Eagle Materials' gypsum wallboard division, American Gypsum Company, currently operates manufacturing facilities in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. Eagle is the nation's fifth-largest wallboard producer, with an annual wallboard production capacity of nearly four billion square feet.
Much of American Gypsum's competitive advantage lies in its access to low-cost raw materials, modern, efficient dryers, and energy-efficient calciners. In addition, the company has improved the strength, weight, and quality of its gypsum wallboard while reducing the amount of waste generated. Because of attention to detail and focus on continuously improving the low-cost production of gypsum wallboard, American Gypsum has remained profitable through cycles.
Established in 1999, Republic Paperboard Company occupies a seventy-acre site in the industrial park in Lawton, Oklahoma. Republic Paperboard utilizes 100% recycled raw materials to produce high-quality paper products used to manufacture gypsum wallboard, shopping bags, boxes, tubes, and other industrial and consumer products.