PALCO

The Pacific Lumber Company

We grow what we sell.

100 Shoreline Highway Suite 1258

MillValley, CA 94941 (415) 331-8888

New Westem Treating Plants

Osmose Wood Preserving, Inc., has expanded its affiliations in the west with two new state-of-the-art wood treating facilities.

Both Chemco, Inc., Ferndale, Wa., and Western Wood Treating, Fontana, [nc., Fontana, Ca., will be treating with Osmose brand oxide preservatives. The California plant will treat on a TSO (treating services only) basis, while the Washington facility will both TSO and sell direct.

Both plants will produce Sunwood, the pressure treated lumber that has the color of redwood or cedar and carries the Osmose 40 year warranty against rot, decay and termites.

Chemco will also produce Osmose and Sunwood treated shakes and shingles with a 30 year warranty. Both plants have the potential to produce Osmose Weathershield (water treated lumber) and Flameproof LHC-HTT (an interior, Type A, fire retardant pressure treatment for lumber and plywood).

This product, which meets U.L. Classifications and all mqior building and military codes, has a 20 year limited warranty on plywood sheathing and is monitored by the industry's third party inspection service for fire retardant treated wood products.

McFarland Cascade Bar Coding

McFarland Cascade is now bar coding sawn pressure treated wood including Outdoor Wood, Universal Wood and landscape timbers sold to retailers and wholesalers.

Included on warranty labels, the bar code will allow more efficient pricing, consumer service and inventory control, according to Tom Peterson, sales manager for the Tacoma, Wa., firm.

the system. Plastic tags stapled to pressure treated products have been identified as preferable to ink jet stamps by the bar coding committee of the National Forest Products Association.

Westem Treaters Officers

New officers and directors of the Western Wood Preservers Institute (WWPI) for 1990 are Wes Alt, president; Sandra Lavino, vice president; and Earl Croxton, treasurer.

Joining them on the board of directors are Amos Kamerer, Rex Zeiger, and Les Lonning, past president.

Pilot programs using point of sale scanning ofbar codes by chains such as Home Depot and Builders Square have shown increased efficiency with both cashiers and customers praising

Alt is general manager, Taylor Lumber and Treating, Inc., Beaverton, Or.; Lavino, product manager, round materials, J.H. Baxter & Company, San Mateo, Ca.; Croxton, president, Selma Treating Co., Selma, Ca., Kamerer, regional sales manager, Koppers Industries, Inc., Portland, Or.; Zeiger, chairman, Utah Wood Preservers, Murray, Ut., and Lonning, manager, technical services, McFarland Cascade, Tacoma. Wa.

TllfiEE Simoson Timber Co. wholesale distributors in the west earned special honors for achieving sales of over a million feet of redwood during one year. Top photo, Steve Culbertson, American International Forest Products,

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IllP illl{AcElilEilI from PrimeSource Inc. from across the U.S. recently met in Newport Beach, Ca., for executive sessions. Firm resulted lrom the 5124 million Jan. merger of Sequoia Supply and Grip-Rite Group. lll Dick Passaglia, and former Sequoia pres. Ernie Warns. l2l New pres./ceo of PrimeSource Paul Hylbert and Passaglia. l3l Hal Huff, Gary McCoy, Ted Hetzel. l1l Bill Hlavach, Frank Schaefer. l5l Steve Mulholland, Ron Wilson, Tom Seymour, Jerry Kohnke. 16l Jim Stratton, Ron Zanchetti. l7l Curt Tollefsrud, Steve Caporaso. l8l Pam Ziarko, Jim Miller. l9f George Weissman, Kirk Henningsen. ll0l Robert Lee, Phillip Jurkovich, Buddy Pope, Eert Rogers. llll Marv Askey, Henry Payne, Bob Smith. ll2l Pat Goss, Bruce Leiding, John Pederson. ll3l Jim Metcalf, Bob James. ll4l Anna Aricer. llSl Don Sorenson, LyleThompson, Tom 0'Brien.

Knoll Adds Fourth Location

Knoll Lumber & Hardware, Kenmore, Wa., has purchased the former Carpenter's Lumber site consisting of five acres at Smokey Point, north of Marysville, Wa.

A limited lumberyard is set to open April 9, with construction of a new store to follow, reports controller-treasurer Kyle Kincaid.

Other Knoll locations are in Kenmore, Woodinville and Lynnwood (Mill Creek). Wa.

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