known for the fibre cement siding technology it originated in Australia. It reports four segments — Siding & Trim, Deck, Rail & Accessories, Australia & New Zealand, and Europe — and files an annual report on Form 10-K with the SEC under CIK 0001159152. On 1 July 2025 it completed its acquisition of The AZEK Company Inc., a US outdoor-living products maker, adding the TimberTech, AZEK Exteriors, Versatex, StruXure, ULTRALOX and INTEX brands to its existing Hardie and fermacell lines.

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🇩🇪 fermacell and other German brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 265 brands that began in Germany. 96 of them (36%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, fermacell among them.

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Paper+Design — Duni Group 🇸🇪

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of fermacell?

The parent company of fermacell is James Hardie, a publicly listed company headquartered in Ireland.

Is fermacell German or Irish?

fermacell originated in Germany, but it is owned today by James Hardie, which is headquartered in Ireland. So fermacell is a German-origin brand under Irish ownership.

Since when has James Hardie owned fermacell?

James Hardie has owned fermacell since 3 April 2018.

Is fermacell still owned by James Hardie?

Yes. As of 29 October 2026, fermacell is still owned by James Hardie. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.

Sources (2) & corrections

Last verified 29 October 2026. Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

[1] James Hardie Industries plc Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 May 2026; retrieved 23 September 2026.
[2] James Hardie Industries plc Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2019 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 21 May 2019; retrieved 28 October 2026.

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