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Triangle Building Products Corporation
Advancing Across Long Island’s
Housing Market
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Bruce Meltzer, president of Triangle Building Products
Corporation (TBP), grew up around lumber and developers
for most of his life. Bruce’s father, Abe, originally ran the
business in the 1970s under the name Triangle Pacific
Corporation (TPC).
The Medford location was instrumental in developing
growth in the New York Metropolitan area, which increased
substantially after TPC’s acquisition of Island Coal and
Lumber in the center of Long Island. TPC prospered as
a lumber, millwork and
kitchen cabinet supplier.
Bruce ran TPC’s New
York lumberyards and his
brothers ran the kitchen
cabinet
manufacturing
and saw mill operations
under the tutelage of their
father.
New divisions of TPC
operations sprouted up
over the years, expanding
with the offering of trusses
and other prefabricated
housing
components,
windows
and
other
building
products.
The expansion further
cemented TPC’s mutually
beneficial
relationships
with
major
housing
developers in the New
York Metropolitan area.
More projects poured in and the company was able to
expand to multiple locations, including 17 lumberyards on
the East Coast and three West Coast saw mills. In addition,
TPC also was the largest manufacturer of kitchen cabinets
in the country for several years.
TPC was later sold to Armstrong World Industries Inc.,
but Bruce was not giving up his roots. He opened and
subsequently purchased the Long Island location of TPC,
forming TBP in 1993. TBP refocused, discontinued the
retail operation and was geared specifically to serve the
needs of the modern day multifamily and single-family
homebuilders on Long Island in response to the continued
vibrancy of the market.
Supply and Demand,
Adapt and Advance
While TBP supplies an
impressive selection of
diverse products for its
clients, the management
team – led by Meltzer and
the Flaherty family – is
always looking for ways
to improve its product
mix. “We’ve always tried
to maximize our impact
in our marketplace by
offering what we call a total
package concept,” says
Bruce. The total package
concept is a service that
the company has been
providing successfully for
many years.
The concept pulls and compiles choices from TBP’s
product line of lumber, kitchen cabinets, trusses, windows,
millwork, prefabricated walls and other components.
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concept to each customer and seeing each project through
from design to groundbreaking to completion.
Every aspect of the prefabricated component package is
manufactured at TBP’s Medford factory and distributed
to the client’s jobsite. TBP’s experienced staff members
value engineers, and organize the project to be serviced
as flawlessly as possible. The team completed a 400-unit
Enlisted Men’s Housing project some time ago in just 10
months, of which the contractor received a commendation
from the U.S. Navy. TBP leaves other suppliers in the
dust by going the extra mile and offering the total package
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The company has applied the team’s concept to many large
rental projects in the Metropolitan area. TBP completed
a 150-unit rental four-story apartment located on a 2.7acre transit-oriented site with an attached 5,000-square
foot parking garage and clubhouse. Each units’ kitchen
boasts stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops,
in addition to the high-end cabinets courtesy of TBP. “We
supplied all the labor required for the framing as well as
window, kitchen and decking installation for this huge
building,” says Bruce. “It was an impressive job.”
Covering the Entire Housing Spectrum
TBP is very focused in the luxury single-family
market both in Long Island’s Gold Coast and
in the Hamptons. “We are packaging many of
our products in the high-end market as well,”
says Bruce. “It seems that the people with the
money are still buying. Those Gold Coast and
Hampton homes are selling now and it’s the
strongest market on Long Island.” While TBP
covers the entire spectrum of housing, from
mid-market townhouses to rental apartment
complexes, the team has found it lucrative to
expand the market. “Some of these contracts
can aggregate $3 million in a single order,”
continues Bruce.
The company is presently supplying materials on a family
compound consisting of a main house and guesthouse for
a very prominent financier in the Hamptons. However,
every job brings its own set of complications. According
to Bruce, the financier was concerned about the weather
conditions affecting the high-end materials and production
schedule and erected a tent over the home to expedite the
construction process.
TBP doesn’t rest on its past achievements. “We have an
ongoing quest to provide the best valued products and
technology to better service our customers,” says Bruce.
The team at TBP understands what each client wants,
and knows how to provide what they need based upon the
customer’s requirements.
The company’s impressive track record of competitive
pricing and assisting each customer to bring each project
in on time and on budget allows the team more access
into a recently contracting market place. Regardless of
the nature of the project, Triangle Building Products
Corporation will continue to utilize the team’s expertise,
facilities and resources to whatever degree the company’s
clients may desire. •
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