MarketWatch informs us that MH component supplier Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) has acquired through a subsidiary Haleyville, Alabama-based MSR Forest Products, LLC, a provider of roof trusses and cut-to-order lumber for the manufactured housing industry. UFPI has an existing plant in Haleyville. With annual sales of $10 million, MSR also has a facility in Waycross, Georgia that is included in the acquisition. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, UFPI is a holding company that provides resources for subsidiaries that produce and distribute a variety of wood and wood-look products for the DYI market, engineered components for commercial and residential construction, and structural lumber for manufactured housing. MHProNews.com has learned the purchase price was not disclosed.
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