Continuus Materials is Increasing Production to Meet Demand for Roof Boards Made with Post-consumer Cartons

Earlier this year, we learned that Continuus Materials, one of the end markets for Canadian post-consumer cartons, had been acquired by North American environmental services giant Waste Management Inc. and private equity firm Tailwater Capital. In a recent conversation with the Carton Council, Jeff Dushack, Continuus’s marketing director, confirmed that this transaction has brought in a major influx of new funds to finance the growth of the business for the years ahead. The company’s marquee product is a cover board for flat and low-slope roofs (that’s the board that comes between a roof’s insulation and its waterproofing layer) called Everboard which is made by hot pressing together food and beverage cartons and other post-consumer fibres and plastics. With the current production practically selling out over the past three years, plans are being drawn up to build a new plant whose output, Dushack tells us, should represent several times the volume of Continuus’s current plant in Des Moines, Iowa. Since any new plant takes at least two years to come online, the company expects to increase capacity at its existing facility in the meantime to meet a portion of the growing demand for the boards. The location of the new plant has yet to be determined.

Canada plays a big role in supplying Continuus Materials with raw materials and will continue to do so under the expansion but at a much larger volume, confirms Dushack.

Everboard installation.