Cornerstone’s new manufacturing facility nears completion
Cornerstone building a new facility

Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products is building a new $15 million facility.

CINCINNATI – Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products, manufacturers of ResinDek engineered flooring panel and shelving products, and its parent company, Universal Woods, are constructing a $15 million greenfield manufacturing facility. 

Located in a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, the plant will enable Cornerstone to increase its manufacturing output to more than double its current capacity.

"Our business has grown dramatically over the past two years, for which we are extremely grateful," said Greg Doppler, inventor of the ResinDek flooring panel and President of Cornerstone. "As a result of this tremendous growth, we are approaching the upper limits of our current production capacity. This investment will ensure we are in a position to deliver ResinDek products quickly to our valued customers well into the future."

"The new facility's footprint is more than double the current footprint, enabling us to carry more inventory and manufacture products faster. That combined with a design that incorporates significantly more dock doors for shipping and receiving, will allow us to reduce lead times," said Scott McGill, director of sales at Cornerstone.

Doppler said that the "new operation will also be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art electron beam coating and curing equipment that we have always used to produce our ResinDek's protective coatings and finishes, only at much higher throughput rates and volumes than before."

"It will also allow us to attain even greater quality than the high standards our current coating and curing line currently achieves."

"The new equipment will not only increase quality and manufacturing output but also provide a wider array of opportunities within our new product development program. This will allow us to continue to offer a fantastic value proposition to our customers," said McGill.

Equipment is slated to be installed and commissioned throughout January 2022, with partial production beginning shortly thereafter. The new coating and curing machinery are scheduled for installation in the second quarter of 2022.

"We expect to be fully operational in the third quarter of 2022 and look forward to celebrating Cornerstone's new capabilities with a Grand Opening ceremony at that time," said Doppler.

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