Engineered lumber products: what to expect by the next century

This decline can be attributed to the expected grow0 of PSL. LVL use will stablize and remain constant through 2000.

Although these products offer many advantages to both builders and homeowners, such as quiet floors and ease of installation, they remain obscure products in the minds of some. Carter tells the story of talking with one retailer who insisted that the larrinated venoer lumber he sold was calledplywood.

Education of those in the market place is factored into the expec0ation that ELP sales will increase approximately 160% by the end of the decade, the equivalent of an additional I billion linear feet of product. Anticipating the demand for wood building products in new housing and R&R markets, Catter's company will update its ELP study in 1993.

Questions about thc ELP markzt can be directed to George M. Carter, presi' dent, George Carter & Affiliates, 767 Park Ave., Oradell, N.J. 07649, (201)' 265-7766 - editor.

REIALERS must educate themsefuee, lheil staff and cuslomers on the advantages of engineered lumber oroduds in oder to achieve the use figures proiected for the remainder of the decade' Growttr has Ueen consistent sincc 1988 and is ex-peded to'continue as more builders and architeds, especially lhose in the remodeling industry, leam more about engineered producls.

National Home Ccnrcrs, Sprhgdale, Ar.,ls movlng lnto an 86,000 sq. ft. vacated Wal-Mart slte ln Conway, Ar., targetlng a Feb. I openlng, and completlhg remodellng and expandlng the Bentonvllle, Ar., store lt acquircd thls summer...

Stine Inc. has begun construction on a 45,000 sq. ft. replacement store adjacent to its 15,000 sq. ft. Stine Lumber Co. ln DeRidder, La., antlclpating a late springopentng ... Yeagerb opened q new Fort Smith, Ar., store, Rusty Dear mgr.

Wickes Lumber Co., Pelham, Al., in conjunction with Johnson & Associates Moftgage opened a Wiclccs Financial Seryice Center in the store to serve customeni Midwest Lumber Co. opened a Van Buren, Ar.,location ,.. Ridout Itmber changed the location for its 10th outlet to Rogers, Ar., ftom Fayetteville...

Lowes's received approval to build stores in Tuscaloosa, Al., and Fayetteville, Ar., a replacement for its Springdale location othet Loweb relocadons are under construction in Hendersonville, N.C., and Tallahassee, Fl.; a Longview, Tx., replacement unit held a grand opening, and a Greensboro, N.C., store is being considered...

Hechinger will close two stores in suburban Richmond, Va", and a Colonial Heights, Va., store in the spring shortly before opening a Hottu Quartcrs Warehouse in the area a Herndon, Ya., Hechinger closed in Nov. ...

Honu Depot acquired 16 acres in Humble, Tk., for a 130,000 sq. ft. store schduled to open in summer 1993; Charleston, S.C., Reston, Va., and Lake Mary, Fl., Depots are under construction ...

Home Quarters, Lowcb and Homc Depot are battllng ln Plnevllle, N.C., uslng newspapers and radlo to promote prlce cuttlng, superlor seMce and merchandlse selectlon ... Loutsvllle, Ky., lzvyb Lowe's, Funow tnd Home Quarters are slashlng prices to gain market shue ...

Chesnutt Lumber Co., Holdenvllle, Ok., was sold to Scot and Vlcki Treadwell ...... Marguerite and John Collins donated the old Collins Lumber Co. site, Adq Ok., to fte Pontotoc County Animal Welfare Society

Cooper, Tk., has closed

Moore's, Roanoke, Va., is switching its buying from a wholesaler to its own disfribution center staff... Nelson Smith, pres- ident, Smitty's Lumberteria, Alexandria, Va., has opened two prototype stores in Moscow, Russia Builders Material Co., Jonesboro, Ar., held its 24th annual appreciation dinner and shdw for 425 dealers, employees and ftiends...

Whit Davis Lumber Co., Jacksonville, Ar., is acquiring property in Cabot, Ar. Hunt's Horne Centetr, Evening Shade, Ar., has been renamed The Carpenter's Shop Home Center by new owners Ken and Colleen Coker

Pelican Building Centers, Conway, S.C., is remodeling Leeds Building Products units acquired in Florence, S.C., and Wilmington, Greenville, Kinston and Clinton, N.C. ... the Florence store had a grand opening to show off its new garden shop and millwork center ...

Builders Square opened new Houston and McAIlen, Tk., stores ard is near completion on a Lake Mary, Fl., unit opening in

February and rn Orlando, Fl., storc tsfg€ted for an Apdl dcbut"

Annlversarlesi Urccaro Lilnber Co., Forrest Clty, Ar., 85th; Benson Lunber Co., Pawhugka, ok.,76th...

Georgla-PrcrJEc wlll close lts Conway, S.C., hrrdwood sawmill by the etd of ttp year and bulld an orlented stnnd board plant in Lynchburg, Va., (see sory p. 37) Rockwall International Inc., Idabel, Ok., acqulred and reopened KCS lumber mlll, Iim Sexton mgr. Seven D. Wholesale opened a Deerfield Beach, Fl., sales office ...

Abitibi-Price has sold tts stding div., Roaring River, N.C., to a Kohlberg & Co.lnvesfinent goup, along with its hardboud paneling & plastic dlvs.; George T. Brophy heads the new corp., ABTbo, Inc.

Hampton Resourc es, Portland, Or., acquired a sawmill and planing mill ln Pallok, Tx., from Prccision Intnber Co. (see story p. 19) ... Temple-Inland will break ground by the end of the year for a $500 million upgrading and modernization at its Evadale, Tx., paperboard mill ...

H eritage Window s, Monroe, N.C., has been purchased by Woodgrain Millwork, Inc., Fruitland, Id., as the eastern div. of its Windsor Window Div. ...National Foam Cushion Manufacturing, Inc., North Richland Hills, TI., is expanding.

American Wholesale Hardw are Association and the National Wholesale Hardware Association will officially merge Jan.l (see storyp.38)...

Home Depot /rcc. posted its 27th consecutive quarter of record results with sales up 4lVo in the third quarter

Although new housing starts fell l.lVo in Oct. (latest figs.) to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,229,W0, National Association of Home Builders projects 1.32 mil. lion starts in 1993, including 1,118,000 single family and 2O2,WQ multifamily units.