Royal Building Products Launches Widespread Distribution of Exterior Portfolio’s Solid CoRe Siding® in Canada

WOODBRIDGE, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Royal Building Products today announced that it now is distributing Solid CoRe Siding® in the T6, D7 and Board & Batten profiles at its company-owned Boncor Building Products stores throughout Canada and its Residential Building Products stores in Quebec.

“The distribution of Solid CoRe Siding and other Exterior Portfolio products through Royal’s company-owned stores leverages our understanding of the Canadian marketplace and our ability to provide customers throughout Canada with a wide variety of home building products.”

In February, Royal’s parent company – Georgia Gulf Corporation (NYSE: GGC) – acquired Ohio-based Exterior Portfolio from Crane Group. Exterior Portfolio is the market leader for insulated siding in North America.

“This is an exciting new offering for Royal Building Products because it gives our Canadian customers widespread access to one of the industry’s premier lines of insulated vinyl siding,” said Adrien Pilon, general manager of distribution at Royal.

“The decision to acquire Exterior Portfolio was based, in part, in our confidence that these premium, energy-efficient siding products would be popular among Canadian homeowners, builders and renovation experts,” said Mark Orcutt, executive vice president of Building Products at Georgia Gulf. “The distribution of Solid CoRe Siding and other Exterior Portfolio products through Royal’s company-owned stores leverages our understanding of the Canadian marketplace and our ability to provide customers throughout Canada with a wide variety of home building products.”

In addition to offering homeowners and builders an aesthetically appealing look and feel, the Solid CoRe Siding – with its SmartCORE insulation and TXL™ lamination technology – provides significant performance advantages over other brands including:

• moisture management ridges that provide space for ventilation, allow condensation to escape and enhance insulation value without contributing to mold
• higher flexural strength for smoother, straighter walls
• greater compression strength, resulting in enhanced impact resistance
• higher tensile strength
• more bond strength, providing greater surface adhesion between panel and foam

About Royal Group

Royal Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Georgia Gulf Corporation (NYSE: GGC), manufactures and distributes premium low-maintenance building products. For more than four decades, the company’s commitment to product innovation, quality and customer relationships has served to attract a growing number of homeowners, architects, engineers and distributors to its products. With operations located throughout North America, Royal Group, Inc. offers the renovation, remodeling and new construction industries a broad range of innovative products, including siding, deck, fence and rail, trim and moldings, pipe and fittings, and window and door profiles. Royal Group has company-owned distribution under the retail brands of Boncor and Residential Building Products across Canada. For more Distribution locations please visit: http://www.royalbuildingproducts.com/royal-distribution.aspx.

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