AMHERST, N.H. - Michigan-based Empire Moulding & Millwork will lease a new 217,000-square-foot distribution center in New Hampshire.

The facility host more than 2,500 SKUs of product to support the needs of independent lumberyards, millwork specialty shops, stair parts providers, door shops, professional dealers, and home centers throughout New England and eastern New York.

Empire, which is owned by Novo Building Products, will hire 70 employees to work at the plant. 

“This strategic growth step positions Empire to more fully support our northeastern customers with a wide breadth of products,” says Jeff Leys president and COO of Novo Building Products. “We are responding to marketplace needs for an additional Empire distribution center that increases our product offering while continuing to provide very specific products desired in this region of the country.

The new location will distribute stair parts, MDF, hardwood and polyurethane mouldings and boards, finger jointed mouldings, and glued boards.

Novo Building Products was recently acquired by Hardwoods Distribution Inc.