D-Day for plasterboard will be October – Fletcher's

D-Day for plasterboard will be October – Fletcher's
Gib orders are playing catch-up. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Brent Melville
Fletcher Building says it has ramped up plasterboard production and expects to meet market demand by October, because of a winter slowdown.Winstone Wallboards, which accounts for roughly 95% of all plasterboard supplied into NZ under its Gib brand, said it's continuing at full production and despatching 3.25 million square metres of plasterboard a month.It helps that builders are pushing back their deliveries by up to two months, and weather and financial pressure are seeing an increasing number of projects shelved. By government estim...

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