Louisiana-Pacific Corp.’s laminated strand lumber (LSL) plant here continued to fine-tune itself and its product line during the course of 2009. Now it’s waiting on the marketplace to pull in the yellow flag and allow it to pursue 7.5 million cubic feet of annual production capacity.
LP brass committed to the $150 million conversion of the existing OSB plant several years ago. To begin with, LP management already liked the engineered wood products business. The company operates LVL plants in Wilmington, NC and Golden, BC, an I-joist plant in Red Bluff, Calif, and joint venture I-joist plants in Quebec with AbitibiBowater, and maintains a sales and marketing alliance with LVL manufacturer Murphy Engineered Wood Products in Sutherlin, Ore.