More Demand For Plywood

Good news from the American Plywood Association's 54th annual meeting at Hilton Head, S.C. A slight improvement is expected in 1990 structural panel production compared to 1989 with further improvement in 1991.

Production figures announced:

1989 - 26.5 billion sq. ft. 3/8" basis

1990.- 26.6 billion sq. ft. 3/8" basis structural panel and veneer mills closed in the Pacific Northwest during the first nine months of 1990, primarily because of limited timber supply. "The 20 plywood and veneer plants that have closed represent a greater number than any l2 month period in history."

1991 - 27.3 billion sq. ft. 3/8" basis.

Forecasts assume no outright hostilities in the Middle East, a long siege for lraq, paring U.S. defense spending, lower interest rates and some home building recovery. However, structural panel demand at present in nonhousing applications is 640/o compared to just over 500/o in the early '60s.

Four companies have joined the affiliate American Wood Systems and will begin marking their products with the new APA-EWS trademark in 1991. These companies, Boise Cascade, Emmett, Id.; Bohemia Inc., Saginaw and Veneta, Or.; Rosboro Lumber Co., Springfield, Or., and Weyerhaeuser, Cottage Grove, Or., represent over 50% of the production in their industry sector.

Thomas R. Ingham Jr., APA chairman, warned those attending the Oct. 9 meeting that demands by environmental special interest groups for public and private florest set asides will exact a huge social cost on present and future generations.

Ingham, president of Simpson Timber Co., noted that 36 lumber.

In addition to rising unemployment and devastating effects in the industry, the continuing lockup of commercial forestlands will have dire consequences for all Americans, Ingham said. "Without a drastic change in direction, the public will be confronted with wood product shortages and inflation at levels unimaginably higher than today."

Referring to government plans to reduce old growth harvesting to protect the northern spotted owl, Ingham said while some believe this is not likely to happen in other parts of the country, "the evidence is otherwise. environmental special interest groups are developing new tactics aimed at obstructing harvests in all regions."

APA president William R. Robison underscored this adding "let it be clear that our wood products industry strongly supports open minded and balanced professional efforts to safeguard wildlife by following forestry regulations that are among the most stringent in the world. What we strongly oppose is the outright misrepresentation of facts which push lawmakers and bureaucrats into unbalanced panic decisions."

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Minneapolis, MN 55440-9328

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