How We Think

Innovation rarely begins by asking how to improve what's already working.

It begins by questioning assumptions that everyone else has learned to accept.

Large organizations are exceptionally good at improving existing products. They're built to reduce risk, optimize manufacturing, and execute at scale.

Startups have a different advantage. We're free to ask questions that don't fit neatly within existing product lines or manufacturing processes. We can explore ideas before they're constrained by annual budgets, organizational priorities, or the understandable need to protect successful businesses.

That's where we believe opportunity lives.

Our Team

Our team has experienced both worlds. Some of us have spent careers inside large manufacturing organizations — collectively bringing more than 100 years of hands-on experience in construction materials, foam and sheathing product development, extrusion engineering, and building materials commercialization. Others have spent their careers building businesses around opportunities that established industries overlooked. Together, that combination of deep industry knowledge and outside perspective shapes how we approach every problem.

That combination of deep industry knowledge and outside perspective shapes how we approach every problem—and how we identify opportunities others often miss.

Headquarters

Concord Fiber Group is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with product development and manufacturing activities centered in the Midwest Industrial Corridor.