LP Building Solutions (LP) announced the opening of its new LP(R) SmartSide(R) Expert finish(R) Expert finishes(R) prefinishing facility in Bath, New York. The 90,000-square-foot facility will bring more than 60 new jobs to the area over the next several years. Bath Located on 75 acres in Steuben County, New York, the new multimillion-dollar Expert finish prefinishing facility will help LP meet customer demand for its high-quality, sustainable products.

To celebrate the facility's opening, LP and Steuben County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with speakers from New York state and local government. At the ceremony, LP Executive Vice President, General Manager of Siding Jason Ringblom expressed LP's enthusiasm to join the Bath community and expand the company's prefinished home siding offerings in the Northeastern U.S. With the establishment of its first New York-based facility, LP celebrates the opening of its 23rd manufacturing site and its 13th siding facility across North and South America. This new facility joins LP's three existing siding finishing facilities--LP Roaring River, LP Green Bay and LP St.

Louis. The Southern Tier region of New York is ideally suited for Expert finish production due to its proximity to the Northeast U.S. and Eastern Canada siding markets. LP will receive its exterior home siding product at the new facility via rail from its siding production mills.

The material will then be painted, packaged and distributed via LP's existing network throughout the Northeast and beyond. The facility, which first broke ground in July 2022, was celebrated by more than 100 attendees at today's ribbon- cutting ceremony. Speakers included Executive Vice President, General Manager, LP New York Plant Manager Jonathon O'Hora, New York State Senator Thomas F. O'Mara, New York State Assemblymember Philip A. Palmesano, Steuben County Manager Jack Wheeler, Steuben County IDA Executive Director James C. Johnson, and Town of Bath Supervisor Ronald Smith.

For over 20 years, LP SmartSide Trim & Siding has provided customers with the beauty of traditional wood with the advanced durability of engineered wood. To complement the SmartSide portfolio, Expert finish Trim & Siding, the finished siding product LP will produce at its Bath site, is available in 16 versatile prefinished colors. Finished in the factory with acrylic latex paint, the Expert finish color collection is guaranteed to look great and remain durable for years to come.

Expert finish lap also features a proprietary joint that helps builders avoid the need for seam caulking, joint molds.