Homasote News

2008 Trade Show Calendar

Homasote Company and its Industrial Division, makers of Pak-Line® green packaging products, appear at major national and regional trade shows across the country. Among those at which we are slated to be present are:

Contact your local Homasote Company or Pak-Line sales representative for information on additional regional and local shows we will attend.

Veteran Building Products Sales Executive is Homasote Company's New Director of Sales and Marketing

July 20, 2007

West Trenton, NJ -- Gordon Pealock, a veteran building products sales executive, has joined Homasote Company, America’s Leading Green Building and Packaging Products Manufacturer™ as Director of Sales and Marketing, CEO and Board Chairman Warren Flicker announced.

A Georgia native now residing in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Pealock has led sales management and business development efforts for James Hardie Building Products and USG Building Systems in Pennsylvania, and Alsco Metals Corporation in North Carolina.

Pealock was graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and a minor in Construction Development. His forte` has been leveraging technology to help analyze markets and identify sales opportunities for the sales forces he has directed.

“Gordon has nearly two decades of sales and management experience with a heavy emphasis on technical analysis and competitive intelligence and he’s bringing it to Homasote Company at a perfect time,“ said Craig Stiffler, COO and President.

“The sea change of green building across the country and all its ramifications has put new focus on our sound control, interior panel, roofing, and concrete forming and expansion joint products. Beginning with 440 SoundBarrier® and its 98 percent post-consumer content, Homasote Company’s environmentally friendly products, are enjoying growing recognition by architects, builders, property owners, and public facility managers,” Flicker said. “Our recent selection by Home Depot as its exclusive sound-control panel for Northeast stores will also help to spread the word about Homasote®.”

Pealock now is traveling extensively, meeting with the Company’s sales force across the U.S. as he begins to develop plans to bring sales and customer satisfaction to new levels, Stiffler said.

Gordon Pealock News Release (PDF)

Nailbase Roof Insulation Originators Receive FM Approval For Its “Green” N.C.F.R.® Thermasote® On Steel Roof Decks; Additional Wind Uplift Confirms It Can Meet Code In Wind-Prone Areas

December, 2006

WEST TRENTON, NJ – The originators of nailbase roof insulation have received Factory Mutual® approval for using its “green” nailbase roof insulation, N.C.F.R.® Thermasote®, on steel roof decks.

The first nailbase roof insulation (www.homasote.com/thermasote) was developed seven decades ago by America’s leading green building manufacturer, Homasote Company. Now, N.C.F.R. Thermasote -- a 4’ x 8’ panel of Class A, N.C.F.R. board bonded to rigid Polyisocyanurate insulation -- has received FM’s steel deck approval.

“Steel decks are becoming the roofs of choice for multi-story, multi-family, mixed use, commercial and other construction for a host of good reasons. Now architects and builders can add outstanding insulation to roof assemblies with our FM®-approved, time-tested green product,” Homasote Company CEO Warren Flicker said.

The FM Standard Listing for Class 1 Steel Deck Roofs, Class Number 4450 documentation is now available online to architects and specifiers via FM's RoofNav Web site, http://roofnav.fmglobal.com/roofnav/login.aspx and will be published in future hard-copy manuals, Flicker said.

The approval, granted last month, replaces a previous FM listing that restricted N.C.F.R. Thermasote to concrete roof decks, a rarely specified construction method, Flicker noted.

“Architects and builders who need to meet code in wind-prone areas will be happy to know that an additional simulated wind uplift test also was performed in this classification and N.C.F.R. Thermasote achieved a Class 1-105 windstorm classification,” Flicker said.

This wind result, along with a July 2006 UL®-tested wind uplift classification of 1-135 provides independently measured proof that Homasote roof products meet code in wind prone areas, Flicker added

For more information about Homasote Company’s LEED-centric products visit www.homasote.com or call Gordon Pealock, Director of sales and marketing, at 800-257-9491 Ext. 1211 or e-mail gpealock@homasote.com.

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Homasote Company's 440 SoundBarrier® Is Listed by International Code Council

June 2006

(LOS ANGELES) - Homasote Company CEO Warren Flicker announced at the American Institute of Architects National Convention and Design Expo that its 440 SoundBarrier has been listed by the International Code Council to meet internationally established building codes for structural Integrity and other uses.

Mr. Flicker commented that, "code compliance In the building materials industry is becoming more important to architects and builders and we are extremely pleased to be the first manufacturer of sound control panels to meet the ICC's standards."

The Company further reported that the relevant ICC number is ESR-1374.

Information about 440 SoundBarrier is available at http://www.homasote.com, along with all the other Homasote Company products for sound control, interior panels, roofing and concrete forming and expansion joints.

This new listing is required by the merger of BOCA, ICBO and SBCCI into ICC-ES. Homasote Company's structural building products have been listed by one or more of the previous evaluation services since World War II.

The ICC-ES report is posted at: http://www.icc-es.org/reports/pdf_files/ICC-ES/ESR-1374.pdf

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Craig Stiffler Is New Chief Operating Officer of Homasote Company

Veteran Executive Becomes Chief Operating Officer of America's Oldest Green Building Products Manufacturer

May 2006

WEST TRENTON, NJ – Craig R. Stiffler, an experienced Fortune 100 executive, in May 2006 assumed the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer of Homasote Company, America’s oldest manufacturer of building products from recycled material, CEO Warren Flicker announced.

Stiffler spent nearly 14 years at Siemens Power Generation, a subsidiary of Siemens AG. Most recently he served as vice president and general manager of the $300 million, 400-plus employee, Trenton-based Industrial Applications Division, an original equipment manufacturer of industrial gas and steam turbines, and compressors used in power generation, oil, gas and other industrial processes.

In his most recent position at Siemens, Stiffler led his organization through two integrations, developed and implemented significant manufacturing improvements, and dramatically improved sales and marketing in several areas, including market share and new customer penetration.

“As Homasote Company approaches its 100-year anniversary we are fortunate to have someone with Craig’s knowledge and skill in this key new leadership position. We'll be leveraging his engineering, management and marketing skills to take us to new levels of growth, efficiency and productivity,” Flicker said.

“I am pleased to be part of a company with such a rich history of manufacturing innovation and environmental responsibility. Homasote® was a green building icon decades before the first Earth Day,” Stiffler said. “I am ready to help write the next chapter in Homasote Company’s success. We have challenges to address: creating manufacturing efficiencies, improving our marketing and growing our customer base.”

Stiffler received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA in Finance and Operations from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He resides in Upper Make field, Pennsylvania with his wife, son and daughter.

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About Homasote Company

Homasote Company (http://www.homasote.com) is America's oldest manufacturer of building products made from recycled material. Each year Homasote converts 80,000 tons of post-consumer paper into unique environmentally friendly structural, sound control building products and industrial packaging. Homasote's 750,000-square-foot facility in West Trenton. New Jersey is the only manufacturing plant of its kind in the United States.

About the International Code Council (ICC)

The International Code Council (http://www.icc-es.org), a membership association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention, develops the codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools. Most U.S. cities, counties and states that adopt codes choose the International Codes developed by the International Code Council.

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