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UFP Industries was founded in Michigan in 1955 as a supplier of lumber to the manufactured housing industry. In 2021, the company had over 200 locations in eight countries with 15,000+ employees and sales of $8.6 billion.
UFP Industries' (UFPI) solid acquisition strategies and stable demand for repair and remodeling activities bode well.
A soffit is an exterior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of the roof edge. Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of rafters or trusses over the exterior of supporting walls, is the underside of eaves (to connect a supporting wall to projecting edge(s) of the roof ).
The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave. In classical architecture, the fascia is the plain, wide band (or bands) that make up the architrave section of the entablature, directly above the columns. The guttae or drip edge was mounted on the fascia in the Doric order, below the triglyph.
The underside of the eaves may be filled with a horizontal soffit fixed at right angles to the wall, the soffit may be decorative but it also has the function of sealing the gap between the rafters from vermin and weather. Eaves must be designed for local wind speeds as the overhang can significantly increase the wind loading on the roof. [7]
Roof shapes include flat (or shed), gabled, hipped, arched, domed, and a wide variety of other configurations detailed below. [1]Roof angles are an integral component of roof shape, and vary from almost flat to steeply pitched.
In 2016 UFP expanded operations and relocated its headquarters to Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 2022 UFP Technologies sold Molded Fiber Business to CKF, Inc. [9] In 2022 Sales exceeded $300 million and the firm opened a new medical manufacturing operation in Tijuana, Mexico [10]. In 2023, UFP Technologies was added to the S&P SmallCap 600 ...
UFP is an abbreviation that has several meanings: Ultrafine particle , a particulate matter of nanoscale size (less than 100 nanometres in diameter) Union des forces progressistes , a former Canadian left-wing political party of Quebec