Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Drywall Maker in Pain as Housing Suffers

Plenty of companies — the mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, the hardware giant Home Depot and the insulation maker Owens Corning among them — are absorbing the ill effects of the yearlong slump in housing construction and sales.
But few have felt it as forcefully or as suddenly as the USG Corporation, the nation’s largest maker of drywall, the paper-wrapped plaster boards used to build walls in homes and offices.

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