Armstrong Flooring will close two wood flooring plants, a solid wood flooring plant in Jackson, Tenn., and a plant in Vicksburg, Miss., that supplies core veneer and plywood for engineered flooring, in the fourth quarter of 2017, the company announced today.
“This initiative is designed to better align our manufacturing capacity with current customer demand and to leverage productivity benefits realized across our wood flooring operations in recent years,” said Don Maier, Armstrong Flooring president and CEO said in a statement.
The Jackson plant manufactures exclusively strip and 3-inch-wide solid wood flooring, and the company said this production will be transferred to Armstrong’s other domestic wood flooring plants. Maier also noted that there is increasing demand for wider-width planks and textured surfaces.
The Vicksburg plant produces core veneer and plywood used in production of engineered wood floors at Armstrong Flooring’s Somerset, Kentucky, plant. The company said it will continue engineered wood flooring production in Somerset with the same surface veneer supplier, and that product visuals will not be affected.
The closings will consolidate Armstrong’s U.S. wood flooring production to six plants.
