UFPI affiliate purchases interest in Upshur Forest Products, LLC
—Operations will help expand the Company’s industrial business in
The acquisition is intended to help grow Universal’s industrial business
in
“Among our strategic goals is to grow our industrial business, and we’re
doing that in a steady manner by adding to existing industrial
operations and growing our presence in areas we haven’t been able to
serve economically,” said Universal CEO
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Source:
Universal Forest Products, Inc.
Lynn Afendoulis, Director,
Corporate Communications
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