Hardwood specialist ratchets up expansion

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|. Fontana. Ca.. is in the midst of a major expansion that will increase the types of hardwood products it sells and produces, as well as the size of the business itself to I I acres.

The company has broken ground for a new 40,000-sq. ft. customer service center, twice the size of its current facility. "We've simply outgrown it," said general manager Dennis Johnston.

The new buildine's main floor will include 4,000 sq. ft. of showroom and 35,000 sq. ft. of product storage, with an additional 4,000 sq. ft. of office space upstairs. Completion is expected by early December.

The current 20,000-sq. ft. service center will be used to launch a new division specializing in hardwood flooring and stair parts. Johnston said they are currently evaluating potential vendors and should open the showroom in the spring. It will showcase solid hardwood, engineered and exot- ic flooring, accessories and products for installation and maintenance, with Peterman crafting millwork to match. ttV"aJtiUJt iiilr

"We're currently producing some flooring per order, run to customer's specs, but nothing extensive," he said.

Although the company currently does not have an end-matcher, the business likely will acquire one after the flooring division takes off.

Peterman is also expanding its product lines. Standard inventory items, such as the rope and dentil mouldings introduced earlier this year, are now available in a wider array of profiles. All mouldings are machine- and handcrafted on the premises.

In addition, Peterman has acquired a 10,000-sq. ft. enclosed building adjoining its property, to provide storage room for panel products and additional manufacturing space for dentils and rope mouldings.

Peterman's $5 million inventory also includes domestic and imported hardwood lumber and plywood, softwood lumber and plywood, melamine sheet goods, particleboard, fiberboard, domestic and exotic veneers, and architectural products.

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