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F oxworth-G alb raith Lumber Co. opened a new northwest Austin, Tx., store The T. H. Rogen Lwber Co. broke gound for new general offices in E<ltrnnd Ok

Roper Bros. Lttnber Co., Inc., opened a newly remodeled showroom at its Fredericksburg, Va., store and lost the use of two Petersburg, Va., locations for manufacturing and building materials loading in a change of zoning policy...

Home Depot opened its first 135,000 sq. ft. '"Iype 5" test store in Greensboro, N.C., wift 12 more due by close of 1994;taryad!l additional stores and 4 relocations for the remainder of '93 including Tallahassee, Fl., (Sept.) and Augusta, Ga.; agreed to preserve an art deco facade and tower of the historic Tblsa, Ok., Warehouse Market site which it will occupy by spring, and planned a south Tirlsa unit

Lowe's opened stores in Madison, Tn., Gautier, Ms., (see story p. 29) and Danville, Va.; converted a Raleigh, N.C., unit to a contractor facility, and started construction on a Monroe, La., location...

Westside Lurnber is new in Dumas, Ar., Ray Leonard owner and Henry Peacock mgr. Oklahoma City, Ok., fire investigators sud Chaffin Innberbthrpe, alarm lumber storage area ffre was cansedby arson... Pixley ltntber, Claremore, Ok., lost over $2,000 wben a burglar pried open a varlt during the night ...

Eight 20,000 sq. ft. fteestanding Sears Hardware stores will open in Columbus, Oh., raising the number of locations nationally to near 80 ...

Anniversaries: Andersen Windows, fzc., 90thi Benson Ittttber Co., Pawhuska, Ok,7nh; Yazoo Mfg. Co., Jackson, Ms., 48th; Wood Truss Council of Anurica,l0th...

Tampa International Forest Products, Tampa, Fl., is moving this month into new downtown high-rise offices ... Panon Forcst Products, Austin, Tl., opened a Conroe, Tl., distribution center, Kay Campbell mgr.; Morris Eichenhorst sales ... Direct Rail Head plans a 63 acre regional reload cent€r in Birmingham, Al., with 150,m0 sq. ft of insi&r storage ard 27 rcrrs pavod

Trus loist MacMillan broke ground for a TimberStrand laminated strand lumber plant in Hazard, Ky. Witt Plastics, Lakeland, Fl., sigd a joint venture agreement with Trimar Plastic Lumber, Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to produce plastic marine pilings and bulkheads

Cusnm Forest Ptodttcts, Inc.'s Spart4 Tn, plant has been sold to Jeld-Wen, Klamath Falls, Or.; the Grayling, Mi., plant was not included The Murphy Group, Norcross, Ga., is handling sales for Hydrokinetic Designs Inc., Coral Gables, Fl. ...

Universal Forest Products Inc. is operating its recently purchased Chesapeake Wood Treating Co. plants in Fredericksburg, Va-, and Elizabeth City, N.C., with Universal Soutlwrn Co., Moultrie, Ga, operating the Holly Hill, S.C., facitty...

Ow ens-Corning Fiberglas plans to swap its commercial roofing business including an Oklahoma City, Ok., plant for Schuller International's Manville div.'s residential roofing operation includ- ing a Savannah, Ga., plant and equipment in a lVaukegan, Il., facility...

New Sottilt" lac., Conway, S.C., which will open its new CarolinaPine millworf div. in euly '94 (see story page 43) is expanding its specialty products line ... Marvh Wfutdows &, Dors afr Honeywell ile coolref,dng on the launch of a bullders' model home program in sping '%

Amcrican hrmber Statdards Conmittce has <ho1pe<l &e 'f, to become American Lumber Standard Conniace Aneric@r Insfiartc of Ttnber Canrtnationis moving Hq. to Englewood, Co., from Vancouver, Wa. ... Elsco Salcs, Louiwile, Ky., was naned Plasti-Kotc sales cganization of the yer...

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Cottttcil proArced French editions of its literahre for dstibudon u the Batimat ht€rnational building stnw in Pris Kitctat calfuut sales for 1993 are up 1O% over rw2...

Southeastern Lumbcr Manufacurcn Associatin, hres Puh Ga, will begn pub[shiog a (parterly magazirc devotod b foviding articles wi& reasonable alEnatives to extremist environmentalist views

Following protests from fuest product and wood pallet in&tstries, a preference for plastic over wood paltets was rhoppod ftom a draft executive order on federal acquisition of products and services...

Georgia- Pacific's building Fo&rcts business had thirdqumer operating profits of $210 million up ftrom $200 mlllion last year ...

Hotuhg srarrs incbd rry2.8% in Sept Qalest figs.) o a 1.35 million seasonally adJusted annual rate, highest since Feb. 1990 ... single family st{ts fell3%; mulds jumped 52% ... National Association of Home Build€$ auributed much of tte surge in apartment oorNtnrcdon to rcre'wal of a federal tax sedit for developers of low income housing.

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