Crumpler Plastic Pipe, Inc.

Post Office Box 2068 Roseboro, NC 28382

For the Best Quallty and *rvice Call 800.334-5q^71

FAX 91o.s25.580r

WEB SITE: an angled base to prevent tiprollbar affords greater leverage wheelbarrow tray from hitting

EZ 2 Handle's legs have ping over while loading. The product's front steel and balance, and stops the the ground when dumping.

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Spanish Roof Tiles-Ole!

MerTile, Inc. has added a new Spanish red color to its line of residential and commercial roofing tile panels. Reddish-brown in color, the product reportedly resists winds up to 230 mph and comes in standard 3' widths and lengths of2'to2O'.

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Spiral Saw's Little Pal

An attachment that allows the Spiral Saw to cut, grind, sand and polish metal, masonry, tile and other building materials is new from Zip Tool Corp.

For manufacturers of composite wood products or lumber dealers who supply these building components, Strong-Tie has the right connector t0 meet the needs of your customer.

' Largest selection of connectors eng ineered for wood web or other composite wood products.

' Developed in cooperation with the major engineered wood products manufacturers.

' Many connectors are in stock at local distributors for .--^ i-., ^,,i-1, .v;^^, same-oay qulc( snlpment.

Contact us at 8OO/999-5O99 to qet the whole storv.

SIMPSON STRONG.TIE@ GoMPANY rNC.

Southeast Regional Office & Factory 1720 Couch Drive, McKinney,TX 75069 Flegional warehouse: Jacksonville, FL Web sile: www.strongtie.com

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ZipMate offers a variety of 3-112" or 4" wheels, blades or discs, and features a right angle design that allows the user to place it on the tool at any appropriate position.

The product comes in a kit that includes two cut-off wheels and three grinding and sanding discs.

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Scaffold Planks A Plenty

Engineered wood scaffold planks made from laminated veneer lumber are new from Louisiana-Pacific.

Teclam Plus is reinforced by hardened steel rods at 24" intervals that reportedly negates any potential weak areas and increases overall reliability.

The l-I/2" thick product meets or exceeds all applicable ANSI and OSHA strength and performance standards, without excessive bounce or variation from plank to plank.

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TruServ Consolidates Under True Value Name

In a move to create the world's executive vice president of business largest retail hardware chain, TruServ development Brian Schnabel. Corp. is consolidating its three store "We would not be able to do the identities under the True Value name. things necessary to promote our stores

The move, which began last month, and to be competitive if we remained will rename more than 3,000 ServiStar three brands," agreed Barbara Wilkerand Coast to Coast stores by February, son, TruServ director and proprietor of allowing the company to funnel all its Blackhawk Hardware ServiStar, advertising and promotional efforts Charlotte, N.C. "Unified under True into promoting a single chain of more Value, we will have brand recognition, than 8,000 stores. supported by more advertising dollars,

"With the onslaught of marketing to promote a single brand. There realinitiatives by all varieties of retailers ly is strength in numbers." competing for consumer attention, Lott Home & Hardware True Value. well-known brands are paramount to Childress, Tx., already made the success," explains ceo Don Hoye. switch, atfer recently moving to a high-

From an operations standpoint, the er visibility location. "We've been in move provides efficiencies in signage, business for 22 years and have done packaging, inventory management, well with the Coast to Coast brand," material handling and distribution. said owner John Lott IIL "But with Consolidation of paint products alone more tratfic driving by the new srore, will reduce SKUs bv 393. we believe that True Value will brine in

"The increased focus on one retail some of those people who didn't come identity will provide far greater aware- to our other location." ness among consumers for each mem- Increased stores should benefit ber's store, rnaking us a competitive every TruServ member, he added. power both nationally and in every "Just like when a consumer sees a market where True Value exists," said McDonald's, they know what to expect because it means the same in nearly every town. If we all portray ourselves the way we should be as True Value, then consumers will look for True Value because they know what to expect."

Booth Lumber is proud to announce the addition of a timber sizer to our extensive line of milling capabilities.

The move, though, also is benefitting the competition, since some ServiStar and Coast to Coast stores don't want to switch to True Value and are joining other co-ops. Elliott's Hardware, Dallas and Grapevine, Tx., for instance, is dropping its True Value afTiliation to align itself with Do-it Best.

In the first eight months of 1999, competing co-op Ace Hardware enlisted 25Vo more new members than it did the previous year. And of the 190 new Ace locations, l3l def'ected from other co-ops.

Wood Auctions Online

A new online auction and information site for the wood products industry has been launched at www.eWood.com.

e-Wood just completed its first round of financing with assistance tiom its newest board member, Donald Davis, former chairman and ceo of The Stanley Works.

The $400 billion-a-year wood industry "is a fragmented and disconnected marketplace, especially when viewed on an international basis," says Arnold Kraft, ceo and president of eWood. Currently, the site lists more than $l million in products from 27 companies with target prices ranging from $12 to $35.000.

Seasoned software entrepreneur Kraft founded e-Wood.com from predecessor site WoodExchange.com, which was started in 1997 by Lincoln Alden and supported and sponsored by the USDA Forest Services Economic Action Program.