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Electronic Lumber Trader

Lumber Trader, purportedly the lumber industry's first electronic database service, is now on line.

It allows retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers to advertise and search for their specific lumber products on a global scale.

Businesses can enter inventory items for sale and choose which segment of the industry for their advertisement. Searching for specific items by size, length, species, grade, tally, kind of stock, price, available footage, etc., can be done with a click of a button.

Membership fees range from $30 to $200 per month. The Web site is http ://Lumber-Trader.com.

Forest Products Week Kit

A communications kit to help the industry promote National Forest Products Week is being distributed by the American Forest & Paper Association.

The kit, available by calling (202) 463-2708, includes a news release, slicks of the event's logo, updated Quick Facts and Questions and Answers booklets, Sustainable Foresty Initiative Annual Progress Report, camera-ready op-eds and USA Todaystyle charts and graphics.

The Oct. 20-26 event is themed "Healthy Forests for a Healthy Environment."

PRESSURE TREATERS from across the country attended a July 15-16 Thompsonized Treater meeting: (1) Jae Elwell, John Bullock, Neil Nugent, Steve Dean. (2) Bill Merlock. (3) Susan Waynick, Pam Mitchell. (4) Tom Casteel, Brian Biewer. (5) Lou Reynolds, Bobby Bradley. (6) Heath Saunders, Vickie Scarborough. (7) Doug Walter. (8) Leonard Clark. (9) Rick Jones. (10) Steve Wisnewski. (More photos on previous page)