Georgia-Pacific plans to build a new lumber production facility in Talladega, Alabama, the company reports. Construction on the $100 million, 300,000-square-foot, technologically advanced plant is scheduled to begin immediately with an anticipated startup in late 2018. Once it is fully operational, the plant will employ more than 100 full-time employees[Read More…]
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Video: The Case for Professional Shed Builders
As a shed builder, you work to provide your customers with reliable, quality storage. But did you know you might be protecting life and limb as well? Watch this video and see what happens when two non-professionals try their hand at building a shed. Some people would laugh at this[Read More…]
Two Weeks to The Big Shed Show
The Big Shed Show will take place in just over two weeks, September 28, at the James E. Bruce Convention Center in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and those associated with the shed industry can still register to attend The Big Shed Show. This year, Capital Forest and Union Grove Lumber have combined[Read More…]
Big Sky Country Shed Build
There are certain things that have to be done in certain ways to build a shed. However, every builder has his own special techniques for some parts of a build. In the following video, Montana Shed Center, in Great Falls, Montana, shows how they do it. The structure in the[Read More…]
Celebrating 20 Years of LP® SmartSide® Siding
LP Outdoor Building Solutions, a manufacturer of shed-building materials, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its LP® SmartSide® engineered wood products brand. LP SmartSide siding is an engineered wood siding product and one of the fastest-growing brands in the United States, the company says. From sheds to single-family houses to[Read More…]
Tuff Shed Hosts 5 Grand Openings in July
Tuff Shed Inc., a supplier of storage buildings and garages, opened five new sales locations in July, the company reports. On Friday, July 14, the company held one grand opening celebration in Wichita, Kansas. July 15, opening celebrations took place in Aztec, New Mexico; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Pensacola, Florida; and[Read More…]
Benchmarks
“ Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning,” Benjamin Franklin wrote. How can an industry evolve to complement market trends and gauge its level of success without data to measure? Industry analysis is a much-needed tool that can drive a company’s understanding[Read More…]
Q & A: LELAND’S CABINS – Cabin Market Progression
When Leland’s Industries got started in Grandview, Texas, it focused on sheds. Not long after, though, the company realized that customers were buying their sheds and finishing them as cabins, or even requesting the company make custom-built cabins. It made sense for the company to enter the cabin market. Shed[Read More…]
Tooled for Sales
How many sheds have you sold at 10:30 p.m.? There’s likely very few dealers out there sitting at the lot in case of a late-night sale, yet according to Joe Dumas, CEO of 3D Fish based in Youngstown, Ohio, there’s a large potential customer base looking to purchase sheds online[Read More…]
The Customer is Always Right…
I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage about customer service, which eloquently states, “The customer is always right.” If you’ve been delivering sheds for a while, you know that rule can be broken. Vance and I headed out early one morning to a nearby city to build a building for[Read More…]
