In 2010 USG shook the foundations of the wallboard market with the introduction of a new reduced-weight wallboard product, Sheetrock UltraLight Panels. Several other producers have since produced their own lightweight boards. Here Global Gypsum presents its detailed report into the lightweight wallboard market, including a detailed run-down of all lightweight wallboard producers, technical descriptions for all lightweight gypsum wallboard products currently available, discussion of the effects of lightweight wallboard on the global gypsum industry as a whole and future outlook.
Contents
| Summary | 1 |
| Introduction | 2 |
| Gypsum wallboard overview | 2 |
| The global gypsum market | 3 |
| The US wallboard market | 3 |
| Lightweight wallboard overview | 4 |
| -- United States Gypsum (USG) | |
| -- American Gypsum (Eagle Materials) | |
| -- National Gypsum | |
| -- CertainTeed (Saint-Gobain) | |
| -- Continental Building Products | |
| -- Georgia-Pacific | |
| -- Temple-Inland | |
| -- Pabco Gypsum | |
| -- GCG (USG) | |
| -- Panel Rey | |
| Gypsum wallboard standards | 5 |
| Environmental concerns | 5 |
| Lightweight wallboard producers | 6 |
| The lightweight wallboard market | 10 |
| Lightweight wallboard trends | 11 |
| Lightweight wallboard production | 12 |
| -- Plasterboard liner (PBL) | 12 |
| -- Stucco additives | 13 |
| Financial implications | 15 |
| Outlook | 16 |
| References | 16 |
Tables
Table 3: List of ALL lightweight wallboard products, available on the market, including:
- Producer and product name,
- Standards compliance,
- Board weight (metric and Imperial),
- Thermal resistance,
- Flame spread,
- Smoke development characteristics.
Table 4: Comparison of lightweight fire-resistant gypsum wallboard products and their standard weight analogues (where such analogues exist). All are 5/8 inch.
Table 5: Comparison of Georgia-Pacific ToughRock Gypsum Board and ToughRock Lite-Weight Gypsum Board.
Table 6: Prices of lightweight gypsum wallboard products stocked at various Lowes and Home Depot outlets in the USA.
Table 7: Typical properties and miminum/maximum standards as required by ASTM C1396 test method for 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch wallboard.
Table 8: Hamburger Reiger's current front-facing ivory and back-facing grey PBL products and properties.
Map: Global gypsum wallboard industry by level of development.
