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BigBeanfll: This big 30F beam is an integral component of your engineered floor system and is manufactured to match standard I-joist depths and wall framing widths.

Rosboro Stock Glulam: This 24F, kiln dried beam is available in Architectural and Framing appearance, and is the mainstay of our glulam product line.

IJC-24FrM: Similar but without the high design values of its big brother, this 24F beam is much more cost effective for moderate loads.

l,7E Header: An economical choice where high design values are not required. l.7E Headers go in straight and withstand the elements better than LSL or rclid sawn tirnber.

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Montana Yard Still Kicking

Nearly destroyed by a blaze in January (see Feb. p., 26), Lumber Yard Supply, Great Falls, Mt., has continued operating despite its recent hardships.

The fire, which destroyed $2 million in inventory, leveled an office building, carpentry space and a 35.000-sq. ft. warehouse.

President Owen Robinson said the company plans to rebuild as quickly as possible. "Rebuilding here is most likely, but we're looking at another facility in Great Falls," he said. "But this is such a good location, and I can't imagine abandoning it."

Since the fire, Lumber Supply has been working out of temporary offices at the First Interstate Bank downtown-leased at no charge.

The company's carpentry operations have been housed in a couple of different workshops, while extra warehouse space has been leased from a local Harley Davidson shop.

Although Robinson says customers have been patient, he freely admits that some orders have gone elsewhere.

While the company has scrambled to keep one of its four Great Falls sites going, it has also opened up a new branch in Billings, Mt., that now employs three.

The company will build an office building in Billings next to the warehouse it purchased. There are plans for 50 people to be employed there by May.

Capital Buys Cedar Business

Capital Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., has acquired Humphrey Lumber's Lakewood, Wa., operations.

Capital has been doing business in Humphrey's territory as Cascade Capital, which serves Washington, Alaska, Oregon, northern ldaho and western Montana through a four-acre, asphalt-covered yard and 100,000+ sq. ft., fully enclosed warehouse in Tacoma. Humphrey's assets, including all inventory and equipment, will be transferred to the Cascade Capital facility.

Humphrey Lumber, a leader in the cedar industry, was founded in 1914.

NW Log Exports Still Flat

Although Washington's Port of Tacoma still handles 257o of the log export business in the West, its present volume is down 807o from highs in the 1960s and'70s.

Weyerhaeuser Co. and log exporter Murray Pacific Timber regularly ship containers of logs to Japan, but the Asian economic crisis and a cheap supply of foreign wood from countries like Russia has made exporting a tight business. In 2000, Murray Pacific exported 40 million bd. ft. to Asia, down from a high of 200 million ft. in the 1970s. Accordingly, its work force shrunk from 50 to l0 workers today.

Weyerhaeuser has also felt the pinch, exporting only 91 million bd. ft. in 2000, down from a 1990 total of 220 million bd. ft.

On a larger scale, U.S Forest Service data records that log exports in Western Washington have plummeted from 2.4 billion bd. ft. in 1989 to 360 million bd. ft. in 2000.

Some industry observers blame the drop on a narrow focus of the Japanese market. Others see the forces of globalization at work.

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"It's a global issue," said Steve Shook, who teaches forest products marketing at the University of Idaho. "There's too much supply, so countries can go elsewhere for their logs."

Many hope that China will be the next big Asian market, although the Chinese have no tradition of wood frame construction, normally utilizing brick and mortar.

Weyerhaeuser has stated that it is considering trade with China through the shipment of pine logs from its timberlands in New Zealand.

Murray Pacific, which doesn't own any sawmills, says it may look for some domestic mill customers as the Asian market continues to shrink.