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G0 FISH: Fastener manufacturer PT2000 entertained its distributors along the White River in Northern Arkansas' Ozark Mountains during its May 6-8 customer appreciation trout fishing tournament. Sales contest winner Lee Soears. Southern Fastening Systems, Jonesboro, Ar., won a lishing pole and reel. (1) W.C. Litzinger, Pete Acres. (2) Jim Boyd Jr. with a 15" rainbow trout. (3) Billy Davis with a 3-lb. rainbow trout. (4) John Elliot, James Fry. PT2000's next customer appreciation trout fishing tournament is Ocl.21-23.

Fire Strikes lowa Dry Kiln

More than 60 firefighters worked over six hours to extinguish a blaze that destroyed the dry kiln at Chapman Lumber Mill, Sand Springs,Ia.

The State Fire Marshall is still investigating the cause of the fire, but suspects it started in the center section of the building, which was full of stacked wood. The fire did not spread to other parts of the mill.

Keith Chapman, president of Chapman Lumber, plans to rebuild as soon as possible.

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New Siding Mill For Virginia

Windsor Mill. a Windsor. Ca.based cornpany that makes rvood siding and trirn, will spend $6 million to build a nov mill that rvill bring 70 jobs to Surrcy County, Va.

The Virginia site will bc Windsor's first East Coast operiition. The cctmpany currently operiites trvo mills in Califbrnia and one in Chile.

The site lvits chosen for both its rural character and access to ports.

Windsor Mill plans on doubling the sizc of an existin-e building to 120.000 sq. ft. to support the mill.

L-P Reshuffles OSB Mills

Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or.. rvill convert its Hayward. Wi.. commodity OSB mill to produce SmartSide siding products and replace the capacity rvith a ner,v OSB mill iti Alabarna.

The Hayrvarcl mill has lon-g been Louisiiina-Pacific' s f1a-ash ip fac i I ity for OSB production rvith rnore than -500 million sq. ft. of capacity. The conversion rvill take placc ovcr the next several years, and during that time will continuc producing re-9ular OSB.

Joe Kastclic, executive v.p.-sales & specialty products. said, "When complete, this facility lvill increasc our siding capacity by 507c itncl comcs ott tl'rc heels of a sirnilar convcrsion at tlur Silsbee. Tr.. mill lrnd a rnujor exPirtlsion at our Tomaharvk. Wi.. rnill."

A nerv. state-ot-the-art OSB mill irr Alabama lvill offsct the loss of OSB capacity from the convet'sion of thc Silsbee and Hayivarcl mills. Construction is schedulcd ttt begin in latc 2005. L-P expccts the rnill to opcn in 2007.

Blaze Damages Planer Mill

The roof of'a planer mill collapsed during an early evening structurc firc at Stillr'vater Lutnber. Bangor. Me.

Thc April 2U blazc destroyccl the planel building. incincrated a rvoodpile. and damagccl the kiln buildin-c.

Nonc of Stillrvater's l13 employees or its customers was injurcd. but inventory such as sarvn lumber and asphalt roofing tile n'erc lost. Fircfighters and ernployees tried tcl siilvage the r'vood by using forklifts ttt move it out of the fire.

Trvo rvee ks later. high rvinds during a stonr blc"v the roof ofT the dry kiln.

The steitc fire rnarshall is investigating the cruse ol'tlrc I'ire.