Despite the wide selection of decking options, builders and homeowners tend to choose among three main ones. Here's some help ...

How a CR home editor dealt with material shortages and higher prices as he searched for the best decking material April 2022: Our finished deck, two years in the making. By Paul Hope In early 2020, my ...

Trex composite decking is made from 95% recycled and reclaimed content, including thousands of plastic bags, wraps and films. (Photo courtesy Trex) This is your first of three free stories this month.

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Wood-filled/thermoplastic composites, first introduced to consumers in the early 1990s, may represent the largest single consumer growth market for composite ...

Green Tree Composites is running three shifts, seven days a week at its St. Joseph factory. And fall is its slow season. "We're not shipping everything we make," plant Manager Brent Coghill said.

This year, when consumers flock to lumberyards and home centers for their annual supply of more than 4.5 billion linear feet of deck-building materials, they may go home with much less real wood. In ...

APR Composites, Buyrite Enterprises Ltd., Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA, DuraLife Decking and Railing Systems, Fortress Iron LP, Fortune Brands Innovations Inc., Genova Products Inc., Green Bay Decking ...

APR Composites, Buyrite Enterprises Ltd., Compagnie de Saint Gobain, DuraLife Decking and Railing Systems, Fortress Iron LP, Fortune Brands Innovations Inc., Genova Products Inc., Green Bay Decking, ...

If you’re planning to build a deck this summer, and you want that deck to demand as little ongoing maintenance as possible, then you should consider something called composite lumber. It requires no ...

Wood-filled thermoplastic composites have come a long way since they were first introduced in the early 1990s. Advancements continue to be made at all levels in this dynamic market. Yet one thing is ...