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Duane C. McDougall, building materials group exec. v.p., is slated to become pres. and c.o.o. of Willamette Industries, Portland, Or.

Rick Re has returned to Seneca Sawmill Co., Eugene, Or., as v.p. and gen. mgr. Former gen. mgr. Phil Tedder has retumed to his consulting business.

Warren Murray has joined Redhill Forest Products, Hayden Lake, Id., in sales support.

Nate Jorgensen is the new customer support mgr. at TrusJoist MacMillan, Boise, Id.

Hal Smith has joined sales at Summit Hardwoods, Pomona, Ca.

J. Thurston Roach, ex-Simpson Investment Co., was appointed senior v.p. and pres. of Owens Corning's North American Building Material Systems Business.

Karen Morgan, ex-Ariel Truss, has joined Tualatin Valley Builders Supply, Vancouver, Wa., as a salesperson in the Truss Division.

Larry Ice, ex-Wood Fiber Products, is new to sales at Mokelumne River Forest Products, Lodi, Ca.

Walter Swanson has been named general mgr. of the hardboard division of Evanite Fiber, Corvallis, Or.

Debbie Donnell has been promoted to panel product sales manager of Louisiana-Pacifi c. Rocklin. Ca.

Robert Phillips is new to sales at Wisconsin-Califomia Forest Products, Sisters, Or.

David Espinoza, Dixieline Lumber, San Diego, Ca., has assumed added responsibilities in the firm's National City, Ca., wholesale distribution division.

Jim McCluskey has joined the lumber sales dept. at Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia, Ca., as Rocky Mountain rep, covering Az., N.M., Co., Ut. and West Tx. Julie Wright is now export sales manager, and Bill Jones is now in export sales.

Charles C. Tufano was appointed v.p.West for Georgia-Pacific's building products distribution division.

Mel Cappoen is the new gen. mgr. at Trillium Lumber, Portland, Or.

Jim Hambleton is gen. mgr. for the recently opened Denver, Co., branch of Louis and Co., Brea, Ca.

Kathy Delozier, ex-Universal, is new to cedar sales at Enyeart Trading Group, Lake Oswego, Or.

Bill Myrick, v.p.-purchasing, 84 Lumber Co., will also oversee installed sales, distribution, advertising and pricing depts. Denny Bruna was promoted to v.p.-development; Frank Cicero, v.p.operations, and Ron Rinehart, v.p.installed sales and distribution.

Bill Weaver was named exec, v.p. at Canyon Creek Cabinet Co., Monroe, Wa.

Ed Stanton, ex-Shakertown, has joined Pasquier Panel Products, Sumner, Wa.

John Strader, ex-McKenzie River Trading, is now selling green dimension and cuttings for Timber Products, Springfield, Or.

Randy Barsalou and Jack Harbin, exPacific Lumber & Shipping, have been hired by Ondo & Co., Kirkland, Wa., Barsalou in Ar., Harbin in Ga.

Joseph Mox is the new retail programs director for Distribution America.

Alan Vidinsky, Valin Corp., Sunnyvale, Ca., was elected 2nd vice chair of the National Association of WholesalerDistributors. Mike McClelland. Hardware Wholesalers, Inc., is past chair.

William "Bill" Bird is now director of sales-West and Robert Belfield director of sales-East at Weslock Brand, Los Angeles, Ca. Randy Wright is now senior district mgr.

Thomas A. Eiller has been named director of mktg. for RealWorld Corp.

Tom Peterson, McFarland Cascade, Tacoma, Wa., was elected pres. of the Western Wood Preservers Institute during its 50th annual meeting in Indian Wells, Ca. Also elected: v.p. Mike Reimer, Western Wood Preserving Co.; sec. Richard Baxter, J.H. Baxter; treas. Gerry Glem, Allweather Wood Treaters; pres. exofficio John Snead, California Cascade; limited treaters rep Fred Amundson, Chemco, and associate member rep David Bruck, Tarr, Inc.

lValter W. Turner is now pres., c.e.o. and a director of Koppers Industries.

Denny Curran, Evergreen Lumber and Molding, Orange, Ca., moderated a panel at the Little League Congress in San Antonio, Tx. Included were delegates from Ukraine and Moldova.

John G. Olson, Trimco Millwork, Denver, Co., is the new pres. of W.O.O.D., Inc., succeeding Larry Bujaci, Mountain States Lumber & Bldg. Material Dealers Assn. Bujaci is joined on the board by Doug Qunningfuam, Boise Cascade; Dennis llobbs, Jordan's Building Center; Sid llollender, All-Coast; Kevin Pask, Alpine Lumber, and Jeff Styerwalt, G-P. Alan Hall, Chase Lumber, is sec./treas.

Alice Laberge has been promoted to senior v.p.-finance at MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Bob Anderson is now senior v.p.-environment and technology.

Warren Easley, Louisiana-Pacific, Portland, Or., is now chairman of APA's technical services division advisory committee. Other committee chairs: Steven Caletti, Standard Structures, Ijoist/LVl; Richard Enlow, GeorgiaPacific, structural panels, and Jon Iloward, Rosboro Lumber, glulam. Jack Millikan, retired Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., City of Industry,

Ca., is vacationing for a month in Australia with his wife, Gerry.

Dave DelVal is the new associate editor of The Merchant Magazine, Newport Beach, Ca., replacing Sara Daly, who has left the company after three years.

Manuel Laybor is a new yard hand at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to Ilugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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Doors & Windows Keep Growing

Fueled by the expanding nonresidential and residential replacement markets, U.S. demand for doors and windows should rise 3.6Vo annually to $27 billion in the year 2001, predicts the Freedonia Group.

While a decline in new housing starts should keep demand growth behind 1992-96 rates, demand for vinyl and other plastic windows and doors will provide the strongest growth, rising 8.4Vo annually to $3.5 billion in 2001.

Innovations will stimulate demand in key sectors (d-i-y projects) and drive replacement ahead of wear-driven need.

Millwork will continue to dominate demand, accounting for more than 5OVo of the total in 2001, with sustained growth also for vinyl and aluminum clad wood windows. But as the most expensive product type, millwork will lose market share to vinyl in new housing applications.

Metal window and door demand will trail market averages, hindered by competition from vinyl in residential. Metal products, however, will increase in nonresidential due to their durability and lower average prices.

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L-P To Enter Guilty Plea

To avoid a trial, Louisiana-Pacific is expected to plead guilty this month to 25 counts of environmental crimes at its Montrose, Co., waferboard plant, according to court records.

The trial was set to start April 13. In 1995, the company was indicted for allegedly tampering with monitoring devices and providing false reports about emissions and production levels to authorities.

L-P and a former mill manager also purportedly attempted to defraud customers by falsely representing that their waferboard successfully passed ongoing quality control and assurance testing.

One of two managers indicted received a reduced sentence for cooperating with investigators, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Asbestos Settlement OKed

Fibreboard Corp.'s proposed $1.535 billion asbestos settlement was again approved by a federal appeals court panel.

Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court, after denying another former asbestos manufacturer's settlement, ordered the lower court to review its initial ruling. Fibreboard has since been acquired by Owens Corning.

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Lumber Yard Still Honors Vet

Contractors headed to O.K. Lumber for supplies Saturday Feb. 2l found the San Carlos, Ca., business closedas it has been every Feb.2l for the past 30 years.

On that day in 1968, former employee John Jerome Kopfer was killed in the Vietnam War. Days later, the family-minded lumber yard erected a 4-ft. high concrete column with a bronze plaque at its entrance to memorialize the slain 2l-year-old.

Company v.p. Bob Arends grew up in the business and counts Kopfer and his current 25 workers among his extended family. Kopfer worked at O.K. Lumber as a clerk for four years before enlisting in the Air Force. He died of wounds suffered during the Tet Offensive, a surprise holiday attack on provincial capitals, the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the air base where Kopfer was stationed.

"It was a stupid thing over there," Arends said. "He was just a young kid. He could have run this place."

Customers cite the monument as proof of a commitment to family, says Kopfer's brother, Sonny, who still works at the yard. "It was one of the greatest things that could be done. It's a rare thing in a place of business."

Itochu Buying PrimeSource

Itochu Building Products Co., Inc. has agreed to purchase PrimeSource Inc., Carrollton, Tx., and subsidiary PrimeSource Building Products.

PrimeSource management is expected to remain substantially in place after the $200 million deal closes this month.

Itochu had 1997 sales of $120 million from I I DCs and three packaging plants. PrimeSource, with 34 DCs, nine packaging plants and one nail mill, had sales of $530 million. Overlapping DCs in Southern California. New Orleans. Detroit and Chicago likely will be consolidated.

Tokyo-based Itochu Corp. is one of the world's largest multi-national companies with over $120 billion in annual sales, while New York Citybased subsidiary Itochu International Inc., the parent of IBP, has interests in over 100 companies in North America.

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CHAUFFEUR FOR A DAY: Jack Creighton, retired president and ceo ol Weyerhaeuser Co., drove a Weyerhaeuser employee shuttle Jan. 7, making good on a challenge to encourage car pooling. During October 1997's Rideshare Week, Creighton and state transportation depl. secre' tarv Sid Monison both promised to drive the vans if 1,000 Weyerhaeuser employees participateci in the event. About 1,050 workers p'articipated, eliminating more than 2,000 commutes and ranking the company's par' ticipation number one in the private sector.

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Construction volume in California climbed 18.l7Vo in 1997 to $37.85 billion, with prospects bright for another two years.

For 1998, the Construction Industry Research Board forecasts the state's total dollar construction volume rising 5.8Vo to $40.04 billion. then another 3.l%o to $41.27 billion in 1999. The strongest construction sector in 1997 was private nonresidential building, which increased 27Vo ro $12.2 billion, its highest level since 1990's $14.5 billion.

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Reid & Wright Evolving

Faced with a dwindling supply of old growth redwood, Reid & Wright, Inc., is closing its Arcata, Ca., remanufacturing plant this month to focus on distribution of cedar and redwood building products.

President Robert B. Reid and controller Laurel D. Boldenow will relocate from Arcata to Bend, Or., where Reid & Wright has a distribution yard and smaller facility for remanufacturing redwood, cedar and pine. The company operates a second distribution yard in Broomfield, Co.

Vice president Richard E. Reid, preferring to remain in California, will leave the company after 2l years.

IA proposed sale of the Arcata property to an unnamed wood products company is in escrow.

Founded 50 years ago as a small distribution business in Fresno, Ca., Reid & Wright has grown to distribute across the continental U.S. and Hawaii, and export to Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Grading Comes To Alaska

Western Wood Products Association is extending lumber grade inspection service to Alaskan sawmills. A Iumber inspector will be based in the state to provide mill inspection and grading training.

Previously, due to the cost of importing an inspector, much of the lumber produced in Alaska was not graded, making it ineligible for structural uses governed by building codes.

2nds Specialist Adds 2nd Unit

Shur-Way Building Center, Portland, Or., is fixing up its recently acquired companion store in Hazel Dell, Wa.-but not too much-

"We don't want to overdo it," explains co-owner Gary Yinger. "I want to keep it kind of hokey, since we're selling seconds."

Yinger, partner Ray Groth and their families have invested $1 million and plenty of hard work to revitalize the shabby yellow building of the former Ace Building Supplydecades ago the largest lumber yard in Clark County and where Yinger got his start as a salesman 26 years ago.

In 1980, Yinger and father-in-law Groth bought the then-failing ShurCut lumber mill in Portland. Three years later, they added the Shur-Way retail store next door.

Their niche has been mill and fac- tory rejects, including lumber that's knotted or dirty, uneven-colored roofing shingles, and cabinet plywood with flaws easily hidden by a budgetminded craftsman.

Customers journey from up to 100 miles away to buy usable merchandise at up to half off the cost of first quality.

In 1996, the partners sold the mill to focus on the retail business.

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