LP Building Solutions

3 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 8 L P Building Solutions began in 1972 as a spinoff from Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s leading pulp and paper producers. The company manufactures engineered wood products as well as provides building solutions and, although some of its products go to commercial job sites, the vast majority serve the home building industry. “We have over 4,100 employees and we are a publicly traded company,” Mike Henry, Territory Sales Manager for Utah LP Building Solutions, explains. “Our stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange using the symbol LPX and we’ve been involved in the Utah market for over 20 years.” LP has 22 mills producing Engineered Wood Siding (LP® SmartSide® Trim & Siding), OSB products, and engineered wood flooring. Its operations are spread across the U.S., Canada, and South America, with the company’s headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. “Even with our international reach, we always try to build mills that