Supersede, a Phoenix-based building materials company, has opened a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Bristol, Indiana, expanding production of structural sheathing made with postconsumer and postindustrial polypropylene (PP) for the marine, recreational vehicle (RV), modular housing and construction sectors. The company expects the Elkhart County plant to create more than 50 new jobs.

The facility sits in the county widely regarded as the epicenter of the U.S. RV industry. By placing production where the majority of the nation's RVs are designed and built, Supersede says it will shorten supply lines, improve delivery consistency and serve RV original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) directly from the region.

"Elkhart County is where the RV industry lives and builds," Supersede co-founder and CEO Sean Petterson says. "Locating our newest facility here represents our commitment to the manufacturers who depend on consistent, high-performance materials to keep their production lines moving. The expansion allows us to scale alongside our RV customers and deliver the same engineered performance and reliability they've come to expect from Supersede, at the volume the industry demands."

For the recycled-PP supply chain, the plant represents built conversion capacity aimed squarely at a high-value end market: engineered structural panels replacing legacy wood-based sheathing and vinyl products. Company co-founder and Vice President of Engineering Shane Kenyon says the materials incorporate postconsumer and postindustrial PP, are moisture- and warp-resistant, and contain no toxic treatments such as chromated copper arsenates (CCAs) or formaldehyde. The company adds that the panels reduce waste and rework during installation.

Supersede positions the product against one of the RV industry's most persistent failure points: floor rot in conventional wood-framed flooring, which limits vehicle lifespans. Marine and RV applications have served as the company's proving ground, demonstrating performance under high-stress conditions before the platform moves deeper into modular housing and broader residential and commercial construction.

The Bristol plant builds on a demand anchor Supersede announced earlier: a partnership with Coachmen RV to integrate Supersede Marine Board into the floor structure of Coachmen's Catalina travel trailers. That deal marked Coachmen's first travel trailer built with nonwood flooring and gave Catalina buyers a floor structure with 100 percent moisture resistance, backed by Supersede's offcut and end-of-life buyback program — a take-back commitment that keeps the company's own material in a closed loop rather than dispersing it to disposal channels.

The company says its new capacity in Bristol positions it to support Coachmen and other RV OEMs as adoption of engineered structural materials grows across the industry. Supersede frames the Bristol launch as a milestone in scaling production to meet accelerating OEM demand for high-performance engineered materials.

What happens next depends on conversion: whether Supersede fills the Elkhart County plant's output with additional OEM flooring conversions beyond the Coachmen Catalina program, and whether the buyback structure delivers recovered material back to the line at volumes that meaningfully offset the postconsumer and postindustrial PP the company must procure to run 100,000 square feet of capacity.