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First, a belated happy New Year to all of our readers. I hope you have all had an opportunity to have some time off and enjoy the holidays with your families. We wish you much success in this new year.

It has been an interesting month at our magazine. Some of you may have read a small note in our December issue that we had suffered computer theft. Imagine a publishing company without computers! Several of our new computers had been stolen during a burglary-something you never expect to happen to you. They took computers that dealt with our subscriptions, accounting, editorial and sales records. In other words, our loss affected every facet of our business. While new computers were installed within half a day, as a small business owner it was quite painful to suffer through, not so much for the financial loss, but the issues it raised and the reality of what can happen when your information is lost. So the first thing I must admit is that unfortunately I could blame no one but myself for losing informa-

tion. Why? Simply, we had no good plan in place to back up information. The system was too loose, and yours truly was the worst culprit. It was a painful lesson to learn, but maybe an important one. Imagine if it had not been a burglary, but a fire for example, when everything could have been lost.

Many of my industry contacts have since told me that after I told them what happened, they went racing back to their offices to back up their own systems. I came from large companies with systems coming out of the whazoo, where back up was hourly, daily and automatic where you did not think about it. Many of us do not have IT staff on hand, and I suspect many customers run the same risks we did. Let me tell you that trying to reconstruct our accounting and customer records was no fun, and took me away from several days of doing business. Trying to remember every call I made in a three-week period, to whom and when, and with whom and when I was supposed to follow up was quite a painful experience. I hope to spare you my pain and stupidity, and hope if you are a business owner that you review your systems immediately, and if you are an employee you diligently back up when you are supposed to. We got off lightly; you may not.

Now to 2003. While there is no doubt that there have been some painful issues to deal with in segments of our industry-namely pricing, for many companies 2002 was still a good year or certainly an acceptable one. We have heard from mills/manufacturers all the way through the channel to dealers/retailers that many businesses have had a good or at least okay year, are still busy, and believe they have gained market share. Several dealers told me last month that they had never been so busy. I believe that bodes well for the coming year. Housing starts still look strong, interest rates will continue to be low for some time to come, and home prices will continue to climb even if more moderate than for much of 2002. The recent Housing Market Index, a monthly gauge of builder sentiment, in November reached its highest level since November 2000. Inevitable closures and further consolidations will continue to create market opportunities for the companies that remain. Whether you are a mill, wholesaler or retailer, the question is whether you are positioned to grow, have the mentality to grow, and are willing to take whatever steps are necessary to grow. As many have told me and as I have said many times, you can no longer simply rely on past customers, past business practices and the same product lines to survive. I hope you will take the start of the New Year to dissect your business to truly see what's working, what's not. and start to become a market-driven and not a manufacturing-driven enterprise. More about that in a future editorial. Have a great year everyone.

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B.C. pitches softwood solution

U.S. producers also tire of tariffs

JN what many are considering the lfirst real thaw in the Canadian and U.S. softwood dispute, a British Columbia official has proposed a sliding border tax as an alternative to the increasingly unpopular 27 .2Vo tariff on imported Canadian lumber.

B.C. forests minister Mike de Jong made a proposal last month to the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, a consortium of U.S. producers that originally supported the tariffs, declaring a solution was needed "that enjoys a degree of support among U.S. producers."

The proposal seeks to have the current tariffs replaced with a border tax running up to l7.5Vo as lumber prices drop along with the establishment of a bilateral softwood lumber council that would resolve future trade disputes.

Under the new proposal, de Jong said the tariff would remain in place, but the rate would be jVo to allow Canada to resurrect its legal case if necessary.

Although no U.S. or Canadian government official has commented publically on the proposal, de Jong said Ottawa has been kept informed ofhis actions.

A representative for U.S. producers had no comment, stressing that his group was in no position to negotiate directly with British Columbia, that it was a matter for the two federal governments to hammer out.

The proposal comes in the wake of news that the The Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports is suggesting that the tariffs have not worked and that an alternative is needed.

"The Coalition is changing its attitude," said western region vice-chair Dick Bennett. "At this time, we are looking for a volume restraint. The old Softwood Lumber Agreement, or a renewed version of it, is starting to look pretty good right now."

Under the old agreement from 1996 to 2001, Canada imported 14.7 bd. ft. of lumber before incurrins a duty.

"We have to do something to keep our industry alive and right now we are getting killed," said Bennett.

On the Canadian side. the duties have been "a catalyst for dramatic change in our industry," according to John Brink, owner, Brink Forest Products, Prince George, B.C.

Brink said the tariffs have forced his firm to become more efficient. Brink's Prince George plant recently underwent a $2 million expansion so that it can produce 2x4s 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

It is precisely this kind of energetic production, particularly from British Columbia, that has U.S. producers looking to put a cap on the volume of Canadian softwood imports.

Although de Jong has said that he is open to a new lumber deal, he will not consider the idea of a quota as suggested by American producers.

Steve Crombie, International Forest Products, Vancouver, B.C., reiterated that quotas were unacceptable. "We've been saying all along that the U.S. wasn't really interested in policy reform in Canada," he said. "They simply wanted to restrict supply coming into the U.S."

The U.S International Trade Commission also weighed in on the dispute last month by holding hearings on the impact Canadian softwood lumber tariffs have had on lumber dealers, builders and home buyers.

The ITC, whose hearings focused on the competitiveness of the U.S. structural building components industry, surveyed homebuilders, lumber dealers, and other interested parties from the structural building components industry.

The domestic anti-tariff coalition, American Consumers for Affordable Housing, whose members include Home Depot and the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers, among others. told the commission that the 27Vo duty on Canadian imports is hurting consumers.

"The imports are not just on lum-

ber users; the current duties amount to a federally imposed sales tax on new home construction, remodeling and other applications for lumber," said ACAH spokesperson Susan Petniunas. "It is a tax on homebuyers and homeowners."

To date, over 100 members of the U.S. House and Senate have written to President Bush asking his administration to drop the tariffs and open up free trade.

This past summer, the World Trade Organization found that the U.S. Department of Commerce's countervailing duty was contrary to U.S. trade rules, and should be amended.

The ITC is expected to submit its findings to the Senate Finance Committee in April.

Trade officials on both sides of the border have hinted that neeotiations may soon start up again.

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This year's directory has been thoroughly updated, expanded to nearly 1,000 Web sites, and reorganized to make it more useful to LBM professisonals. New categories include Composite and Plastic Lumber. Plus, retailers and wholesalers are now listed regionally.

In the list, advertisers appear in bold. To be included in next year's list, please notify us if you have a new site or your site was omitted.

Western Retailers

Ace Contractor Cen1ers.......................

www.acelbm.com

Ace Hrdware Corc...................,....... .........www.acehardware.com

A.C. Houston Lumber Co. .......www.achoustonlumber.com

Adams Lumber Co. (Co.) ......www.adamslumber.com

All American Home Centers (Ca.)...,..,....,.,..,..,.. ....www.aahc.com

Alliance Lumber (Nv.)...................... .....www.alliancelumber.com

Alpine Lumber Supply (ld.).............. ......www.ealpinelumber.com

American Lumber Co. (Ca.).............,..,.,... ...............www.4x6.com

Anderson Lumber (Ca.)........ ................www.andersonlumber.com

Astoria Builders Supply (Or.) ....................................www.astoriabuilderssupply.com

Austin Hardwoods & Hardware Co. (Ca.),...,.......,.................,........www.th-h,com

Bear Creek Lumber (Wa. t

www.bearcreeklumber.com

Meek's................. ...................www.meeks.com

Missoula Ace Hrdware (Mt.)............. ........www.montanaace.com

Myrtletown Lumber (Ca.)........ .........www.mynletownlumber.com

Nichols Lumber & Hardware (Ca.)..... ....www.nicholslumber.com

O'Connor Lumber (Ca.) www.infomrt.com,/o'connor

O.K. Lumber Co. (Ca.)..................... ..............www.oklumber.com

Orchard Supply Hardware.............. www.osh.com

Oxnard Building Materials (Ca.)......... ............www.obmsales.com

Pacific Coast Building Products (Ca.)............................................www.paccoast.com

Palmer Lumber Co. (Wa.)................... .....www.palmerlumber.com

Pan Lumber (Or.) www.pan.com

Piedmont Lumber (Ca.) ..www.piedmontlumber.com

Pine Grove Hardware & Lumber (Ca.)...............................................www.pgace.com

Ponderosa Lumber Co. (Az.)............ ..www.ponderosalumber.com

Pro Lumber (Or.). ...........www.pro-lumber.com

Ransom Brothers Lumber & Supply (Ca.)..........................www.ransombrothers.com

Roadside Lumber & Hardware (Ca.)...................................www.roadside1umber.com

Rockler Woodworking & Hardware.... ...............www.rockler.com

Rossi Building Materials (Ca.)...... ...................www.rossi-ace.com

Sandpoint Building Supply (ld.)...........................www.sandpointbuildingsupply.com

Scarborough Lumber (Ca.)........ .,...,www.scarboroughlumber.com

Bunon Lumber & Hu.a*ui. fUi.)....... .....www.bmhc.com ...www.burtonlumber.com

Building Materials Holding Corp..

Califomia Do it Centers (Ca.)........... .............www.doitcenter.com

C&L Lumber & Supply (N.M.)...... .................www.cllumber.com

Capital Lumber Co. (Wy.)................. .......www.capitallumber.com

Central Valley Builders Supply.... .................www.cvbsupply.com

Choice Building Supply (Co.)....................................www.choicebuildingsupply.com

City Lumber Co. (Or.)...................... .............www.citylumber.com

Compton Lumber & Hardwile, Inc. (Wa.)................................www.comptonlbr.com

Crenshaw Lumber Co. (Ca.) .www.crenshawlumber.com

Crown Ace Hardware (Ca. ) .........,..

Hippo Hardware & Trading Co. (Or.).....

Home DeDot.........

Home Lumber tCo.)................................

Seers Lumber Co. (Ca.)...................... .........www.seerslumber.com

Siena Vista Ace (Az.)..................... .........www.sienavistaace.com

Sliters Ace Lumber (Mt.)........ www.sliters.com

Southern Lumber (Ca.)....................... ...www.southemlumber.com

Southwest Lumber (Az.)..................... www.southwestlumber.com

Spenard Builders Supply, Inc. (Ak.).............................................www.sbsalaska.com

Stock Building Supply .www.stockbuildingsupply.com

Stone Lumber (Id.)............................ .........www.stonelumber.com

Terry Lumber (Ca.) ,..,..............www.terrylumber.com ....................www.crown4ce.com

Hope Lumber & Supply................... ...............www.hopelmbr.com

HPM Building Supply (Hi.).......... ..............www.hpm-hawaii.com

Hylton Lumber (Co.) .......www.hyltonlumber.com

Island Lumber & Hardware (Wa.).... .........www.islandlumber.com

James Hardware (Ca.) .....www.iameshardware.com

James Lumber (Wa.) ..........www.acehardware.net

J&W Redwood Lumber Co. (Ca.)...... ..........www. jwredwood.com

Johnson Brothers (ld.) .....................wwwjbros.com

Johnson Lumber Co. (Ca.).................. ..www.johnson-lumber.com

Junction City Ace Home Center (Or. ) ..www junctioncity.com/ace

Levee Lumber (Wa.)........................,. ...,..-..-..........www.levee.com

Lowe's Cos. ............................www.1owes,com

Lumbemen's Building Center.... www.lumbemens-building.com

Madison Lumber & Hardware (Ak.).... .www.madisonlumber.com

Muson & Marson Lumber (Wa.) ........,.............,............www.marsonandmarson.com

McGuckin Hardware (Co.)..................... ........www.mcguckin.com

Mead Clark Lumber Co. (Ca.)........... ............www.meadclark.com

Thomas Home Center (Ca.).......... .............www.thomashome.com

Torington Lumber Co. (Wy. )...........................................www.toningtonlumber.com

True Value ..............www.truevalue.com

True Value Home Center (Ca.) .....www.truevaluenomecenrer.com

Truitt & White Lumber Co. (Ca.)................,..............www.truittandwhitelumber.com

Tumer Lumber (Ut.).......................... ........www.tumerlumber.com

Valley Ace Hardware (Co.)............................................www.valleyacehudware.com

Wickes Lumber... ..................www.wickes.com ........www.valleylumber.com

Valley Lumber (Co.)....................................

Windsor Plywood Ltd. rWr. ) www.windsorplywood.com

Western Wholesalers

Aiken Ford Lumber Co. (Or.) www.aikenlumber.com

All-Coast Forest Products .,........-.-., ....,.,,....www,a11-coast,com

American Intemational Forest Products (Or.)...................................www.1umber.com

Anfinson Lumber Sales (Ca.) .,......,.. ............www.anfinson.com

Architectural Woods Inc. (Wa.) .........................www.awi-wa.com

Associated Buildins Material Distributors of America (Az.)............www.abmda.com

Atessco. Inc. (Ca.)..................... ........,..........www.atesscoinc.com

Bear Forest Products (Ca.).................. .................www.bearfp.com

Bear Springs Forest Products (Or.)............................................www.bearsprings.com

Belco Forest Products (Wa.).............. ................www.belcofp.com

Bloch Lumber Co. www.blochlumber.com

BMD www.bmdusa.com

Boise Building Solutions ............,..... ...................,....www.bc.com

Bridger ForesiProoucts tvt.1............:...::.:......:..::...:.;;.#ii".ioi".,p.oou",r..o-

Buckeye Pacific Corp. (Or.)............... ....www.buckeyepacific.com

Builder Mans of America ........www.buildermarts.com

Burns Lumber Co........................... .......www.burnslumber.com

Buse Timber & Sales (Wa.)........... ...............www.busetimber.com

California Cascade Industries (CaJ.--.--,--.--........ww.californiacascade.com

Califomia Hardwue Co. (Ca.).............. ..............www.chcusa.com

Capital Lumber

Cameron Ashley Building Products ..................www.c4oD.com www.capital-lumbei.com

www.channellumber.com

Channel Lumber Co. 1Ca.1

Cooley Forest Products (Az.).............

Coos Bay Lumber Co. (Or.)

Diablo Timber (Ca.)...........................

Dickman-Hines Lumber Co. (Wa.).....

Disdero Lumber Co. (Or.).................

Distribution America

Dixieline Lumber

Dooley Lumber Co. (Ca.)....................

.......www.cooleyforpro.com

.............www.cooshead.com

........www.diablotimber.com

....www.dickman-hines.com

.................www.disdero.com

..............www.daonline.com

.www.dixieline.com

.....www.dooleylumber.com

DVL Global Forest Products (Or.)..... .............www.dvlslobal.com

EarthSource Forest Products (Ca.)..............,..............www,earthsource-wood.com

Edensaw Woods (Wa.) .................www.edensaw.com

Emerson Hrdwood Co. (Or.).........................................www.emersonhardwood.com

Empire Building Materials (Mt.)..., ,,................,,.....,....www.emplrelnc.com

Empire Wholesale Lumber.................

.www.emprrewholesale.com

Entironmental Building Products (Co.)..........................................www.ecodeck.com

Enyeart Cedr (Or.)............................

........www.enyeartcedu.com

Factory Pine Intemational (Ca.).......... .........www.factorypine.com

Forest City Tradng Group (Or.)..........

Forest Grove Lumber Co. (Or.)...........

Forest Plywood Sales (Ca.)....,.......

Forest Products Sales (Ut.)

Fox Lumber Sales (Mt.).....................

General Building Materials (Co.).........

Georgia-Pacific Cory..........................

Groff Lumber Co., Inc. (N.M.) ...........

Hall Forest Products (Wa.).................

Westem Intemational Forest Products (Or.) www.wiforest.com

Western Woods Inc. (Ca.) ,.......,.......www.westernwoodsinc.com

Westem Wood Structures (Or.) ..........................www.westemwmdstructures.com

Westridge Forest Products (Or.) ................www.westridge-fp.com

Westwood Forest Products (Wa.)...................................www.halcyon.cotrr,/westwood Weyerhaeuser,.... .....,www.weyerhaeuser.com

Woods Unlimited (Ca.)....................... ..www.woodsunlimited.com

Manufacturers

Comoosite & Plastic Lumber

ffi ww.britenillwork.com,4ifelongdecking.hlml

CertainTeed (Boardwalk)..,..... .....,...,.......www.certainteed.com

ConectDeck......... ..........www.conectdeck.com

CPI......,.............,. ..........www.eonoutdoor.com

Dura Products Intemational (DuraDeck).................................www.duraproducts.com

Epoch Composite Products ................. .........www.epmhwood.com

Evergreen Wood Composites............. ..www.evergreen-wood.com

EverX Extruded Wood Products........ ............www.everxdeck.com

E-Z Deck.............. .................www.e2deck.com

Fiber Composites, LLC...................... ...www.fibercomposites.com

Finyl Vinyl Building Products.......... ..........www.finylvinylbp.com

Geodeck............... ....,,.........www.geodeck.com

Green Tree Comnosites ...........,.....,.... ......www.monrchdeck.com

GSW Themoplaitics Co. (Yardcrafters) ...................................www.gswthemo.com

Kenaf Industries (TexDek) ..www.kenaf-industries.com

Kroy Building Products (Timberlast) .................www.kroybp.com

Hampton Lumber Sales

Hayden Bridge Forest Pr< www.hamptonlumber.com Pro Higgins Lumber, J.E. (Ca,

Honsador Lumber (Hi.) ..................... ..............www.honsador.com

Horizon Distribution (Wa.)............................................www.hori2ondistribution.com

Horizon Lumber Products (Or.).......... ....www.horizonlumber.com

Hutchison Inc......................... ...................www.hutchison-inc.com

Huttig Building Products ................www.huttig.com

Idaho Pacihc Lumber Co. (Id.).......... ..................www.idaDac.com

Intermountain-Orient, Inc. (ld.)...................................www.intermountain-orient.com

Intemountain Wood Products ......................................www.intermountainwood.com

International Forest Products (Ca.). ...........www.intlforest.com

Jasper Enterprises, Inc. (Wa.)............. ............www jasper-inc.com

Jensen Distribution Services (Wa.)...... ......www.iensenonline.com

Jones Lumber Co. (Ca.),...,,.........,..

,.....,wwwjbneslumber.com

Kelleher Corp, (Ca.).......................,. ..............nrvw.kelleher.com

Keller Lumber Sales (Ca.).................

Kelly-Wright Hardwoods (Ca.).,.....

.www.kellerlumbersales.com

,,.....www.kelly-wright.com

Landmark Building Products (Ca.) .............,........,.www.Iandmark-products.com

Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co. (Ca.)...,..,..,,.,.,,,.............,,,..www.|sv1umber,com

Lausmann Lumber & Moulding Co. (Ca.)........................www.lausmannlumber.com

LowGradelumber .............www.lowgrade.com

Lumber Country, Inc......................... ......www.lumberco-untry.com

Lumber Products www,lumberproducts.com

Lumber Yad Supply (Mt.) .......www.bigsky-mt.com,/lysmain.htm

MacBeath Hardwood .............www.macbeath.com

Magellan Group Inc. (Wa.)................ ..........www.worldforest.com

Maine Lumber Service, lnc. (Wa.)............................www.mrinelumbersenice.com

Master Ha1co........ ....,....,www.fenceonline.com

Matheus Lumber Co. (Wa.)................ ...www.matheuslumber.com

McEwen Lumber Co............................ ..www.mcewenlumber.com

MFP of Oregon.... ...........www.mfp4wood.com

Nickerson L-umber & Plywood Corp. (Ca.) .............................www.nickirsonlbr.com

Noman Lumber (Or.).......................... ..........www.nommlbr.com

North American Plywood Corp, (Ca.) .,............,..........,,....,.www.northamp|y.com

North Pacilic Lumber Co,.,,..........,... ....www.north-pacific.com

Northwest Forest Products (Wa.) .......www.nwforestDroducts.com

Nu Forest Products (Ca,)....,,..,,....,,........,,.........,.....,.,,.www.nuforestpioducts.com

Oregon Canadian Forest Products (Or.)................................................www.ocfp.com

Oregon Trail Lumber (Or.)...............

,.www.ore gonraillumber.com

Oregon Washington Forest Products (Wa.) ................................www.oruaforest.com

Orepac Building Products.................. ..................www.orepac.com

Pacific Lumber & Shipping Co. (Wa.).......................................www.pIsJumber.com

Pacific Lumber Resources (Or.)......... .............www.pacificlbr.com

Pacilic Western Lumber (Wa.)....... ,,....,www.pacwestrade.com

Patrick Lumber Co. (Or.) ...................www.patlbr.com

Penberthy Lumber Co. (Ca.) .....www.penberthy.com

Plateau Forest Products (Or.) ..........................www.p1ateaufp.com

Plywood Tacoma, Inc. (Wa.)............. ...................www.p1ytac.com

PrimeSource Building Products.......... ....www.primesourcebp.com

Pro Hardwue...,...

Redwood Empire (Ca.),..............,..,,.

Reel Lumber Service (Ca.)

Reid & Wright Inc. (Co,).......,.........

........www.orohardware.com

.....ww,r6dwoodemp,com

..........w*rv.reellumber,com

..........www.reidwright.com

Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Inc. (Ca.;..........,...............,.....,..............www.rw|i.net

Royal Plywood (Ca.).........................

Smtoga Forest Products (Wy.).....

Suoym Lumber Corp. (Ca.).............

Shelter Products Inc. (Or.)...............

Simen Wholesale Lumber (Ca.)........

Snavely Forest Products..................

.......www.royalplywood.com

..........www.stratogaforest.com

.....www.saoyanlumber.com

.....www.shelter-products.com

..www.simenlumber.com

..,,..ww.snavelyforest.com

Spokane Hardwile Supply, Inc. (Wa.) ...........................www.spokane-hardwre.com

Sterling Wood Products (Or.)

Sunol Forest Products (Ca.)................

....................................www.sterlingwoodproducts.com

..........www.sunolforest.com

LP Corp.....,......... ....,...www.weatherb€st.com

Master Mrk Plastics................-......-. .............www.rhinodeck.com

Materials International...................... ..................www.tecwood.net

Mikron Industries .........www.nikronvinyl.com

Nexwood.............. ,.....,.......ww.nexwood.com

Parkland Plastics... ..www.orklandolastics.com

Plastic Lumber Co .......www.olasticlumber.com

Polywood Inc........ ............w*w.polywmd.com

Royal Outdoor Products ........www.royaloutdoor.com

RPM (Durabord)... ....................www.npm.com

Seal Guard Systems............................ www.sealgurdsystems.com

SmartDeck Systems........................... ............www.smartdeck.com

TimberTech Ltd. .........,ww.timbertech.com

Trex ....,,................ ......................www.trex.com

U.S. Plastic Lumber ...www.usplasticlumber.com

Westech Fence..... .......www.westechfence.com

Weyerhaeuser Co ...........www.choicedek.com

Wood Composite Technologies (Millennium Decking)............www.woodcomp.com

Xpotential Products Inc. ...........www.xpotentialproducts.com

Doors. Windows & Accessories

A&H Windows..... ..........www.ahwindows.com

Swanson Timber Co. (Ca.).................

Sylvan Forest Products (Or.)..............

Timber Mountain Hardwoods (Ca.).....

Timber Products Co. (Or.)

Timberuork Oregon Inc. (Or.)...........

Trinity Forest Industries, Inc..............

Triple R Wholesale, Inc. (Or.)..........

....www.swmsontimber.com

..www.sylvm-products.com

...www.timbemountain.net

....www.timberproducts.com

.........www.timberuork.com

.........www.trinityforest.com

.....www.wave.net/upg/tripler

Tumac Lumber Co. (Or.).................... ..................www.tumac.com

Universal Forest Products...,..,......... .......,........www.ufpinc.com

Yandermeer Forest Products (Wa,) .....www.vanderrneer.bc.ca

Vanport Intemational (Or.)................

Weaver Forest Products (Or.)............ ..............www.weaverfp.com

..........www.vanport-intl.com

.......www.welcolumber.com Corp,.....,...,, Wesco Cedu. Inc. (Or.)..........

Welco Lumber CorD,.....,...,,...........

Accu-Weld ........... .............www.accuweld.com www.asow.net

All Seasons Door & Window....

All Weather Control Shutters....

All Weathcr Windows ............www.awwonline .com

Amerimax Building Products ..........www.amerimaxwindows.com

Amsco Windows.. ....www.mscowindows.com

Andersen Windows & Patio Doors.... www.mdersenwindows.com

Architectural Windows & Entries..............................www.uchitecturalwindows.com

Atrium Comnanies www,atriumcomoanies.com

Benchmak Dmrs .www.benchmarkdoors.com

Cantera Doors ,.......www.canteradoors.com

Caoba Doom......... ..........www.caobadoors.com

Cradco,.......,.....,. ................www.cradco.com

Case Window & Door....................... .,.......www.casewindow.com

Chamoion Aluminum Windows ......www.chamDionwindows.com

Cline Aluminum Doors....................... ...........www.clinedoors.com

Clopay Building Products Co............ ...........www.clopaydoor.com

Combination Door Co........................ .www.combinationdoor.com

Creative Millwork .www.creativemillwork.com

C.WD..................... .......www.cwdwindows.com

Designer Doon Inc .....www.designerdoors.com

Don Young Co. ............................www.donyoungwindows.com

Dunbarton Com.... ............www.dunbafion.com

Duxton Windows & Doors............... ....www.duxtonwindows.com

Dynamic Windows .............................www.dynamicwindows.com

Eagle Window & Door................ .............www.eaglewindow.com

Eni'co Entemrises w*w.forever.com

Finyl Vinyl Building Products............ ........www.finylvinylbp.com

General Americm Door Co............... ...................www.gadco.com

Graham Manufacturing ...................... .......www.grahamdoors.com

Hayfield Window & Door Co...........................................www.hayfieldwindows.com

Horton Automatics ......,,www.hortondoors.com

Hurd Millwork .....................www.hurd.com

Huron Window Com.......................... .............www.huronwin.com

Hy-Lite Blmk Windows.................... ..................www.hyJite.com

Inline Fiberglass Ltd. ....................... ......www.inlinefiberglass.com

Intemational Window Com................ ..........www.intlwindow.com

Intemational Wood Produits............... www.iwpdoor.com

Iroko Door Co...... ...........www.irokodoors.com

Jeld-Wen.............. ....www.dmrs-windows.com

JJJ Specialty Co... ...........wwwjjjspecialty.com

Kasson & Keller. Inc........................ ..........www.kassonkeller.com

Kensinston Windows ...................................................www.kensinstonwindows.com

Kolbe &. Kolbe Millwork Co. .....................wwri.ko1be-kolbe.com

Lilson Manufacturins Co.,.................. ...,....www,ltrsondoors.com

Lincoln Windows.....-........................ ...www.lincolnwindows.com

Loewen Windows. ,.....,,,.......www.1oewen.com

Madawaska Doon ..................,......,..,www.madawaska-doors.com

Mafiin Door Manufacturing ...........www.martindoor.com

Marvin Windows & Doors............... ...................www.mn1n.com

Masonite Com...... ..............www.masonite.com

McPhillips Mlnufacturing Co............ .....www.mcphillipsmfg.com

Megawood Indusries.......................... ..........www.megawood.com

Mil-gard Windows. www.milgrd.com

MW Manufacturers............................ ........www.mwwindbws.com

Pease Industries. Inc

Sabana Window Corp.

Screen Tight.........

Siena Pacific Windows..............................................www.sienaoacificwindows.com

Simonton Windows ..............

Simpson Door Co.

Somerset Door & Colum Co..............

Therma-Tru

Weiser Lock

Co...........

Windsor Door....... ........www.windsordoor.com

Windsor Window Co.

Woodfold-Marco

Hardware & Tools

Alpine Engineered Products

Allway Tools Inc.........................

American Tool Cos., Inc.

Amerock Com.

Black & Decker....

Bosch Power Too1s.........

Center-Point Tools ........www.center-point.com

Allwood Indusrials........................... www.allwoodindustrials.com

American Paneling & Plywood .........www.amencanpaneling.com

Anthony-Domtar, Inc........................ .....www.anthonydomtar.com

Anthony Forest Products Co,,........ .....www.anthonyforest.com

Apex Forest Products Inc. ..........www.apexlumber.com

Arauco Wmd Products .........www.arauco.cl

Babb Lumber Co. ,...........................www.babb.com,/lumber

Baillie Lumber Co ...................www.bai11ie.com

Bean Lumber Co.. Curt ,................ .www.curtbeanlumber.com

Bennett Lumber Products. Inc. ..............www.bennett-lumber.com

Biewer Lumber..... ......www.biewerlumber.com

8oise,................... .....,......,...,.......,.wwwbc.com

Boise Engineered Wood Products... ....,..,.........www.bcewp.com

Bois Indifor Lumber Inc. .................www.indifor.qc.ca

Bois Omega Ltee. ..........www.bois-omega.com

Bowater Canadian Forest Products ...................www.bowater.com

Buchanan Lumber Sa1es........ ..www.bls-tb.com

Bun Lumber Co. .. ..........................www.bunlumbercompany.com

Buse Timber & Sales. Inc.............. ...............www.busetimber.com

Caffall Bros. Forest Products. lnc. .....................................................www.caffall.com

Califomia Cedr Products

Canadian Forest Products.. www.canfor.com

C&D Lumber Co .....,..,...www.cdlumber.com

C&E Lumber Co ...,..www.lodgepolepine.com

Canyon Lumber Co. .....www.canyonJumber.com

Cedrico,................ .................www.cedrico.com

Chesapeake Hardwood Products, Inc...............................................www.chpi.com

Coastal Lumber Co. ......,....,.............. .......www.coastallumber.com

Collins Cos. ..,..... ..,..,..,,www.collinswood,com

Columbia Cedar. Inc. .......www.columbiacedr.com

Columbia Forest Products ......................................www.columbiaforestproducts.com

Columbus Lumber Co.. LLC.............. .www.columbuslumber.com

Crown Pacific .........................www.crownDacificDartners.com

Davidson Industries.............. .....................www.davidson-ind.com

Davron Foresl Products Ltd.

Corona Clipper....

Channel Lock .........www.channellock.com ......www.clydeanddales.com ....www.coopenools.com www.coronaclippcr.cotrl

CST Corp......

Danair Inc....

Deck One........

DeWalt Tools.

Dremel...........

Fiskars.....................

Forestry Suppliers, Inc.

............www.o4p.com ....www.deckone.com www.dremel.com

......www.dewalt.com

.www.forestry-suppliers.com

Grabber Construction Products .........www.qrabberman.com

GRK Canada Ltd....................... .--.........www.sikfastenem.com

Hilti Corp. ................1...www.hi1ti.com

Hyde Too1s........... .............www.hydetools.com

ITW Brands......... ..........www.itwbrands.com

King Safety Products ............... ......................www.kingsafety.com

Kuehn Bevel, Inc........................ .................www.kuehnbevel.com

Marshalltown Trowel Co............ ..............www.marshalltown.com

Master Lock ...........www.masterlock.com

Maze Nai1s.......,.. .............www.mazenails.com

Milwaukee Electric ...........wu w,mrl-electric-tool.com

Nupla Corp .............www.nuplacorp.com

Paslode................. ................www.paslode.com

Pona-Nails, Inc......................... .....................www.porta-nails.com

Porter Cab1e..........

.........www.Dorter-cable.com

PrimeSource Building Products.......... ....u ww.primesourcebp.com

Quik Drive............ .............www.quikdrive.com

Quint Measuring Systems. Inc. .............u wu.quintmeasuring.com

Rolatape Corp. ................www.rolatape.com

Roto Zip Tool Co.p...................... .......................www.roto2ip.com

Rugg Manufacturing Co..................... .....................www.rugg.com

Safety Speed Cut.

..............www.panelsaw.com

S&G Specialty Fasteners.............. ..............www.quickscrews.com

Sandvik Saws & Tools Co............... .....................www.bahco.com

Schmidt & Co., Inc., Charles G.G. ..............www.cggschmidt.com

Senco Products, Inc. www.senco.com

Simpson Strong-Tie Co., Inc,,,....,,,.. .............www.strongtie.com

Skil Power Tools.. ...............www.skiltools.com

Square D Co......... ................www.squared.com

Stan1ey...............,.. .......www.stanleyworks,com

Sure Drive USA.. .........,...www.suredrive.com

Swan Secure Products, Inc. ...........www.swansecure.com

Tamlyn

Tremont Nail

Hankins. Inc

Hardel Mutual Plywood Corp. www.hardel.com

Harwood Products, Inc. ...........................www.haruoodp.com

Hill Wood Products............... .............www.hillwoodDroducts.com

Hood Industries.... .....www.hoodindustries.com

Huber Engineered Woods .............www.huberwood.com

Hunt Forest Products....-.................... ............www.huntforpro.com

Idaho Timber Com .........www.ldahotimber.com

Idaho Veneer Co.. .........www.idahoveneer.com

Industrial Wood Products..... ..................www.industrialwood.com

International Beams Inc............ .......www.intemationalbems.com

International Forest Products..... .........................www.interfor.com

International Paper Co............,.,,..,,..,....,,,......,....,....www.in1€rnationalpaper.com

Irving, Ltd., J.D.... ................wwwjdiwing.com

Jackpine Forest Products Ltd............. ......www,jackpinegroup.com

Johnson Lumber Co........................... .www.iohnsonlumberllc.com

Johnson Lumber Co., D.R.........,..,. ...........www,drjlumber.com

Jones Timber, J.S. .................wwwjsjones.com

Jordan l-umber & Supply, Inc........... ........wwwjordanlumber.com

Kalesnikoff Lumber Co.................... ............www.kalesnikoff.com

Keadle Lumber Entemrises .......www.keadlelumber.com

KHT Klausner Holz Thueringen GmbH & Co. KG...................................www.kht.de

K Ply, Inc............. .................www.kplyinc.com

Kruger Inc. ..................www,kru9er.com

Langboard Inc......................... ........................www.Iangboard.com

Leesville Lumber Co. ..www.leesvillelumber.com

Leggettwood ....,. .....,...www.leggettwood.com

Lewis Lumber & Manufacturins Co .......www.lewislumberco.com

Lignum Ltd. .............................- .........................www.1ignum.com

Louisiana-Pacific Corp..........,......... ..,,.,,..,...,..,www,1pcorp.com

Lulumco Inc. .......................www.1u1umco.com

Malloy Lumber Co ........www.malloyveneer.net

Manning Diversified Forest Products Ltd....................................www.mdfpsales.com

Martco................, ............,...,www.martco.com

Mary's River Lumber Co................... www.marysriverlumber.com

McFarland Cascade.......,....... ..www.ldm,com

McKenzie Forest Products...,....,..,.. .........www.mckenziefp.com

Mendocino Redwood Co................. ......................www.mrc.com

Meritt Brothers Lumber Co............. ............www.menittbros.com

Millar Westem Forest Products.... ............www.millaruestem.com I

Miller Mill Co., lnc., T.R........ ...............www.primusweb.com./tm r

Nascor ,..,............. .....,..,..,..,,..www,nascor.com

Neiman Enterprises.

New Mexico Timber Norbord Industries r

_ _

..........www.zlrcon.com

Simpson Timber Co.......

Slocan Group.

Southem Lumber

Sovebec Inc.

Sterling & Adams

Stimson Lumber

Stoltze Land & Stora Enso Timber

Sundance Forest

Swanson Group...... Tembec Inc

southemlumber.net .......www.sovebec.com vw.sterlingadams.com w.stimsonlumber.com .stoltzelumber.com storaenso/timber.com w.superiorlumber.com ..........www.tembec.ca

TreeSource [nduslries ......................www.treesource.com

TrimJoist Corp. ...............www.trimjoist.com

Trus Joist .........,.. ...........,...www.trusjoist.com

Tubafor Mi11....... ................www.tubafor.com

Tyee Timber Products Ltd................. ............www.tyeetimber.com

Unadilla Laminated Products............ .................www.unalam.com www.unityforest.com

www.weldwood.com

West Bay Forest Products & Manufacturing Ltd.........................www.cedarshed.com

Coastal Lumber Co. ........... ........................www.coastallumber.com

Conrad Forest Products........,......... .............www.conradfp.con Cox Industdes...... ..............www.coxwood.com

Elder Wood Preserving Co. ........,...............................www.elderwoodpresewing.com EnviroSafe............ ...............envirosafemfg.com

Exterior Wood, Inc.......,................. .,.,,..www,exteriorwood,com

Follen Wood Preserving..................... ...................www.follen.con

Great Southem Wood Preserving ..................................www.9reatsouthemwood.com

Gulf Lumber Co... ...........www.sulflumber.com

Weston Forest Corp ......www.westonforest.com

Weyerhaeuser................,......,........... ..,,..www.weyerhaeuser.com

Wisconsin-Califomia Forest Products ................www.wisca1.com

Hoover Treated Wood Products,Inc ......,....,..,..,.iwww.frtw,com

Manufacturers Wholesale Lumber..... ...........www.lumberone.com

Martin Lumber Co., Roy O.,........... .............,.www.martco.com

McFarland Cascade......,........ ..www.ldm.com

New South Lumber......,.......,...............................,....,..www.newsouthcomDanles.com

Yakama Forest Products........ ........................www.yakama-forest.com www.crossarm.com

Osmose................ ..,...,.......,.www.osmose,com

Pacific Wood Preserving Cos.... ....,..,......www,pacificwood.com

Permapost Products Co..,....,............. .............www.permapost.com

Quality Wood Treating Co................ .........www.qualitywood.com

Robbins Manufacturing Co. ......www.robbinslumber.com

Savannah Wood Preserving Co....... www.boratepreservatives.com

Seaman Timber Co. .........-................. .....www.s-eamantimber.com

Stallworth Timber Co. ....................... ..www.stallworthtimber.com

Sunbelt Forest Products..................... ..............www.sunbeltfo.com

Texas Forest Products...................................................www.texasforestDroducts.com

Thunderbolt Wood Treating........... .......www.thunderized,com

Universal Forest Products ,............... ................www.ufpinc.com

Western Wood Preserving Co...,,.........,..........,www.westernwmdpreserving.com

Wilkes Wood Products ................................................www.burtlumbercomnanv.com

Wood Treaters, Inc.

Fypon, Ltd............

...................www.fypon.com

Glen Oak Lumber & Mi11ins.............. ....www.slenoaklumber.com

Gossen Corp. ......................-............. .......,...wiw.gossencorp.com

Hansen Architectural Systems........... ..www.aluminumailing.com

HB&G.................. .........www.hbscolumni.com

Interior Products Inc.

Island Post Caps

....www.interioilroducts.com

.........www.islandpostcap.com

Louisville Lumber & Millwork........... .www.louisvillelumber.com

Mrley Mouldings www.marleymouldings.com

Melton Classics....

MHJ Group..........

.....www.meltonclassics.com

.............www.mhjgroup.com

Moultrie Manufacturing ....www.moultriemfgco.com

Pacific MDF Products ..........,,,,........ ,,....,....,...www.pactrim.com

ResinArt Flexible Mouldings .................www.resinart.com

SierraPine........,.. .,.,......,.www.sierrapine.com

Socomi .................www.;ocoml.com

Somemet Dmr & Column Co.............. .,...www.somersetdoor.com

White River HardwoodsAVoodworks ..........www.mouldings.com Windsor Mi11........ .........www.windsormill.com

Paints. Coatings & Adhesives

Beniamin Moore & Co..................

West Fraser Mills. www.westfrasertimber.ca ............www.fl extrim.com www,benjminmoore.com

Bonsal Co., W.R ....www.bonsal.com

www.woodtreaters.com

Roofine. Sidine & Insulation ffi .,,..,.........www.abtco.com

Alcoa Buildins Products................... ...........www.alcoahomes.com

American Wic-k Drain Com.............. .......www.americanwick.com

Anglo Americm Cedar Products....... .....www.angloamerican.com

Berger Building Products Corp......... ............www.bergerbros.com

Cedar Valley Shingle Systems, Inc. .........................................www.cedar-valley.com

Cemplank, Inc. .........................www.cemplank.com

CertainTeed www.certainteed.com

Chemcrest Corp... .............www.chemcrest.com

Collins Products .,...,. www.collinswood.con

Cor-A-Vent. Inc. .....................www.cor-a-vent.com

Crane Products..... ......www.craneDroducts.com

Dow Chemical Co....., ..........www.styrofoam.com

Enyeart Trading Group ........www.enyeartcedu.com

GAF Materials Corp.......................... ........................www.gaf.com

Gurdian Fiberglass .............www.guardianfiberglass.com

Haida Forest Products Ltd......... ...................www.haidaforest.com

Hudie Building Products, James...... ..........www jameshardie.com

Heartland Building Products................ ..........www.heart-land.com

Johns Manville .... .........................www jm.com

Lazy-S Lumber Co ........www.lazyslumber.com

Maibec Industries Inc......................... .................www.maibec.com

Mastic................... ..................www.mastic.com

McElroy Metal, Inc. ..........www.mcelroymetal.com

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp......... .............www.mtlsales.com

MetalWorks.......... ,..www.metalworksroof.com

MetTile Inc. ........ ................www.met-tile.com

Monierlifetile...... .......www.monierlifetile.com

National Gypsum Co. .......................... www.national-gypsum.com

Nichiha USA........ .................www.nichiha.com

Nortek. Inc. ......................www.nortek-inc.com

Nuline Industries ..................www.ondura.com

Obdyke, Inc., Benjamin.............. ........................www.obdyke.com

Owens Coming.... ......www.owenscoming.com

Pactiv Building Products .........................................www.pactivbuildingproducts.com

Reilect-O-Tech Intemational.......................................www.reflectivetechnolosv.com

E-Z Splitter Co. ................www.e-zsplitter.com

Forkliiis Inc. ...................www.forkliftsinc.com

Genie Industries ...............www.genielift.com

Hyster Co. ...................www.hyster.com

Kalmar AC, Inc......................... .......................www.kalmarac.com

K-D Mmitou Inc.. ...........www.kdmanitou.com

Kenworth Truck Co............................ .............www.kenworth.com

Komatsu Forklift USA ...................................................www.komatsuforkliftusa.com

Krauter Storage. ..www.krauter-storage.com

Kubinec Strapping Solutiom ........................,...,.........www.kubinecstrapping.com

Landoll Corp. ........................www.1ando11.com

LB Trucks............ ................www.1btrucks.com

Liftking Indusries ................www.liftking.com

Linde Baker Material Handlins ...................www.1inde-baker.com

Lowry Industrial Lift-Trucks .-.................................................www.Iowryindlift.com

Lumber Tag Specialties..................... .............www.lumbertag.com

Manitowoc Co..... ........www.manitowocbt.com

Master Craft Industrial Equipment Corp...........................................www.mcIifts.com

Matthews International ........,,....,.... ....www.woodmarking.com

Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks .............................www.mit1ift.com

Mobile Pallet Truck............................ ..............www.mobilept.com

Multiton MIC Corc .............www.multiton.com

Nissan Forklifi Co-m ....www.nrssanforklift.com

Noble Construction Equipment ........................www.nob1ecei.com

Nu-Era Group....... .......,..........www.nu-era.com

Pramac Industries ...................ww.pramac.com

Princeton Delivery Systems .........www.piggy-back.com

Professional Materials Handling Co. .................www.pmh-co.com

Rapidparts Inc. ..www.mastereouc-eonline.com

MH2 Techologies.

Nxtrend Technology, Inc.

Pro-Com Intesrated Softwile.............

Progressive S6lutions Inc.

RDB Solutions

Scoopsoft Corp.....

Seljax Intemation41...........................

Spruce Computer Systems......,,...........

TraderDirect LLC ..........www.trader-direct.com

Versyss Comercial Systems

............................www.versyss.com

Woodwtre Systems............................ ......www.dccwoodwre.com

World Wide Wood Network, Ltd.,.,.. ...........,.www.wwwood.net

Court Co., Paul ..................www.paulcourt.com

Crow Publications ....................www.crows.com

Forest Express

.........www.forestexpress.com

Forestweb ........................www.forestweb.com

F-W. Dodge.......... .......................www.fwdodge.construction.com

Hall & Associates, Don..................... .........www.millworkjobs.com

Indiana Lumbemen's Mutual Insurance Co........................................www.ilmic.com

Indian River Consulting Group ..www.ircg.com Liouidation.com ..............www.liauidation.com

Luhbemens Credit Association Inc. .........,.....,..,....www.lumbermehscredit.com

Lumbermen's Underuriting Alliance ..................www.lumbemensundemriting.com

Merchant Magazine, The ww.building-products.com

Pennsylvania Lumbemens Mutual Insurance Co................www.palumbemens.com

Random Lengths.. ......www.randomlengths.com

Resource Infomation Systems, Inc..........................................www.resourceinfo.com

Search North America.,..,.........,...... ........,,....www.sesrchna.com

Sustainable Forestry Initiative .,...,.. ,,......,...,,..www.aboutsfi.or9

Timber Products Inspection.............. ...........www.tpinspection.com

Burlington Nonhem Santa Fe........... .......................www.bnsf.com

Canadian National RaiIways............... ............................www.cn.ca

CSX Transoortation ........................,.., ....,,,....,,...,,,....www.csx.com

Desticon Tiansoortation Services Inc. ..............www.desticon.com

Fikes Truck Line, Inc........................... ....................www.fikes.com

Great Western Transportation,Inc ,....,,www,trucking-gwt.com

Independent Dispatch, Inc. .........................................www.independentdispatch.com

Mrion Industrial Center................... .......www.micwarehouse.com

Mountain View Reload....................... ,........,...www.mvrgroup.com

National Distribution Seruices.....................................www.national-distribution.com

Norfolk Southem Com. .................www.nscorp.com

North American Reloid Inc. .....................www.noramreload.com

Reload Cos........... ...............www.reloadinc.com

Shasta Cascade Forest Industries.., ..,,......,....,,...,..,.www.scfi.net

Union Pacific Railroad .......................www.uprr.com

Van G Logistic Services..--------. ..,.......www.vgtrucking.com

,..,.www.westran.ca

Yard Equipment

Allvan Corp. ....................www.allvancorp.com

American Specialty Equipment......... .............www.exforklifts.com

Anow Truck Sales ...........www.arowtruck.com

Atlet Inc. .......................www.atlet.com

Brloworld Handling ................................................www.barloworld-equipment.com

Bmett Industrial Trucks..................... .......www.banett-trucks.com

Cilgotec, Inc.,...,................... ............,......,......,.www.cargotec.com

Catemillil Lift Trucks........................ ..................www.cat-lift.com

Chrisman Manufacturing ..www.navigatorforklift.com

Clrk Material Hmdling Co......... ....................www.c1arkmhc.com

Cooper Materials Hmd1ing.................. ..www.coopematerials.com

Crown Equipment Cory...................... ...................www.crown.com

Daewoo Equipment Corp. ....................www.dhiac.com

Design Storage & Handling, Inc.......... .....www.designstorage.com

Drexel Industries.. ..........www.drexeltrucks.com

Elwell-Parker....... ..........www.elwelloaker.com

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Rapid Rack Industries ...........www.rapidrack.com

Raymond Corp..... .......www.raymondcorp.com

Royal TRctor....... ..........www.royaltractor.com

Ruger Industries... ...www.rugerequipment.com

Samuel Strapping Systems .................. www.samuelmanutech.com

Schaeff Inc. .......... ............www.schaeffinc.com

Sellick Equipment Ltd. ...................... .www.sellickequipment.com

Southworth Products Corp............................................www.southworthproducts.com

Sumer Industries .......................................,...................www.sumerindustries.com

Sunbelt Material Handling................ ,...www.sunbeltracks,com

Sweed Machinery. ..................www.sweed.com

Tailift USA, Inc......................... .......................www.tailiftusa.com

Tant Fab, Inc......................... .............................www.tankfab.com

TCM Forklift Trucks .........www.tcmforklifts.com

Toyota Material Handling USA...... ..........www.toyotaforklift.com

Vogler Equipment .www.materialhandling.com

Vulcan Industries. .............www.vulcanind.com

Weinig, Inc......... ...,..,...,.www.weinigusa.com

Westem Carolina Forklift.................... ...........www.wcforklift.com

Yale Material HandIing..................... ......................www.yale.com

Associations

American Fence Association. www.americanfenceassociation.com

American Forest & Paper Association .....,.,,.www.afandpa.org

American Hardwde Manufacturers Association. ...www.ahma.org

American Wood Counci1....,.......,..,.., ........................www.awc.or!

American Wood-Preseryers'Association........... ...www.awpa.com

American Wood Preserven Institute. ...,..www.preservedwood.org

APA-The Engineered Wood Asmiation .....www.apawood.or!

Appalachian Hudwood_Manufacturers, Inc. .....................www.appalachianwood.org

Architectural Woodwork Institute..... ....................www.awinet.or9

Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association..........................www.asphaltroofing.org

California Forest Products Commission....,.........,.,....,.,,.,,..,,...www.calforests.org

California Redwood Association,... .........,www.calredwood.org

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National Wood Flooring Assciation. ...........www.woodfloors.org

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"Today we are seeing an increased number of mulled units that are significantly larger and more sophisticated than ever before," says Tom Sinning, sales manager at Marvin Windows & Doors. "Part of the reason is that homeowners want to draw more natural light into their homes and take advantage of views to the outdoors. Mulled units help add more drama to a home."

Dealers play a crucial role in the process.

Bill Lazor, senior brand manager for Simonton Windows, explains, "As most professionals know, mulling can be done either in a manufacturing facility as windows are constructed, or in the field by builders and remodelers. Some of the most common mulled configuration requests we get are for two or three single-hung or double-hung units joined together. We can exceed that size by comfortably mulling units up to 144 inches wide by 106 inches tall. Due to transportation issues, configurations larger than that are generally considered 'field mulls' and are done by qualified contractors."

Lazor points out that virtually any combination of windows can be mulled together to create an attractive wall of windows. Oftentimes half-rounds are mulled to the top of single-hungs and double-hungs. Another popular choice is to mull a variety of fixed geometric windows to operable windows, or mulling an assortment of operable windows together, such as when a bow window is constructed of several casements.

To properly specify mulled units for a project, the single most important aspect is educating yourself on local building codes. The American Architectural Manufacturers Association recommends becoming very familiar with the design pressure rating for the specific geographic area where the mulled units will be installed. The structural limitations associated with the mulled unit must match up with the local codes, and mulled units should never be used in a situation that cannot meet those codes.

"Discuss large mulled configurations directly with the window manufacturer prior to ordering the units," suggests Lazor. "Consult the manufacturer's technical experts on the thermal expansion and contraction of mulled units along with any limitations of the product. Many manufacturers will suggest that whenever the amount of expansion and contraction is projected to exceed the recommended maximum joint movement (or the allowable clearance), that you consider dividing up the mulled units into smaller rough openings."

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Since mulled units can weigh hundreds of pounds each, it's essential that support is available in the construction to accommodate the units' specific weight. Window manufacturers can provide specific installation instructions, including information on providing the proper structural support needed for an opening.

Although mulled units are often custom-made, dealers play a crucial role in the process. Melinda Connell, marketing rep for Milgard, says dealers "order, store and deliver. We also offer the option of delivering directly to the job site, if that is what the dealer would like us to do."

"Dealers perform a very important logistical role in making sure a mulled unit gets to a job site," adds Sinning.

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Mulled units should be stored on and against a flat, even surface. "Mulled windows should be stored by keeping them upright-they are often leaned onto one another," advises Connell. "They should not lay flat."

Lazor says, "While extra considerations are important, they shouldn't 'scare off industry professionals from mulled units. Stunning mulled window configurations can make any home or commercial project more appealing."

MULLED units-two or more windows joined together, stacked or side by side-are growing in popularity.

A new year for southern pine

By Lionel J. Landry President Southern Forest Products Association

rFHE business climate for producers of southern pine I lumber remains most challenging, just like so many other industries.

Just three years ago, our industry established record production of 16.92 billion bd. ft. Homebuilding has remained strong in these first years of the New Millennium, encouraged by low mortgage rates. Eventually, lumber supply stretched demand as market dynamics shifted in the closing quarter of 2000. Total production for 2001 remained a healthy 16.10 billion ft. Unlike the nation's economy, our industry is still in a recession due to moderate demandnot strong, not weak-with record softwood imports.

A relatively healthy housing market throughout 2OO2 is what many observers believe kept our nation's economy from remaining in a long-term recession. True, housing was strong as interest rates fell further, but lumber producers were squeezed to make a profit considering their high timber costs. Throughout 2002, a good week in the lumber business was a rare event, at best, aggravated by weak markets, and hefty import volumes. The downward production trends continued through last summer; Southern Forest Products Association estimates total 2OO2 southern pine production at 15.5 billion bd. ft., a 2.5Vo decline from 2001.

The events of Sept. ll have put the economic brakes on nonresidential construction activity, and this market segment failed to show any signs of recovery during 2002. Quite simply, lumber markets are oversupplied.

SFPA member companies produce half of the nation's southern pine lumber, and their outlook for 2003 is, at best, guarded. Most companies have curtailed operations and many mills have been shut down. If the poor economic climate persists, additional closures are a distinct possibility.

A number of factors will influence business in 2003. Softwood imports from Canada continue to impact south-

ern pine's traditional framing markets. The industry's Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports was successful in obtaining a combined 27.2Vo countervailing duty.

Another hurdle for southern pine producers is increased imports from overseas. Competing softwood species from Europe and South America continue to adversely impact our domestic market. A strong dollar and foreign competitors have also hampered southern pine exports through 2002. Kiln-dried southern pine is now recognized in the materials handling markets as the logical choice to meet phytosanitary requirements for shipments to Europe.

Treated lumber markets were the bright spot for the southern pine industry rn 2002. Despite the EPA's announcement last February to remove CCA-treated products from most consumer-type residential applications by the end of 2003. the transition to non-arsenical-based preservatives proceeds smoothly. SFPA estimates treated lumber production to total 7 billion bd. ft. in 2002, dropping to 6.57 billion ft. in 2003.

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Central Valley Builders Supply is remodeling its St. Helena, Ca., location and has opened up a new 30,000-sq. ft. milling, shipping and assembly facility on l3 acres in American Canyon, Ca. ...

Moscow Building Supply, Moscow, Id., has opened a new 28,000sq. ft. retail store with 65,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space and a drivethrough lumber yard

Gibson's Discount Centers this month is closing 17 stores in six states, including its six Colorado hardware stores-Delta. Canon City, Montrose, Fort Morgan, Grand Junction and Clifton ...

Home Depot this month opens new home centers in Bozeman, Mt.; Los Lunas, N.M.; SW Las Vegas, Nv.; Evergreen (Golden), Pioneer Hills (Aurora), and Saddlerock (Aurora), Co., and an Expo Design Centerin Phoenix, Az.

Home Depot is considering sites in Petaluma, Ca., and is facing an environmental study on a proposed 104,991-sq. ft. store and 24,304sq. ft. garden center in Auburn, Ca., where it has been seeking permission to build since 1997

Lowe's Cos. recently unveiled new stores in NW Albuquerque, N.M. (Rod Kerns, mgr.), and Pico Rivera, Ca. (Dan Port, mgr.), and and a replacement store in Bremerton, Wa. (Matt Simonich, mgr.) ...

Lowe's will begin construction this spring on a 137,000-sq. ft. store with 28,000-sq. ft. garden center in Bend, Or.; will co-anchor a shopping center in Chula Vista (San Diego), Ca., and is considering sites in Petaluma, Ca.

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Schollenbarger Wood Treating, Bernalillo, N.M., has converted all operations to Osmose's NatureWood; Schollenbarger's products are sold exclusively through Capital Lumber Co.

Rough & Ready Lumber Co., Cave Junction, Or., is looking for a buyer or will permanently shut down the sawmill in the spring due to limited log availability

Grant Western Lumber, John Day, Or., is adding three dry kilns, which will increase its drying capacity by 1.2 million bd. ft.

Atessco Inc.has moved to a new location in Santa Rosa, Ca., with expanded wholesale storage and office space

Northern Pine Wood Products, Bonners Ferry, Id., has permanently closed ...

Huslqt Lumber Inc. is building a new mill in Nikiski, Ak., to produce I(/D, graded structural lumber, with kilns capable of drying 150,000 bd. ft. every 72 hours

Capital Lumber Co. added new shipping and receiving functions at its Chino. Ca.. division and 70.000 sq. ft. of inside storage and office space at Healdsburg, Ca. ...

Hampton Affiliate s, Portland, Or., upgraded equipment at its Darrington, Wa., mill during a three-week shutdown ...

Pacific Building Products, Sacramento, Ca., has acquired certain assets of the Winroc Corp.'s Sparks, Nv., operations

Anaheim Millworks. Anaheim. Ca., has added a new rip saw and high-speed Weinig moulder

Coe Newnes/McGehee wood products division has closed its sawmill equipment manufacturing plant in Ukiah, Ca.

S ilve rton Victo rian Millworks, Durango, Co., has filed Chapter 1l bankruptcy to reorganize; a month earlier the firm laid off about a third of its 60 employees ...

Weyerhaeuser appl\ed to rejoin the American Institute of Timber Construction to have AITC inspect production from its TrusJoist glulam plant in Vaughn, Or. ...

Kerr-McGee Chernical plans to exit the forest products business and close four creosote treating plants across the U.S.; the disposition of Ken McGee's fiflh plant in The Dalles, Or., which it leases to Union Pacific Corp., is the subject of ongoing discussions

Pope & Talbot Inc., Portland, Or., earned Sustainable Forestry Initiative certification for its Canadian woodlands operations

tJ.S. Home & Garden, San Francisco. Ca., agreed to be acquired for $57 million by a management group headed by c.o.o. by Dick Grandy

The Skunk Train, the 1l7-yearold rail line/tourist attraction, is continuing on a limited winter schedule after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; financial problems began four years ago when the line stopped hauling lumber part-time

Canyon Creek Cabinet Co., Monroe, Wa., recently received an energy conservation award from the Snohomish County Public Utility District and a better workplace award from the Association of Washington Businesses

Armstrong World Industries' vinyl tile flooring plant in South Gate, Ca., won a 2002 waste reduction award from the state Western Wood Preserving Co., Sumner, Wa., donated building materials to the Pacific Harbors Council of the Boy Scouts

Stora Enso Timber U.S. Corp., Portland, Or., gave a financial gift to Portland's Doernbecher Hospital in lieu of holiday gifts and cards to customers and suppliers

Anniversaries:. Idaho Veneer co., Post Falls, Id., 5Oth Norman Lumber Co.. Medford. Or.,Zlth...

Housing starts in November (latest figures) increased 2.4Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.697 million, with single family starts up 0.9Vo to 1.390 million and multi-family at a rate of 278,000 for 5+ units ... permits dropped 2.7Vo to an adjusted yearly rate of 1.725 million.

Sierra-Pacific Starts Sawmill

Sierra Pacific Industries' new Junction City, Wa., sawmill is now operational with a second shift expected be added this month.

The mill is the Redding, Ca.-based firm's first Washington operation and at full capacity is expected to produce 250 million bd. ft. a year of standard and custom dimension lumber.

According to Sierra Pacific's Jack Stanley, the mill is expected to be in full production by the end of March. Currently mill workers are putting the final touches on the planer and the plant's cogeneration facility that will produce electricity from wood waste. Also under construction is a new rail spur that serves the facility.

County permit assessments value the planer and sawmill alone at $3.9 million.

Randy Lilburn is the mill manager.

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OSHA is investigating a sawmill accident at Intermountain Resources, Montrose. Co.. that claimed the life of a veteran millwright.

According to Montrose County Undersheriff Dick Deines, about I 1:00 a.m. Nov. 26, James "Jim" Kury, 46, evidently was attempting to free a jam in a conveyor system when a co-worker turned on the machine.

The undersheriff said workers shut down the line after machinery jammed and a chain broke, separating from the

gears. Some employees left for lunch, but Kury and a co-worker stayed to repair the chain and free the jam. After fixing the chain, the co-worker returned to the control room.

"He didn't see James around and assumed James had also broken for lunch, because he couldn't see him," Deines said. Unaware that Kury had gone back in to clear more debris, the worker restarted the machine. It caught Kury's left arm and pulled him into a gear system of the conveyor. He suffered severe injuries and apparently died quickly.

Kury had worked at sawmills in Montrose; Price, Ut.; Ashland, Mt.; Auburn, Wa.; Worland, Wy., and Custer, S.D.

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Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 16, crab feed, Eureka Inn, Eureka, Ca.: (707) 268-3085.

California Forestry Assn. - Jan. 16-17, annual meeting, Haze Mansion Conference Center, San Jose, Ca.; (916) 444-6592

Do it Best Corp. - Jan. 16-17, winter market, Phoenix, Az.; (2r9) 748-5300.

American Hardware Manufacturers Association - Jan. 19-21, manufacturing excellence conference, Loew's Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Az.;(847) 605-1025.

International Builder's Show - Jan,2l-24, sponsored by National Association of Home Builders, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nv.; (800) 368-5242.

FenceTech 2003 - Jan. 21-25, Nasville, Tn.; (800) 822-4342.

Federal Timber Purchasers Committee - Jan. 22-23, meeting, Scottsdale, Az.: (202) 463-5177.

DIY & Home Improvement Show - Jan. 26-28, ExCel Exhibition Centre, London, England; (01 l) 44-181-462-0721.

Western Decorating Show - Jan.28-29, Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nv.; (800) 737-0107.

Western Building Material Association - Jan. 31-Feb.2,32nd annual Young Westerners Club conference, WestCoast Hotel at the Grove. Boise. Id.; (888) 551-9262.

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TruServ Corp. - Feb. l-4, spring market, Atlanta Convention Center, Atlanta, Ga.', (773) 695-5000.

American Architectural Manufacturers Association - Feb. 26, annual meeting, Maui, Hi.; (847) 303-5664.

International Interior Construction Show - Feb. 2-6, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nv.; (630) 584-1919.

International Spring Fair - Feb. 2-6, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England; (203) 454-0090.

North American Wholesale Lumber Assn. - Feb. 11, regional meetings, Seanle, Wa.; Feb. 13, Portland, Or.; (800) 527-8258.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club - Feb. 13, pool, Diamond Pool & Billiards, Brea, Ca.; (714) 255-1800.

Greenprints 2003 - Feb. 13-15, environmental conference & trade show, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Ga.; (404) 8"12-3549.

FrameBuilders 2003 - Feb. 14-15, Orlando, Fl.; (800) 557-6957.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - Feb. 16-19. management school, Downers Grove, Il.; (800) 527-8258.

Builder Marts of America - Feb. 16-19, spring market, Paris Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nv.; (864) 281-3633.

Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association - Feb. 1922,40th annual meeting, New Orleans, La.; (800) 550-7889.

Oregon Logging Conference - Feb. 20-22, Lane County Convention Center & Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or.; (541) 686-9191.

Window & Door Manufacturers Association -Feb.22-26.76th annual meeting, Sheraton Bal Harbor, Miami, Fl.; (8a7) 2995200.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - Feb. 25, regional meetings, Long Beach, Ca.; Feb. 27, Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, B.C.; (800) 527-8258.

Wood Build China - Feb. 25-28, Shanghai, China; (503) 2480406.

Green Construction & Ecological Design Conference - Feb. 26-27,Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, Ca.; (800) 8828684.

ABC Buys 29 Cameron DCs

ABC Supply Co. has acquired 29 Cameron Ashley Building Products distribution centers, primarily in the West. The locations are all "one-step" DCs that sell roofing, siding and related exterior products to contractors.

"This acquisition is a significant step within our current growth plans. We will continue to add stores in select markets while expanding product lines," said David Luck, president and chief operating officer of ABC Supply. "The new locations enhance our ability to provide contractors with thorough and consistent distribution coverage throughout the country."

New Western markets include Burlingame, Indio, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Ana and Stockton, Ca.; Loveland. Co.: Santa Fe. N.M.: Portland, Or., and Ogden, Ut.

Thirteen of the new facilities will be consolidated with exisiting ABC locations, giving ABC 16 new sites for a total of 239 locations in 44 states.

ABC's Mesa, Az., DC will be merged with Cameron's local facility. Cameron locations in Glendale and Tucson, Az.; Monrovia, Oakland and San Jose, Ca.; Colorado Springs and Denver, Co., and Murray, Ut., will be consolidated into local ABC facilities.

Based in Beloit, Wi., ABC Supply is the largest wholesale distributor of roofing and siding in North America, with annual sales over $1.5 billion.

New HQ Site For Terry Cos.

The Terry Cos. has moved from its regional headquarters in Tarzana, Ca., to new offices in Mission Hill. Ca.. because a bus facility was moved to the Tarzana site.

The Dec. 23 move made way for a L.A. Metropolitan Transit Association ticket office and parking lot for a new rapid bus route.

Terry Sash & Door and Terry Lumber Tarzana also moved to Mission Hills, although the former will be moving in early 2003 to a new,

yet-to-be determined facility.

Terry Cos. expects to change its name to Stock Building Supply some time this year.

Vaagen Bros. To Shutter Mill

Vaagen Bros., Colville, Wa., will close its Republic, Wa., sawmill at the end of the month.

Blaming Canadian lumber imports and an inability to get logs from the nearby Colville National Forest, the firm will close the mill Jan. 27. Many in the small town of 1,000 fear the closure, coupled with the recent shutdown of a gold mine, will permanently devastate the local economy. Vaagen bought the Republic mill in 1982.

According to president Duane Vaagen, despite the 27Vo tariff on Canadian softwood, these imports still account for 40Vo of the market.

In addtion to the 90 job losses at the Republic mill, Vaagen also cautioned that layoffs are "not out of the question" at its Colville mill.

TRANSLOAD Distribution Association held a luncheon and tour of the Alameda Corridor

Nov, 21 in Carson, Ca. (1) Brett Bink. Priscilla Ogaz, Carole Wink, Ron Gill (2) Glenda McDonald, Jason Klenske, Denny & Debby Wyatt. (3) Del Britton, Ann Goodale. (4) Patty Schlaeger, Shelley Cameron, Gary Schlaeger. (5) Steve lVarantette, Dana Fontaine, Alan MacClyment. (6) Charlie Ring, Darrell Williams, Mike Williams, (7) Michael Johnson, Akun Avetsyan. (8) Andy Gromley, Dennis Simmons. (9) Chuck Lindberg, Kathie & Dee Allen

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Jim Pappas is negotiating to sell a majority interest in Honsador Lumber, Honolulu Wood Treating and Ariel Truss to investor Richard Foreman, who will become president and c.e.o. of a yet-to-be-named holding company. Pappas will remain Honsador chairman and Ariel Truss president. Terry Inglett will continue as Honsador president, and Hap Person will remain president of Honolulu Wood Treating. The deal is expected to close in Feb.

Ron Tipton retired Jan. 1 as product mgr. at All-Coast Forest Products. Chino. Ca. Greg Maselli, ex-LP, has joined the company as a builders specialist.

Terry Fischer has been promoted to lumber department mgr. at Boise Building Solutions' Riverside, Ca., DC.

Walter L. Ralston, Jr., ex-Coastal Lumber, has opened a West Coast sales office in Arcadia, Ca., for W.M. Cramer Lumber Co., Hickory, N.C.

Bill Howerton retired from Trinity River Lumber, Weaverville, Ca., Dec. l7 after 19 years with the company.

Peter Ciceri was appointed to the board of Progressive Solutions, Richmond, B.C.

Don Getts, ex-PrimeSource, has joined Weyerhaeuser Building Products as an outside sales rep in the San Francisco, Ca., Bay Area. Mike Huycke retired from Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Wa., Dec. 31 after 31 years in the industry.

Mike Sambrano, ex-Mills Pride Cabinets, has joined Universal Forest Products, Riverside, Ca., as customer service rep.

John Meyers is the new door group mgr. at Lumber Products' Chandler. Az.. distribution center. Art Wagner is door products purchasing and operations mgr.; Bob Henderson, outside sales representative-door products; Chuck Lawston, outside sales representativedoor products, and Jean Hearle, purchasing and operations assistant. The new door operation should be in full production by the end of the month.

Alan Thielmann is the new v.p.-marketing at Georgia-Pacific Corp. Mike Cousin has been named v.p.-planning and technology, building products.

Torn Rogers has opened a West Coast sales office in Tustin, Ca., for Gutchess Lumber. Cortland. N.Y.

Dallas Davis, ex-Weyerhaeuser Co., is now operations mgr. for Rosboro Forest Products, Springfield, Or.

Mike Moseby is new to market development at DuraBord, Redmond, Wa.

Janet Behnke is mgr. of Home Depot's new Klamath Falls, Or., store, and Keoni Queypo is mgr. of the new Kona, Hi., location. Joe Izganics is president of Depot's Services business unit. Kelly Barett is controller, succeeding Gregg Vickery, who was promoted to president for finance of the Eastern Division.

Michael T. Riordan was elected to the board at Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa. Kirsten Ingham, Pearson Millwork, Arlington, Wa., has been elected v.p. of the Architectural Woodwork Institute.

Dan Carver has been promoted to v.p.purchasing at Builders FirstSource, succeeding John Gunn, who resigned.

Mike Slee has been named plant mgr. for Johns Manville Roofing System Group's polyiso manufacturing facility to open in second quarter 2003 in Fernley, Nv. Robert Brune is plant superintendent; Tom Goff, plant engineer; John Cromwell, health safety and environment coordinator, and Pam Meacham, transportation supervisor. Jennifer Ford-Smith has joined JM's Roofing System Group, Denver, Co., as product mgr.-BUR/SBS/APP roofing systems. Patrick T. Kelly is product mgr. for single ply roofing systems.

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Al Diamantine, Hayward Building Supply, Hayward, Ca.; Kevin Fogarty, Osborne Lumber, Newark, Ca., and Frank Kinney, Hulbert Lumber Co., Fremont, Ca., recently met in San Francisco. Ca., for their annual lunch.

El Louise Waldron, Waldron Forest Products, Fair Oaks, Ca., returned from her annual golf trip in Acapulco.

Tristan Shout worked as DJ at MungusFungus Forest Products' recent Christmas party, report co-owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Eel River May Have Buyer

A group of Seattle-area investors are looking to acquire the closed Eel River Sawmills despite the firm's millions in debt and its recent default on workers' compensation payments.

The investors are working with Englewood Forest Products to acquire the hard assets of the Fortuna, Ca.based company, which shuttered its sawmill a year ago and is now closing its power plant.

Englewood, which made a different offer to buy the mill last year, is looking to acquire Eel River's mills, rolling stock and its 20,000 acres of timberland, along with retiring its debt.

Eel River president Dennis Scott said he has asked the investors to clarify some of the offer's details. Scott is also considering an offer by local trucking businessman Don Nolan.

In late December, Eel River reported it could no longer pay workers' compensation claims by former Eel River workers, leaving the state of California to take over the payments. The state's Self Insurance Plans found Eel River understated its liability on 142 indemnity claims by $2,159,824 and had a total remaining liability on its workers' compensation claims estimated at $7.021.506. Eel River had been self-insured since 1980.

Former workers filed a $25 million lawsuit Dec. 23 claiming Eel River reneged on a written promise that workers would own a majority of stock and, thus. be able to call for new management when they saw fit. The suit also alleges company officials hid the existence of a Barbados subsidiary, bought a luxury home for private use, and used company funds to settle sexual harassment claims, without addressing inappropriate behavior.

Logging Aids Owl Study

The U.S. Forest Service will cut 176,000 acres of trees in California as part of a study on the impact of logging on the protected spotted owl.

The study, the first to research the industry's impact on species that

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The project will cut trees up to 36" in diameter and eventually encompass watersheds ranging from 45,000 to 79,000 acres.

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Duane K. Bennett, 89, former coowner of Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa. Ca.. died Nov. 24.

A native of Iowa, Mr. Bennett joined Mead Clark Lumber in 1935 and retired in 1983.

He served as president of the Lumber Merchants Association (now Lumber Association of California & Nevada) in the early 1960s.

Alfred Disdero, 90, owner of Disdero Lumber Co., Portland, Or., died Nov. 25.

A native of Portland, Mr. Disdero worked for Copeland Lumber, Weyerhaeuser Co., and Qualser Lumber before joining Disdero Lumber.

He was named a vice president of Builders Exchange in the 1950s, the

Portland Wholesale Lumbermen's Association Lumberman of the Year in 1990, and an honorary director of the World Forestry Center.

Shirley Henry, 73, chairman and c.e.o., Builders' Hardware and Supply Co., Seattle, Wa., died Nov. 29.

Ms. Henry founded the company in 1958 with her father, Tom Shannon. ln 1964 she became only the second women to be certified as a architectural hardware consultant.

She was a member of the Puget Sound chapter of the AHC, Door and Hardware Institute.

Theodore "Tedtt Amedeo Falasco, 81, co-founder, Los Banos Lumber and Sales Co.. Los Banos. Ca., died Nov. 30 in Stanford, Ca.

A native of Los Banos, Mr. Falasco was a veteran of the Army Corps of Engineers.

He founded the lumber company with his siblings, as well as Los

Banos Gravel Group, Central Valley Concrete and Central Valley Trucking with partner Harold Neal.

Arthur Russell Wall. 92. retired sales representative with the old Ward Forest Products, Burlingame, Ca., died Oct. 18.

A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wall joined Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, Ca., in the 1930s as a sawdust sweeper.

ln 1941, he joined George Windler Lumber Co., San Francisco, Ca., as a salesman, working until 1960, when he joined Arcata Lumber Co., Arcata, Ca.

ln 1972, he joined the sales staff of Ward Forest Products, working until his retirementin 1979.

Mr. Wall was a life-lons Hoo-Hoo Club member.

Loren Craig Keirnes, 51, salesman, QB Corp., Salmon, Id., died from cancer Nov. 26 in Salmon.

A native of Salmon, Mr. Keirnes also worked for Champion International and Independent Lumber, Salmon.

Ken Biggs, 66, who started his lumber career with the old American Forest Products, Fresno, Ca., died Dec. l0 in Tennessee.

A native of Sanger, Ca., Mr. Biggs, worked for American Forest Products from 1959 to 1969 before being transferred to the company's Houston, Tx., location.

He later worked for Masonite, Southern Lumber, Orgill and started Distribution America's forest products program.

George Asa Llewellyn, 88, owner, Kaneohe Hardware, Kaneohe, Hi., died Oct. 31.

Mr. Llewellyn was a native of Iowa.

Bush Proposes Thinning Plan

The Bush Administration is pushing a new national forest thinning plan that seeks to change how environmental oversight is handled by the U.S. Forest Service.

Areas designated for thinning will still have a mandatory initial environmental analysis, but it will not be as comprehensive as current Clinton-era regulations call for.

In addition, the plan seeks to narrow the timeframe for environmental impact statements, restrict administrative appeals to only those people or groups that raised objections at early hearings on thinning projects, and eliminate specific standards and procedures for maintaining and monitoring wildlife populations.

Bush Administration officials say the measures are necessary to counter groups who use the appeal process to delay timber projects they are opposed to.

Environmentalists contend the plan is an effort to "cut the public out of forest decisions," said the Wilderness Society's Mike Francis.

EPA Sued To Expand CCA Ban

Environmentalists have filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency to increase thi scope and speed of the wood treating chemical phase-out.

In the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. suit, Beyond Pesticides and the Communication Workers of America claim that the EPA has sufficient evidence to ban the use of CCA, pentachlorophenol, and creosote.

Last February, the nation's largest wood preservative manufacturers agreed to discontinue selling CCA for nonindustrial wood products by the end of2003.

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No Salvaging At Cal Depot

A Home Depot employee and a local salvage business owner were arrested for allegedly stealing merchandise from a Rohnert Park. Ca.. Home Depot.

George Bataeff Sr., the 75-year-old owner of Bataeff Salvage Co., Santa Rosa, Ca., and Depot worker Ron Dodds are accused of loading $4,000 in stolen merchandise into Bataeff's flatbed truck Nov. 21.

Bataeff said the eight windows, patio door, pressure washer, wheelbarrow and other items were to be thrown out-and under a long-standing agreement with a former manager of the store-his company was to haul awaY the damaged items.

"The same thing goes on over and over," said Bataeff. "Whatever they've been saving, ready to go in the compactor, they throw on the truck."

The current Depot store mgr. said he had warned both men that only damaged racks were allowed to be given away.

Bataeff said he plans to sue the retail chain.

Treesource Sells Mill, Moves

As it negotiates the sale of Trask River Lumber Co., Tillamook, Or., Treesource Industries has relocated its offices from Portland, Or., to the site of its Tumwater, Wa., mill.

The sale to Stimson Lumber Co., Portland, expected to close early this month, will leave Treesource with two mills, Tumwater Lumber Co. and Glide Lumber Products Co.. Glide. Or.

"As a smaller company, we have to reduce our overhead," says president and c.e.o. Bob Lockwood. "With the Trask River sale, we'll be positioned to not have any debt."

Lockwood is the only staffer to transfer to Tumwater. The company's corporate attorney, Galen Bland, will remain in Portland, while purchasing manager Jeff Remington works out of the central saw shop in Philomath, Or.

Salesman Ron Liebelt will stay on through the Trask River sale and then join Exterior Wood, Washougal, Wa. Allan Hurd is looking for a new opportunity in the Portland area. Bill O'Banion, ex-Simpson Timber, has joined Treesource in Tumwater as sales manager.

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Floor Panel Gold

Weyerhaeuser Co.'has introduced a professional grade single-layer floor panels that come with a "no-sanding" guarantee.

Structurwood Gold is manufactured flat and is reportedly engineered not to buckle, sag or warp.

It is guaranteed not to need edge sanding due to water absorption.

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Panel Grid Marks

Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. has introduced a new system of cutting/ nailing grid lines called "Unit Measurement Markings" onto OSB and plywood.

The Grid appears on panels every 1/8" to assist contractors in the installation of roof sheathing, side walls, subflooring and siding.

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Coastal Cornerboard Style

A 6" finished cornerboard for coastal and Cape Cod style homes is new from Azek Trimboards.

Don't Duck Dirty Concrete

Duckback Products has introduced a new non-corrosive concrete etching solution that prepares smooth concrete for stains and paints.

Lamp Post Literacy

L.B. Plastics has introduced two decorative PVC lamp kits for 4"x4" and 6"x6" posts and other structures.

The cornerboards reportedly work with all housing exteriors, including fiber cement siding, cedar shakes and brick and vinyl siding.

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Safe-T-Etch scours out ground-in mud, dirt and clay and is said to be a safe alternative to Muriatic acid.

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Trees Meet Software

Computer Associates has introduced a new 5.0 upgrade for its Building Materials Application Software.

Ponderosa features Web site integration to existing sites for ordering or inquiry and e-mailing reports. It is ODBC compliant for desktop integration with most common programs.

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Available in coach and globe style, the kits provide lighting for residential, industrial and marine applications.

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No Lagging Behind

LWO Corp. has introduced a stainless steel lag system for installing components of its Architectural Deckrail line.

The lag system is said to be corrosion free and is included with each pre-assembled panel. It complies with all major building codes. - Please contact (800) 459-8718

Tote Those Tools

Belt clips from Crafted Designs allow contractors to carry tools while keeping both hands free.

Tote-All is said to hang on any type of belt and can carry tools as large as power tools and as small as duct tape.

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Composite Railing Harmony

A new composite railing from Louisiana-Pacific Corp. reportedly looks like a painted surface without the maintenance of wood.

Lift This Power Stacker

A power lift stacker for light-duty material handling is new from Multiton MIC Corp. Model SM 15/20. a walk-behind stacker, is available in a single mast for 62" lift or a telescopic mast for lifts up to 130".

- Please contact (804) 737-7400 or go online at www.multiton.com

Prime Tint Time

Tinted primers that are said to hide dark or unwanted stains more effectively than paint are now available from Zinsser.

Weatherbest Crystal White railing is a composite wood/polymer substrate that is co-extruded with PVC cap stock for strength.

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The Lion Tile King

A ceramic tile from GeorsiaPacific for high-traffic, high mois-ture areas such as baths, playrooms and laundry rooms.

Lionite TileBoard features a baked-on melamine finish that is said to be water-resistant and cleaned easily with soap and water.

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Mac The Utility Knife

A dual-edged utility knife with a five-position retractable blade for application-specific requirements is new from OLFA.

Bulls Eye l-2-3 and Bulls Eye l-23 Deep Tint are said to work on hardto-paint surfaces such as paneling, cabinets, and vinyl siding without sanding.

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A Wrenching lmpact

A heavy-duty, l-l/2" square drive impact wrench designed for soft joint applications is new from ATP.

ATPl578LT-TH features a ball and cam type clutch that converts air motor torque into rotary impacts.

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Sun Care For Deck Planks

TimberTech has introduced composite deck planks that are said to maintain their color despite exposure to the elements.

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Planks are available in l2-,16- and 20-ft. lengths.

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Safety First

A temporary steel safety post that attaches to the end of open wooden landings on construction sites is new from Intromark Inc.

Temp Rail is designed for openings no more than 8' feet apart and is installed using 3" deck screws-it can be reused.

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Vinyl Post-lt Notes

Bufftech has introduced a new line of decorative vinyl panel posts to go with its Manchester series oicket fences.

Classic Impressions feature recessed panel posts that reportedly resemble the look of real millwork. The posts come in white and are routed for 3' and 4' Manchester fence styles.

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UTC-1 Auto-Lock is made of heavy-gauge stainless steel blade channel and accommodates SKB. RSKB and HOB-2 blades.

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Concrete Floor Artistry

A decorative finishing system for concrete floors that is said to produce a textured appearance is new from Rudd Co.

plank that is said to resist fungus growth and rotting

TenduraPlank is available in 8', l0' and 12' lengths and is engineered to show a visible seam that emulates traditional tongue-and-groove lumber.

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Oh My Hole Saw!

A hole saw adapter that is said to enlarge smaller holes is new from Intromark, Inc.

A Vertical Stock Feat

A mini-stock picker for vertical access in distribution centers and for retrieving overhead stock in retails stores is new from JLG Industries.

SkimStone is said to be a less expensive alternative to granite, limestone, marble or natural stone.

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Tongue & Groove Lashing

Tendura has introduced a 1"x6" tongue-and-groove composite porch

Hole Saw Hole Adapter is made of steel and is said to eliminate the need forjerry rigging a solid guide in order to drill or cut a clean hole.

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Model 9MP features a l5-ft. working height, 500 lbs. of total platform capacity, and a self-closing entry gate.

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Cut Everything In Sight!

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Co. has introduced three different pull-stroke cutting saws for woodworking, pruning and PVC pipe.

Jig Saw Puzzle Cut

A new variable speed jig saw from Metabo Corp. offers five-stage orbital blade motion designed for cutting metal, wood and plastic.

STEl05 Plus features a vario constamatic full-wave electronic speed control and can be used for plunge

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LOCK, STOCK & EWP: Stockton Wholesale Lumber, Stockton, Ca., recently opened a new engineered wood products yard two mibs from its cunent location. The satellite vard was built on a 7-acre parcel and stocks'a lull line of Roseburg Forest Products ewp and Weyerhaeuser glulams. Randy Roget is the new mgr.; Darryl Tumer is in charge of technical duties.

Depot Adds Self-Checkout

Home Depot stores are now installing self-check out stations as part of an overhaul of the chain's front-end checkout technology.

The most innovative aspect of FAST (Front-end Accuracy and Service Transformation) involves the installation of four self-checkout stations at 300 of Depot's highest volume stores by year end.

Next year the chain is expected to install the stations at 500 more stores.

"FAST will significantly improve the speed, accuracy and service levels at the checkout counters for millions of Home Depot customers," said Depot's Troy Rice.

In addition to the self-checkout stations, Home Depot has partnered with NCR Corp. and Microsoft to reduce time, improve accuracy and enhance cashier performance at its traditional checkout counters.

New technology features include: . point-of-sale terminals with touch-screens featuring graphics to speed-up cashier efficiency, . performance software to evaluate

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Depot's Don Harrison said the move was not an attempt to eliminate staff, but conceded it could result in a shift toward more part-time work. About 6OVo of Depot workers are full time.

SURPRISEIWestem Woods lnc. hosted a surprise birthday party Nov. 19 for (1) Mike Bivins (center), Jim Edwards and Tom Holland, at Max's Opera Cafe in Sacramento, Ca. (2) Nick Elardo. (3) Jon Diederich, Bill Meek, Jill Reynolds (4) Mark Miller, Tommy Von Moos, Jim Edwards, Mike Bivins, Wayne Couch, Scott Kassahn, Wayne Murphy.

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PORTLAND wholesalers (continued from previous page) leled Lumberman of the Year (1)Jerry Gustafson (center), with wfe Marilyn and Paul McCracken (2) Louie Buschbacher, Kathy & Denny O Sullivan (3) Gary Zauner, Ken Tennefoss, Leland Curtiss. (4) Jeff Moore. Leonard Gteer, Chris Close. Tom Reynolds. (5) M ke Fullmer. Brett Slaughter Scott Slaughter (6) Joseph He tz Dan W nkle, M ke Anderson, (7) Larry Tommerup, Julie Johnson. Jerry Farey (8) Denns Bichardson. Jeanre & Wayne Hom. (9) Chuck & Haey Danskey. Bran Jones. (10) Charley

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SACRAIIENTO / STOCKION AREA

Arch Wood Prolection ...........,........................(530) 533-7814

BMD ......(800) 356-3001

Califomia Cascade Industries ........................(916) 736-3353

Califomia Foresl Products Commission.........(530) 823-2363

Calitomia Lumber Inspeclion Service.............(209) 334-6956

Capitol Plywood...... .......(916) 922-8861

Conrad Wood Preserving...............................(800) 499-2662 Delta Distribution..... ......(209) 466-3683

Dorris Lumber & Moulding...(800) 827-5823 (916) 452-7531 Holmes Lumber Co., Fred C. (Marysville) ......(530) 743"3269

Hydra Re-Load Center (Warehouse) .............(530) 6684034

Kelleher Corp. ...............(916) 9291792

Louisiana-Pacific (Rocklin)..(800) 348-1,1't0

Soururnr Cltuonln

FRESNO

DMK-Pacific............. ......(559]' 225-4727

Van G Logistic Services.................................(559) 834-5500

Weyerhaeuser Building Matena|s...................(877) 235-6873

MODESTO

Conrad Wood Preserving Co. ........................(800) 499-2662

Thunderbolt Wood Treating C0......................(800) 826-8709 (209) 8694561

REDDING / RED BLUFF

Gemini Forest Pr0ducts....................,.............(530) 223-7440

Pacific Wood Preserving ................................(530) 824-9400

Shasta Cascade Foresl Industries, Inc. .........(503) 243-0500

Sierra-Pacific Industries.....,.......,......,............(530) 378-8000

Siskiyou Forest Products ....(800) 374-0210 (530) 938-2771

Trinity River Lumber Co. ................................(530) 623-5561

Western W00ds...................................,..Ca.: (800) 822-8157 U.S.: {800) 824-4100

Baxter, J.H............... ......(650) 349-0201

Beaver LumberOo.. ,.....(831) 636-3399

Califomia Forest Products..............................(831 ) 634-0100

Califomia Redwood Association....,....,.,.,..,....(415) 382-0662

Chemonite Council ,. .,....(650) 573-331 1

EarthSource Forest Products.........................(866) 549-9663 (510) 208-7257

Kelleher corp. (Novato)...........................,..,...(41 5) 898-1 270

Kelleher Corp. (San Rafael) ........................,..(415) 454-8861

Landmark Building Products ...,......................(800) 697-2001

UKIAH /WILLITS

Cal Coast Wholesale Lumber, 1nc..................(707) 468"0141

Westem Woods, Inc............,.,..........,.............(800) 974-1661

Lane Stanton Vance ......(510) 632-9663 North Pacific 1umber...........(800) 505-9757 (707) 562-3900

Pacific Wood Preserving................................(800) 5384616

Redwood Empire..... ......(800) 800-5609

Redwood Inspection Service.,..,..,..................(415) 382-0662

Simpson Strong-Tie Co. ......(800) 999-5099 (510) 562-7775

Sure Drive USA, Inc. ...................................,..(888) 219-1700

ALBUOUEROUE

Boise Distribution,.,.,............(800) 889-4306 (505) 877-8150

Capital Lumberco. .......\505).877-7222

Evercreen wood composites.....,....,.,..... t36ll 311.3333

Georgia-Pacific Corp ......iaooi eso-zgzo

Western Woods, Inc. ...............,......,...............(800) 61 7-2331 NEVADA

LAS VEGAS

Weyerhaeuser Building Materia|s...................(877) 235-6873

RENO/CARSON CIW AREA

Plywood....... ......(775) 329-4494

Nevada Wood Preserving ..............................(775\ 577-2000 Weyerhaeuser Building Materia|s...................(877) 235-6873

Weyerhaeuser Building Materia|s.......,...........(877) 235-6873

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Suoerior Hardwoods Inc.......

Universal Forest Products....

Tata Enterorises...... Van Arsdale-Hanis Lumber Co. (510) 705-8588 (41s) 467-871 1 ...............(800) 6s1 -2337 ...............(480) 961 -0833

Weyerhaeuser Building Materials..............,....(877) 235-6873

HONOLULU / MAUI

HAWAII

Conrad Wood Preserving...............................(800) 356-7146

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McFarland Cascade. .....(800) 426-8430

McKenzie Forest Pr0ducts.............................(800) 773-9329

Rosboro Lumber...... ......(541) 746-841 1

Seneca Sawmill Co.. .....(541) 689-7950

Weslern Woods, Inc. ......................................(888) 557-9199

Weyerhaeuser Building Materia|s...................(877) 235-6873

MEDFORD / GRANTS PASS

Allweather Wood Treaters.....,........................(800) 759-5909

Bums LumberCo.... ......(800) 331-0831

Waldron Forest Products................................(541) 471-8891

McilINNVILLE / CORVALLIS / SALEM

Northwest Coating Systems (800) 810-9550 (503) 981-9244

Royal Pacific Industries..............,......,............(503) 434-5450

Weyerhaeuser Co. (Albany)...........................1541\ 926-777 1

Universal Forest Products (Woodbum)..........(503) 226-6240

GREATER PORTLAND AREA

Adams Lumber, 1nc......,....... (800) 298-4222 (5031 245-17 96

Cascade Forest Group...................................(503) 636-8633

Cascade Warehouse...........(888) 292-2687 (503) 363-2483

Collins Pine C0....................(800) 758-4566 (503) 227-1219

Friesen Lumber Co. .............(503) 397-1 700 (503) 224-731 7

Hamplon Lumber

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729-9663

BEND

Bright Wood Corp. (Madras) ..........................1541\ 475-2234

Universal Forest Products...................,..,....,..(541) 389-8000

COOS BAY / NORTH BENO

Conrad Forest Products.......(800) 356-7146 (541) 756-2595

EUGENE / SPRINGFIELD

Baxter, J.H...............

689-3020

Burns Lumber Co. ... ......(866) 686-3009

Gemini Forest Products.,.......,.......,................(541) 485-7578

Jasper Wood Products ...................................(541 ) 988-1 1 27

Western Wood Preserving Company prides itself in carrying the right inventory mix of pressure treated and fire retardant treated lumber and plywood for your "just in time" needs.

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All-Coast Forest Products [144]...Cover III

Anfinson Lumber Sales E11l ...................26

Baxter, J.H. 1f 291.......................................31

Bean Lumber Co., Curt I1071 ....................7

Berkot Manufacturing U35l ....................40

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Britt Lumber t1401....................................41

Buena Vista Custom Milling U381.........Jf

Cal Coast Wholesale Lumber U261.........30

Chemical Specialties Inc. [1 l3] ................21

Colville Indian Precision Pine [131] ........33

Distribution Management Services Inc. t1091................ ..............1s

Fontana Wholesale Lumber t1331 ...........36

Fremont Forest Group Corp. [126]........19

Gemini Forest Products [116] ..................23

Herbert Lumber Co. [ 139]........................28

Huff Lumber Co. [130].............................32

Kayu International [137] ..........................33

Keller Lumber Company If34]................37

Lumbermen's Credit Association ...........37

Matthews International [l25j...................29

McKenzie Forest Products [1121..............20

Montrose Reload [l 14] ...........................22

Oregon-Canadian Forest Products of California t1431 ...-.....--......................46

Osmose tf 02l ...................................Cover II

Pacific MDF Products t1031.......................3

Parr Lumber Co. [l23] .............................27

Polywood Products t1 171 ..........................23

Product Sales Company [104]....................4

Redwood Empire tl05l ...............................5

Roseburg Forest Products [45]...Cover IV

Simpson Strong-Tie [141] .........................43

Stockton Wholesale Lumber If 10]...........15

Sunbelt Material Handling t1081 ...............8

Swan Secure Products 11151.....,.........22, 36

Thompson Hardwoods I f 2f ] ....................19

Thunderbolt Wood Treating [106] ..........17

TruWood t1011 .................................Cover I

TrusJoist tl 191 ...........................................25

Ultra-Flex Moulding [1 18]........................24

Utah Wood Preserving ll22)....................27

Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company 11271................ ..............30

Waldron Forest Products U361................33

Western Woods Inc. Il24l ..........................6

Western Wood Preserving Co. 11421.......45

Woodfold-Marco Mfg. U281.....................31

Woodguard t1321.......................................19

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