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Research House Tests

Building Products that conserve the nation's material and energY resource are being tested in the Resource Conservation Research House built bY the National Association of Home Builders Research Center in Bowie, Md.

The 3,600 sq. ft., two-story house uses steel framing and a cast-in-place concrete foundation forming system utilizing post-consumer polystyrene recycle. Hardboard siding from Abitibi Price utilizes recovered wood fiber and roundwood. Ceiling tiles and panels are made with wood fiber containing 22Vo tecycled newsprint. Other tiles and panels contain 227o rccycled newsprint and 25Vo recovered mineral wood.

Spray apPlied wall insulation and

Gompany Shuns Big Chains

In order to supPort indePendent home centers and hardware stores' Sashco Sealants is not selling its products to chains such as Home DePot, HomeBase and Builder's Square.

"Our intention is not to degrade or reflect negatively on these fetailers,"

Gonservation Products

loose-fill attic insulation contain recovered newsprint. Insulated wall sheathing from Dow Chemical contains 107o post consumer polystyrene recycle. Wallboard from LouisianaPacific is 707o gypsum md 307o rccycled waste paper. Nailite roofing is 52Vo resin from recYcled comPuter housings.

Owens-Corning Fiberglas windows have a frame and sash of composite polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass and finished with a polyurethane coating. Timbrex, a 507o sawdust and 50Vo post-consuner polyethylene recycle wood substitute product from Mobil Chemical Co., is used for deck material, railings, columns, landscape timbers and rim. The house is oPen for tours.

company president Les Burch said. "We only wish to support our dealerdistibutor netrrork in the best way we lnow how."

The company emPhasizes its commitment to the independent with a pamphlet, "Product Selection: A Competitive Guide," showing retail- ers how to apply competitive merchandising principles. Ace Hardware, Hardware Wholesalers Inc. and Distribution America reportedly are cooperating.

Asbestos Litigants Agree

Twenty former asbestos manufacturers have reached a $1 billion settlement with two leading law firms, marking the first time two parties have agreed nationally on a way to resolve the runaway personal injury litigation outside of bankruPtcy courL

While it covers only future clairns and not the more than 100,000 suits pending around the country, the Proposed settlement is a real step towards ending the asbestos litigation crisis, which has led to over 200,000 lawsuits, pushed 16 comPanies into bankruptcy and continues to grow at a rate of at least 50 lawsuits a day. It may also offer a model for manufacturers in limiting liability in other cases involving toxic Products.

The proposal would establish a private administration to handle asbestos claims out of court, with the 20 defendants and their insurers settling at least

100,00 new asbestos injury claims for $1 billion during the next decade. The panicipating firms, found by juries to be responsible for up to 25Vo of liability in asbestos cases, also offered the same terms to all 76,000 of the law_ suits pending against them, for about another $1 billion.

But the proposal is under fre ftom other plaintiff lawyers who represent thousands of other asbestos victims and doesn't. apply to the largest fonner asbestos makers. Among the participating manufacturers are GAF, Armstrong World Industries, National Gypsum Co., U.S. Gypsum Co. and CertainTeed.

Stanline Consolidates

Stanline, Inc. will shutter nvo of its Norwalk, Ca., divisions and move its headquarters and other two divisions to Pomona, Ca.

The Industrial Division, which sells particleboard to fumiture makers and cabinet shops, and Applicator/Acoustical Division (USG Ceilings), canying commercial interiors for conFactors, will be closed. The Corian Division, handling DuPont countertops, and Dealer Division, serving indepen- dent lumber dealers with doors, flooring and ceilings, will be moved in late February.

The company-owned site in pomona has been used as a warehouse for its Armsrong line and offers l00Vo more office space and 50Vo morc warehouse space over curent headquartefs.

"It didn't make sense to have four separate locations so close together,', said president Lynn Homertgen. "We don't see the business climate of the '80s returning any time soon, so we're getting ready to do business in the '90s. These are the two divisions that are growing and profitable."

Operations in Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas remain unchanged.

Firms Ranked by Employees

Two forest products companies and a window manufacturer were included 9! the 1993 Top 25 List of Largest Manufacturers in the Sacramento, Ca., area compiled by lhe Sacramento Busincss Jourrwl.

Ranking is by the number of full time employees. Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, was l6th witl