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ln business since 1955, HooverTreatedWood Ploducts, lnc., is the prcmier full-line prcssure trcater in North America. In addition, Hooverb firc rctaldantformulations arc licensed to a select grcup of licensee trcating plants.

Hoover has had the same American ownership since 198i1 and the same executive team for over 20 years. Stability and experience assure the industry's most eilfuctive prcduc'ts and support.

1x4, 1x6 6' air dried redwood fencing

At Bift Lumber, we specialize in redwood fence posts, boards and rails - made directly from the tog in our modern sawmill. We're large enough to meet your customers'needs, yet small enough to care and provide the personalseruice you need, Catt Mike Vinum

(707) 822-1779.

It's Privacy Plus, Redwood Empire's pre-built redwood fencing.

This stylish fence is loaded with no-fuss features. The solid, pre-built design saves time and money. Qraliry materials are used throughout, from the tongue and groove redwood fenceboards to the industrial strength fasteners. The top lattice panel provides an extra degree of privacy. And everyone knows redwood keeps its good looks for years and years.

So, for fence without fuss - it's Privacy Plus.

Redwood Qrality

Redwood looks better and lasts longer than other woods

' Redwood resists splitting, cl-recking, cupping and warping

'Redwood hearwood is naturally dunble lnd insect resistant

. Redwood takes and holds flnishes better than other woods

Easy installation

'Save time, money and labor with pre-built fence panels

' Concise, clear instructions included for do-it-yourself-ers

Panels attach easily to posts through three pre-drilled holes

Pre-built SequoiaFence - Features

.Tongue & groove fence boards and dadoed rails make a solid fit

. Sturdy rabbeted 2x5 kick board provides long-lasting stability

Top-q uality. corrosion-resistant fasteners used throughout

Privacy Plus Design

Most popular design in California

. Stylish lattice top looks good while increasing privacy

'A "good neigbbor" fence, Privacy Plus looks great fiom both sides

'Costs no more than comparable nail-up fencing

Applications for Privacy Plus fencing

Makes an excellent boundary f-ence or property line fencing

Ideal as a privacy screen for pools, spas and hot tubs

Screens trash cans, air conditioners or other utilities

'Barrier for pools or other so-called "attractive nuisances"

Siding Of Tomorrow ls Here

Skookum Lumber Co., Olympia, Wa., is banking on the siding of the future. No, it's not vinyl, metal, con-" crete, reconstituted wood or engineered wood. Skookum is investing in good, old-fashioned cedar.

Facing lower-quality, youngergrowth trees, many competitors are looking to alternative materials to emulate the look ofcedar. But Skookum is convinced there's nothing like the real thing.

The company planned, designed and built a new plant from the ground up solely for the production of cedar siding on a sustained yield basis. To improve the quality of the siding to rival man-made alternatives, Skookum created much of the facility's unique machinery and processes itself.

Special saws and sawing methods cut the smaller, knotty logs for maximum yield, strength and smoothness. Computer-controlled kilns slowly dry and steam-cure the wood to minimize shrinkage, splitting and warping. A special thermosetting sealant further waterproofs the small, tight intergrown knots of young growth cedar.

Finally, the siding receives a fac- tory-applied prime coat of Olympic paint, ensuring the primer is applied thoroughly to a required average minimum thickness before it leaves the plant.

Says Skookum's Tucker Smyth: "Properly manufactured and coated cedar substrates can put cedar siding back into the picture as a long-lasting, low-maintenance siding product."

Hampton Donates Land

Hampton Affiliates, Portland, Or., has donated 135 acres of prime wildlife habitat to the Nature Conservancy of Oregon's Blind Slough Swamp Preserve, the state's largest remaining Sitka spruce wetland.

The land gift provides added protection to the preserve, near Astoria, which shelters an ecosystem dominated by old-growth Sitka spruce, willows and creek dogwood, which were once common along tidelands from southeast Alaska to Tillamook Bay. Managed by the Conservancy for scientific study, nature appreciation and education, the preserve is adjacent to the Lewis and Clark National Wildlife Refuge and provides critical habitat for bald eagles, osprey, river otters. salmon and other wildlife.

Wholesalers Trek To Desert

North American Wholesale Lumber Association will "Look Beyond the Horizon" during its 104th annual meeting May 4-7 in Tucson, Az.

Held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, the convention will feature a keynote address by Lynn Michaelis, Weyerhaeuser; a reload management seminar; J. Michael Marks, Indian River Consulting Group, on "Driving Duplication Out of the Channel;" manufacturers council meetings and contact sessions.

APA Enters Gyberspace

Instant access to information on glulams, wood I-joists, plywood and OSB is now available via the Internet on APA-The Engineered Wood Association's new web site.

Reached at http://www.apawood. org, the home page includes a list of APA members and the products they manufacture, a list of current seminars and trade shows.

Engineered Wood Levels Out

U.S. shipments of engineered wood products are forecast to increase 4.l%o to $9.4 billion in 1996, down from the l7.4Vo compound annual growth rate posted over the last five years, according to Specialists in Business Information.

The slowdown corresponds to a leveling off of U.S. housing demand in early 1995 due to rising mortgage interest rates. Lower new home construction caused factory production to slow and engineered wood product prices to drop, reversing the positive economic environment of 1992-94.

With home builders turning to engineered wood as a lower-cost substitute for some traditional lumber materials, engineered wood products' share of the total U.S. lumber and wood products industry rose 9.2Vo in 1995, up from 7.OVo in 1991.

Engineered lumber, particleboard and oriented strandboard are the largest industry sectors and should conf.inue to lead the market through the turn of the century.

Total engineered wood product shipments are expected to climb 9.1Vo annually over the next five years to $14.6 billion, or ll.lVo of total U.S.

lumber and wood product shipments. Particleboard products should experience the strongest gains, increasing at a9.\Vo compound annual rate between 1996 and 2001. While particleboard producers continue to depend heavily on shipments to makers of furniture, cabinets and other industrial products, they have been garnering profits in the mobile home decking, siding and door core markets by expanding output of finished products from purchased particleboard.

Coast Output Passes Inland

Coastal lumber production surpassed inland output last year for the first time in 40 years, according to the Western Wood Products Association. Coast region mills produced 7.27 billion bd. ft. of lumber last year, down 87o from 1994, according to preliminary totals. Inland mill production slid 12.\vo to 7.06 billion bd. ft. Production in the California redwood region fell I9.4Vo to L I billion bd. ft.

Coast lumber production last exceeded inland totals in 1955, when coastal mills produced 9.67 billion bd. ft., inland mills 8.82 billion bd. ft. Since then, inland output has bested coastal production every year, with the widest margin between the regions2.26 billion bd. ft. - in 1968.

Eagle Lands At Competitor?

Speculation that Eagle Hardware & Garden management might be spying on the competition surfaced in The Seattle Times after a truck with the license plate "EAGLEGM" was spotted in the parking lot at the nearby Home Depot in Aurora Village, Wa.

Actually the pickup didn't belong to an Eagle Hardware general manager, but to the owner of Eagle Gas Mechanical, gas furnace installers. Her credit card also reads "EAGLEGM," causing Home Depot employees to accuse her of being a spy when she buys supplies there.

Machinery Sales Energized

Powered by unusually brisk sales in November and December, manufacturer Michael Weinig AG of Germany posted record sales of woodworking machinery in 1995, up 47o over 1994. While domestic business declined, exports stabilized with considerable growth in Asia and eastern Europe.