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National Gypsum
American gypsum corporation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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National Gypsum Company is a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that produces drywall gypsum boards in the US. It has 17 gypsum board plants in the US and presents itself as a fully integrated building products manufacturer.[1] It is a private company, incorporated as New NGC, Inc. in 1993 after previously filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.[2] In 1995, Clemmie Spangler took over National Gypsum for $1.2 billion, through Delcor Inc., a private investment company controlled by him.[3] Spangler had been chairman of National Gypsum and owned 20% of the company, and his family went on to own the whole company.[3][4]
It is one of the six producers which hold approximately 81% of the worldwide wallboard market (Georgia Pacific, Knauf, Continental Building Products, National Gypsum, Saint-Gobain, and Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd).[5]
Subsidiary National Gypsum (Canada) Ltd. operates the largest open-pit gypsum mine in the world in Milford Station, Nova Scotia.
The company was founded in 1925 by Melvin H. Baker, Joseph F. Haggerty, and Clarence E. Williams.[6]
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