Television discovers forest products

As part of a new television series, a major tv cable channel will be featuring outstanding forest products companies as examples of what's right with corporate America.

Curt Bean Lumber Co., Glenwood, Ar., one of five firms selected, will be featured in "Fruits of the Forest," part of a television series set to ah July 16,7:09 to7:39 a-m. EST and 6:09 to 6:39 CST on cable's Discovery Satellite channel.

The Bean operation includes two mills cutting 600,000 board feet of southern pine daily, a treating plant producing 100 million feet of treated products annually, several thousand acres of intensively managed forest land and 115 rucks for coast-to-coast delivery.

Other featured companies are: Universal Forest Products, Grand Rapids, Mi., which has wholesale and remanufacturing operations nationwide; Erickson Air Crane, Central Point, Or.; Will-Pemco, a Sheboygan, Wi., paper manufacturer; and 4M Corp., a paperboard products producer based in Valhalla N.Y.

The forest products series is produced by Criterion Productions, Inc., Richardson (Dallas), Tx., for its "USA Corporate Profiles," a pro-business look at the accomplishments of American indusw.

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Senior producer Tim Sanders no[€s, "Over the last few years, there has been a lack of understanding about the industries that utilize forest products. With the recent environmental emphasis in politics, people have lost sight of how much they depend on forest products like paper and wood."