Merchant Magazine - April 1994

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The deal with steel

Light gauge steel framing has occasionally been both a real and imaginary threat to the supremacy of the faditional wmd snrd. But today, steel's threat to wood looks more real than at any time duing the lasthalf century.

While steel studs are used in only 2Vo of all homes built in the U.S., steel associations predict rising lumber prices and availability problems will enable steel to capture 25Vo of the new home market within five years.

Lumber producers don't buy this scenario. They counter that if steel reached even a llVo share, the pressure on lumber would be off and wood prices would decline. Steel, according to the lumbennen, would lose its price advantage and its attraction for home builders.

Othen aren't so sure. At the National Association of Home Builders show earlier this year, a steel frarned home was built to demonsEate new technologies and systems. Builder interest was intense. Calls seeking inforrration about steel ran 3040 per day on a NAHB hotline for builders.

But the conversion from wood to steel isn't

simple. Product prejudices and lifeJong work patterns are not quickly or easily changed. Problems and pitfalls arc present for any builder making the change. Framers must be retrained. Inventory handling is not identical to that of wood. Actual assembly and other real life Murphy's Law problems can be quick to surface. To make the sale of steel snrds profitable, retailers must be sure steel suppliers will provide essential faining and technical support.

With lumber prices a driving force behind any retreat from wood studs, converts had best remember that lumber price trends are notoriously difficult (read impossible) to predict. If price is the sole reason to change, good sense indicates adding a large measure of caution to the mix.

Steel studs have some features and benefits wood studs do not. Their producers also claim environmental advantages. While these claims do not stand up to close examination, that doesn't mean the public won't believe them.

This time it doesn't look as if steel studs will conveniently go away as they have in the past

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Excelling. Leading. Going beyond the usualto achieve excellencel Leadership is not easy. It requires tough determination, diligence and single-mindedness of purpose no marter what detractors may say. It relies on hindsight, insight, foresight, and a sixth sense of what is right. It comes from experience firmly seated in a willingness to leam, a curiosity to explore and an anticipation of what can be. It's more than working hard... it's working smart. Leadership is all these things wrapped in a commit. ment to accept nothing but the very best effort that can be made.

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U.S. pressure treating companies ranked by annual production.

Production figures include lumber, timbers and specialty products. Firms exclusively treating poles, pilings, railroad ties, etc., arc not included.

All data has been provided by the

+ I. Universal f,'orest Products

Annual hoduction products 4d[,000,000 board feet

Locations Windsor, Co.; Auburndale, Fl.; Union City, Ga.; Crranger, [n.; Belchertown, Ma.; 11e1[ Fas1" Md.i Pocmroke City, Md.; Elizabeth City, N.C.; Gordon, Pa.; Stockerown, Pa-; Holly Hi[, S.C.; Saginaw, Tx.; Fredericksburg, Va.; Janesville, Wi.; Ranson, W.V.

Facllltles 16 cylinders, dry kilns, remanufacnring

Trcabnents CCA (.25 - 2.5), LifeGurd Water Repellent

cmrpanies themselves. Every effort has been made to ensure this list is fully accurate and as complete as possible, although a small number of treaters cbose not to participate in this article.

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Species Southern yellow pine, ponderosa pine, red pine, hem-fir, erc.

Products Treated Lumber, boards, specialty items, plywood, timbers, fencing

Great Southern Wood Preserving

Annual hoduction Not for publication

Locations Abeville, Al.; Conyen, Ga.; Mobile, Al.; Sumter Comty, Fl.

Facllities 6 cylinden, dry kilns, remanufacturing facilities

Trcatments CCA (.25 - 2.5), WeathenhieldWater

Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Lumber, bords, timbers, landscape timb€rs, decking, plywood, specialty products, posts, poles, pilings

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J. Southeast Wood Treating Inc.

Annual hoductlon 225,000,000 bord feet

Locatlons I-ouisville, Al.; Jaspet Al.; Rockledge, Fl.

Faclllties 6 cylinden, dry kiln, sawmill, remanufacuring plang planer mill

Treatments CCA (.25 - 2.5), D-Blue Fire Retardant

Species Southem yellow pire

Products Treatod Timbers, bords, dimensiorU plywm( landscapes, centermarch, decking

4. Colp.per Wood Preservers

Annual hoductlon 175,000,000 board feet

Locations Culpeper, Va.; Shelbyville, In.

Facilities 4 cylinden, remanufacturing facitty

Treatrnents CCA (.40, .60), Wate,r Repellent

Species Southenr yellow pine

Products Treated Timbers, boards, dimension, T&G, plywood, liattice, specialty products

3l. Weyerhaeuser Co.

Annual hoductlon 172,000,000 bord feet

Locations Millport, Al.; Plymoutb, N.C.; Westlan$ Mi.

Facilities Multiple cylinders, remanufactring facilities

Tnestments CCA (.25 - 2.5), D-Blaze Fire Retardant

Species Southem yellow pine

Products Treated Timbers, boards, dimension, plywoo( decking, specialties

4 O. Quality Wood Treating Co.r

Annual hoduction Not for publication

Species Southern yellow pine, ponderosapine

Products Treated Boards, dimension, timb€rs, plywood

F} f c Walker-Williams Lumber Company,Inc.

Annual hoduction Not for publication

Locations Harchechubbee, Al.; Falkville, Al.; Youngstown, Oh.; Westville, [n.

Facilities 8 cylinden, dry kiln, remanufacEring facility

Treatments CCA

Species Southem yellow pine, ponderosa pine, red pine

Products Treated Decking, dimension, boards, plywoo4 landscape timbers, specialties

&* Rocky Tbp Wood Preseryers

Annual hoduction 145,000,000 board feet

Locations Rocky Mount, Va; Hagerstown, Md.; Streator, Il.

Facilities 4 cylinders

Treatnrents CCA (.40, .60), Wolnan Exfa (.40)

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Timbers, boards, dimension, specialties

S. C.rU. Thcker Lumber

Annual Production 140,000,000 board feet

Address 601N. Pead SL, Pagelan( 5.C.29728

Locatlons Pageland, S.C.; Henderson, N.C.

Facilities 3 cylinders, remanufacturing facility

Trcatrnents CCA (.25 - 2.5), Sunwood Color Additive, Water Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Lurnber, fencing, landscaping, deck components

L(}. n*ver Tbeat€d Wood Products Inc.

Annual hoduction 125,000,000 board feet

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Locations Prairie du Chien, Wi.; Janesville, Wi.; St. Paul, Mn.; Fombell, Pa.; Columbus, Oh.

Facilities Multiple cylinders, dry kilns, remanufacfiring

Treatments CCA, Fire Retardant

Locations Thomson, Ga.; Pine Bluff, Ar.; Milford, Va-; DeEoiq Mi.

Facilities Multiple cylinders, dry kilns

Treatrnents CCA (.25 - 2.5), Pyro-Guard Interior Fire Retardant Treated Wood, Exterion Fire-X Fire Retardant TrcatedWood

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Lumber, plywood, timbers

I0" International Paper Co.

Annual hoduction 125,000,000 board feet

AUout 550 plans, located in 48 states, are engaged in treating wood.

Treated wood accounts for about 21.57o of the forest products industry's total value of annual shipments.

Mote than 550 million cubic feet of lumber and indusfial wood products arc treated each year.

Treated wood shipments are valued at $2.5 billion annually, exports at $50.5 million.

S[f ooo treating plants directly employ more than 10,000 people.

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Locations Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Mineola Tx.

Facilities Cylinden, dry kilns, remanufacturing plant

Trpatrnents CCA, Sunwood Color Additive, Water Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Decking boards, dimension, landscape timbers, poles, piling

10. Mellco, rnc.

Annual hoduction 125,000,000 board feet

Locations Athens, Al.; Rock Hill, S.C.; Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

Facilities 7 cylinden

Tneatments CCA (.25, .40), MellcoSeal Water Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treatod Dimension, decking, timbers, deck specialties/accesscies

10. Robbins Manufacfirring Co.

Annual hoductlon 125,000,000 bord feet

Locations T*pa Fl.; Orlando, Fl.; FortMyers, Fl.

Facilitles 3 cylinden, mould€r, planer, resaw, gang saw, P.E.T.

Trcatments CCA (.25 - 2.5), Wat€r Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Bords, dimension, timbers, poles, posts, piling, fence pickets

14,l.l,.Bnewton Lumber Co., rnc.

Annual hoduc{lon 120,000,000 board feet

Locations Winnfield, La.; CaddoMill, Tx.

Facilitles 2 cylinden, dry kiln, remanufac$ring plant

Wtto 15 treating plants located across the country from the Rockies to New England, Universal Forest Products, Inc., produced nearly a halt-billion board feet of CCA pressure treated lumber in 1993. And that impressive total is almost certain to be eclipsed this year as five of the plants have been operated by Universal only since October.

The majority of the company's facilities are in the more heavily populated Northeastern U.S., but its westem divisions play an important role both in its past history and growing future. Established in 1955 in Michigan as a wholesale supplier of lumber and components to the mobile home industry, Universal built strategically-located manufacturing and distribution yards and became the world's largest builder of engineered roof trusses for manufactured housing (a position it still holds).

When the growth of that industry slowed in the late 1970s, the fimt ent€red the wood treating business in Florida in 1978. Although there were then 36 Eeaters within a l5-mile radius, the facility nrmed a profit in its first month of operation.

Universal's Southwest Company installed its first reating plant in Windsor, Co., in 1985, a facility rccently enlarged due to increasing &nand- By 1989, having become p€rhaps the nation's largest volume producer of CCA-preserved lumber, Universal purchased land and equipment for construction of a Saginaw, Tx., plant between Dallas and Fort Worth. A Kansas City, Mo, area plant serving Southwest Company territory is scheduled to go on line this fall.

As to the future, with growing uncertainty about redwood and western red cedar supplies, the company foresees expanding acceptance of reated lumber by Pacific Coast consumers. So a Universal Far West Company reating plant somewhere in the Northwest is a definite possibitity. The most obvious site would be on three available acres adjrcent to Universal's Woodburn, Or., remanufacturing facility.

Trcatnrents CCA (.25 - .60)

Spcdes Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Dimension, timbers, specialty products, boards, decking

15. John A. Biewer Lumber Co.

Annual hoduction 116,000,000 boad feet

Locations Seneca,Il.; Washington Court House, Oh.; St. Clair, Mi.; Schoolcraft, Mi; Toledo, Oh.; Prentice, Wi.

Faclllties l0 cylinders, dry kilns

Trcatrnents CCA, Dricon Fire Retardant" Water Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine, red pine, ponderosa pine

Products Treated Dimension, timbers, plywood

16. Commonwealth Wood Preservers

Annual hoductlon 115,000,000 board feet

Locatlons Hampon, Va

Facilities 4 cylinders, dry kiln, rernanufachring plant

Trdatments CCA (.40, .60)

Universal tatgeted the d-i-y market in the late 1980s, entering with its CCA treated products - lattice, fencing, De-ck Necessities and other value-added specialties. tn five years, Universal's share of consumer-related products rose from SVo ta 5l4o of its sales.

Universal treated 4d[ million board feet of lumber last year, 90% of which was southern pine with the remainder ponderosa pine, herr/fir, etc. The capability of adding its LifeGuard water repellent to lumber' generally to decking, was introduced a couple of yers ago.

One advantage for Universal in terms of iB ability to grow with d-i-y retailers is that it combines value-added manufacturing (ripping/trimming/painting/assembly) with CCA treating, comprehensive marketing assistance and nationwide distribution. That means every piece of Eeated commodity lumber is grade-stamped and endtagged to ensure proper CCA penetration and retention. Tnat treated fencing products are made with jigs and automatic nailing equipment. And treated Deck Necessities are produced in grades consumers want and notjust to strndard rules.

Specles Southern yellow pine

Prnducts Treated Decking, landscape timbers, boards, dimension, plywoo4 specialties

I 6. Louisiana-Paciftc Corp.

Annual hoductlon 115,000,000 boad feet

Locatlons New Waverly, T!r.; Cirenada Ms.; Statesbuo, Ga.; Ukiah, Ca

Facllitles 5 cylinders, dry kilns, remanufactrring facilities

Treatments CCA (.25 -.60), Pre-Stain

Spccles Southem yellow pine, hem-fir

Pnoducts Treated Lumber, bords, timbers, landscape timbers, decking, plywoo( specialty produce, sill & plafe, posts, landscape pnrducts, retainer walls, frm producB, cooling tower products

1&. Cox Wood Preserving Co.

Annual hoduction 110,000,000+ board feet

Locations Orangeburg, S.C.; Augusta Ga"; Sumter, S.C.; Coleridge, N.C.; Cove City, N.C.

Facillties 12 cylinden, 6 dry kilns, remanufacturing

Treatrnents CCA (.25 - 2.5), Dricon Fire Rettrdant

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Dimension, timbers, piling, poles, posts, plywood, specialty products, outdoor furniture, gazebs, laminated beams

X9. cottBeanlumberCo.

Annual hoduction 110,000,000 bord feet

Locafions Amity, Ar.; Glenwood Ar.

Facilldes 2 cylinders, remanufacturing, dry kiln, 2 sawmills

Trcatnents CCA (.40, .60), Arkansas Rustic Wood Color Additive, Ulhawood Water Repellent

Species Southem yellow pine

Products Treated Dimension, decking, plywood, small timbers, liattice, hlusters, stair stringers, mail box kits

24. Mctr'arland Cascade

Annual hoduction 100,000,000 boad feet

Locations Tacoma, Wa.; Eugene, Or.; Bozeman, Mt.; San@oint,Id.

mainain their level of technological proficiency, WWPC personnel regulady attend Osmose seminars and worksbops.

\Mo*- Wood Preserving Co.'s facility in Sumner, Wa., encompasses 12 acres of treating, drying and storage area. But over the years perhaps their greatest asset has been their foresight.

Western Wood Preserving Co. came into being in 1971 when the Reimer family purchased the existing oil-borne fieating facility which was only tbree acres in size. The company saw the future in CCA treated products and in 1983 became one of the first Osmose licensees on the West Coast. Business has srown 8l}Vo erch yer for the last l0 years, graduaff'V turning WWPC into a highly competitive full service CCA products manufacturer.

Struggling in the early years, WWPC has become a major competitor in its 23-year history. Today they cottinue to keep ahead of the challenges of the feating industry by investing in the future. They have worked continually with environmental consultants and the experts at Osmose to be a leader in environmental safety and compliance. For exanple, WWPC saw the future in 1980 and was one of the first plants on the West Coast o install a covercd drip pad.

The company is constantly malcing contributions to the feating indusries by taking leadership roles in associations such as AWPI, WWPI and AWPA. To

While supply has not been a problem for them, vice president Mike Reimer anticipates it could become one "potentially long teml, 2-3 years down the road." The answer, he says, may be southern yellow pine. "It"s corring. We're already feating some southern pine specialty products, though no real commodities."

The company cunently has two cytnders (6'x90' and 6'x145') to CCA treat hem-fir boards, dimension lumbet timbers and plywood and offers a full-line inventory of sawn stock, TSO and dry kiln seryices.

And WWPC continues to look ahead. A massive expansion project - including new tank farm, building and process equipnent upgrade - will be completed in May, aimed at drastically increasing efficiency, capacity and safety. "It's the environmentally corect thing to do and it will last for the next 2Ol years," says Reimer.

The Osmose-designed system not only uses the latest technology available to produce higher quality products but will increase plant capacity by 30 to 40Vo. The cnmputer-based process control system will provide the utmost in neating flexibility and quality control.

WWPC prides itself on the integrity of is staff, has never missed a vendor discount and has established a reputable position in the industry. Noting a more competitive marketplace than ever before, Reimer says, "The last 23 years we've seen lots of change, and we ae ready to take on the challenges of the future."

Facilities 8 cylinders, dry kilns, remanufacture

Treatrrcnts CCA, Pentachlorophenol, Creosote, Water Repellent

Species Hern-fr, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, cedaf

Products Treated Lumber, timbers, plywood, laninated beans and poles, pole bam, guardrail, landscape timben, fencing

21" Eastex Forest Products

Annual Production 90,000,000 board feet

Locations Houston, Tx.

Facilities 3 cylinden,3 dry kilns, remanufactudng facility

Treatrnents CCA (.25 - 2.5), D-Blaze Fire Retadant, Ultrawood Water Repellent" ACQ

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Dimension, boards, timbers

21. New South rnc.

Annual hoduction 90,000,000 board feet

Locations Conway, S.C.; Canden, S.C.

Facilities 2 cylinden,2 dry kilns, remanufacturing facility

Treatrnents CCA (.25 - 2.5>

Species Southern yellow pine

Products Treated Boards, dimension, decking, timbers, specialty products

23" Perry Builders Inc.

Annual hoduction 82,000,000 board feet

Locations Henderson, N.C. (2 plants); Bainbridge, N.Y.

Facilities 3 cylinden, remanufacturing facility

Treatments CCA (.40, .60), Water Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine, red pine

Products Treatcd Dimension, timbers, boards, plywood

24. Bestway Enterprises Inc

Annual hoduction 80,000,000 board feet

Locations Cortlan4 N.Y.; Lancaster, Ma

:Facilities 3 cylinden, dry kiln

Tneatments CCA, D-Blaze Fire Retardant, UlraWood Water Repellent

Species Southern yellow pine, red pine

Products Treated Dimension, timbers, decking, specialty products, plywood, landscapes

24. Conradwood Preserving Co.

Annual hoduction 80,000,000 board feet

Locations North Bend, Or.

Facilities 6 cylinden, 2 dry kilns, remanufacturing

Treatments ACZA, CCA, Borate waterborne clear, Perma-rib oilbome clear, ACQ

Species Douglas fir, hem-fir, whitewoods, ponderosa pine

Products Treated Lrmrber, plywood, glulams

1" McFarland Cascade

National Ranking 20

Annual hoduction 100,000,000 board feet

Address P.O. Box 1496, Tacoma, Wa. 98401

Phone (800)426-8430 FAX 2W6n-07&

Sales Manager Thomas N. Peterson

Locations Tbcoma, Wa-; Eugene, Or.; Bozeman, Mt.; Sandpoin! Id.

Facilities 8 cylinders, dry kilns, remanufactuing

Additional Services KDAT, paper wrap, staining, container shipments, TSO

Treatrnents CCA, Pentachlorophenol, Creosote, Water Repellent

Species He,m-fir, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, cedar

Products Treated Lurrber, timbers, plywood laminated beans and poles, pole barn, guardrail, landscape timbers, fencing

2. Conrad Wood Preserving Co.

National Ranking A(ne)

Annual Production 80,000,000 board feet

Address 3998 WildwoodDr., North Bend, Or. 97459

Phone (503)756-2595 FAx 503-756-0131

Grading Agency TPI

Locations North Bend, Or.

Facilities 6 cylinders, 2 dry kilns, remanufacturing

Additional Services TSO, export, custom packaging

Treatments ACZA, CCA, Borate waterbome clear, Perma-trib oilborneclear, ACQ

Species Douglas fir, hem-fr, whitewoods, ponderosa pine

Products Treated Lumber, plywood, glulams

3. E*te"ior Wood Inc.

National Ranking 26 (ne)

Annual Production 75,000,000 board feet

Address P.O. Box 206, Washougal, Wa.98671

Phone (206) 835-8561 FAx 206835-8754

Vice President-MarketinglSales Newt Baker

Grading Agency CLIB

Locations Washougal, Wa.

Facilities 4 cylinders, dry kiln

Additiond Services TSO

Treatments CCA, Dricon Fire Retardant

Species Hem-fr, Douglas fir

Products Treated Lumber, timbers, plywood

4* A[rneather \ilood Tleaters

National Ranking 30

Annual Production 70,000,000 board feet

Address P.O. Box 227, Washougal, Wa.98671

Phone (206) 835-8547 rAX 20G835-3692

Plant Manager Gerry Glem

Grading Agency TPI

Locatlons Washougal, Wa.; Medford, Or.

Facilities Cylinden, 2 satellite disribution centers, dry kitn

Additional Services TSO

Treatments CCA (.25 - 2.5), Sunwood Color Additive, Prestain

Species Hem-fr, Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine

Products Treated Decking, fencing, posts, foundations, landscape tinbers, dimension, plywood, deck accessories

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Profit-lrr?king strategies that sell fasteners & connectors

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a major profit center for a retailer.

In many stores hardware accounts fot l4-l1vo of net sales, according to the National Retail Hardware Association. Profit margins, they say, average ovet 40Vo with some retailers using variable pricing to maintain margins of 50Vo or better. With a

Story at a Glance

How to turn fasteners and connectors Into a maior profit center ... ideas to help a retailer maintain margins of 4V/o and better ... technlques that work at independent storcs.

high percentage of fasteners in the blind item category, margins can often exceed 807o.

Retailers who are successful with fasteners and connectors work to create a stfong product niche. They 'stock enough SKUs to fill any need without having to special order and make the section a dominant feature. Broad selections have been found 0o attfact more customers than low pricas.

Retailers are successful following completely different strategies of department placement. sone place an impressive fastener display at the front of the store, making sure it is one of the fint deparunents seen by the custoner. Others locate an equally prominent display at the back with the idea that it draws customers through the store, exposing them to other merchandise. Whether the display is up front u in baclq it must be

powerful. Developing a strong product niche also demands fasteners and connectrors be cross merchandised in the lumber and power tool depaftments ils well as near the contractor service desk.

Fasteners and connectors are labor intensive. Constant inventory maintenance is required for a consistent instock positidl. A store employee or a factory rep must be responsible for checking inventory and maintaining stock on an established schedule. Good housekeeping is second only to being in-stock. Fasteners and connectors are easily mixed up and need cons0ant care so customers can find the items they need.

Bin labels and price stickers must be accurate. Displaying in-use sketches or photos with use insfructions can bolster a customer's confidence in making his selection. Some manufacturers including Kant-Sag and Simpson Srong Tie provide displays showing how their products are used. Teco/Lumberlok has posters with line drawings of projects and explanations of hardware needed for them.

Customers like the choice of buying individual or packaged fasteners and connectors. Bulk fasteners sell best to customers requiring only a few. Packaged fasteners, which often have a price brealc, appeal to those who need large numbers of fasteners and don't mind buying a few extra.

Most retailers feel that all but the most experienced customers need help in making their selections. One or mce of the sales staff should be an expert on fasteners and connectors. Store.s that have deck clinics or similar project seminrs find that spending some time talking about the corect fasteners and connectors improves hardware sales. Other stores report

FASTENERS & connedors need allention.

good results including fasteners in project kits. Teco is marketing several kits with project plans, lumber lists and fasteners or connectors.

Cus0omers favor sCainless steel fasteners and connectors, relating them to rust-froe service and high quality. Some retailers have been able to eliminate lightweight, inexpensive fasteners and connectors, finding customers are willing to spend more for higher quality.

A profitable, winning niche in fasteners and connectors is best developed with strong merchandising, offering a wide selection with deep stock, knowledgeable employees, good housekeeping, customer education and letting your market know what you have.

Profit Makers

o Merchandise

a Dominate where the competition is weak

o Keep a wide selection & deep stock

O Always be in stock

o Train your employees

o hovide customer senrice

o Develop educational displays

a Cross merchandise

o Offer bulk, boxed & packaged

o Use free standing, peghook or clip-sfip displays

o Stock heavy duty, high quality fasteners & connectors

O Organize department

o Maintain good housekeeping

o Use variable pricing

a Promote add-on sales such as power tools

o Advertise what you have and do

Tty a new tact to sell more deck accessories

A CCORDING to a recent survey, approximately ZlVo lof U.S. households have decks with 78% of them cmsuucted of long-life pressure treated lumber.

Does this mean that retailers should cross these homeownefs off as possible customers for decks of pressure tneated products? Definitely not! Many of the basic 8'x8' squarcs built to satisfy a developer's promise of a deck are ripe for updating.

"Th€tre's lots of sales potential for sophisticated dealerswho realize decks are an ideal spring or summer home improvement project," explains Osmose spoke swoman Suzanne Pacitti.

"Using their deck design programs, retailers can show homeowners how to install accessories such as railings, balusters or spindles to update an existing plain vanilla

Turned opidle deck, turning it into a stunning outdoor area"

Many homeowners are unaware that deck accessories ranging from contemporary to colonial are available at home centers and think they have no choice but to live with the "postage stamp that came with their home," she points out. However, a salesperson using a deck design package can easily show them how to expand and enhance their basic desigl or enclose it with a railing to make it safer for young children.

If the deck size is satisfactory, the addition of decorative ball tops and spindles on a railing echoing the style of the hone or an arbor to offer mce shade may be all that is necessary. Smallish decks can be enlarged by extending the foundation and flooring, then adding a railing u arbor.

accessed by stairs with a decorative handrail.

Whatever the choice, ready-to-install components are usually available and easy for a d-i-yer to add.

Built-in benches, tables, planter boxes, storage chests and sandboxes are other options, but updating and improving is not limited to the deck. There are related projects that enhance the deck and increase the livability of the outdoor area. Other

possibilities are gazebos, trellises, often with seating aleas, tree houses, cooking centers, children's play equipment, wind screens and privacy fences.

Low voltage lighting systems, insect screening for decks, porches or gazebos, outdoor fumiture, barbecues, pots, containers, plants, gardening equipment and products are addon sales to a deck improvement project.

Lening homeowners and cuso tomers know that remodeling I doesn't stop at the back door is g important" Pacitti points out. i She suggests that retailers t advertise "deck remodeling," ! have deck updating clinics, set E up a summer living section t with a "before and after" deck and cross merchandise both deck remodeling and outdoor living products.

Story at a Glance

Ways to sell deck accessories fior remodeling and updating existing decks ... suggestions for using deck design equipment to show homeowners what can be done and to create plans ... ideas for promotions.

many instances, the addition may be put on a different

NEWS BRIEFS

Payless Cashways is building a third store in Las Vegas, Nv. R & K Buil.ding Supplies, Mesa" Az., opened an 800 sq. ft. window and door showroom ... BMC West, Boise, Id., which recently had a 3 for 2 stock split, is acquiring Srcr Building Materials, /nc., Vancouver, Wa., as its 41st location ,.. Chinook Lumber, Clearview, Wa., is officially open at its new Snohomish. Wa.. store

Copeland Lumber Yards Inc., Portland, Or., plans to reopen its Yerington, Nv., retail lumber yard Ernst Home Centers, Inc. closed a small Bellevue, Wa., unit with plans to open a larger store in the area a $156,281.16 rebate for McDaniel's Do-it Center, Snohomish, Wa., is featured in an HWI advertisement ... Lanoga Corp., Redmond, Wa., reopened former Conrad Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Or., as its 30th unit

HomeBase has purchased a site in Orem with plans to open its third Utah store in spring 1995 Home Depot broke ground for a Commerce, Ca., location; opened an Alhambra, Ca., unit; targeted August for a Eugene, Or., opening and initiated permits for Boise, Id., Foothill Ranch, Ca., and Olympia, Wa., stores

Monrovia" Ca., is working with Home Depot to establish a day laborer employment center following an INS parking lot raid ... HomeBase and Los Angeles, Ca,, are cooperating on a similar plan (see story p. 40)

Highland Lumber Sales, Inc. moved from Santa Fe Springs, Ca., to a larger facility in Anaheim, Ca. ...Carroll Moulding Co., Huntington Beach, Ca., and Paciftc Millwork Inc., Marysville, Ca., are now distributors for White River H ardwoods, Fayetteville,

Ar. ... Timber Products Ca., Springfield, Or.n is representing CIPA Lumber Co., Ltd., Vancouver, 8.C., and Timber Praducts C anada, Richmond, 8.C., in the U.S. ... Arcata Redwood Ca., Arcata, Ca., will begin producing redwood manufactured to ALS sizes in June

Louisiana- Pacific acquired Drummond, Mt., and Afton, Wy., sawmills from Tricon Timber, Missoula. Mt.. which retained a St. Regis, Mt., plant ... I-Pis considering selling a majority of its Ketchikan, Ak., subsidiwy, Kethiknn Pulp Co. ...

WTD Industries, Inc., Portland, Or., stock has been returned to the NA.SDA Q National Market Fibrehoard Corp., Walnut Creek, Ca., rejected an unsolicited $42.50-a-share buyout bid from Mn. financier Carl I'}ohlad

Rogue River Veneer Plant, Rogue River, Or., is back on line ... 105-year-old Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino. Ca., will close permanently in May due to lack of timber supply from federal lands

Roseburg Forest Products is curtailing production at its Anderson, Ca., mill for the same reason ... Exotic Woods /ruc., Los Angeles, Ca., has closed its business Birchwood of Las Angeles, Commerce, Ca., has liquidated ...

Teledyne, 1nc., Los Angeles, Ca., has realigned, consolidating 65 companies into 2l including Teledyne Sp e cialty Equipment which encompasses Teledyne Princeton and six other machinery and equipment businesses ...

Armor All Products Corp., Aliso Viejo, Ca., acquired a wood deck and exterior house cleanins

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line from Agri-Products Special Markets, /nc., Tallahassee, Fl. Wayne -D alton C orp. acquired Challenger Inc. ...

Silver Metal Products, Livermore, Ca., expects to complete acquisition of TECo/Lumberlok from Desco Corp., Columbus, Oh., about April 12 ... Bostick, Middleton, Ma., has acquired Sandaro Industries, 1nc., Novato, Ca ...

A recent maintenance buildins fire caused $2,000 damage at Pair Lumber, Chino, Ca.

Catifornia Pubtic lJ tilities Commission is considering reducing its regulation of transportation including general freight Potlatch's wood products group had folrth quarter earnings of $43.5 million

James Hardie Building Products, Inc., has offered Hardi-shake roofing materials to public institutions destroyed by the Laguna Beach and Malibu, Ca., fires ... Stanley Door Systems is donating a percentage of its entry door sales in an earthquake relief program undertaken with Home Depot and the American Red Cross

The 21st annual "Good Guys Lunch" was held atBardelli's Restaurant, San Francisco, Ca., March 16; nearly 40 anended American Woodmark Corp. is Builders Square Kitchen Cabinet Vendor of the Year ...

Legislation introduced in California would require the California Prison Industry Authority t"o purchase Californiagrown hardwoods for prison furniture workshops

A federal judge ruled the C I inton Adminis tation illegally developed its Pacific Northwest forest management plan, but refused a timber industry request to block its implementation (see story p. 32)

Feb. housing starts (latest figs.) rose 4.l%o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,309,000 ".. single family starts rose 2.1%; multis 19Vo permits fell7.9Vo.

In the year 2038, the world will sdll be eqiqfing wood proclucts we're treating todayt

For over half a cenfury, McFarland Cascade has been a pioneer in wood treating technology, and one of the largest producers of pressure treated

Northwest's biggest seaports. We can ship any amount of lumber worldwide by sea, or nationwide by rail or tnrck.

(CCA)and Chemoniteo (ACZA) waterborne treatments, along with creosote and pentachlorophenol.

lumber in America. The wood we are pressure treatinS today could still be in use a half-century from now. And, many of our products are guaranteed to last a Iifetime.

We have the largest inventory of sawn lumber products on the West Coast. We're located at one of the Pacific

At present we have five pressure featment facilities in Idaho, lulontana, Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. We manufacfure a broad line of lumber products for decks, retaining walls, walkways, fences, gazebos and agriculn-rral buildings. We also produce pressure treated timbers, crossarms, plywood, poles, piling and other industrial nrnrlr retc

Tieatment options include Wolmanizedo

standards our customers expect.

Whatever your building needs, look to McFarland Cascade for wood

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M--.' ^F tho r Erry vr LrrL advances made in wood treating technology have been pioneered at XcFarland Cascade. We have the only test retort in the West, and we maintain an extensive technical <teff tn hcln r rc deliver the high products that last. If we don't have what you're looking for, we'll make it for you.

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Bulldlng Industry Credlt Assoclatlon - April 12, credit & collections seminars, Anaheim Holiday Inn, Anaheim, Ca.

Natlonal Wood Floorlng Assoclatlon - Aprll 13-16, annual convention, Hyatt Regency at Reunion, Dallas, Tx.

\iloodwork Instltute of Callfornla - Aprll 13-17, annual meeting, lr Meridian Hotel, San Diego, Ca.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club - Aprll 14, golf & dinner, Mountain Meadows Golf Club, Pomona, Ca.

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Westcrn Wood Products Assoclatlon - Aprtl 14, environmental considerations of wood use forum, Mariott, Portland, Or.

Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club - Aprll 16, joint meeting with Portland Hoo-Hoo Club, Centralia, Wa.

Paclflc Coast Wholesale Hardwood Dlstrlbutors AssoclatlonAprll 17-20, annual meeting, Cannel, Ca.

North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - Aprll 19, speaker/election meeting, Tulalip, Marysville, Wa.

Phoenlx Hoo-Hoo Club - April 19, goU, Oakwood Golf Resort, Sun Lakes, Az.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - April 21, dinner meeting, Spokane, Wa.

Southwest Pine Associatlon - Aprll 2l-23, anntal invitational golf tournament, Orange Tree Golf & Conference Resort, Scottsdale, Az.

Store Ffxturlng Show - Aprtl 2l-23, McCormick Place East, Chicago, tr.

West Coast Lumber Inspectlon Bureau - Aprtl 22, anntal meeting, Red Lion Lloyd Center, Podland, Or.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo CIub - Aprll 23, casino night, Doubletree Hotel, Santa Rosa, Ca.

North Amerlcan Wholesale Lumber Assoclatlon - Aprll 23-26, annual meeting, Marriott's Carnelback Inn, Scottsdale, Az.

Natlonal Partlcleboard Assoclatlon - Aprll 24-27, spring meeting, Sheraton El Conquistador, Tucson, Az.

Wood Machtnery Manufacturers of Amerlca - Aprll 27-May 1, convention, Sheraton El Conquistador, Tucson, Az.

Natlonal Decoratlng Products Assoclatlon - Aprll 30-May 1, regional trade fair, Airporter Garden Hotel, Irvine, Ca.

MAY

Tacoma-Olympla Hoo-Hoo Club - May 3, old timers night, Diamond Jim's, Tacoma, Wa.

Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club - May 10, sports night SeaBle, Wa.

Western Dry Klln Assoclation - May 10-13, annual meeting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumbernan's Club - May 12, ladies nigh! Summit House Restaurant, Fullerton, Ca.

North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - May 12, annual golf tournament Skagit Valley Golf & Country Club, Burlington, Wa.

Lumber Merchants Assoclatlon of Northern California - May 12-14, annual convention, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, Ca.

Cotter & Co. - May 14-lE, spring market Cervantes Convention Center, St. [.ouis, Mo.

Phoenlx Hoo-Hoo Club - May 17, golf, dinner & election of officers, Orange Tree Golf Resort, Phoenix, Az.

Natlonal Wood Floorlng Assoclatlon - May 17-19, wood flooring school, Denver, Co.

A NATIONAL EVALUATION REPORT (NER-457) has been issued by the National Evaluation Service of the Council of American Building Otflcials to confirm that PYRO-GUARD Fire RetardantTreated Lumber and Plywood meets requirements of the BOCA, UBC, and SBCCI model building codes.

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"Wood Works" Helps Dealers

Dealers can increase sales with the "Wood Works" and other messages selling the environmental superiority of wood, a recent Western Wood Products Association survey discovered.

Figures show 22Vo of retail customers and 28Vo of wholesale customers are more comfortable buying environmentally certified lumber. Some 204o of these customers answered "perhaps" or "yes" when asked if they'd be willing to pay more for such products.

Lumber having a Scientific Certification Systems/TVestern Wood Products Association stamp along with an Environmental Report Card will have a tremendous advantage in the marketplace, according to survey results. Both will enable dealers to satisfy environmentally-minded customers.

Deadbeats On The Pacific

Bill paying performance lags behind last year with the Pacific region the slowest in the nation.

"California's poor perfomrance has been the heavy anchor on the region for some time," Dun & Bradstreet reporB.

Small and medium-size businesses led the way in improving bill paying nationwide at the end of 1993, but it was not enough. The bill-paying rate is behind last year's level. "Despite the recent glowing reports of economic improvement" many business are still under tremendous financial strain," the credit-rating company concludes.

Retailer Ships To Russia

Three overseas containers of lunber and building materials have been sent to Russia from Ganahl Lumber Co.'s Garden Grove, Ca., location.

The materials will be used to build three model homes outside Moscow. Every product needed !o build a home, framing, siding, roofing, even hammers and other tools, was included in the shipment, according to Tom Barclay, Garden Grove general manager. Ten pallets of hardware alone were packed in what Barclay called a "yard event" because it called on the efforts and expertise of so many of his staff.

The Ganahl crew was responsible for researching product specs, assembling the required tools and materials and packing the shipment during the last week of February.

WESTIERN ASS0CIATI[0N NEWS

Western Bulldlng Materlal Assoclatlon's all industry education conference Aptil 22-24, Doubletree Suites, Southcenter, Seattle, Wa., is for owners, managers and key personnel.

Mark Maybeny, The Mayberry Group, Atlanta, Ga., will open the conference Saturday, April 23, with a morning workshop 'Lighting a Fire Under Your Team and Yourself." Robert F. Legg, Temperate Forest Foundation, Beaverton, Or.. will discuss "The Forest - the Social,

Penofin On TV Show Debut

Penofin, produced by Perfonnance Coatings, Inc., Ukiah, Ca., will be featured on the June 18 premiere show of a new do-it-youself program produced by United World Television to air on the Fox Network, Discovery Channel, public tv stations and Nostalgia Nenvorks.

Tim Brennan will discuss the penetrating oil finish product line. Tapes of the show, DIY, will be available to dealers in July.

Marketing Firm Adds Service

Market Resource Associates, Inc., is acquiring Price Log, a price monitoring database system, from Price Log Publications,Inc.

Discussing the addition to the Minneapolis, Mn., firm, ceo John Cashmore sai( "The ability !o supply home improvernent retailers and manufacturers with cufrent" as well as historical, data regarding product assortments and pricing by leading retailers throughout the U.S. brings more value to our clients."

MB Adds Washington DGs

MacMillan Bloedel Building Materials Inc. has consolidated its Tacoma, Wa., offi@s, warehouse and lumber yard at a new l7-acre Tacoma site with a 90,000 sq. ft. warehouse and opened a 49,(XX) sq. ft. satellite DC on 2.7 aqes in Spokane, Wa.

Economic and Ecological Issues - Today and Tomorrow" after lunch. Ken Marson, WBMA president, Marson and Marson Lumber, Leavenworth, Wa., will follow witb a briefing on "Our Canadian Trading Partners." Discussion roundtables will

complete the day's education prcgram, "Positively Outrageous Service" will be the subject of a marketing strategy worksbop conducted Sunday by Mayberry. Roundtable discussions will conclude the program.

Insurance pension trust and executive conrmitteeAVASl board meetings will be held in conjunction with the conference.

Lumber Merchants Assoclatlon of Northern Callfornia is holding its 55th annual convention May L2-14 at the Hyatt Regency, Monterey.

A bade show, golf toumament and the annual past president's reception/banquet are being planned by Dimitra M. Smith, general manager.

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Borate Use Increases In Hawaii

A new borate pressure treatment is becoming hot construction news in the Hawaiian Islands.

Introduced to the Islands in 1992, borate treatments have expanded rapidly. About 99Vo of the treated framing supplied on Oahu by Honsador is now pressure reated with borates, says president Nick Cleghorn.

A new cganization, PacChem, has been established !o provide support services to Hi-Bor borate users in Hawaii. Sub-licensees, who either are or will eventually be producing HiBor treated franing, are Hilo Wood Treating Co., Inc.; Midpac Lumber Co., Ltd.; Honolulu Wood Treating Co., Ltd., and HPM Building Supply.

While boates have not been widely used in the past as a wood preservative, they were first mined in the U.S. in 1876 and have been used in everything from insecticides to brain tumor trcafrients.

U.S. Borax's hademarked HiBor reportedly is effective with Douglas fir, long the favored species in the Islands. The borate treament is able to penetrate the Douglas fir framing lumber.

The borate treaEnent provides protection ftom wood decaying fungi and wood destroying insects, including the voracious and all-too-prevalent Formosan tennite. It is designed for above-ground use where the material is not pennanently exposed to rain, such as in frarning, the major market for pressure treated wood in Hawaii.

Many warranties for pressure treated wood were conditioned on the use of a soil hea[nent every three years. The U.S. Borax warranty of Hi-Bor is not conditioned on periodic treafiient, but does require an inspection every three years.

Tad Ogi, president, Honolulu Wood Treating, says, 'Wood treated with CCA or ACZA preservatives will still be used for construction with direct exposure to the weather, such as d@ks, fences or landscape timbers, but it is great to have the borate alternative for framing lumber."

Fed Projects Spur Metric Use

Pushed by federal construction, virtually all U.S. construction could be converted to metric within the next

five to ten years.

Most federal agencies met the goal of designing all new projects in metric by January 1994 and some exceeded ir.

Federal construction appropriations total over $50 billion with about $20 billion ready for or in rhe design or construction stage. By 1996, federal metric work will approach $50 billion, not including state and local matching funds.

With so much money allotted to federal construction, it is likely that eventually all construction will convert to metric.

6thBuilding Expo In Mexico

The sixth Expo Cihac '94 international building and housing exhibition will be held Oct. 3-9 in Mexico City.

The Mexican counterpart of the U.S. National Association of Home Builders, Centro lmpulsor de las Construcci6n y la Habitaci6n sponsors the arurual exhibition to stimulate the impon and export of products, construction technologies and services between Mexican and foreign enterprises. Attendance is expected to reach 33.000.

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Software Shootout at NAWLA

Nine software vendors will demonstrate lumber distribution software in the "Great Software Shootout" at the North American Wholesale Lumber Association's 102nd annual meeting, Apnl23-26 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, Scottsdale, Az.

The head-to-head presentations will take place from 8:45 to 11:45 Monday, April 25, followed by private, detailed demonstrations in the afternoon and tableop exhibits during a Contact Session on Tuesday. During the initial presentations, a video projection ofthe actual on-screen images will give attende€s a first-hand look at the products at work.

"If a wholesaler does not yet have distribution software, or if it's tiree or more years old, he had bett€r look ino getting a system now if he wants to remain competitive," maintains l,amar B. Logan, president of Logan Lumber Co., Tampa, Fl., moderator of the demonstration program. "The Shootout will be a perfect opportunity for one-stop shopping because the leading vendors will all be in one pliace."

The NAWLA annual meeting will include a number of bu3iness, educa-

tional and social opportunities. Two Contact Sessions (1-2 p.m. Monday and24 p.m. Tuesday) will feature 60 lumber mills, remanners and affiliatedservice companies in addition to the software vendors participating in the Shootout Eric Canton, Canton Lumber Co., is the 1994 convention coordinator.

G-P Sales To Portland

Georgia-Pacific has completed the first phase of its plan to base all West Coast sawmill sales in Portland, Or.

Randy James, generd lumber sales manager, western wood products manufacturing division, has moved to Portland from Martell, Ca., to be responsible for marketing sfategy, forecasting and sales for all lumber operations.

J. D. Deisher and Darrel A. Hanson, sales managers for green and dry dimension from Philomath, Or., and Martell mills, will also be based in Portland. Donna R. Johnson has relocated from Atlanta Ga., as adurinistrative assistant to James.

Georgia-Pacific operates nine production facilities, two distribution centers, two chip-shipping facilities, a

forestry research center with nursery and two forest resource offices in Oregon.

Northwest Education Meeting

Owners, managers and key personnel will attend the Western Building Material Association's all industry education conference April 22-?t4, Dolbletree Suites, Southcenter, Seattle, Wa.

Mark Mayberry, The Mayberry Group, Atlanta, Ga., will open the conference Saturday, April 23, with a morning workshop "Lighting a Fire Under Your Team and Yourself."

Robert F. Legg, Temperate Forest Foundation, Beaverton, Or., will discuss "The Forest - the Social, Economic and Ecological Issues - Today and Tomorrow" after lunch. Ken Marson, WBMA president, Marson and Marson Lumber, Leavenworth, Wa., will follow with a briefing on "Our Canadian Trading Partners." Discussion roundtables are planned. "Positively Outrageous Service" will be the subject of a marketing strategy workshop conducted Sunday by Mayberry. Roundtable discussions will conclude the program.

Moulding Assn. Elect Officers

Sid Johnson, Nor-Cal Moulding Co., Marysville, Ca., was elected president of the Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association at the group's annual meeting Feb. 12 in Maui, Hi.

Hardy Allen, Mt. Taylor Millwork, Inc., Milan, N.M., was named v.p.; Jim Gonsalves, Western Moulding Co., Inc., Snowflake, Az., 2nd v.p.; Doug Brittingham, Dallas Planing Mill, Dallas, Or., Eeas., and Frank DeMott, Best Moulding Corp., Albuquerque, N.M., immediate past pres.

The Warren C. Jimerson Award of Excellence was presented to Kieran P. Madden, past president, Ponderosa Mouldings, Redmond, Or. Madden joined Ponderosa Mouldings in 1945, also serving as WMMPA president in 1966 andmayor of Redmond for 15 years.

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New directors: Vaughn Nickell, American Millwork Corp., Elkhart, In.; Rich Stoltz, Siena Pacific Industries' Millwork Div., Redding, Ca.; Rick Hagel, Bums, Morris & Stewart, Inc., Nacogdoches, Tx.; Ellis Myers, Smith Millwork, Inc., Lexington, N.C., and John Morrison, Sunset Moulding Co., Inc., Yuba City, Ca.

Feds Divert Oregon Forest Money

At least $5.4 million designated for reforestation in Oregon has been spent on staff salaries, furniture and roof repairs, an Interior Department inspecor general reported.

Timber revenue lost by the failure to properly fertilize, thin and maintain the forests in question could run between $36 million and $200 million, the report noted.

HONORED: Kieran P. Madden (top pholo, righl) receives WMMPA's hiohest honor, the Wanen C. Jimerson Award of Excellence, from inbmino oresident Sid Johnson. Elected to lhe execulive commitlee (bottom,-l-r) Bob Weiglein, Frank DeMotl, Sid Johnson, Jim Gonsalves, Hardy Allen, Doug Britlingham.

Tremont Nail Celebrates 175 Years

Tremont Nail Co., the oldest nail manufacturer in the U.S., still occupies the Warehan, Ma, site where Issac and Jared Pratt started the business in 1819. The property is now a national historic site.

The 175 year old oompany manufactures 20 pattems of steel cut nails for the commercial and restoration markets. Hardened masonry and hardened floor nails are the most popular. The oldest pasern, a decoative wrcught head, is a favorite for restoration.

W. H. Maze Co., Peru, Il., parent of Maze Nails, the oldest wire nail manufacturer in the country, purchased Tremont in 1989.

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Associations To Promote Wood

An industry-wide communications program by the Wood Products Promotion Council (WPPC) will promote environmental benefits of wood.

American Plywood, American Forest and Paper, Southern Forest Products and Western Wood Products associations comprise WPPC. The communications carpaign will be based on WWPA's WoodWorks progmm.

"This is an exciting step fonilard for the solid wood industry," said APA marketing v.p. Dennis Hardman, a WPPC steering committee member. "For the first time, we will be talking to our respective members'customers with a unified industry voice about the common environmental attributes of all wood products."

Retailers, wholesalers, builders, remodelers, engineers, architects and industrial customers will be targeted. A oneday symposium is in the offing at a date to be announced and the first of a series of statewide builder seminars have been held in Jacksonville and Orlando, Fl., by APA and the Florida Wood Council.

Remodeling Spending Increases

After a dramatic remodeling activity increase nationwide in 1993, the possibility of remodeling expenditures overtaking new constuction spending by 2000 is in the offing.

Total residential improvements and repair expenditures for second quarter 1993 reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $112.4 billion, up 16%o over frst quarter figures, according to U.S. Commerce Department figures. Spending was $70.8 billion for improvements, a 27Vo increase over the previous quarter and the highest in six years, and M1.6 billion for maintenance and repain.

For nearly half a century, Hanel Lumber Co. has promoted an environmentally sound image of the forest products industry through wise multiple-use resource

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Saves money! Tlpically ISVo to 50Vo lower in cost than comparable nonprimed finger joint products. Needs little or no surface preparation before a finish coat is applied. Does not warp, split, or have raised grain. PAC TRIMTM cuts cleaner than pine. Environmentally correct. PAC TRIMTM is made from wood waste that would have been burned and polluted our air, and replaces traditional pine cut from our depleting forests.

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PERSONALS

Scott Schledorn, formerly with Terry Lumber, is new to Home Depot, Fullerton, Ca., as western lumber buyer. Raul Tallabas, ex-Builders Emporium v.p.-merchandising, is now building materials buyer, and John Fuelllng, plywood buyer. Blll Peia was nanred v.p./gen. mgr.-Mexico.

Ramsey Fendall, buyer, Dixieline Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca, has been moved to their new Columbia City, Or., dock facility.

Jerry Parks has joined Western Wood Preservers Institute, Portland, Or., as director of mktg. services.

Bob Baxter has joined Martin Bros. Wholesale Lumber Co., ElCajon, Ca.

Rlck Danlelson has been promoted to v.p.-sales at Allweather Wood Treaters, Washougal, Wa., according to pres. Alan Wade.

Bob Wells has joined the sales force at Califomia Timberline, Chino, Ca.

Ed Sandlln, owner, Trinidad Builders Supply, Trinidad, Co., has retired after 30 years at the helm His son, Scott, succeeds him as mgr.

Blll Hamre is a new window and door specialist at American Lumber Co., Modesto, Ca.

Barry Larson has joined Edgewater Forest Products, Portland, Or.

Tlm Gaffney is new to Hampton Lumber Sales Co.-So. Ca. div., Newport Beach, Ca., specializing in sales to So. Ca. dealers.

Bob Glatt, Bowman Lumber Sales, is back at his Magalia, Ca., office after a Mes4 Ca., snowbird sojourn.

Ken Preston is now sales mgr.-window & patio door div. at R & K Building Supplies, Mesa, Az

John F. McGovern, senior v.p.-fiance, is now senior v.p.-finance and c.f.o. at Georgia-Pacific, succeeding vice chairman and c.f.o. James C. Van Meter, who has retired.

Hamy Demorest has been named pres. and cbief operating officer at Columbia Forest Products, Portland, Or., replacing Andy Honzel, now chaimran and ceo.

John Mlsslln is new to C & D Lumber Co., Riddle, Or., as rrktg. & sales mgr. Susan Morgan is new to sales.

Chuck L. Kremers is new to Cotter & Co. as director of mktg.

Jack Crenshaw is now covering Ak., Or., Wa., Id., Mt. and Wy. for Hitachi Power Tools.

Mlke MordeII, fomrerly with Greenwood International, is a new purchasing agent at Universal Forest Products, Woodburn, Or.

Bob Eddy is now v.p.-sales at VSI Fasteners, Stanton, Ca.

Tlm McCool, former partner, Vintage Hardwood Floors, San Jose, Ca., has joined the National Wood Flooring Association as director of technical services.

Michael Kennedy is the new gen. mgr. of Independent Nail Co.

Robert L. Ethlngton has been elected to the board of review of the American Lumber Standard Committee.

Fremont specializes in a large inventory of high quality Douglas fir boards, dimension, long lengths and timbers shipped from select mills in British Columbia, Oregon and California. We 8r€ constantly adding to our selection of western red cedar, pine, hemlock and white fir. Other species and specialty items are inventoried and included in our weekly flyer sent to all Fremont customers.

Btll McBroom, Albuquerque, N.M., and Blll Swaney, Pboenix, Az., have joined Boise Cascade Wholesale Building Materials, Phoenix'

Laur.ence A. Slater has been named plant mgr. of J.H. Baxter & Co., Long Beach, Ca., replacing Mlchael C. Sples, now v.p.-operations, based in San Mateo, Ca., according to Pres. Rlchard H. Baxter.

John Rlley is now heading sales at Industrial Forest Products' new Reno, Nv., office, reports Steve Baugh at Anaheim, Ca., Hq.

Bob James has been Promoted to midAmerica regional mgr' for PrimeSource, kvine, Ca.

Dean Sturz is the new sales mgr. for F' H. Stoltz Land & Lumber Co., Columbia Falls, Mt., succeeding Rlchard Rlley' who has retired after 34 years in the industrY.

Susan Page has joined the office staff of Orange CountY Lumber Co', Santa Ana, Ca.

Jtn Ottobonl bas been named plant mgr. of Inuisiana-Pacific's newly reopened remanufacturing plant in Cloverdale' Ca. Rose Lyle is office mgr., and Tom Gardlner, marketing coordinator. Bob Anderson has assumed Gardiner's duties in Ukiah, Ca.

Cap Strano, Bob Halbert Jr, and Mlke McClaury are new to sales at Landmark Forest Products, San Bernardino' Ca.

Douglas Hart has been promoted to national sales mgr. for OrePac Building Products, Wilsonville, Or. Dlrk Myers is now moulding Product mgr. for all Ca. locations and replaces Hart as Sacramento, Ca., sales mgr. Steve Prado is field sales mgr., Sacramento.

Debbte Marker, Dellen Wood Products, Spokane, Wa., has joined the SPokane Hoo-Hoo Club, along with John F. Alcoma, Pre Cut Saw & Tool; John Gottwald, Inland Wood Specialties; L. Klrk Hopklns and Dan Larson, SPokane Moulding Co.; Steve Magulre, Valley Bestway Building Supply; Ann Romelke, ASA Management Co', and Verna Sanford, Timber Products Manufacturers.

Barry Savage, North Coast Redwood & Cedar Co., Kirkland, Wa., and his wife, Carol, are the proud parents of 6 lb., 10 oz. Alleen Marle, bom Feb. 26, t994.

Blll Dennlson, pres., California Forestry Association, plans to retire April 30 after 23 yeaxs with the grcuP.

Wllliam J. OtDonnell was named v.p. and controller at Stanley Tools US.

Ihomas E. Hanllton has been named director of the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wi., replacing John Erlckson. who has retired.

Don Welxelman is now ceo at States Dealer Supply, Eugene, Or. RandY Oswald replaces him as Pres. Nlck Cross is now purchasing mgr'

George Bush, fomrer U.S. pres., will deliver the keynote address Aug. 15 for Hardware Industry Week in Chicago.

Rlchard Parrott was named Salesman of the Year at American Building SPecialties, Inc., Denver, Co.

Mark Boyer, Idaho Timber, Boise, Id., has been transferred to sales at Lake City, Fl.

John K. Shrum is now national haining director and gen. mgr. for ParPac, Commerce City, Co.

tr'ranklln T. Brown, Celotex Corp', has been appointed western U.S. mgr.credit & collections.

Ron Taylor, R & S SuPPlY, Sacramento, Ca., and his wife, Yoshlko, have returned from a vacation in Maui.

Phlllp Orslno, Premdor, Inc., has been elected chairman of tbe National Wood Window & Door Association. Jlm Ssrdo, SNE, is lst vice chairman; Sam A. Wlng, Wing Industries, 2nd vice chairman; Todd Roblnson, Southwood Door Co., 3rd vice chairman, and Jack Semllng, SemlingMenke Co., treas. Directors: Blll Hoel, Masonite CorP.; Mark De Zwartr, Alumaroll Specialty Co.; Ken Stovall, Bright Wood CorP.; Llnda Semllng, Semling-Menke Co.; Jeff Cobb, Haley Bros., Inc.

Cary M. Over is now handling deliveries for Hugh Mungus and f,'reddY Fungus at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products. Climax, Nv.

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Clinton Plan Devised lllegally

A federal judge has ruled that the Clinton Administration illegally developed ia Pacific Northwest forest management plan butrefused a timber industry request to block its implementation.

Ruling on a suit brought by the Northwest Forest Resource Council, the U.S. disrict judge said that the Administration repeatedly violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act's requirements for open proceedings in developing the Option 9 plan.

Yet, he wrote, an injunction would be "premature" since at this point the plan is merely a written prescription. Other courts could still find the violations serious enough to block decisions called for in the plan.

"The injunction is probably less important than the fact that the Administration's plan has been found to be legally flawed by the very first review that took a look at it," said Mark Rey, American Forest & Paper Association.

An Administration official said the judge's ruling would have little practical effect

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The race plane that All-Coast Forest Products, Chino, Ca, has sponsored for 10 years went down in flames during a recent air race in Phoenix, Az.

The customized World War II "Pappy Boyington"-style aircraft caught fire March 17 racing in the Phoenix 500. The pilot bailed out, suffering a broken neck, ann and leg.

All-Coast began its sponsorship in 1984, and it won the world championship a year later. They expect to sponsor another racer by 1996.

Custom Coupon Machines

Customers at some Builders Square locations can now make their own coupons.

Now in use at selected Builders Square stores and other chain retailers, the Savings Spot coupon-printing machines look like jukeboxes, but work more like home computers.

Consumers can choose from 32 different coupons displayed on the front of the kiosk. They simply press a button and the machine prints out their selections. The machines reportedly boost sales of featured items an average ofl27o.

LMA Convention In Monterey

Early bird registration deadline for the 1994 Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California's convention is April 31.

Following tle nautical theme "Smooth Sailing: The LMA Advantage," the 55th annual convention is set for May 12-14 at the Hyatt Regency, Monterey. A trade show with reception, general session, seminars and workshops as well as a past president's reception and banquet are being planned.

Golf will be played at Rancho Canada Golf Club, Carmel.

Store Protests Gratfiti Law

Buena Park Lumber Co., Buena Park, Ca., is protesting a tough graffiti law passed by the city.

Bruce Whitaker, controller, attended a city council meeting to protest a law that requires businesses to secure in a closed cabinet or other storage device any aerosol paint containers, felt tip markers or devices capable of "being used to leave a visible mark at least one-eighth of an inch in width." Items in this category would have to be dispensed to customers by employees.

Claiming the requirement a costly expense to a retail store, whitaker said a voluntary program would have been "better suited." Another merchant said his store had spent $50 o comply with the law, but Whitaker said it would cost "many times more than $50" to comply with the ordinance at Buena Park Lumber.

Forest lnfo Radio Broadcast

Motorists traveling through some forest areas in Oregon can tune in a pre-recorded information message on their radios.

For example, a traveler at Coos Bay on Highway 101 can learn about the area in a five minute message by turning his radio to a low power frequency announced on a highway sign. Highway 26 between Portland to the coast and I-5 between Roseburg and Couage Grove also are part of the project sponsored by Oregon Forest Resources Institute and Oregon State University.

Cars must be traveling 50 mph, the range of 10 watts of power, to receive the entire message. In comparison, a few major stations have as much as 50,000 wans of power.

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Long regar{ed as a scrub tree, juniper may soon be available as an alternative to cedar.

Short and slow-growing, juniper trees in eastern Washington and eastern Oregon forests were typically bulldozed. But logging resfictions in Douglas fr forests have made cedar products scarcer and more expensive.

Juniper's properties appear to be quite similar to cedar's. Its close-knit cell structure minimizes chemical penetration in pressure treatment" but it doesn't need it. Juniper is naturally decay, fungus and tennite-resistant. The wood also contains an oil that gives it a distinctive arom4 sweet and pungent, similar to incense cedar's scent. Once dried, juniper appears to be more like aldo.

When Bob Shepard, co-owner and gen. mgr., Castle Rock Building Supply, Castle Rock, Wa., heard that juniper could be used as an alternative to cedar, he wanted in. The retailer tried to persuade other dealen to share the expense of a test load, but got no takers. "What anazed me is with all the advantages of it, I couldn't interest anyone else," he said. "No one was willing to take a chance."

So, he ordered his own load, which arrived late last year. Working with one sample and a finn belief in the species, Shepard sarted a waiting list and pre-sold much of the order.

Castle Rock is stocking 4x4 fence posts up through 6x8 landscape timbers. But the Klamath Falls, Or., manufacturer and its representative, Idaho Timber Corp., Boise, Id., are also experimenting with 2x6 radius edge decking, dimension hurber, split rail fencing and veneers.

The University of Monana recently putjuniper though crcrtification testing to precisely determine its properties and capabilities. Idaho Timber is weighing those results to "see what direction we want to go with it, if any," said marketing mgr. Steve Hollingworth.

The wood was harvested east of Washington and Oregon's Cascade Mountains, but about eight other classifications of juniper grow tbroughout theU.S.

The "new" wood is providing another benefit. The Klamath Falls mill that manufactures juniper had been closed. Reopening itput2?pple back to work.

Milling House Steps lt Up

Custom Mills Inc., Industry, Ca., has implemented a new moulding system, marking a giant step forward ino 'Just-in-time" manufacturing in the woodworking industry.

The milling house has added a Weinig Unimat 23 moulder and a Rondamat 934T tooling grinder, aimed at reducing set-up times and increasing productivity.

"The new moulder has more than doubled the production of the two moulders it replaced," said supervisor Fred Jones, noting the Unimat 23 is capable of good finish quality at speeds in excess of 70 ft. per minute verses the 3G55 ft. per minute on the old style moulders. 'Finish quality is very good at these higher speeds because of 8000 rpm spindles and a very stable machine."

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Housing starts in C:lifornia in 1994 arc expected to reach 105,000 units, a 247o rebound from 1993's U,6f,8, forecast the Construction Industry Research Board.

Added manager Dan Jones: "We set up in 15 minutes on most pattem changes compared to the houf to hourand-a-half times on the old machines. This allows more set-ups per day on short run production, which has become more common in the industry."

The moulder's production capabilities approach the speed of a jointed moulder without the hassle of multilmife tooling and jointing.

The new tooling grinder enables the operator to "keep up" with the quick set-up capacity of the moulder. Ext€nsive operator training was conducted at Michael Weinig's Statesville, N.C., facility, as well as ongoing training at Custom Mills.

"The custom milling industry is very competitive these days," said owner Jeny Lapin. "Quality, speed and price are of paramount importance. The Weinig system allows us to perform well in this arena-"

Established in 1957, custom Mills employs 45 people on a 3-ll2 rcre site, using 11 moulders, four planers, five rip saws, a r€saw, profile sander and cut-to-length capability in its daily operation.

'THE BEST machine I haw ever run,' noles mouldino ooerator Auoie Walle of Custom Milb' rccently-acluired Uniriat 23.

NEW Rondamal 934T tooling grinder is manned by Theron Laudermill.

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What is OSB?

Oriented suand board" or OSB, is an engineered panel product designed for strucnral applications in residential and nonresidential buildings. Because of its strength, availability and environmental friendliness, it's a product builders and remodelers should consider.

Why don't the panels look more like plywood?

OSB panels have a mouled exterior because they are composed of compressed wood strands arranged in layers at right angles to one another and bonded with fully waterproof adhesive. This cross lamination creates strength and stiffness that merits a perfonnance rating.

What does performance rated mean?

A perfonnance rated wood product meets performance requirements based on an intended end use. The structural wood panel performance standard provides a cornmon performance baseline for all panel types, regardless of manufacture. These standards and ratings guarantee top performance. They are similar to the perfonnance standards and tests used in the electronics, automotive and aircraft industries.

What is OSB rated for?

The American Plywood Association uses three basic performance standards for oriented strand board: structural adequacy, dimensional sta-

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How can I tell if they are APA Rated?

All APA Rated products are stamped with the APA trademark which identifies them and gives information about their perfonnance.

\ilhere do you use OSB?

OSB is a good choice for home construction. Panels are strong and designed to resist racking and shape distortion under high wind and earthquake forces. With excellent fastener-holding capability even when nailed close to the edge, they are lightweight relative to their size, easy

to handle and install. They resist deflection and bending, absorb shock, have no lmots or core voids and don't delamin:ate or splil Because it's made of wood, OSB is a natural insulator and protects against heat loss and condensation.

Does OSB have special uses?

APA Rated Sturd-I-Floor, available with square or tongue-andgroove ends, is a combination subfloor-underlayment panel designed for use under carpet and pad. If it is used with tile or linoleum, an additional thin layer of underlayment is recommended. APA Rated Siding comes in both panel and lap fomt in a variety of surface treatments and takes paint readily.

Is OSB suitable for d-i-y use?

OSB is not just for Professional builders and remodelers. OSB panels can be an economical, versatile choice for many do-it-yourself projects including partitions, cabinets, shelving, backboard and toys. OSB panels manufactured for d-i-y use do not have exposure or span ratings.

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Although OSB has been around for over 10 years, it has recently been recognized as an environmentally friendly engineered wood product. Severe harvest restrictions have underlined the importance of OSB's ability to utilize low-cost hardwoods, plantation thinnings and small, fastmaturing species grown in managed forests or tree farrns. OSB uses 8590Vo of the log with the bark, saw trim and sawdust usually converted inSo energy or pulp chips. OSB panels continue to be environmentally friendly after installation. Bonded with fully waterproof phenolic resins, they are exempt from HUD emission testing and certification requirement. Next time a customer asks, "What's that funny stuff?," teu him!

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A S A DEALER you don't have ro f,l apologize for selling wood. In fact, you should apologize for selling anything else. However, you need to lnow why wood is better than altemative products and inform your customers of its advantages.

Visit a wood product manufacturing facility to learn the process first hand. Ask your suppliers for educational materials to support a buyer's decision to buy wood. Use research statistics prepared by wood product associations. It's tine to tell our side of the story.

We're mad at the misrepresentation of the forest products industry as environmentally unconcerned and we're not going to take it any longer. Jobs, communities, our future and your sales depend upon our ability to tell our story cleady and honestly. When we examine energy and environmental issuqs, wood is clearly the winner. Wood is the only renewable building resource. Wood is energy efficient, durable, recyclable and biodegradable. Wood cleans the air

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BTUs, oil equivalent, per ton), the National Research Council's Committee on Renewable Resources for Indusfiial Materials concluded that producing a ton of steel requires 50.3 million BTUs as opposed to 2.9 million BTUs for a ton of softwood lumber, a ratio of approximately 17 to 1.

A 1991 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listing of toxic substances in millions of pounds released and

transfened in the manufacturing process shows lumber at 38; peuoleum, 103; plastics, 195; fabricated metals, 207, and primary metals, 757. The perfect manufacturing pfocess does not exist, but some are more gentle on the environment than others.

Wood wins hands down for resource renewability. Once iron ore is mined or oil is consumed to create plastics and resins, the resource is gone. Nature will create new deposits, but a million years is too long to be practical.

Trees are a renewable resource. Timber growth today exceeds harvesting by over 359o. A balance between growth and removal has existed for the last 50 years. Long tenn survival of the industry depends on correct management of land and resources.

New technologies utilize forest resources more efficiently. In door, millwork, plywood and siding operations, our goal is to use the entire tree. Other wood product manufacturers fy to do the same. The need to conserve and use wood to its best advantage has led !o btter products such as engineered wood.

Biodegradability is a final consideration. Wood wins again because it is natural. While wood waste decomposes in a relatively short time, with no harm to the land, uncertainty exists about alternative products.

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California Redwood Association is offering its new Redwood Design-A-Deck Plans kit at a special infoductory bulk rate of 10 for $100, a49%o savings off the usual price, with a display carton included with orders of 10 or more. The offer is gmd until June 31.

Providing dealers an entry into the do-it-yourself deck market, the kit can be sold directly to consumers or used in deck design services, clinics and home shows. Some dealers refund the price of the kit when the customer buys redwood for a deck.

The system helps the do-it-yourselfer create a custom deck plan. Deck modules in a variety of shapes and sizes, railing, sair and bench options, a color idea book, detailed construction guide, blueprints and a materials list are included.

Kits may be ordered from the CRA,405 Enfrente Dr., Suite 200, Novato, Ca-94949, (415) 382-ffi2.

IUMBER

Day Labor Sites Cause Grief

Several home centers in the metropolitan Los Angeles, Ca., area are working with county and city officials to solve the problem of day laborers congregating at ttre stores seekrng work.

Management of a HomeBase at Slauson and Fairfax Avenues in Los Angeles is cooperating with County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke to set up restrooms and facilities for day laborers at the store or close by.

Monrovia city officials are working with Home Depot to create a day laborer waiting area on a parking lot across the street from the store. A makeshift employment center would operate out of a city-owned failer.

Immigration and Naturalization Service raids in Monrovia in February arrested 32 illegal aliens from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. If undocumented workers are hired from sanctioned locations, the employer, not the home center, city or county, could face penalties, an INS official said.

Sierra Madre and Pasadena also are seeking ways to deal with complaints about sites where day laborers gather. Los Angeles County is considering an ordinance banning day laborers in unincorporated areas.

Three Injured In Home

Store engineers are seeking the cause of an accident, involving falling boxes of ceiling tiles at a Fullerton, Ca., Home Depot.

A woman, a six-year-old boy believed to be her grandson and a male family member were taken to local medical centers with minor injuries, firefighters said.

REDWOOD deck kit is beino offered bv the Calilornia Redwood Association at a special discount prilb until the end of June.

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Lumber Company High On Hemp

C&S Building Supply, Harrisburg, Or., hopes soon to introduce composite building products produced from a novel wood substitute: hemp.

Owner William Conde sees the strong, fast-growing fiber crop as a remedy to the dwindling supply of harvestable timber. '"The truth of the matter is that we're running out of tr@s, and hemp is the best fiber plant on the face of the earth," he told the Multnamah County Businc ss Journal.

The company hopes to import hemp fiber from Hawaii. An undisclosed Oregon manufacturer would then process the materid into particleboard.

So far, C&S has imported about 1,500 pounds of hemp from France. Washington State University researchers have turned the material into prototype building materials. The hemp particleboard is just as durable as wood counterparts, WSU said.

The stalky plant grows well in the Northwest, and mills would not require extensive retooling to use hemp in composite building materials, WSU

added. For years, former Eastern Bloc countries have used hemp in paper and building materials. Since England lifted its 30-year-old ban on growing hemp in February, a consortium of 20 English farmers planted 1,500 acres of hemp, mostly to be sold to paper mills.

The main obstacle is that hemp fiber comes from marijuana plants, banned in the U.S. since the late 1940s. Although hemp is the same genus and species as the illegal wee( industrial varieties of hemp have low concentrations of marijuana's intoxicating drug THC. And special permits from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency are still required to grow even industrial hemp.

The other problem is the price. Unprocessed hemp fiber can be imported for $200 to $250 a ton, said C&S. The cheapest wood fiber costs less than $50 a ton.

Growing hemp in the Northwest would slash the cost of the material and quicken the commercialization of hemp-based products, said C&S. Hemp famring requires less labor and

fewer agricultural chemicals than a grass seed oop.

Hemp's future as building products in the U.S. will depend on finding an affordable source of raw materials. "We have everything in place. All we need is the hemp," said Conde.

C&S hopes to purchase up to 20 tons of hemp fiber from Hawaiian broker Roger Christie, who is working to obtain a special permit from the DEA.

Though Christie has been trying to bring commercial hemp production !o Hawaii for six years, he sees opportunity in the local sugar industry's devashtion by foreign competition.

"The major landowners are bankrupt or near bankrupt and they're looking for new crops," said a local agronomist, who said hemp could grow year-round in Hawaii's ropical climate.

Meantime, C&S will continue its campaign, touting its message on a lumber truck adorned with drawings of cannabis leaves, peace signs and the slogan "Yes Trees are Renewable, but Hemp is Sustainable."

Stone-Look Columns

Columns and balustrades that look and feel like stone but are of reinforced polyester resins for strength and durability are now available from Chadsworth Columns.

NEW PRODUCTS

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Pipe Down

Prefabricated catch basins to accorrmodate large 12" to 24" diarneter corrugated plastic pipe culverts are now available from Crumpler Plastic Pipe.

Installed with a 6"-8" deep lip of concrete poured around the top, large dianeter carch basins will support H20 traffic load slotted metal grates, eliminating brick mason-constructed basin labor.

A growing niche market opportunity, large diameter comlgated plastic pipe culverts are used in large commercial parking lots, DOT road culverts, airport storm drains and industrial construction.

weight (handled by a single worker), less waste than solid wood and energy efficiency.

Packaged Connections

Stainless steel nails and screws are now offered in an attention-getting new 25 lb. nail carton from Swan Secure Products.

Constructed of heavy corrugated board, the colorful package is easy o open and reclose. No stapling or banding is required to resecure tle carton.

Built-in Header Insulation

Insulated headers pre-engineered and pre-insulated to produce the ultimate in structural capacity and versatility are new from Superior Wood Systems.

Made of machine suess mted lunber and oriented sEand board with a polystyrene core, SW-ll Headers are constructed in2x4 and2x6 widths up toll-ll{'in height.

They reportedly provide cost savings (need for on-site insulating eliminated), dimensional stability (no shiruning required for tight fits), light

Ideal for arbors, pergolas, porches or any exterior application especially near the water, non-deteriorating Poly-Stone columns have sharp, crisp detail, are fire and impact resistant and need only to be painted.

They come with a plain or fluted shaft in a variety of sizes.

Exoandinq Lift Line

tne Eo Z5 and FD 50C diesel forklifts have been added to Mitsubishi's American-built line of FG/ FD 35-5rc pneumatics.

The series is comprised of 8,000 to 11,000 lb. capacity trucks powered by six cylinder gas, LPG or diesel engmes.

Available with simplex, duplex or triplex masts, they are loaded with standard features that provide greater safety and stability, user-ftiendly operation and ease of servicing. For smooth operation, the 11,000 lb. model is standard-equipped with a two-speed, automatic-shift transmission (optional on all other models).

Options include dual drive wheels, elevated air intake, back-up alarm, power steering cylinder boots, long forks and at0achments such as rotating forks, side shifters, bale clamps and paper roll clamps.

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April1994

Affordable Wood Millwork

Pac Trim, high quality, Pre-Primed medium density fiberboard millwork, is now available from Pacific MDF Products.

The trim has a hard surface that is said to resist hammer dings and other damage by installers and homeowners. Reportedly up to 507o lower in cost than the comparable non-primed fingerjoint product, the pre-primed product requires little or no preparation before the finish coat of paint.

It is made from wood waste, including more than 957o ponderosa and/or sugar pine, giving it a smooth, uniform surface for excellent drilling, routing, sawing, nailing, embossing, stapling, screwing and shaping without chipping or splintering.

Remarkable Lattice

A new line of lattice made from strong high-density polyethylene to offer maintenance-free strength and durability has been introduced by Master Mark.

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Design Master Lattice reportedly will not split, warp, chip or splinteq is weather, rot and rust proof; never needs painting, and cleans up easily.

Panels can be cut with a regular handsaw or power saw and attached with nails or screws.

Designed with distinctive overlap and woodgrained styling, 4x8 panels come in white, cedar tone or custom designer colors.

Software Manager

TTiBASE Building Materials Distribution Software Solution is new from MAI North America.

Designed specifically for the building supply industry, the state-of-tleart management system provides quote entry/processing, sales order entry/processing and sales analysis, inventory management control, purchase order processing, accounts payable, accounts receivable and general ledger services.

Fast Footinq

A compactJ"instant" footing for decks, light construction projects, barns, sheds and ramps has been inroduced by Deck Plug. Deck Plug is made of lightweight concrete so it can be easily handled from the retail shelf and into the hole at the site, eliminating mixing and allowing the project to begin immediately.

Consistent Caulking

A new caulk smoothing kit from Red Devil reportedly creates a consistent caulk line and eliminates the mess of using fingers or inappropriately-sized tools.

Each kit contains two smoothers (114" and 5/16" size) and chamber cleaner to remove excess caulk from the tools. It smooths corners on bathtubs, sinks, windows, counters, drywall, cabinets, mouldings, etc.

It comes in two sizes and takes up to an 8x8 post.

Versatile Repair Putty

A compact new display carton holding 12 tubes of Epoxy Repair Putty is now offered by Miracle Weld.

tap@, sawn, sanded and painted like metal.

It reportedly features exceptional compression, tensile and shear strengths and will even harden underwater.

Miracle-Weld is available in a multi-purpose repair forrnulation, as well as specialized formulations for automotive, aluminum, plumbing, wood and fiberglass repair. Formulations can be mixed or matched for anv size order.

Automatic Composter

Perforated tubes circulate air to all pafis of the composting mass, minimizing the danger of it becoming anaerobic and odorous.

The product is pack4ged in a single stick that can be lneaded like putty. It renains workable for several minutes, hardening in about 20 minutes. Once hardened, it can be drilled,

A new composting system that eliminates the drudgery of hrning and speeds formation of rich compost has been developed by Gardner EquipmenL

The No-Turn compost system, with no tuning or restacking, creates high quality compost in 14 to 2l days.

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The system consists of two flexible, recycled plastic sheets joined at the sides, a perforated bottom to facilitate drainage, a unique heat-saving layer to speed bacterial action and a weatherproof top. Materials arc guaranteed against cracking for five years. Assembly is said to take about 15 minutes.

Plastic Railings

In addition to the standard dimensions for decking boards, Mobil Chemical Co.'s Trex wood polymer composite will soon be available in several attractive railing designs, incorporating balusters, cap rails and bottom rails.

Used for boardwalks, playgrounds, marina docks, landscaping, conmercial decks and now residential decks, Trex reportedly maintains a like-new appearance because it resists moisture (including salt water), UV rays, insects and solvents.

BlindBut Glean

A new line of blind cleaning Products has been introduced bY CMC, Inc.

Specially formulated, biodegradable Blind Clean Liquid reportedly cleans all types of blinds, including fabric and wood, does not dull or danage factory finish, and leaves a fresh lemon scent.

The Blind Clean Tool's seven soft, removable, washable fingers clean horizontal blinds quickly and easily. The Micro-Mini Blind Tool features smaller fingers for mid-size and mini blinds.

The Vertical Blind Cleaner has

specially designed pads that hug the blind's curve and a unique PoP-uP brush for surrounding and hard-toreach areas.

Stop Gap

Ghp Wiap Air Infiltration Banier from Benjairin Obdyke aPPlies to sheathing seams and around windows and doors to reduce air leaking through a home's exterior gap9.

Wiapped only around windows, doors and sheathing gaps, the product is said to keep air out while still allowing moisnre vapor transmission thereby reducing drafts and the potgn' tial fo-r condensation and preserving insulation effectiveness to improve the home's energy efficiencY.

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Energized Lawn Care

Magnalawn 2000 from YBM Magnetics reportedly transforms the water from an ordinary garden hose into a natural fertilizer, promoting strong root systems while reducing the use of chemical fertilizers.

Installed in seconds to a garden

hose, the device employs the combined energy of flowing water and several permanent magnets, which break apart and polarize clusters of water molecules. The reconstituted water is said to penetrate the soil more easily and be absorbed more readily.

The process reportedly gives tap water the beneficial properties of rain water, enhancing nanral nutrients in topsoil, neutralizing chemicals such as salt chlorine and fluorine.

The increased water absorption also means less water is needed to obtain lush lawns and gardens.

Gripping Driver

The Contractor Grade DynaGrip Screwdriver featuring a unique handle and non-slip grip design to provide increased user control and comfort even when the hand is sweaty or greasy is new from Stanley Tools.

The handle is made of a combination of soft and hard polypropylene plastics, resulting in a non-slip grip for maximum control and torque. The extra-large, cushioned handle has smooth edges and is contoured to fit the hand.

Other features include high qrnlily, nickel-plated boron steel blades for

corrosion resistance and long life, and precision machined tips to provide a secure fit in the screw slot. The screwdriver's tips are also vapor blasted to prevent plate chrpping in sensitive applications.

They are available in four-piece and six-piece sets, individually carded in six-box, six-carton quantitites.

Universal Square

A wall partition layout tool to help do-it-yourselfers get professional results in less time with fewer mistakes is new from D-Unique Distributors.

The Gomito layout tool is designed to aid in laying out wall studs (both middle partition and corners), sQUffing windows and doors, and scribing angles, rafters and seat notches.

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Power Up

An accessory designed to run cordIess tools 20 times longer than a standard battery before needing a recharge is new from the Power Bucket Co.

Fast Tacks

A lightweight brad tacker that drives fasteners from 5/8" to 1-318" in length for use in a wide range of applications is new from Stanley-Bostitch.

Ideal for paneling, cabinet work, interior trim, mouldings, staircases and other projects, the model BT35 pnetmntic brad tacker reportedly has tle power to drive fasteners inO the hardest woods.

A 14-ft long cord and an adapter deliver power td the tool from a cirmmon 12 volt wet cell batterv. Adapters are currently available f6r Makita, Black & Decker, DeWalt, Milwaukee, Skil and Rigid cordless tools. Other types can be cus0om fit.

Mower Aisle

A self-standing point-of-purchase display promoting three push-type reel mowers is now offered bv American l,awn Mower Co.

An assembled lawn mower is placed in the front section of the three-sided display, with boxed mowers placed on the remaining two sides.

It stands 5 ft., 10 in. high, takes up 9 sq. ff ofdisplay space and is accessible from all sides.

Offered in rigger-actuate4 contact or sequential fip models, the air tool's molded comfort grip and light weight increase conrol and maneuverabilitv for more accurate fastener placemenl The anti-jam magazine holds up to 100 brads, with fast rear loading.

from Beckwood Industries helps ensure faster, safer and completely accurate 90'cuts.

End Block

A new finishing unit is available for Pittsburgh Corning Corp.'s Thinline series of PC GlassBlock products.

With a rounded, finished surface on one edge, the 4"x8" Thinline EndBlock finishing unit is 3-18" thick. It can be installed horizontally or vertically to finish off glass block walls, partitions and panels.

Reliable Guts

The Cheeter crosscut saw guide

The device contains a unique calibration window and ruler that automatically positions the blade for a straight, precise cut from either the inside or the outside of the blade.

The saw rests on the guide, and the guide locks itself in position on the board. The saw is then guided across the slide.

The Cheeter can also be used as a square or a template for laying out studs on 16" centers.

Mirrored & Modular

A full line of modular mirrored bath cabinets has been introduced bv

PL Bath Products

Seven components (cabinets, ligbt fixtures and mirrored side kit) offer 72 dlffercnt design options, ranging from a basic recessed single door cabinet to a surface-mounted four door/light combination.

The cabinets are mirrored inside an4 out" with adjustable glass shelving. They are supplied with interconnecting hardware to allow precise preassembly of up to four units measuring 93" wide. A choice of color-corrected, fluorescent or mirrued theauicd style light fixture is offered.

Kink-Free Watering

The Apex SureFlow II garden hose's unique six-channel interior tube design and deluxe heavy duty radid-

belted consEuction reportedly prohibit kinking.

The easy-to-coil rubber-vinyl hose is said to maintain a steady water flow, even when squeezed or twisted, and includes a protective collar and crush-proof brass coupling. Backed by a lifetime guarantee, it has a 5/8" inside diameter and q)mes in lengths of50, 75 and 100 ft.

Tool Shed ln A Box

A new six-in-one tool kit from V&B Manufacturing Co. provides gardeners with the option to make up six different landscaping tool configu-

rations. The pack includes a short and a long handle that interchange with three reversible, lightweight, combination tool heads.

Push-Button Padlocks

Easy-open combination padlocks fitted with l0 numbered push buttons are new from Meragen Ltd.

and loop interlocking system, the coarse eight-hole pattern disc reportedly cuts faster and lasts longer than conventional abrasives. The medium, fine and extra fine discs have a special coating to help reduce clogging while extending disc life.

Mixed Messages

Easily changeable Banner Shop message banners are now available in convenient smaller sizes from Willco Enterprises. The polyvinyl banners employ plastic letters secured by

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WWPA spring meeting

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Western Wood Products Association was not held at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. The La Quinta Resort near Palm Springs, Ca., was this year's venue. But despite the desert sefting, the association staff managed to create a replica of the lobby clock from the St. Francis, meeting spot for innumerable gatherings over the years (seephoto).

Unlike previous yean, the mood of those attending w:rs one of general anticipation, rather than an expectation of a certain scenario. Battered by a pause in the economy generally attributed to severe winter storms in the Fast and continuing constraints on timber supply, the lumbermen seemed

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Both in the fonnal member meetings and in the infonnal gatherings of others who traditionally attend the spring meeting, the mood concerning timber was grim. Horror forecasts on supply and price fronts as the industry struggles to live and work in a changed world were voiced.

Robert Hunt, president of the Western Wood hoducts Association, warned of a stormy outlook for western timber supply and its potential to create volatility in lumber markets. He said 1994 should see gains in housing shrts and other traditional wood markets, thanks to a slowly expanding economy. But continued gridlock on public

ST. FRANCIS L0BBY clock replica & WWPA's (1) Butch Bemhadt. (2) Associalion oflicsrc John Shelh Jim Coslello. (3) Gayle Monison, Tom Lovlien, Robetl Shepherd. (4) Tom Marin, Ken LoBue, Don Reagan, Ridrard Phillips. (5) Dan Woher, Dr. Slan Rhodes. (5) Craig &oady, Stew Sdrmitt. (D Frank Bennett, Bretl Bennetl. (8) Ron Titton, Phil Dodson, (9) Bruce Kelly, Dave Baker, Pete

forests in the West will force Western lumber producers to further scale back production, disrupting raditional lumber market supply and demand relationships.

"Some have blamed the industry for the higher prices, but recent Western lumber production statistics illusuate the sinmtion: there are sirnply not enough logs available to meet long-tern demand," Hunt explained.

He said Westem lumber shipments to U.S. markets in 1994 should total 15.93 billion board feet 8.37o below 1993 figures, despite an expected

8.9Vo increase in housing stafis this year. That volume will be off.30Vo from historic levels of 22.4 billion

Story at a Glance

Market volatility forecast at lumber manufacturers' meeting new desert venue for spring gathering ... housing starts, lumber consumption and prices expected to rise.

feet of western production set during 1985-89.

The 1993 decline in Western lunber production has affected prices paid by lumber users.

statistics show Douglas fir lumber sold for an average of $535 per thousand board feet in January, 35Vo higher than a year ago and $234 more than in January 1992. Other Western species have seen similar increases. Ponderosa pine reached $787 per

Nevins, Craig Steele, (10) Jim Scharnhorst, Nick Kent. (11) Mike Durga, Rila Poe, Jim Sloan, Sleve Webb, Mike Huycke. (12) Ben Wimberly, John Mazanet. (13) Hayden Dorsey, Bill Eady, Mke Dobson. (14) Fred Moller, An Andrews, Dennis Loc*ad. (15) Arl Baker, Frank Bader, Ron Savage. (15) Bob Weiglein, Jim Elbworth, Jim Hayes. (17) Peter Akngren, Frank Bader, Robin John. (18) Craig

Menhinick, Keith Camilli, Duane Vaagen. (19) Dan Green, Robert Golding. (20)David Norby, Dick Lyons. (21) Jeny Higman, Ed Fountain, Jr. (nl Bob Bretz, John Maple, Wayne & Sue Baisdon. (23) Claude Scotl, Wayne Chamberland. (2a) Alan Wic*strom, Jim Pappas. (25) Gary Bennetl, David Rogoway, George Baitinger. (26) Randy & Joan Konkel, Jim Carlwighl.

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thousand board feet in January, up $130 in just one year.

Hunt said higher prices and the changing timber supply have led some to criticize the quality of lumber available today. That criticism has no basis in fact he claimed.

"Those who buy Westem lumber today can be assured it will meet or exceed the performance standards required for such products. The lock-up of mature federal forests has reduced the amount of 'clear' products available, but at the same time led to increased percentages of products most specified in construction, such as Standard and Better," said Hunt.

"Westem producers remain committed to providing quality products to their customers. Those buyers who feel the lumber is not graded correc0y have a nunber of options available, from talking with the mill to calling a reinspection by grading agencies such as WWPA," he said.

WWPA's forecast for 1994 predicts lumber consumption will lotal

46.33 billion board feet, up 0.5Vo from 1993. Housing starts should total 1.4 million, compared to 1.29 million last year. While housingwhich consumes nearly 40Vo of the lumber used annually - will be up nealy 107o, the lumber volume used here will grow by just one-third that rate. Much of that is due to curtailed log supplies, lumber substitutes and slightly smaller houses.

The decline in Western lumber shipments will be in contrast with srong gains by mills in the South and imports. The South is expected to ship 15.1 billion feet in 1994, an increase of 5.9Vo. Imports, mostly from Canada, hit an all-time record volume in 1993 ar 15.26 billion feet. The volume of imports should grow another 4Vo this year to 15.85 billion board feet" representing a third of the lumber used in the U.S.

U.S. exports of both logs and lumber should see declines in 1994. WIMPA estimates lumber exports will decline ll.6%o to 2.1 billion feet Log exports, at 1.9 billion feet, will shrink by about 157o. The volume of logs exported from U.S. pofts has fallen by more than half in the past five years.

SPOR|IS SHIRT CASUAL: (1) Bill Cunie, Eric Bonnor, Bobby Hill. (2) GaryTragesser, John Branstetler, Jim Murray. (3) Dean Johnson, Randy James. (4) Mike Mackin. (5) Bob Pelow, Shelley Hershberger, Mike Phillips. (6) Bob Hunt. (7) Barry & Linda Schneider, Ed Langley, Jay Orendorff, John Souza. (8) Bruce Kelly, Dave Buf6, Rich Graham. (9) Ed Dachtler, Dennis Richardson, Wayne Holm, Bob Downey, (10) Mike Young Frank Pharr, Mike Johnson. (11) Jim Hand, Mondo Chavez, Gene Pietila. (12) Peter Murphy, John Murphy, Bicn Bilby, Terry Powell. (13) Dennb Moroz, Cathrine Martin, David Phelps, (14) Kent Duysen, Doug Hanson, Jack Manin. (15) Mike & Shirley Young, Ralph Cardwell, Scott Cardwell, Bick Bobbins. (16) Guy Harper, Carol & Don Mitchell. (17) Tony Gallagher, Rick Steers, Dan Burdetl. (18) Kory Kautman, Dick Lyons, Kurt Kaufman. (19) Peter Landory, Joe Hendry. (20) Bob Handegard. (21)Rita Poe, Gene Wahers.

Michael Flarmery, gtoup vice president, wood products division, Pope & Talbot, Portland, Or., was elected chairman; James D. Costello, Fibreboard Wood Products Co., Standard, Ca., first vice chafunan, and John C. Bender, Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id., second vice chairman. Robert H. Hunt was re-elected as president.

This year's meeting was held March 8-11. The fall meeting will be at the Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Az. Next year's spring meeting will renrrn to the St. Francis Hotel, March 14-17. The 1995 fall meeting will be at the Portland Maniott, Portland, Or., Sept 10-13. The 19!)6 spring meeting will retum to the La Quinta Resorl

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II'ARDWOODS are among the Ilmost beartiful and versatile natural materials available. Their warmth and beauty can be further enhanced by applying some type of finish. The best finish for a particular hardwood, like color, is a matter of personal opinion. If applied correctly, most modern finishes will enhance the wood and protect it for many years.

Story at a Glance

How haldwoods benefit from proper finishing ... eramining the

A common misconception about wood finish is that it will hide flaws in the wood. Yeg acually, the opposite is true - finish makes flaws more noticeable. So regardless of the finish use4 the wood surface should be as free as possible from any imperfections before applying the finish.

Though manufacturers typically use a fine grit paper in final sanding, this should not be considered a finish sand. End users should apply a finish sand before finish, removing any gouges, rough spots, scratches or lorn grain. The beginner or non-professional can start with a good peneEating oil, such as Danish oil, particular-

ly when the wood is to be left in its natural state.

When working with a panel face composed of multiple pieces of veneer, a good sealer should be applied before staining to avoid a "balber pole" effect. Additionally, both sides should be sealed to avoid an unbalanced condition that could result in cupplng or warping.

A quality finish adds depth, richness and clarity to the hardwood. Poor finishes look dull,flat and unnahral. But you can tell as much by touch as you can by sight. To examine a finish, run your fingers over the surface.

Are surfaces smooth and free of drips, runs and bubbles?

Are comers free of srealcs and finish material?

Is the wood grain enhanced?

ls the stain uniform and wellblended?

On furniture, are hard-to-reach areas (near joints or carvings) smooth, evenly sAined and ftee of glue?

A furniure finish, fr exanrple, can involve anywhere from three ta 25 or more steps, including the initial sanding, rubbing, glazing and highlighting grain patterns. Furniture in general use must be polished O seal the pores of the wood, protect the surfaces, accentuate and enhance the beauty of the figure, create highlights and provide as much resistance against heat or split liquids as possible.

Types of finish include:

The Merchant Magazlne

. Wax polish (the softened wax penetrates the wood surface and enhances the figure, giving it great depth and wannth).

Oil polish (applied in thin layers, oil - often linseed - absorbs oxygen, dries and fonns a light protective film on it).

. Varnishes (combinations of oils and resins for simultaneously protecting wood and improving beauty).

French polish (a specialist craft using shellac, alcohol, oil and pumice).

Lacquers (nitro-cellulose, synthetic, acid catalyst and polyurethane).

Wood stains (while the most troublesome to apply, water, spirit/alcohol or oil-based stains penetrate fafuly deeply and yield the clearest finish).

Finish Maintenance

. Dust with a soft cloth, following the grain pattern of the wood.

. Dust often with a lightlymoistened cloth to remove everyday abrasive particles from wood surfaces. A dry cloth can leave hairline scratches on the finish.

. Surfaces may also be cleaned with a mild non-alkaline soap and water using a damp sponge or cloth. Dry immediately with a soft cloth and buff lightly, following the grain.

Wood finishes benefit from an occasional waxing or polishing.

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O SOURCED FBOM WELL-MANAGED PERMANENT FORESTS

o NATURAL & 1{01{-run0-Does not require pressure treating.

o LONG LENGTHS-Maximum '10% 6' andT' developing, balance B - 20

o EXGELIEI{T STREIIGTH T0 WEIGHT RATI0Use 5/4 vs. 8/4 in other species.

o RUGGED PRODUCT-More durable than softwoods in transit and on the job site.

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o EXCELLENT PAll{T & STAIN H0LDING GHARACTERISTICS.

o WEAfiERS WELL-Properly sealed lumber remains smooth; no raised grain; Raw lumber ages to lustrous silver color.

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PAN PACIflC Forest hoducts is looking for professional forest products traders in the following locations: Lake Oswego, Eugene, Bend, Or., and Modesto, Ca. Full benefits. Excellent opportunity with a well established company. If you want to have fun while you work and earn a higher income, then call Ron Hanson at (503) 389-6100.

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OBITUARItsS

Leroy Hamilton Stantonn Jr., 78, Los Angeles, Ca., lumbennan, died Feb.28, 1994, in LaCosta'Ca

In the mid-1930s, he joined E.J. Stanton & Sons, founded by his grandfather in 1894 as Pioneer Lumber Co. He sold the firm to Lane Lumber Co. and Vance Lunber Co. in 1970, with the three companies merging into Lane Stanton Vance, Industry, Ca

In 1960, Mr. Stanton and Fred Losch founded Stanline, Inc., Vernon, Ca At the time of his death he was active as president of the invesunent firrr E. J. Stanton & Son Inc., Newport Beach, Ca.

Robert E. Nelson, 76, president of Neeley Nelson Lumber Co., Medfor4 Or., died of a heart attack Feb. 21, 1994.

In 1945, he entered the industry with Red Blanket Lumber Co., Prospect, or. In 1959 he started his own business with partner Clinton Neeley.

During World War II, he had been shot down during a daylight raid over Schweinfurt and led part of his B-17 crew out of Germany to safety on foot, tle ftrst time any air crew had escaped after being shot down.

Carita llolton, 79, pioneering female lumber broker, died Feb. 16, 1994, in Eugene, Or.

Born in Detroit, Mi., she moved to Eugene 50 years ago and worked for various companies, including Eugene

Lumber Sales and Western Distributors, before retiring in the late 1970s.

She helped organize courses in lumber at Lane Community College and received the 1977 National HooHoo-Ette Lumberwoman of the Year Award.

Jay Ilarriq 63, Arizona/Southem Nevada sales supervisor for Kwikset Corp., Phoenix, Az., died March 5, 1994, while in Mexico on business.

After serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, he joined Kwikset in 1954 and later earned his degree fromUCLA.

Henry Amos Geib, 88, president of Geib Lumber Co., Vista Ca., died March 10,1994, inLaJolla Ca.

Born in Clara City, Mn., he co-purchased his first yard in Carlsbad, Ca., inl924 (today's BauerLumber). Two years later he bought a yard in San Gabriel and moved there to run it.

In 1928, he helped build a new yard in Encinitas, buy the Vista yar4 and merge all operations under the Geib Lumber Co. co'rporation.

He co-purchased Escondido Lumber Co., Escondido, in 1934 and Holsinger Lumber & Hardware Co., Yucaipa, in 1945.

AEVBRTIStsRS INDtsX

Advantage Blsiness Ccnputer Systems --14

Allweather Wood Trcaters-----.----25

Anfinso Lumber Salec -.-...---.--.---Zt

Baxter, J.H. --..-.-...---.----------5

Bean Lumber Co, Curt.-.....-.---Cover fV

Beer For$t Mucts ---.-----.-.-...-56

Birminghom Intemationel Forest Products....-- -----58

Bowman Lumber Srles-----------48

Bracut Intemationd ----------.--.-59

Caddcon Desips, Inc*--..-...--.-...---35

Cal Coast Wholesale Lumber, Inc.-----47

C&E Lumber Co-...Ceristrap Intemetionel ----.--*-.--..37

3-C Tmcking- -..---*--.6 Chemco Inc- ---.----.-..-----------61

Chemonite Council--------------17

CJ Wholesale Red*ood Lurnber Co. -.---36 Clean Wood Pmducts Ltd".-*...------21

Columbie Fonest Products --.---Cover III

Colville Indian Precision Pin€ Co.-----49 Contrct Intemational --.-.-...-..-...-..-57

Defto Cedar hoducts, Ltd. .--- ------ql

Fibreboard Co_rp. ....-Cover II flex Trirn Industries -.--.-.---.-......---Z)

Fmtsne Wholesale Lurnber, Inc. -.-....-.....44

Frcmont Fonest Products ............;..............-30

tr'ricsen Lumber Co...............................-.--45

Q6lding Sulliven Lumber Seles ---.----34

Hanel Lumber C(L ---.-.-.-.-*.-.........-...28

Hardwoods Unlimited...-...........-.-............-31

Heweii Wood Prcserving Co....................--50

Herbert Lurnber Co....----*------J2

' Holmes Lumber Co., Frcd C.-..-.-......-.-..62

Hoover Trested Wmd hoducts.r----.-.--21

Hufi Lumber Co........-..-..---...........-......-A

Keller Lumber Co. -.........----.....--.---40

Lausmann Lumber & Moulding.--.;----29

Louisiana-Pacifi c Corp.....----...--..-....-....7

Lurnbermens Credit Association, Inc. --..50

Mognet Clean Co. (Hoqse Industries) *--49

Mdlco Lumber & Building Materials -....-40

M&M Builders Sopply --.--.-.-....-...*-..37

Mess Systenrp Co., Inc. ..........-.-......-..-.--51

McFsdand Cscade --....---.-....-----19

Merchant Magazine, The .-....-.............-.-..55

Pacif c Forest Produc{s..........................-.....32

Pacifi c MDF Produc1s....,.........................-.-29

Pan Pacifc Forest Producls --.--.--..---n

Pan Lumbcr Co...-......-...-6.-.................34

Performance Coatings Inc..........................-20

Phoenix Enterprises............-.--...........-...-51

Product Sales Co. -.....-......-..-..-.-............4

QB Corp.--- .--..........-.-45

Quik Drive USA IDc.-*...-.--.-.-.......--..39

Redwood Coast Lurnber Co---...-.-.-.--tb

Rossmann, MacDonald & Benetti CPA*-44

Seroyon Lurnber Co. .-...-...--.-.......-.--3

SC\ Inc.

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Stockton VYholesale.....----------...-33.

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Superior Wmd Systems, Inc..-.-...-.-....-..33

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Taylor Lumber Serviccs --......-...-.--.-...52

Tremont Nails. ..-.-.:.-.........38

Thornpon Industries (Design Wood)..........4f

Thunderbolt Wood Treeting Co., Inc.-....-2!)

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Tnre Vduc (Cottbr & Co).--..........-....-..25

Unity Forest hoducts....-..............-..-........51 Utoh

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