Outdoor furniture
Chicago-based Azek Co. Inc. is adding a furniture collection and a cabana to its lines of outdoor living products that includes decking, trim and pergolas.
Two plastic lumber firms come together to create Premier Outdoor Living as investors pursue add-on acquisitions.
To get you in a summer frame of mind, here's a Minneapolis-based outdoor furniture company, Yardbird, that uses recycled plastics gathered from waterways and beaches to make its chairs and sofas.
The CEO of large blow molder Lifetime Products Inc. says sales for its mainstay at-home products are steady or in some cases beating forecasts, but the firm also wonders if we're "right on the edge" of a change in broader economic demand.
Plastic furniture maker Poly-Wood LLC is investing $35.3 million in a new factory in North Carolina, the most recent in a series of investments that have seen the company add substantial manufacturing capacity and take on outside investors.
Recycled plastic outdoor furniture manufacturer C.R. Plastics Products Inc. is spending C$5.25 million (US$4.2 million) to upgrade and expand.
Sales for the C.R. Plastic Products recycled plastic furniture have been rising 40 percent a year in the past few years. The growth rate convinced the company to move to a facility three times the size of its earlier operation in Stratford, Ontario, and to buy more equipment to boost production capacity.
Microban International Ltd. just unveiled Scentry for Polymers, a manufacturing aid specifically designed to eliminate unpleasant odors in recycled-content plastics used in the creation of outdoor gear and accessories.
The Sagol family has agreed to sell a majority state in housewares and consumer products molder Keter Group to a London-based private equity firm and Canadian pension investment fund.
Argosy Private Equity bought controlling interest of furniture maker Casual Living Unlimited LLC and recycler Trigon Plastics LLC from James Allgyer on June 3.
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