Louisiana Pacific's Business Segments

Our company, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of building materials. Our focus is on delivering innovative, high-quality commodity and specialty building products to retail, wholesale, home building and industrial customers. Our products are used primarily in new home construction, repair and remodeling, and manufactured housing.

Business Segments

We operate in four segments: Oriented Strand Board (OSB), Composite Wood Products, Plastic Building Products and Engineered Wood Products (EWP).

OSB

Our OSB segment manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel products.

OSB is an innovative, affordable and environmentally smart product made from wood strands arranged in layers and bonded with resin. OSB serves many of the same uses as unsanded plywood, including roof decking, sidewall sheathing and floor underlayment, but can be produced at a significantly lower cost. In the past decade, land use regulations, endangered species and environmental concerns have resulted in reduced supplies and higher costs for domestic timber, causing many plywood mills to close or divert their production to other uses. OSB has replaced most of the volume lost from these mills.

Composite Wood Products

Our composite wood product offerings fall into three categories: (1)'SmartSide' siding products and related accessories; (2)'hardboard siding and accessory products; and (3)'specialty OSB products. Additionally, our OSB operation in Chile is included in this segment.

The SmartSide' Products'Our SmartSide' products consist of a full line of OSB-based sidings, trim, soffit and fascia. These products have quality and performance characteristics similar to solid wood at more attractive prices due to lower raw material and production costs.

Hardboard Siding Products'Our hardboard siding product offerings include a number of lap and panel products in a variety of patterns and textures, as well as trim products.

Specialty OSB Products'Our specialty OSB product offerings include a number of development products that focus on the use of OSB substrates with a variety of overlay technologies for wood, such as concrete forms and project panels.

Additionally, as market demand warrants, minor amounts of commodity OSB are produced and sold in this segment.

Plastic Building Products

Our plastic building products offerings fall into three categories: (1)'vinyl siding products and related accessories; (2)'composite decking and accessory products; and (3)'moulding products.

Vinyl Siding Products.'We manufacture a variety of vinyl siding products and accessories. Our product line covers a broad spectrum of styles, colors and price points to satisfy customers needs.

Composite Decking Products.'We manufacture wood composite decking and accessories. We offer products in several colors and patterns. These products are attractive, durable and require lower maintenance compared to solid wood.

Mouldings.'We manufacture extruded plastic decorative moulding products. We offer products in several colors, shapes and styles. These products are sold almost entirely in the retail home improvement markets.

Engineered Wood Products

Our Engineered Wood Products (EWP) product segment manufactures and distributes I-joists and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and other related products. We believe that in North America we are one of the top four producers of I-joists and LVL. A plywood mill and a cedar lumber mill associated with our LVL operations in British Columbia are also included in this segment.

We believe that our engineered I-joists, which are used primarily in residential and commercial flooring and roofing systems and other structural applications, are stronger, lighter and straighter than conventional lumber joists. Our LVL is a high-grade, value-added structural product used in applications where extra strength is required, such as headers and beams. It is also used, together with OSB and lumber, in the manufacture of engineered I-joists.