Gypsum industry news

US: Cold-formed steel framing products company ClarkDietrich has acquired fellow framing producer Studs Unlimited from building materials distributor Foundation Building Materials. ClarkDietrich says that the Oklahoma City-based business will help to accelerate its growth.

ClarkDietrich president Brian Panuccio said "We are excited to welcome the Studs Unlimited employees to the ClarkDietrich family. This geographic expansion will help us amplify our service levels to our customers located in the Midwestern US. We will be significantly expanding the existing footprint of Studs Unlimited by adding square footage and machinery to the operation."

US: The city council of Glenwood Springs in Colorado is aiming to implement single-haul refuse collection in order to eliminate the dumping of recyclables by 2023, local press has reported. A review of waste management practices found that the city has a recycling contamination rate of just 8%, yet 80% of waste sent to landfill consists of recyclable materials. Eagle County Recycle operates the city's waste management facility. The company says that it supplies waste cardboard for gypsum wallboard backing production in neighbouring Oklahoma.

Manager Jesse Masten said “The mill in Oklahoma that we send the cardboard to actually makes the paper backing for wallboard. Then, that paper backing is potentially sent back to the American Gypsum gypsum wallboard plant in Gypsum and used for the wallboard that they’re producing.”

US: ACG Materials has acquired Diamond Gypsum, a miner of gypsum products that are sold into various oil and gas, infrastructure and agricultural applications. The company owns and operates a quarry in central Oklahoma. No value for the transaction has been disclosed.

"We are excited to further strengthen our position as the leading industrial mineral and aggregate producer in the Midwest," said Paul Harrington, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ACG Materials. He added that the acquisition expands ACG Materials' presence in the Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher Counties (STACK) shale basin.

ACG Materials, a subsidiary of HIG Capital, is based in Norman, Oklahoma. It mines, mills, processes, and distributes industrial minerals and aggregates including gypsum, anhydrite, limestone, sand, gravel and downstream food, pharmaceutical and plaster products.