This is the world's largest cement company, second-largest concrete firm and third-largest gypsum wallboard maker.
Other defendants include wallboard distributors and homebuilders such as Lennar, Pulte and U.S. Home.
They, in turn, are suing the Chinese manufacturers that supplied the allegedly defective wallboard.
The ash byproduct is turned into 100 percent-recycled wallboard for use in home construction.
But Seeger tried a second case against German wallboard manufacturer and distributor Knauff, which ended in mid-March.
So do buildings materials firms like Chicago-based USG, maker of the popular Sheetrock brand of gypsum wallboard.
The reaction creates gypsum that can be sold to companies like wallboard makers.
Eagle Materials Inc. is a Dallas-based company that manufactures and distributes cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard and concrete and aggregates.
Gypsum wallboard revenue grew almost 52% in the quarter with volumes increasing 24% and the average selling price rising 30%.
This performance was driven mainly by wallboard pricing gains, higher volumes in all lines of business and lower recycled fiber input costs.
Why not take the commonly used advertiser-sponsored wallboard, standardize the size and hang them everywhere--on campus, in doctors' offices, in day care centers?
Construction is all about creating materials such as brick, cement and wallboard in one place and shipping it to another place, all of which uses energy.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Eagle is a manufacturer and distributor of building material and construction products like cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates.
However, rather than coming from thermite, the metallurgist Professor Sisson thinks the sulphur came from masses of gypsum wallboard that was pulverised and burnt in the fires.
But with his meticulous detailing of the damages allegedly caused by sulfur-laced wallboard U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon has established another multibillion-dollar tort case in the making.
The judge said houses with defective wallboard basically have to be stripped to the studs to fix the problem, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per home.
Seeger said he and other lawyers involved in the multi-district litigation have 7, 000 cases teed up, and he figures another 20, 000 homes might have sulfurous wallboard that needs to come out.
Cement producers like Southdown (53, SDW) and wallboard maker USG Corp. (51, USG) trade at less than ten times forward earnings in a market where their main products are in short supply.
In the Taishan ruling, he cited reports from experts including Sandia National Laboratory showing that sulfur fumes escaping the tainted wallboard can cause pitting in wires and copper pipe as well as heating and air conditioning systems.
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