Cellulose Industry Shake-up

Shake-up

Amidst volatile raw material prices and confusion about building code changes, Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (L-P) has indefinitely discontinued its eastern and midwestern cellulose insulation manufacturing. “We’re moving out of the East entirely; we’ll only be selling west of the Rockies,” reports Rick Davenport, now L-P’s manager of the Nature Guard™ product line. According to Davenport, the decision was based on the high and volatile cost of old newspaper, and quality control problems at some facilities.