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Brothers On WayTo Prison

The owners of the now defunct Cal-State Lumber Sales, San Ysidro, Ca., have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to 15 months after pleading guilty to filing false federal tax returns, according to San Diego News Services.

Benjamin Acevedo Rosas, 42; Manuel Acevedo Rosas, 46, and Victor D. Acevedo Rosas, 49, reportedly confessed to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by failing to report substantial amounts of income on their tax returns. Their tax preparer, Cory M. Homnick, 45, also pleaded guilty to helping prepare one of the false tax returns that omitted over $l million in income.

Distributors To Merge

PrimeSource Building Products agreed to acquire the assets of Prudential Metal Supply Corp.

Prudential, a building products packager and distributor with 1999 sales of $ 146 million, operates l0 distribution centers.

Carrollton, Tx.-based PrimeSource, with 1999 sales of $741 million, operates three manufacturing plants, 16 packaging plants and 37 distribution centers. The fate of DCs in overlapping markets is undecided.

Both companies serve a similar customer base (lumberyards, home centers and specialty distributors) with similar product lines, such as roofing and builders hardware.

The deal is expected to close midmonth.

Parr Pushes Prefab Panels

Parr Lumber, Portland, Or., has developed dimensionally accurate prefabricated wall panels made from steel and wood components that reportedly are stronger and lighter than conventional wood framing.

For use in custom and production housing, Soloflex Walls are laid flat on the jobsite, nailed, and then tilted upright into place, much like conventional framing.

The difference is that the pre drilled walls are mostly assembled at the factory, saving time and materials. Built to specification and dry rot-resistant, Soloflex Walls are allegedly easy to align and yield truer, straighter walls than conventional framing.

"We're typically seeing savings of

- Attonymous up to 80 hours labor in framing a 2,000-sq. ft. house," asserts Ruxton Schuh, program mgr.

Big W Selling Door Business

As part of its plan to focus on its core businesses, Weyerhaeuser Co. agreed to sell its door manufacturing division to merchant banking firm Saunders Karp & Megrue for an undisclosed cash amount.

In 1999, the Marshfield, Wi., plant made and sold 720,000 customized architectural doors. The deal is anticipated to close by early April.

Last year, Weyerhaeuser sold is composite products business and closed its chlor-alkali plant in Longview, Wa.

There are a lot of good reasons for carrying L-P Solid Start' products: wide variety, a limited lifetime warranty and the fact that they build great homes.

Full line now available in stock: o LPl" 20 and 32 series l-joists (solid sawn flanged)

. CTR" 150 and 250 series l-joists (Gang-Lam" LVL flanged) o LPI 36 and 56 series l-joists (Gang-Lam LVL flanged) r Gang-Lam 2650 Fb and 2950 Fb beams in standard and billet thicknesses (1-314" to 7" thick)

. Solid Start rim board

For more information. including a copy of our warranty, contact Huff Lumber.

Softwood Pact Under Attack

A bipartisan resolution calling for discontinuation of the four-year-old U.S./Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement has been sponsored by 32 Congressmen.

Resolution 252 calls for termination of the pact when it expires April l, 2001, "with no extension or further quota agreement," and urges the President to "continue discussions with the government of Canada to promote open and competitive trade between the United States and Canada for softwood lumber," and to "consult with all stakeholders, including consumers of softwood lumber products, in future discussions regarding the open trade of softwood lumber between the United States and Canada."

Critics of the treaty say it has increased lumber and home prices, contributed to wild swings in the supply and price of lumber, and discourages, instead of encourages, free trade.

"The Canadian quota agreement was presented as managed trade, but it has been mismanaged trade and worse," says retailer Tom Ross, chairman of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association. "We are enthusiastic about the Concurrent Resolution to end mismanaged trade and return to the American public free trade market conditions that will suppo( affordable housing."

Quota supporter W.J. "Rusty" Wood, chairman of the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, countered: "The resolution calls for an open competition for lumbcr but with no call for an end to Canadian lumber subsidies."

The Clinton Administration does not want to extend the pact, but hopes to find another way to settle disputes over stumpage.

Wickes Sells Builders Via Internet

Two Wickes Lumber stores are the first to begin using BuildscapePRO, a password-protected Internet site for professional hornebuilders

Developed by Buildscape, Inc., the system helps builders procurc materials from sales reps and suppliers they know and have established credit with. For local retailers, it combines their physical inventory with BuildscapePRO's huge virtual inventory.

New services corning online in the next few months include wireless ordering from the job site and communications capabilities to help manage subcontractors and customers.

The pilot program, which began at Wickes stores in Pensacola, Fl., and Pascagoula, Ms., will soon expand to other chains, before rolling out nationally in the summer.

Down River Plant Shut

U.S. Wood Products' Down River Forest Products facility in Woodland, Ca., willpermanently close in mid-April.

Ernployees were notitied of the closure February l5 in accordance with the federal 60-day regulation. The plant will continue to operate as existing orders are conrpleted.

The plant manufactures red alder components for domestic and export markets. According to company spokespersons, the red alder market has been oversupplied for several years, causing the Woodland operation to be consistently unprofi table.

The plants in Stockton, Ca., and White City, Or., will continue to be ooerated bv U.S. Wood Products.

Nu Forest Products is a full line lumber distribution yard that, unlike many, has a wide ran$e of milling equipment that enables us to handle all your specialized needs. NFP can mill lengths of 8" to 38'your stock or ours.

Let Nu Forest Products prirne your e!ryk througft :', our Paint-o,Matic and dry]mg oven. $lFP Primed Froducts perform better. They are proteetgd,unth two coats of top qualitv primer which minimizes moisture problems.

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HomeBase Plans New Format

Hammcre d by Home Depot, Lowe's Cos. and other competitors, HomeBase Inc., Irvine, Ca., will debut a new home furnishing and interior design concept in five stores within the next year.

As with Depot's Expo Design Centers, the new stores will be tailored for female shoppers and will feature fl ooring, carpeting, furniture, home decor and accessories, lawn and garden products and scasonal items.

"Thesc are not going to be traditional HonreBase storcs that havc just changed," promised Bill Langsdorf, exccutive vice president and chief financial officer. "It will be rnore signil'icant than just display. 1'hey will have a new feel and ofler new products."

While Langsdorf didn't reveal where the new stores will be located, he did say they will open in the second half of the year in established market areas.

President and ceo Allan Sherman said the storcs will be similar in size to a typical HomeBase, at roughly 103,000 sq. ft.

Whilc analysts praised thc new concept, nrany cautioned the firm not to overextend itself, particularly since HomcBase lacks the capital to writc ofl'such a costly endeavor, should it fail.

Hardie Adds Joint Compounds

Janie s Hardie Gypsum, Mission Vie.1o, Ca., plans to invcst about $10 million to begin manufacturing joint treatmcl)t compounds that arc used as finishing products in gypsunr wallboard installation.

To produce the compounds, the l'irnr will construct threc joirrt trcatment plants in the Northwcst, East/Central and Southwest U.S.

The first plant will be built in rhe Seattle , Wa., area for $2.45 nrillion, rvith an operational date of Octobcr 2000. This facility will service the Pacif ic Northwest, British Columbia and export markets. The firnr plans to have product available in thc Southwest U.S. by yoar's cnd and througl.rout thc U.S. within l2 months.

'l'o assist with regional product formulations and other key aspccts of thc busincss. thc firrn hirccl Tcrry Williarns, a longtimc industry veteran and the invcntor of Iightu,eight .yoint cornpounds.

Jamcs Hardie GvDsunr is the lirurth

Iargcst manufacture r of gypsunt wallboard in thc U.S. and opcratcs *,allboard manufacturing plants in Seaille, Wa., Las Vegas, Nv., and Nashvillc, Ar.

Plywood Plants Expanding Colurnbia Forest Products, Portland, Or., is investing $25 nrillion this year to expand hardwood plywood capacity at thrce of its U.S. mills.

Thc manufacturer is installing additional lay-up and Iinishing ccyuipment to increasc the capacitv ol' its

Klamath Falls, Or., plant by approxinately 2O%t.

Addition of a statc-of-the-art, 82,000-sq. l't. plywood production linc u ill tjoublc rhc caplcity at its Trumann, Ar., operation, rnaking it the largest thrce-ply plywood plant in the country.

Thc capacity of its Craigsville, W.V., poplar veneer lacility rvill expand by over 46.000 sq. l't. rvirh the installation of sprcaders and prcsses to producc veneer core plywood panels and Forest Stcrvardship Councilcertifi c(I. calibrated blanks.

"I've been standing behind Adams Lunrber for-10 years."

''We buy Cedar fenci-ng materials in different grades. in wrdths rangrng lrom 3-l/2" 10 12". and lengths from 4' to 8'. Adams is the only source lor some of that natedal. They're prompt, ship on our schedule, are consis1enl irr p*-ade rnd r'lnu us to mLx tnrckloads o[ dillerent sizes and prades They take care of us, no matter u,'hat."

Mike Nasser, Jewett Cameron