NEWS BRIEFS

Lumbermer's expects its new 24,000 sq. ft. store in Newberg, or., to be completed this month Windsor Building Supplies Ltd., Surrey, B.C., will open its third U.S. location, a 12,500 sq. ft. store in east Spokane, Wa., early this year ... Chinook Lumber Inc. is a new store in North Bend. Wa.

Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. will more than triple its space in Albany, Or., with a new 3,476 sq. ft. building, eventually tearing down the present sales and showroom Puru Lumber Co. will have an official grand opening March I for its new "next generation" store in West Union, Or. ...

Owner Buitder Services has opened its building resource center to the public in Grass \Ialley, Ca. Ransom Lumber Sales, National City, Ca., has changed its flame to that of its Ramona, Ca., sister company, Ransom Bros. Lumber & Supply

Spenard Builders Supply, Anchorage, Ak., has opened its distribution center to contractors .,, Home Depot is ready to open new Tacoma, 'Wa., and Campbell, Ca., stcres, has a unit plannd for Encinitas, Ca., and a Rancha Cucamonga, Ca., store scheduled for completion this summer ...

City Mill Co. Ltd., Honolulu, Hi., will open a 40,000 sq. ft. store in Mililani, a central Oahu lown northwest of Honolulu, late this year and a store in Hawaii Kai, a Honolulu suburb, this sPring HomeBase is nearing completion of its fifth San Diego County, Ca., store in Kearny Mesa

Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Longview, Wa., expects to increase production 20Vo with a new computerized dry kiln, according to pres. Juel Sheldon ... WTD Industries, Portland, Or., emerged from Chapter I I bankruptcy (see story p.2s) ...

Rogers International has moved to Lake Oswego, Or., from Eugene, Or. Max Hill Lumber Co. is seftling into a new localion in City of Industry, Ca. Louisiana-Pacific has closed its Cloverdale. Ca., sales office ...

Anniversaries: California Forest Products, Gilroy, Ca., lucky 13th

Filter King Co., Homedale, Id., is setting up a second glue laminated ponderosa pine, Doug fir and western red cedar roof and floor decking plant with production scheduled to begin Feb. I ...Panel-Tbx, City of Industry, Ca., and its sister co., Accurate Pbning MilI, huve declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Auto-Stnk Systems, River Vale, N.J., is opening a western regional office in Sherman Oaks, Ca., Joel Arenson mgl ...Medford Corp., Medford, Or., will rebuild its Rogue River veneer Plant desuoyed by fire in June at a cost of $8 million, incorporating updated technology to process smaller diameter second and third grolfth logs

Snavely -Tha me s, ajoi nt venture between Snavely Forest Products, Inc. andThames Timber lrd., New Zealand, to market radiata pine, will establish headquarters in San Francisco. Ca. FibreForm Wood Prodacts, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., and Forestry Corp. of New Zealand have formed Forestry C orporation FibreForm Interna' tional Ltd. to manufacture radiata moulding and millwork, with

FibreForm handling North American distribution under Red Stag and FibreForm logos

Marysv iIIe Forest P roducts, Marysville, CB., in receivershiP for the last two years, issued a 60 day plant closure notice, though still hopeful they can continue by either cutting radiata pine or operating with new ownershiP

Malheur Lumber Co., John Day, Or., expanded the sawmill and added a gang edger saw to process smaller logs at a cost between $l and $1.2 miltion Vancouver Door, Puyallup, Wa., lost an estimated $1.5 million in inventory and nearly $4 million in facility damage in a recent fire

A state appeals court in San Francisco, Ca., ordered Pacific Lumber Co. to stop logging in old growth coastal forest believed to house the endangered species listed marbled murrelet; the companY is seeking to dissolve the order

Pan Pacific Forest Products, Bend, Or., auctioned off gifts donated by local mills at its annual Christmas party, raising $1,600 for out-of-work timber communities ... 1991, logging in Oregon fell to 6.08 billion bf, lowest level in a decade, from 1990's 6.2 billion bf.

Despite having a plan to reorganize the Manville Personal Injury Trust overturneA, Manville Corp. paid a $1.04 a share cash diviitend; Manville's Riverwood International Corp., Atlanta, Ga., got a $50 million line of credit for "back-up liquidity" ftom Morgan GuaranryTrust Co.

F ederal N ational M ortgage Associatian predicts housing sales in 1993 will reach their highest level in 14 years, rising 9Vo to a total of 4.4 million units ...

Housing srarts inched up l.SVo in Nov. (latest figs.) to a 1,242,0ffi unit annual rate, prodded by single family home building, the West was among the most active areas multifamilv starts showed liule improvement building permits fell t.SVo NAHB forecasts 1.2 million total starts for 1992, up l87o ftom the previous year.

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