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G-P Center For Southwest Sales

Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s building products distribution division has opened its Western Sales Center in metro Denver, Co., handling sales for half the country, including Texas and Oklahoma.

The Denver Sales Center opened March 4 initially handling sales and procurement for the local market but taking over for four other territories by month's end. G-P will gradually "roll in" the remaining l8 existing western region sales territories by the end ofthe year.

In the Southwest, G-P is expanding its Fort Worth, Tx., DC, to 377,OOO sq. ft. on 66 acres. h will be supported by additional warehousing and delivery operations in Lubbock, Houston and San Antonio, Tx.; Tulsa, Ok., and Shreveport, La. The warehouses will be significantly larger with a delivery radius of 150 miles (up to double the previous range). Existing warehouses in Arlington and Tyler, Tx., are being closed.

Once fully operational later this year, the new 71,000-sq. ft. Denver facility, patterned after the division's Eastern Sales Center in Atlanta will be staffed by 350 employees. The national reconfiguration of all sales and logistics operations, begun in July 1994, allows G-P to provide more reliable service, broader product lines and extended hours. The two state-of-the-art sales centers will handle the divison's sales functions for the entire country and will be supported by a network ofoutside sales representatives in local markets.

Overseen by western regional sales mgr. Charley Hobbs, the Denver sales facility brings with it many new telephone, inventory control and sales management systems.

Denver also houses a building products logistics center. The warehouse facility is part of the division's new integrated logistics network of 64 strategically located warehouse and delivery poins.

Cavenham Sells Timberlands

Cavenham Forest Industries parent Hanson pt-c has agreed to sell timberlands and related operations to Weyerhaeuser Co. and Willamene Industries for a combined $2.1 billion.

Weyerhaeuser agreed to pay $500 million for 308,500 acres in southern Mississippi, 352,700 acres in southeastern Louisiana, and sawmills in McComb, Ms., and Holden, La. The mills, respectively, are the largest dirnensional lumber and stud facilities in the South.

The purchase also includes long-term lease agreements with two mills in Bogalusa, La., and Silver Creek, Ms., that produce lumber under contract for Cavenham. The four mills will increase Weyerhaeuser's lumber production by 500 million board feet to 1.8 billion board feet annually.

Willamette agreed to pay a record $1.6 billion for about L I million acres in Oregon, Washington and parts of the South, including Louisiana. Willamette plans to sell 2O7,OO0 of the acres in Oregon and Washington to Crown Pacihc Partners L.P. for about $200 million and 230,000 acres in southwest Louisiana to Temple-Inland for $90 million. The company is also negotiating to sell l(X,fiX) acres in Oregon to Hancock Timber Resource Group.

In the end, Willamette's timber base should increase by about 546.000 acres to 1.8 million acres.

Between the Willamette and Weyerhaeuser deals, Hanson will receive $2.1 billion for lands it acquired about six years ago for $1.2 billion, mostly from companies controlled by Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith.

Cox Buys So. Florida Yards

Cox Lumber Co., St. Petersburg, Fl., has purchased the assets of Stottlemyer and Shoemaker Lumber Co., Sarasota, Fl., from London-based Meyer International.

The acquisition of yards in Sarasota, Palmetto, Venice, Port Charlotte and Fort Myers, Fl., plus truss and door manufacturing facilities complements existing South Florida Cox lumber yards in Sarasota, Apollo Beach and Punta Gorda. Both are contractororiented chains founded as family businesses in the late 1940s.

Cox now operates 29 locations in Florida and the Cayman Islands.

New Treated Wood Web Site

The American Wood Preservers Institute has established a home page on the Internet, as both a pressure treated wood marketing service and a communications vehicle with the general public.

Reached at http://www.awpi.org, the Web page provides consumer information about treated wood, updates on legislative and regulatory issues, news releases, editorials on safely us- ing treated products, graphic materials and a list of sources for data on specific applications.

New Kentucky Millwork Plant

Glen Oak Lumber & Milling, Inc. has begun production at its new $3 million plant in Somerset, Ky., remanufacturing locally harvested southern yellow poplar into a variety of primed and unprimed mouldings.

Patterned after the parent production operation in Montello, Wi., the 50,000-sq. ft. facility can run 180,000 lineal ft. ofproduct in one shift.

Bo Smith is general manager.

Hardwood Campaign Grows

Through its Zlps & Techniques technical brochures, media relations and show exhibits, the Hardwood Council reached three times as many building professionals last year as it did in 1994.

Supplementing efforts in 1996 are a direct mail campaign to home centers and increased interaction with the American Society of Interior Designers and American Institute of Architects.

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Troy, ID - Idaho Cedar Sales, the leading manufacfurer of red cedar split rail, has pioneered a new product called North Idaho Split Rail'".

Properly treated, this Idaho \tVhite Pine product offers the durability of treated wood, plus the rustic charm of cedar split rail, but without the cedar price.

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