Wood & Competitive Decking to 2011

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

II. MARKET ENVIRONMENT

• General
• Macroeconomic Environment
• Consumer Income & Spending
  • Personal Income & Expenditures
  • Consumer Financing
• Demographic Trends
• Construction Trends
  • Construction Expenditures
  • Construction Stock
• Building Construction Trends
  • Residential Construction
    • Housing Outlook
    • Housing Stock
    • Housing Sales
    • Improvement & Repair Outlook
  • Nonresidential Construction
    • Construction Expenditures
    • Improvement & Repair
  • Nonbuilding Construction
• Market Trends & Seasonality
• Pricing Patterns
• Regulatory & Environmental Issues
  • Building Codes
  • Treated Lumber
  • Environmental
• US Foreign Trade

III. OVERVIEW

• General
• Demand by Volume
  • Demand by Material Type
  • Demand by Function
• Demand by Value
  • Demand by Material Type
  • Demand by Function
• Volume & Value Demand Comparison
• Installed Costs
• Life Cycle Costs
• Competitive Environment

IV. PRODUCTS

• General
• Wood
  • Demand by Volume & Value
  • Demand by Function
  • Products
    • Pressure-Treated Wood
      • Product Characteristics
      • Environmental Issues
    • Cedar
    • Redwood
      • Product Characteristics
      • Regulatory Issues
  • Other
  • Markets
  • Installation Methods
  • Suppliers
• Wood-Plastic Composite
  • Demand by Volume & Value
  • Demand by Function
  • Product Characteristics
  • Product Development
  • Demand by Material Type
    • Wood-Polyethylene Composites
    • Other Wood-Plastic Composites
  • Markets
  • Installation Methods
  • Market Share
• Plastic & Other
  • Demand by Volume & Value
  • Demand by Function
  • Products
    • Plastic Decking
      • Vinyl
        • Product Characteristics
        • Product Development
        • Suppliers
      • Polyethylene & Other Plastics
        • Product Characteristics
        • Suppliers
      • Market Share
    • All Other Decking
      • Metals
      • Nonwood Composites & Other Materials
  • Markets
  • Installation Methods

V. MARKETS

• General
• Residential Buildings
  • New Housing
    • Wood
    • Composite, Plastic & Other Decking
  • Improvement & Repair
    • Wood
    • Composite, Plastic & Other Decking
  • Housing Type
    • Single-Family Housing
      • Demand by Material Type
      • Demand by Application
    • Multifamily Housing
      • Demand by Material Type
      • Demand by Application
    • Manufactured Housing
      • Demand by Material Type
      • Demand by Application
• Nonresidential Buildings
  • New
  • Improvement & Repair
• Nonbuilding Construction
  • New
  • Improvement & Repair

VI. REGIONS

• General
• Regional Demographic & Economic Trends
  • Population Patterns
  • Economic Outlook
  • Construction Expenditures
  • Housing Outlook
• Regional Demand for Decking
  • Northeast
    • New England
    • Middle Atlantic
  • Midwest
    • East North Central
    • West North Central
  • South
    • South Atlantic
    • East South Central
    • West South Central
  • West
    • Mountain
    • Pacific

VII. INDUSTRY STRUCTURE

• General
• Industry Composition
• Market Share
  • Wood Decking
  • Alternative Decking
• Product Development
• Manufacturing
  • Wood Decking
  • Alternative Decking
• Marketing
  • Wood Decking
  • Alternative Decking
• Distribution
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Cooperative Agreements

• COMPANY PROFILES
  • Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Incorporated
  • AERT, see Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies
  • Alcoa Home Exteriors, see Ply Gem Holdings
  • Alcoa Incorporated
  • Alside Incorporated, see Associated Materials
  • Arch Chemicals Incorporated
  • Associated Materials Incorporated
  • Atrium Companies Incorporated
  • Boise Cascade Holdings LLC
  • CertainTeed Corporation, see Saint-Gobain
  • Chemical Specialties Incorporated (CSI), see Rockwood Holdings
  • Correct Building Products LLC
  • CPI Plastics Group Limited
  • Crane Plastics Holding Company
  • Denplax SA, see Trex Company
  • Elk Premium Building Products Incorporated, see G-I Holdings
  • ElkCorp, see G-I Holdings
  • Epoch Composite Products Incorporated, see TAMKO Building Products
  • Fiber Composites LLC
  • G-I Holdings Incorporated
  • Georgia Gulf Corporation
  • Georgia-Pacific LLC, see Koch Industries
  • Hancor Holdings LLC
  • Hoover Treated Wood Products Incorporated
  • International Paper Company
  • Kadant Incorporated
  • Koch Industries Incorporated
  • Kroy Building Products Incorporated, see Ply Gem Holdings
  • LB Plastics Incorporated
  • LDI Composites Company, see Liberty Diversified Industries
  • Liberty Diversified Industries Incorporated
  • Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
  • MAXIMUM Vinyl Products, see Crane Plastics
  • N.E.W. Plastics Corporation
  • Osmose Holdings Incorporated
  • Outdoor Technologies Incorporated, see Hancor Holdings
  • Ply Gem Holdings Incorporated
  • Renew Plastics Incorporated, see N.E.W. Plastics
  • Rockwood Holdings Incorporated
  • Royal Group Incorporated, see Georgia Gulf
  • Saint-Gobain
  • Sherwin-Williams Company
  • TAMKO Building Products Incorporated
  • Temple-Inland Incorporated
  • Thermal Industries Incorporated, see Atrium Companies
  • Thompson' s Company, see Sherwin-Williams
  • TimberTech Limited, see Crane Plastics
  • Trex Company Incorporated
  • Trimax Building Products Incorporated
  • UFP, see Universal Forest Products
  • Ultraguard, see Associated Materials
  • Universal Forest Products Incorporated
  • US Home Systems Incorporated
  • VEKA AG
  • Viance LLC, see Rockwood Holdings
  • Westech Building Products Incorporated, see Westlake Chemical
  • Westlake Chemical Corporation
  • Weyerhaeuser Company
  • Wood Protection Company, see Osmose Holdings
• Selected Other Decking Companies
• Additional Companies Mentioned in Study

LIST OF TABLES

SECTION I -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Summary Table

SECTION II -- MARKET ENVIRONMENT

• 1 Macroeconomic Indicators
• 2 Personal Income & Expenditures
• 3 Consumer Financing Environment, 1996-2006
• 4 Resident Population
• 5 Construction Expenditures
• 6 Construction Stock
• 7 Residential Construction Expenditures
• 8 Housing Indicators
• 9 Residential Improvement & Repair Expenditures
• 10 Nonresidential Construction Expenditures
• 11 Nonresidential Improvement & Repair Expenditures
• 12 Nonbuilding Construction Expenditures
• 13 Decking Growth
• 14 Decking Prices for Selected Materials

SECTION III -- OVERVIEW

• 1 Decking Market Volume by Material Type & Function
• 2 Decking Market Value by Material Type & Function
• 3 Life Cycle Cost Comparison by Decking Material
• 4 Residential Decking Indicators

SECTION IV -- PRODUCTS

• 1 Wood Decking Demand by Function
• 2 Wood Decking Demand by Material Type
• 3 Pressure-Treated Wood Decking Demand by Function & Material Type
• 4 Cedar Decking Demand by Function
• 5 Redwood Decking Demand by Function
• 6 Other Wood Decking Demand by Function
• 7 Wood Decking Demand by Market & Application
• 8 Wood Decking Demand by Installation Method
• 9 Wood-Plastic Composite Decking Material Demand by Function
• 10 Wood-Plastic Composite Decking Demand by Material Type
• 11 Wood-Polyethylene Decking Demand by Function
• 12 Other Wood-Plastic Composite Decking Demand by Function
• 13 Wood-Plastic Composite Decking Demand by Market & Application
• 14 Wood-Plastic Composite Decking Demand by Installation Method
• 15 Plastic & Other Decking Material Demand by Function
• 16 Plastic & Other Decking Materials by Material Type
• 17 Plastic Decking Demand by Material Type
• 18 Vinyl Decking Demand by Function
• 19 Polyethylene & Other Plastic Decking Demand by Material Type & Function
• 20 All Other Decking Demand by Function
• 21 Plastic & Other Decking Demand by Market & Application
• 22 Plastic & Other Decking Demand by Installation Method

SECTION V -- MARKETS

• 1 Decking Demand by Market & Application
• 2 Residential Decking Demand by Material Type & Application
• 3 New Residential Decking Demand by Material Type
• 4 Residential Improvement & Repair Decking Demand by Material Type
• 5 Residential Decking Demand by Housing Type
• 6 Single-Family Housing Decking Demand by Material Type & Application
• 7 Multifamily Housing Decking Demand by Material Type & Application
• 8 Manufactured Housing Decking Demand by Material Type & Application
• 9 Nonresidential Building Decking Demand by Material Type & Application
• 10 New Nonresidential Decking Demand by Material Type
• 11 Nonresidential Improvement & Repair Decking Demand by Material Type
• 12 Nonbuilding Decking Demand by Material Type & Application
• 13 New Nonbuilding Decking Demand by Material Type
• 14 Nonbuilding Improvement & Repair Decking Demand by Material Type

SECTION VI -- REGIONS

• 1 Resident Population by Region
• 2 Gross Domestic Product by Region
• 3 Construction Expenditures by Region
• 4 Housing Indicators
• 5 Decking Demand by Region
• 6 Northeast Decking Demand by Subregion & Market
• 7 Midwest Decking Demand by Subregion & Market
• 8 South Decking Demand by Subregion & Market
• 9 West Decking Demand by Subregion & Market

SECTION VII -- INDUSTRY STRUCTURE

• 1 Alternative Decking Sales for Selected Companies, 2006
• 2 Selected Acquisitions & Divestitures
• 3 Selected Cooperative Agreements

LIST OF CHARTS

SECTION II -- MARKET ENVIRONMENT

• 1 Year of Construction of Housing Stock, 2006
• 2 Decking Growth, 1997-2006

SECTION III -- OVERVIEW

• 1 Decking Market Volume by Material Type, 1996-2016
• 2 Decking Market Value by Material Type, 1996-2016
• 3 Volume Versus Value: Decking Demand by Material Type, 2006
• 4 Average Installed Costs for Selected Decking Materials, 2006

SECTION IV -- PRODUCTS

• 1 Wood-Plastic Composite Decking Market Share, 2006
• 2 Plastic Decking Market Share, 2006

SECTION V -- MARKETS

• 1 Decking Demand by Market, 2006

SECTION VI -- REGIONS

• 1 Decking Demand by Region, 2006