BPB, a manufacturer and marketer of wall and ceiling products, announced the location for its newest high-speed gypsum wallboard plant. The new facility will be constructed in Marshall County, West Virginia, adjacent to the American Electric Power’s Mitchell, WV facility.
BPB will use synthetic gypsum, a by-product generated by AEP’s clean air emissions project at the Mitchell Plant, as a high quality raw material for manufacturing its ProRoc Brand Gypsum Board. Additionally, the plant will use recycled paper for practically all of its raw material.
The new facility will be commissioned in late 2007 to meet sales volume growth and improve customer service levels in the eastern US region. 
The project will be the third BPB plant in North America using this technology.” Today, BPB operates 13 wallboard plants, 6 finishing plants and 3 ceiling plants in North America, and more than 130 plants worldwide.
The plant is expected to cost around $100 million and would produce about 700 million square feet of gypsum wallboard a year.
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