Company: LPX
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000060519-25-000005
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Company: LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 10
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 such as vinyl, fiber cement, and other materials. We have consistently grown our Siding segment above the underlying market growth rates, and this segment is less sensitive to new housing market cyclicality as over 50% of demand for our Siding Solutions comes from other markets, including off-site structure production and repair and remodeling. We believe that long-term market trends and demographics suggest continued growth in demand for sustainable engineered wood siding in these markets, which we believe we are well-positioned to meet. We routinely evaluate project schedules and market demand to determine when to begin related construction work on Siding Solutions capacity expansion projects. 

Generate Value-Added Sales Growth Through Customer Focus and Innovation. We believe that our products help our customers and end users to mitigate various challenges associated with building and construction activity, including labor shortages, because they are relatively easy to work with and allow for the consolidation of multiple steps into a single product system. Our marketing programs aim to drive awareness of our products and a greater understanding of our products’ specific features among builders, repair and remodel contractors, industrial manufacturers, and major home improvement retailers. Through our sales efforts, we target customers by distribution channel and focus on providing them with a broad array of traditional and specialty building products coupled with quality service. Our facilities are strategically located in the U.S., Canada, Chile, and Brazil to allow us to maintain geographic proximity to our customers and to remain responsive to their changing needs. We prioritize high-quality service and continue to build on our reputation for on-time shipments. In addition, we continually seek to identify new specialty building solutions and markets where we can utilize our core competencies in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of building products.

Focus on Operating Efficiency, Cost Reduction, and Portfolio Optimization. We continue to improve the OEE of our manufacturing facilities. We believe our OEE programs have produced excellent returns and generated many best practices that have been applied across our manufacturing system. Given these initiatives and the strategic locations of many of our facilities, we believe that we are very competitive regarding average delivered cost. 

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As market conditions change, we will continue to adapt our product mix, selectively invest in new technologies that modernize our manufacturing facilities and manage our capacity to best match customer demand. We believe that these strategies improve our portfolio and margins and enhance the quality and consistency of our earnings.

Pursue Selected Strategic Transactions. We continuously evaluate strategic investments in assets, businesses, and technologies, as well as investments that improve the performance of our businesses. We believe that our pursuit of these opportunities, if successful