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Wood-Look Decking

Duralife Natural Grain collection from GAF Decking Systems is made from a proprietary high-density polyethelene/rice hull formulation.

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Colors include burnt walnut, western redwood, golden oak, and driftwood.

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Hardwood Decking Finish

Ipe Clip Fastener Co.'s Ipe Oil hardwood deck finish is formulated to dry properly on exotic hardwoods and last for years.

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Grow's Market & Price Service

The most comprehensive market & price service covering the l{orth American lumber and panel market.

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Engineered Slate Roofing

Vision Moderne Slate, manufactured from engineered polymers, reporledly is much lighter in weight and easier to install than slate shingles.

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Woodgrain Vinyl Fencing

CertainTeed's Bufftech Imperial and Baron vinyl fencing is now available with the look of natural woodgrain.

Imperial with Select Cedar texture is a semi-privacy design in 4, 5, and 6-ft. heights and colors almond, clay and white, as well as Sierra Blend.

Baron with Select Cedar texture has a picket-style design in almond and white, in 4,5, and 6-ft. lengths. Both products have a steel-reinforced bottom rail for a stronger, more rigid fence that resists sagging or bowing.

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Tightly Screened

Screen Tight has expanded its line of extruded-aluminum porch screening to include an ultra-low profile.

MINItrack's hidden fasteners allow a seamless look and completely unobstructed views. The powdercoated aluminum channels are available in 8-. l0-. or l2-ft. lengths, in either white or bronze.

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Richard Ervin "Dick" Slaughter, co-founder of Slaughter Brothers Inc., Dallas, Tx., died March 24 in Yelm, Wa.

In 1946, he went to work as a lumber wholesaler for Anderson-Hanson

Zeeland Lumber Holdings, Zeeland, Mi., earned FSC certification.

Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, Pa., will build a 30,000-sq. ft. mineralwoolplant in Millwood, W.V., for acoustical ceiling tiles.

HlDfast Deck trlooen fastening system is now distributing exclusively through the AZEK sales channel.

Osmose's MicroPro technology received Greenguard Children & Schools certification from Greenguard Environmental Institute.

Inteplast Group's TUF Board Deck synthetic wood boards received Code Compliance Research Report Certification.

Masonite International was 4qmed Supplier of the Year by DW Distribution. Desoto. Tx.

Anniversaries: Huttig Building Products, St. Louis, trio., 125th .I Amerhart Ltd., Green Bay, Wi., ZOth Spruce Comf uter Systems, Ldtham, N.Y.,25th

Lumber in California. Three years later, he moved back to Dallas and joined his brother in starting Slaughter Lumber Sales. They built the company to eight distribution yards before selling to Furman Lumber in 1985.

Charles Edwin Parks, 79, former owner of Parks Lumber, Murrrayville, Ga., died April 3 in Murrayville.

He began working part-time for his father's Parks Lumber. Gainesville. Ga., as a youth and joined the business full-time in the early 1950s, after serving in the Navy during the Korean War. He became owner when his father died in 1964.

He sold the company in the mid1970s to Builder Marts of America, but stayed on for several years as manager. In 1980, he and his son, Steve, formed a new company, Parks Planing Mill, Murrayville, and he moved to semi-retirement by the time they sold the yard to Lummus Supply in 1998.

Walter Bjornson, 86, retired coowner of Spring Valley Lumber, Spring Valley, Wi., died of cancer March 23 in Menomonie, Wi.

He served with the 40th Engineers Battalion during World War II. Afterwards, he returned to the family business and trained at the National Hardwood Lumber Association grading school in Memphis, Tn.

After the business was sold, he retired to Menomonie.

Wayne Hoyle, 92, retired office manager for Cleveland Lumber, Shelby, N.C., died April 1l in Shelby.

He started working at Cleveland Lumber at age 27 in 1939, when the company was just five years old. During the labor shortages of World War II, he kept the business going with just a handful of workers.

After working part-time since l999,he fully retired last June after a fall at home.

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