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Hechinger, Fayetteville, N.C., will be closed until Labor Day for conversion to a HomeQuarters llarehouse. the A. C. Houston Co. ended its attempt to purchase the O'Malley Lumber Co. unit in El Paso, Tx., citing a tight lending climate.

Home Depot's plan to open a Brentwood, Tn., unit hangs on gaining a sign variance. work is progressing on a Mesquite, Tx., Depot due to open in Sept., and a retrofit in Fort Myers, Fl., is complete . a site in Pompano lleach, F'1., has been acquired for a 102,250 sq. ft. unit due to open late Jan.

Lowe's opened a relocated store in Albemarle, N.C., and is negotiating to lease an Oxford, Al., site ... Our Own Hardware Co. is acquiring S & T Sentry Wholesale Hardware, Inc. . Roper 9ros. Lunber Co. Richmond, Va., invited contractor customers to participate in a Springtime Home ldea Showcase . Scotty's opened a 75,000 sq. ft. replacement store in Key West, I"1....

The Geneva Corp., Greensboro, N.C., and the management of General Hardware Co., Greensboro, acquired the business and will operate it as Odell Hardware, the founding name in 1872

General Hardware Co.. St. Petersburg, F'1., also acquired by Geneva Corp., is now operating as Clarke Siviter Co., its 1948 name, as a div. of Odell... Atlanta. Ga.. based General Hardware has closed . Clark Hardware, Nashville, Tn., is liquidiating its DC. .

Moore's Lumber & Building Supplies, Salem, Va., was named most improved retail branch of the year, most improved central div. branch and runner-up central div. branch of the year . . . the Roanoke, Va., Moore's received runner-up awards for most improved div. branch and most improved retail branch of the year. .

Foxwort h -Ga I bra i t h, [)umas, Tx., open since 1929 , has closed. ..Gene and Don Hipp closed Hipp's Buildins Supply, Paducah, Ky., with Gene joining Cole Lumber Co., Paducah. .

Stine Lumber Co., Sulphur, La., was named the Best Hardware Store in Calcasieu Parish the Weyerhaeuser Cuslomer Service Center, El Paso, Tx., is one of the three top teams named by Weyerhaeuser for the first quarter.

Mill Creek Lumber, Tulsa, Ok., has purchased Robert Allen Lumber Co., Jenks, Ok., and will remodel ... Barton Lumber, Lepanto, Ar., celebrated a grand reopening following an extensive facelift. .

Builders Choice, Key West, Fl., has expanded from 16,000 to 24,000 sq. ft. . Elliott's Hardware, Dallas, Tx., is opening a store in Grapevine, Tx.

Marley Mouldings, Marion, Va., has moved its Fort Worth, Tx., Donner Mouldings & Millwork distribution center to larger quarters in Dallas, Tx.

Willamette Industries, Inc. will open a research and development office at Pine Brook business park, Charlotte, N.C... Tolleson Lumber Co., Fitzgerald, Ga., installed a computerized lumbersorter....

Ply Gem Industries, /llc. formed Russian Wood Express with Allied

Plywood and AD Exryrtles, a Russian trading house, as an exclusive North American import-export representative handling softwood dimension, wood panel products, industrial roundwood, pulp, paper and wood furniture.

Hughes lltood Products' sawmill in Bon Wier, Tx., treating plant in Houston and debarking and chip mill in DeQuincy, La., have been acquired by Firma /nc., Denver, Co.

Manville Forest Products, Atlarita, Ga., has changed its name to Riverwood International Corp.... P. W. Plumly Lumber Corp, Winchester, Va., was gutted by a May 3l blaze of undetermined origin...

J. M. Huber Corp. is consolidating its Portland, Me., wood products div. with its osB sales/mktg. efforts in a new site in Charlotte, N.C....

Michael J. Norton. Alan R. Wilson and John D. Miller. top management of PSI Enterprisei,' Inc., Lindon, Ut., formed Norton-Senn Corp. to acquire the assets and operation of Senn Trucking Co., Newberry, S.C.

Nu-Lines, Inc., Tyler, Tx., is featured in a 2-pg. Better Homes & Gardens deck story; more than 1,000 of Nu-Lines' popular kits have already been sold, plus some decks...

Southern Lumber Co., Jackson. Ms., has closed its pressure treated lumber facility, the mill is operating as before.

Housing starts edged up a slight 0.1% in May (latest figs.) to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 982,000 units it was the first back-to-back increase since June and July 1989 activity was mostly in single family starts which rose 3.10/0, though starts in the south fell7.60/o; bldg. permits for future construction rose 7.20/0....

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SPIB Pullout Stalls AWPB Revamp

American Wood Preservers Bureau's reorganization into a treating industry overview group has been delayed due to reservations by Southern Pine Inspection Bureau members.

At an April 12 SPIB board of governors meeting, a consensus could not be reached to support the change from being overseen by an outside organization (ANSI) to an organization within the industry (AWPB).

All other phases of the reorganization, including approval by the other 10 agencies involved, were completed by the May l5 target date, said AWPB's Eric Yeadon. Yet

SP Beams Tested Again

Last fall Building Products Digest reported in a story "Southern Pine Beams Excel" that 15 large laminated beams were destructively tested at Louisiana State University. Design values in bending exceeded the current industry standard by 25olt.

SPIB's ll5 subscribers account for about 4501, of all southern pine production.

"lf they don't go along with it, the whole program will break down," said Yeadon. "lronically, they are the ones who instigated it two years ago."

AWPB and the Southern Pine Marketing Council continue to urge dissenting treaters to rethink their position. SPIB will again poll its subscribers in mid-July.

SPIB members expressed various reservations about the change, said SPIB's Tom Jones. "And for such a change, there must be a broad consensus." he said.

This August southern pine engineered laminated beams will again be put to the test. Twenty 3" x 13-3/4", 24' and twenty 5" x 23-3/ 8", 40' will be destroyed. This is a cooperativve research project with the American Institute of Timber Construction (AITC) and the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wi. Anthony Forest Products Co., El

Dorado, Ar., an active member of AITC, manufactured the forty beams in June along with numerous grades of finger-jointed lumber.

The allowable design goals are 3000 Fb (extreme fiber in bending) and 2,000,000 psi in Modulus of Elasticity (MoE). These new values represent approximately a 25% and l0% increase in current published values, respectively. This will make southern pine glulam the strongest of all engineered wood products in the market today.

To ensure consistently high values and low variability, the new layup combination will use No. I Dense lumber that has been sorted for stiffness (MOE) values averaging 2 million E and 2.3 million E. The stiffer 2.3 million E lumber will be used in the highest stressed regions of the beam (bottom and top). The 2.0 million E lumber will be used in the inner tension and compression zones. The core or middle of the beams, the lowest stressed zone, will use No. 2 medium grain lumber. A follow up on this project will be published in a later issue after results have been tablulated.

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