FRTW Market

(Continued from page I 4 ) fire performance label that identifies FRTW as produced and inspected to meeting building codes, insurance regulations and government standards.

Who buys FRTW? Possible customers for the product are those who must have buildings constructed of non-combustible materials. This includes com- mercial buildings and multi-family dwellings plus military construction. Projects such as Disney World are volume users of FRTW. A few homeowners attracted by the possibility of lower fire insurance rates also are building dwellings of FRTW

In addition to the safety factor, there are insurance rate advantages to using FRTW. Thnner estimates a three to five year payback for most structures such as commercial buildings and multi-family dwellines.

The industry says . .

"Yes," is the answer from wholesalers, licensed manufacturers and the companies behind them who are responsible for the fire retardantchemicals.With some slowing of single family home building, contractors are swinging to multi-family and commercial construction which, according to most codes, must use fire retardant treated wood.

There are two fypes of FRTW. One is treated to meet specifications for interior, weather shielded applications. The other is suitable for outdoor use and can be used as siding, soffit, fascia and construction lumber. Both interior and exteriorFRTWshould be what the industry calls a state-of-the-art or second generation fire retardant. This means the wood has been treated with chemicals which produce a product with low hygroscopicity and corrosion characteristics. Wood treated in this manner will have less tendency to absorb moisture and form surface bloom, an important consideration in areas with high humidity.

All fire retardant treated wood should meet classification and labeling requirements of the Underwriters Laboratories. An FR-S rating from that agency denotes a surface burning characteristic rating of 25 or less for flamespread, fuel contributed and smoke development. All fire retardant treated lumber should be kiln dried after treatment to a maximum moisture content of l97o with plywood kiln dried to a maximum moisture content of 157o. FRTW which meets these requirements carries a UL label spelling out its classification.

Timbers

Wood preserving companies producing FRIW are licensed by the manufacturers of the fire retardant chemicals to use their materials and processes. They in turn identify the product with a registered trade name provided through the licensing agreement. Although there are numerous treaters involved in producing FRTW there are only a handful oftrade niunes. These include NCX (exterior) and Dricon (interior) both from Koppers; Flame Proof LHC from Osmose; Exterior Fire-X, Exterior Fire-X Blue and Pro-Tex (interior) from Hoover Tieated Wood Products and D-Blaze (interior) from Mineral Research and Development Co., which is now known as Chemical Specialties, Inc.

Dealers who want a part of the FRTW market would be wise to cultivate builders with commercial or multi-housing projects and let it be known that they know what is needed and have it available, wholesalers advise.

AWPI Selects New President

John F Hall has been selected as president of the American Wood Preservers Institute, Venna, Va., according to Alfred X. Baxter. chairman.

1961. His wide range of responsibilities has included being the first director of the joint Environmental and Health Program sponsored by NFPA and the American Paper Institute. He has been a frequent witness before Congressional committees on issues affecting the forest products industry.

AWPI's members, who represent approximately 707o of the wood treating capacity in the industry, include manufacturers, formulators and wood treating companies. The organization represents the interests of the wood preserving industry before Congress and various federal agencies including the EPA.

Treated Wood Production Up

Tieated wood production in 1984 exceeded 1983 by l27o with lumber and timber the major products treated, with 94Vo of them utilizing waterborne preservatives.

Ti'eaters Association, Western Wood Preservers Institute and the Railway Tie Association were involved. Charles A. Soule Jr., Escambia Tieating Co., Pensacola, Fl., was active in the project. Statistics were developed by Jim Micklewright of the International Statistics Council.

Other numbers of interest include the following increases in the use of preservatives: waterborne, l7.47ol creosote solutions, 5.9Vo; Pentachlorophenol, 2.67o, and fire retardants, 47o. Production classified by preservatives was waterborne, 301.7 million cu. ft.; creosote solutions, 137.6 million cu. ft.; Pentachlorophenol, 53.6 million cu. ft.; fire retardant chemicals, 6.2 million cu. ft.

Major products treated, in addition to lumber and timbers, were crossties. switchties, bridge ties and poles. Other products treated included fence posts, piling and plywood.

Hall, who is currently secretary of the National Forest Products Association in Washington, D.C., succeeds Dr. Robert G. Smerko, who has accepted an offer to become president of The Chlorine Institute, Inc.

With training in wood utilization and law. Hall has been with the NFPA since

These and other pressure treating industry figures have just been distributed inWood Preservation Statistics, 1983 and 1984, a publication compiled as a joint industry effort. The American Wood Preservers Institute, American Wood Preservers Association, Society of American Wood Preservers, Southern Pressure

Lawn, Garden Expo For Dealers

A seminar format to meet the needs of dealers and retailers is being developed for the International Lawn, Garden & Power Equipment Expo 86, July 28-30 at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center, Louisville, Ky.

Jeff Gould has joined the sales team at Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., according to Peter V. Speek, pres. Richard J. Adams Jr., corporate credit mgr., Ponderosa Lumber Co., Scottsdale, Az., has been named an accredited business credit executive by the National Association of Credit Management.

Dick Welle has retired from Copeland LumberYard, Molalla, Or., after 37 years with the co. Ken Brock succeeds him as mgI.

Steve Kendall is new at Anderson Forest Products, Kirkland, Wa.

ftrri lrvin has been promoted to credit mgr. at Skibba Lumber Co., Orange, Ca. John Baker, Gar Chaney and Howard Schwer are new to sales, according to Jim Skay.

ks Miller, Miller's Ti.ustworthy Hardware, Spokane, Wa., has been elected a v.p. of the Pacific Northwest Hardware and Implement Association.

John Johnson, asst. mgr., Lumbermen's Olympia, Wa., has received an achievement award for instituting a new computer system.

l,eonard Johnson, mgr., Carl's Building Supplies, Chimacum, Wa., is in Nepal for three months working with a six-person health care task force.

Hal Reynolds, gen. mgr. and owner, VisRey, Inc., Spanaway, Wa., is serving his fourth year on the state Republican Party executive committee.

Rod Hohnhorst, owner, Gooding Lumber Co., Gooding, Id., is now Gooding County commissioner.

Thomas M. Houghton is the new sales and marketing mgr. of prefinished paneling forTiimac Panel Products. Portland. Or.

Robert Sanderson has been named marketing director of the O'Malley Co.s, Phoenix, Az. Gary C. Bartholomew is the new director of operations.

Pam McMillan, head cashier, HomeClub, Santa Rosa, Ca., has been named the chain's 1985 Employee of the Year.

Al Meier, snark of Hoo-Hoo International; Jack Jacobson, lst v.p., and Bill Patterson, Supreme-9, visited the Hoo-Hoo Club of Spokane, Wa., and the Northeast Washington club recently.

Kris Wales, Wales Lumber Co., Inc., Spokane, Wa., has been appointed a deputy Supreme-9 in Hoo-Hoo International.

Doug G. Southern is now v.p./finance and sec./treas. of Pay'N Pak, Kent, Wa., replacing llalvor 'Bud" Knudtzon, who has retired after 16 yean with the firm. Fhed Botherton is ttre new v.p./controller.

Steve llancock, formerly with Certainteed, has joined the building materials div. of GAF Corp. as national accounts mgr.

James A, Ingram is the new v.p. and sales mgr. at Paxport Mills, Inc., Tacoma, Wa. Wliam T, Stephens, exec. v.p. and c.f.o., Manville Corp., Denver, Co., has been named to the board ofdirectors, succeeding Gene E. Phillips, who has resigned.

Allen Gaylord and Sue 7-cnner have joined the sales team at Potlatch Corp., Lewiston. Id.

Bob Elliott, regional mgr., quality supervision, American Plywood Association, has moved to Thcoma, Wa., as operations mgr.

Don West has been appointed gen. mgr. of Lakeview Lumber Products, Lakeview, Or.

C.R. '.Chuck" \fnn is now pres. and c.e.o. of Textone, Inc., La Mirada, Ca.

G.W. '{hck" Baker is heading up sales at the new Berger & Co. office in El Paso, Tx., according to Robert Glatt. Company headquarters is Sacramento, Ca.

Roger Thieme, Evergreen Implement, Inc., Othello, Wa., has been elected pres. of the Pacific Northwest Hardware and Implement Association, succeeding John Erlick, Hubbard's Ace Hardware, Medford. Or.

Earl Miller is now mgr. of Al Meier's Building Center, Gig Harbor, Wa.

Tbm Vertetis has been promoted to exec. v.p. of Handyman Home Centers, San Diego, Ca. Bill filburg is now exec. v.p. and treas.; Bill Finkel, senior v.p., and Alan Miller, asst. v.p. of corporate development.

Dave Bagdy is new at English Bay Forest Products, Portland. Or.

Sol Jaffee, founder and chairman, National Lumber Co., Fountain Valley, Ca., and his wife, Betty, have been honored at the Israel Dinner of State of the Jewish community of Whinier, Ca.

Tbm Marrin, Kaibab Forest Products Co., Phoenix. Az.. is back from a recent trip to the Mid-America Building Products Exposition in Kansas City, Mo., reports Bill Herman. sales mgr.

Jim Moss, Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., has returned from a 10-day skiing trip in Steamboat, Co.

Margaret Bourque, industrial sales, Lumbermen's, Redmond, Wa., was voted March "Employee of the Month" by her co-workers.

Kenneth T John has been appointed western regional sales mgr. of American Road Equipment Co., Omaha, Ne.

Tom Lapinski has been named sales mgr., industrial millwork div., at Siena Pacific Industries. Redding. Ca.

Andy Anderson has been promoted to territory salesman, Rolando Lumber Co., Inc., San lrandro, Ca., according to Helen D. 0sborne, office mgr. Abbie Ilanlon is now trading in redwood, Bob Carlson in stock laminated beams and related products, and Jeff Horard has added long dimension to his Douglas fir timber product line.

Howard Hofmann has joined Weyerhaeuser Building Systems (Engineered Structures Group), Phoenix, Az., as marketing mgr. He had been withWesternWood Products Association for 2l years, leaving as asst. director of field services.

Lorraine Heath is now sales mgr. of the new Ocean Shores, Wa., office of Southern Lumber Mills.

Earl J. Moore, national sales mgr., Corning Moulding Corp., Corning, Ca., has been elected pres. of the Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers Association. J.D. Robbins, Klamath Moulding Mill, Yreka, Ca., is now v.p., and John Kirkpatrick, American Forest Products Co., Stockton. Ca., treas.

James Phelps, Agwood Mill and Lumber Co., Bend, Or., and his wife, Ronda, had a baby girl, Whitney Allison, on March 8.

Ken Reffstrup is new to sales at Skyline Lumber Co., Eugene, Or.

Ray Welch, industrial salesman, Weyerhaeuser. West Sacramento, Ca.. has retired after 29 years with the co.

Joe Borrman, Bowman Lumber Co., Cloverdale, Ca., is vacationing in the Southeastern U.S.

Jim Hunter, sales mgr., Schmidbauer Lumber Co.. Eureka. Ca., is back from a vacation in Mazatlan. Mexico.

Jim Hogue has retired as sales mgr. for Riley Creek Lumber Co., Laclede, Id., after 41 years in the industry. Allan Hoblitt succeeds him.

El Louise Waldron. Waldron Forest Products. Sacramento, Ca., and Marie Hunter, her daughter, have been on a Caribbean vacation including the Panama Canal.

Jim Solic has joined Westmark & Associates, Costa Mesa, Ca., to head several key marketing programs, according to John Bates.

"Mac" McNally, Vent Vue Products, Los Angeles, Ca., and his wife, Diane; Glenys Simmons, Louisiana-Pacific, Ukiah, Ca., and her husband, Willard; lbd Gilbert, Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., and his wife, Rosemary, and Ray Louvier, Tiimco, Inc., Santa Ana, Ca., and his wife, Kathie, have returned from a week's vacation on the southern end of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.

Alan Vaughn has been promoted to national mgr. of the branches and painter maintenance sales group of The O'Brien Corp., San Francisco, Ca. Albert E. Cash is now v.p. of sales and Jim Boersma, national marketing mgr. of sundry prcducts.

Earl Dpr is now managing the San Leandro. Ca.. office of Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca., covering No. Ca., according to Didc Lambert.

Kay Kahus, Weyerhaeuser Co., Phoenix, Az., is back after a trip to Fl.

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