Factory-Built Homes

Black Diamond Setting its Financials for Release

Modular builder and energy services provider Black Diamond Group Limited of Calgary, Alberta, Canada announces it will release its year-end and fourth quarter financials after the market closes Tue., March 12, 2013. Top company officials will discuss the results at 4:30 MST that same day. As PRWeb tells MHProNews, from …

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Modular Homes for the Inundated Down Under

NewsMail tells MHProNews 1,000 homes in the Bundaberg, Australia area will need assistance following floods that inundated Queensland in eastern Australia and shut down 300 roads, including two major highways to the state capital in Brisbane. Minister for Housing and Public Works Tim Mander says, “Right now we’ve got enough …

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MHC Owner Seeks Conversion to Modular

The CastinePatriot informs MHProNews from Castine, Maine the owner of an MHC wants the town’s selectmen to convene a work session on affordable housing because he wants to convert a portion of his community to modular homes on full foundations. The selectmen disbanded the affordable housing committee last year. While …

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MH Distinction Solved

Following-up on a story from this morning regarding housing statistics distinction between manufactured homes and mobile homes in Morgan County Colo., apparently an MHC closed and special dispensation was given to the residents who owned pre-HUD Code homes to relocate elsewhere in the county. fortmorgantimes news editor Dan Barker tells …

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Drilling is Good for Factory-built

The timesunion reports 40 housing modules are on their way from the Port of Albany, in New York, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada for housing offshore drilling workers. Manufactured by a Champion Homes plant in Sangerfield, NY, the modular homes are destined for Exxon/Mobil’s Hebron Project that seeks to recover …

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Cavco Releasing Financials

TradingCharts reports Cavco Industries, Inc. will release its earnings report for Q3 of fiscal year 2013 Thurs. Jan. 31 after the market closes. Senior officials will discuss the results in a live webcast Fri. Feb. 1 at 11:00 AM eastern time. Listen via Internet: http://www.cavco.com under the Investor Relations link. …

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A Prefab Grows in Brooklyn, p.3, or-Massive MOD Project Changes Head

According to crainsnewyork, CEO and Chairman of Forest City Ratner Bruce Ratner is relinquishing his role as CEO, and Mary Anne Gilmartin, who became executive vice-president in 2007, will replace him. Although it is not clear why or when, one source said Ratner would clearly continue to be involved with …

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MH Component Maker Expanding

WoodworkingNetwork reports Okaply Industries, a producer of plywood, vinyl laminated panels, MDF, particleboard and mouldings for the manufactured housing and commercial modular industries, is opening a fully-equipped moulding dept. at its facility in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Based in Opa, Quebec, just north of Montreal, Okaply opened the plant in Calgary …

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MOD Comes to Western Conn.

The ridgefieldpatch tells MHProNews from the southwest corner of Conn.  the people of Ridgefield have seen a number of affordable housing units in their town recently. Currently before the Planning and Zoning Commission is a proposal for an eleven unit modular housing development. By law affordable housing developers must designate …

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University Goes Modular

The housing shortage in Minot, North Dakota following the Souris River flooding in 2011 and the oil boom in western ND has resulted in students and faculty at Minot State University scrambling for places to live. The university has responded by installing ten modular housing units called ‘Beaver Lodge.” Set …

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Modular Homes Rising across from NYC

The HudsonReporter informs MHProNews, following a lengthy process of having chromium- contaminated land cleaned up in Jersey City, New Jersey, a consortium of non-profits and for profits witnessed the arrival of 22 modular townhomes that will be known as Jackson Green on Rose Avenue, in the Martin Luther King Drive …

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Layoffs only Temporary

The billingsgazette reports Canadian-American Structured Solutions, Inc. (CASS), which opened its doors in May, 2012 in Billings, Mont. to build modular homes to help meet the housing shortage in ten western states and three Canadian provinces has announced it will layoff about 30 employees as a temporary measure. CASS’ president …

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T. J. T. Reports Substantial Drop in Sales

DailyFinance tells MHProNews T. J. T., Inc., based in Eagle, Idaho reports a net loss of $1,149,000, $.25 a diluted share, for fiscal year 2012 for this supplier of axles, tires and set-up supplies for the MH industry. Lower sales volume combined with an increase in SG&A (selling, general and …

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State: MHC Sold Unlivable Home

DesertDispatch reports from Barstow, Calif. in San Bernardino County a factory-built home sold to a family at the Hacienda Mobile Home Park was alleged to have black mold, running sewage, an open electrical panel and a leaking water heater. Deemed uninhabitable by the Dept. of Housing and Community Development, Hacienda …

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Modular Made from Recycled Materials

The Globe and Mail from Toronto informs MHProNews Jason Halter and Michael de Jong have created a two-story modular house from 70% recycled materials. Using shipping container steel frames clad in cedar, the homes start around $115 a square foot. While this energy efficient house can be had with Italian …

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The Big Apple Bites into Mini Modulars

The Observer reports NYC’s Bloomberg Administration’s My Micro NY competition to create a miniature housing model for the city was won by Monandock Development in collaboration with the Actors Fund for Housing Development and modular home builder Capsys, which is based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Although it is illegal …

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A New Meaning for ‘Straw House’

The Star-Telegram reports from Fort Worth, Texas Stramit USA utilizes wheat straw to make modular man camps for the burgeoning oil boom towns. By treating and compressing the wheat fiber, boards are made for construction and insulation. Tim Evans of Stramit compares it to fiberglass and foam. “Wheat straw and …

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Modular at International Builder’s Show

SFGate reports modular builder Greenfab of Seattle will have two fully-constructed modular homes on display at the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) International Builder’s Show (IBS) in Las Vegas Jan. 22-24. The builder of the first modular LEED Platinum home in the state of Washington last year, Greenfab is …

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Kent. Students Design Modular Homes

Although they did not win the competition sponsored by Alltech of Nicholasville, Kent., to create jobs in eastern Kent., students from the University of Louisville proposed mixed-income, single-family modular homes selling for $110,000 each that would create 122 jobs. Utilizing design work created by a partnership with the University of …

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Modular Housing to Replace Aging Housing Projects

The RentonReporter tells MHProNews the Renton Housing Authority recently received $2.1 million towards the construction of 18 modular town homes in this city just south of Seattle, Wash. The new Kirkland Townhomes are part of a larger project, the 100-unit Sunset Terrace redevelopment, and include affordable housing, part of a …

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