Fiber-Cement Siding & Rain Screen Manufacturers
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Fiber cement siding & other fibre cement product manufacturers:
Here is a list of companies producing fiber cement siding, roofing, panels, rainscreens, pipe and other FC products. We include also some solid PVC siding product companies as those compete in the same market.
This article series provides descriptions of the field performance of fiber cement siding products and a detailed field investigation of several product failures: of fiber cement stain or coating peeling and cracking, and of gaps, shrinkage, and loose, buckled fiber cement siding.
We include fiber cement siding installation specifications, repair and maintenance and painting recommendations, and fiber cement siding manufacturer identification guides.
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List of Fiber-Cement Siding Brands, Sources, Manufacturers and Trim Suppliers
Illustration: Allura pre-primed wood-grain fiber cement siding, cited below.
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This list of companies producing fiber cement siding & other fiber cement products describes the products and gives the contact information for these companies.
Also see SIDING, FIBER CEMENT IDENTIFICATION.
- ABATIBI ABTCO SIDING FAILURE CLAIMS
- Allura USA
396 W. Greens Road, Suite 300
Houston, Texas 77067 USA, Tel: 844−525−5872 (siding panels, shingles, shakes, soffit backerboard, lap siding in smooth or cedar texture, etc.) Web: https://allurausa.com/
ALLURA PRODUCT BROCHURE [PDF] (2022)
Allura is a CertainTeed spin-off. CertainTeed sold its fiber-cement business to Elemtia (a Mexican conglomerate) under whose umbrella Allura Plycem continues to be marketed as a fiber cement siding product sold in several formats including shingles, panels, and lap siding as well as vertical siding. Allura also sells FC trim products. - AMERICAN CEMWOOD ROOFING
- American Fiber Cement Corporation AFCC, 6901 S. Pierce St., Ste. 180 Littleton, CO 80128 Tel: +1 800.688.8677 x102 Website: http://www.americanfibercement.com/ Email: house@americanfibercement.com Producing Minerit H.D., Throughcolor, and fiber cement cladding panels, lightweight facade cladding, interior paneling and other products.
- ASBESTOS & FIBER CEMENT ROOFING - separate article & list
- ASBESTOS TILE MANUFACTURE - separate article & list
- AZEK Building Products, Inc
1330 W Fulton Market
Suite 350
Chicago, IL 60607 USA, Tel: 1-877-275-2935, Web: https://azekexteriors.com/ (NOTE: these are PVC siding products NOT fiber cement - Ed.)
The PVC (Vinyl) composite shingle siding in both straight edge and staggered edge shingle style is installed as an exterior wall covering. The siding is manufactured from ridged cellular poly vinyl chloride (PVC). The siding is nominal 1/4" thick, 12", 15" and 16" wide, and 48" long. The siding has a single nail hem that is nominal 1/4" thick.
AZEK PVC COMPOSITE SHINGLE SIDING PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS [PDF] (2022) AZEK Building Products 894 Prairie Avenue Wilmington, OH 45177 (877) 275-2935, TDI, Texas Department of Insurance, Product Evaluation, EC132 / 0222 - BOISE CASCADE SIDING CLAIMS
- Boral Limited, Level 3, 40 Mount Street North Sydney NSW 2060 Postal Address: PO Box 1228 North Sydney NSW 2059Australia, Website: http://www.boral.com.au/CI_Home.asp
Excerpts:
Boral Australia is the country's largest construction materials and building products supplier with operations in all states and territories. In Australia, Boral supplies concrete, quarry products, asphalt, cement, bricks, plasterboard, roof tiles, timber and masonry to build infrastructure, residential construction and commercial buildings.
Boral's 50%-owned joint venture with USG, USG Boral, is the leading supplier of plasterboard and internal linings products across Asia and Australasia. USG Boral has operations in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam, as well as in the Middle East.
Boral Australia is the country's largest construction materials and building products supplier with operations in all states and territories. In Australia, Boral supplies concrete, quarry products, asphalt, cement, bricks, plasterboard, roof tiles, timber and masonry to build infrastructure, residential construction and commercial buildings. - CEMBOARD, produced by Cemplank, a family of fiber cement siding products including Cemplank® lap siding and Cempanel ®vertical siding. Cemboard, Tel: 1-800-942-7343 Website: www.cemplank.com
According to Bloomberg financial profiles, Hume Cemboard Industries Sdn Bhd was founded in 2002. The Company's line of business includes the manufacturing of asphalt felts and coatings. Hume Cemboard Industries Sdn BhD, 12 Jalan Tandang Petaling Jaya, 46050 Malaysia Phone: 60-377811977 - retrieved 2017/08/14, original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/96224Z:MK-hume-cemboard-industries-sdn-bhd
Hume Industries Berhad is a member of the Hong Leong Group, a Malaysian conglomerate with diverse businesses interests in various countries globally. - retrieved 2017/08/14, original source: http://www.humeind.com/ - Cemplank www.cemplank.com Cemplank fiber-cement siding and trim
- CeraClad rain screen systems, headquartered in Japan, http://www.kmew.co.jp/, KMEW USA Inc., Contact: Ron Loyd 15359 NE 90th Street, Redmond, WA 98052 USA Tel : (425)883-9290 Cell : (425)553-5780 Email: ron.loyd@ceraclad.com
Panel clips suspend Ceraclad siding panels away from the building's rain screen wrap permitting a drainage plane to the wall bottom. - CERTAINTEED WeatherBoards™ CertainTeed www.certainteed.com Fiber-cement lap siding as well as fiber cement vertical and shingle sidings, and soffits and trim including WeatherBoard™ fiber cement siding
- Chinese-made fiberboard siding products (more than one manufacturer)
- Cladding Corp, 420 N Cedros Avenue, Suite 103 Solana Beach, CA 92075 USA & 704 Baker Lane, Suite 5, Winchester, VA 22603 USA, Tel: (888) 826-8453 Terra cotta rainscreens, Fiber cement rainscreens, Porcelain rainscreens including Cem5
- Eastern Architectural Products, 213 Front Street Zelienople, PA 16063 USA Tel: (724) 453-0587 Email: info@fibercementproducts.com producing Fiber Cement Rainscreen Cladding
- Flannery Inc., including aluminum trim edging for fiber cement panel board products, Z flashing, vertical channel rain screens, corner trim designed for James Hardie, CertainTeed, Nichiha Corporation Fiber Cement Panel systems.
- Forta Corporation, 100 FORTA Drive Grove City, PA 16127-6399 USA, Tel: 800-245-0306 Email: info@fortacorp.com, concrete reinforcement fiber technology, FortaFiber, forta-Ferro, Ferro9-Green, and other fiber reinforcement products
- FortiFiber building systems group, Weather resistive barriers, Weathersmart hosuewrap, bulding paper, flashing products, flooring & tiule, Concrete moisture control products, 1-800-773-4777 buildingproducts@fortifiber.com
- GAF Inc. including GAF WeatherSide™ fiber cement siding - see
Excerpts:
The original producer of asbestos cement and later fiber cement siding, Supradur Manufacturing Corporation, was liquidated in bankruptcy proceedings and sold to GAF Premium Products, Corp. on 20 July 1995. GAF, principally a producer of roofing products also continues to produce and distribute fiber cement siding (WeatherSide® fiber cement siding). The company can be contacted at
GAF Premium Products, Corpo., 440 Katherine Rd Wind Gap, PA, 18091 United States (610) 863-4101 http://www.gaf.com According to the company's website: WeatherSide™ fiber cement siding contains NO asbestos
GAF www.gaf.com Weatherside fiber-cement siding, sold in three WeatherSide brands: Purity, Profile, & Emphasis. Emphasis is provided in a one-for-oneswap with existing asbestos-cement siding shingles.
Above: James Hardie Select Cedarmill fiber cement siding, 0.312" thick, 144" long boards, 9.25" wide, with a 7" exposure. Hardie's siding is also sold in 4' x 8' panels and in shingle format.
- James Hardie
www.jameshardie.com
HardiePlank, Hardipanel, fiber-cement shingles, traditional dimensions: 5/16-inch thick by 12-foot long lap siding, in widths ranging from 4-inch to 8 1/4-inch.,
James Hardie Building Products, James Hardie CustomerLink™ Service Centre, 10 Colquhoun Street, Rosehill NSW 2142, Tel: 13 1103, Outside Australia 61 2 8837 4709, Fax: 1 800 818 819.
Hardie has operations in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, United States, and the Philippines. The company is a significant producer of fiber cement siding and backerboard.
Email: info@JamesHardie.com and Website https://www.jameshardie.com/
JamesHardie Corporation, in the U.S. can be contacted at 26300 La Alameda, Suite 400, Mission Viejo, California 92691 - 1-888 J-HARDIE 1-888 542-7343 - MAXI-PANEL™ [PDF], installation guide for this fiber cement exterior panel sold in 4' x 8', 9' and 10' sizes, from MaxiTile (North Pacific, 10200 SW Greenburg Rd. Portland, Oregon 97223 800.547.8440)
- MAXIPLANK™ [PDF], installation guide for this fiber cement exterior lap siding product from MaxiTile, 15055 Woodham Drive | Houston, Texas 77073 (800) 451-2003 customer.service@maxitile.com www.maxitile.com
MaxiTile, Inc. 849 East Sandhill Avenue Carson, CA 90746 USA, Tel: 310/217-0316 1-800-338-8453 Website: www.maxtile.com Email: customer.service@maxtile.com
Excerpt: APPROVALS:
In accordance with ICC-ES Legacy Report ESR-1381, MAXIPANEL is compliance with the following codes: 2006 International Building Code (IBC) and 2006 International Residential Code (IRC). MAXIPANEL lap siding is also recognized for application in the following:
City of Los Angeles Research Report No. 25252, State of Florida listing FL # 11009, U.S. Dept. of HUD Materials Release 1338, Texas Department of Insurance Product Evaluation EC-56, and listing in Wildland Urban Interface Handbook (WUI). These documents should also be consulted for additional Additional Installation Information, Warranties, and Warnings are available at www.maxitile.com - Nichiha Wall Systems www.n-usa.com Fiber-cement lap siding and simulated shakes, brick, and stone, selling since the 1950s, focused on siding in shake and shingle patterns and large fiber-cement panels or siding boards.
- Nichiha Fiber Cement, 6465 E Johns Crossing, Suite 250 Johns Creek, GA 30097, USA, Tel: 1.866.424.4421
or 770-805-9466
Fax: 770-805-946 , Website: http://www.nichiha.com/ Email: info@nichiha.com
The company provides a variety of technical details about their fiber cement products, found at http://www.nichiha.com/resources/technical-documents - Shera™ Fibre Cement Building Materials, 2426/3 Mahaphant Building, Chareonkrung Road, Bangkorlhaem, Bangkok 10120, Thailand, Tel: Europe: +44 (29) 212 86505, Thailand: +66 (2) 291 2888 retrieved 12/20/2014, original source - http://www.sheraeu.com/FAQ.html
- Tapco Group, SturdiMount® mounting blocks for through-wall penetrations (like dryer vents, hose bibbs, exterior light fixtures) moutning on fiber cement siding or lap siding.
- U.S. Architectural Products, Cem-Clad (or Cem-Stone) decorative (fiber-reinforced?) cement panels used on building exteriors as cladding or a rain screen, as well as on building interiors also providing Versaroc UL-listed non-combustible structural cement bonded to particle board (a wood fiber product) used in roofs, walls, floors, and Cem-Steel fire rated floor and roof sheathing/
- Woodtone, C8007 Aitken Road
Chilliwack, British Columbia
V2R4H5, Canada, Tel: 800.663.9844, markets in both Canada and the U.S. Web: https://woodtone.com/ Woodtone sells wood-grained RusticSeries shakes, lap siding (planks), and panels alonw with matcing trim.
The company's producs include Rustic Series lap siding, shake and panel siding, Absolute Cedar engineered cedar trim & structural posts, Chrometallics metallic-coated fiber cement siding, RealAwood primed trim, posts, corners, ColorSelect solid color coated lap siding, shakes, panels, trim, and also interior wall & ceiling panels that may be used on exteriors or interiors.
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- [5] Roger Xu, 徐银杰 (my Chinese name), Ningbo Yihe Greenboard Co., Ltd., No.189, Longzhen Road, Nongkenchang, Longshan Town, Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang China, Tel: 0086-574-63974118/83887668 Fax:0086-574-63974129/83887670 Mobile: 0086-15924317823; E-Mail: sales6@yhboard.com; Skype: dajiezi107, www.yhboard.com/en, personal correspondence 3/21/2013
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- [2] Killer Company, James Hardie Exposed, Matt Peacock, Harper Collins Australia, ISBN: 9780733325809; ISBN10: 0733325807
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- [5] Certainteed Weatherboard fiber cement siding and trim products - see certainteed.com/ or see certainteed.com/resources/sidingandtrimspecsheet.pdf
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- [6] "Moisture Control in buildings: Putting Building Science in Green Building," Alex Wilson, Environmental Building News, Vol. 12. No. 5. [Good tutorial, "Moisture 101" outlining the physics of moisture movement in buildings and a good but incomplete list of general suggestions for moisture control - inadequate attention given to exterior conditions such as roof and surface drainage defects which are among the most-common sources of building moisture and water entry.--DJF]
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- [9] Thanks to reader Marie Carr for James HardiePlank siding photograph and case history information. 06/01/2008
- [10] JamesHardie HardiePlank® Lap Siding information can be found at the company's web page on this material:
https://www.jameshardie.com/products_siding_hardieplankLapSiding.py - [11] "30-Year Limited Warranty
HardiePlank® HZ5® Lap Siding, HardiePanel® HZ5® Vertical Siding,
HardieShingle® HZ5® Siding, HardieSoffit® HZ5® Panels", 1-800-9-HARDIE
10901 Elm Avenue Fontana, CA 92337, retrieved 1/18/2013, original source: https://www.jameshardie.com/pdf/warranty/hz5.pdf [copy on file as Hardieplank_Warranty_hz5.pdf] - [13] Instructions for application of HardiePlank lap siding can be found at https://www.jameshardie.com/products_siding_hardieplankLapSiding.py?openTab=jsnavLink4
- [14] "Homeowners Care and Maintenance Tips", 1-800-9-HARDIE
10901 Elm Avenue Fontana, CA 92337, included with product warranty information, retrieved 1/18/2013, original source: https://www.jameshardie.com/pdf/warranty/hz5.pdf [copy on file as Hardieplank_Warranty_hz5.pdf] - [15] "HardiePlank HZ5 Lap Siding Installation Requirements - Primed & Colorplus® Products",JamesHardie, November 2012, 1-800-9-HARDIE, 10901 Elm Avenue Fontana, CA 92337, retrieved 1/18/2013, original source: https://www.jameshardie.com/pdf/install/hardieplank-hz5.pdf, [copy on file as Hardieplank-hz5_Install.pdf]
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How to select and apply the right paint or coating for any surface. The first major reference to help you choose the correct paint or other finish to do the job best on a particular surface exposed to a particular environment. Experts in the field give full advice on testing surface preparation, application, corrosion prevention, and troubleshooting. The handbook covers wood, metal, composites, and masonry, as well as marine applications and roof coatings. A ``must'' working tool for contractors, architects, engineers, specification writers, and paint dealers. - Decks and Porches, the JLC Guide to, Best Practices for Outdoor Spaces, Steve Bliss (Editor), The Journal of Light Construction, Williston VT, 2010 ISBN 10: 1-928580-42-4, ISBN 13: 978-1-928580-42-3, available from Amazon.com
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