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Don Mejia is now overseeing softwood markets in Mexico and Central and South America for North Pacific Group, Portland, Or.

Harry L. Demorest, ceo, Columbia Forest Products, Portland. Or.. has been named a director of Oregon Steel Mills Inc., Portland, Or.

Gary Ruccia is now overseeing sales in New England for WoodfoldMarco Manufacturing, Inc., Forest Grove, Or.

Brian Schnabel, chief operating officer, has resigned from Tru Serv Corp. to join Newell Rubbermaid. Rob Liebgott has been promoted to TruServ's senior v.p.-sales, marketing, advertising and merchandising, succeeding Tom Filipski and Frank Rothing, who have left the firm. Other promotions: Bill Godwin, senior v.p. of supply chain and business segments, and Michael Rosen, senior v.p.-logistics. Pamela Lieberman is now chief financial officer.

Jim Sobeck, president and ceo, Channelinx, has been named chairman, succeeding Clarence Bauknight, 65, who has retired. Though Sobeck remains ceo. a new president will be named in the future.

Darren Plested, ex-Taiga Forest Products, is now with YardConnect.com, Port Orchard, Wa.

Dr. Robert J. Taylor has been named director, technology trans- fer for the American Wood Council of the American Forest & Paper Association.

Kevin Fogarty, Osborne Lumber Co., Newark, Ca., Jim Lewman, All-Coast Forest Products, Cloverdale, Ca., and Al Diamantine, Hayward Building Supply, recently had a business meeting together in San Francisco, Ca.

Gary Simmen, Simmen Wholesale Lumber, Sacramento, Ca., is back from a vacation in sunny Italy.

Maharaj Muthoo was named executive director of the Forest Stewardship Council.

Joe Bowman, Santa Rosa, Ca., retired lumber wholesaler, is recovering after March surgery.

Donald Elder, president, Elder Forest Products, Sulphur, La., was elected president of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association.

Pete Niebling, ex-Tumac Lumber, Portland. Or.. and former North American Wholesale Lumber Association mgr., reports he is enjoying retirement.

Charles Shawver, Rocky Mountain Forest Products, Laramie, Wy., has been elected president of the Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association, Woodland, Ca. Matt Allen, Mt. Taylor Millwork, is lst v.p.; Tim Ellis, Southwoods Lumber & Millwork,2nd v.p.; Jim Snodgrass, Contact Lumber Co., treasurer, and James D. Costello, executive v.p. New directors include Melissa Morinelli. Pacific MDF Products; Mark Young, Arauco Wood Products; John Wall, Yuba River Moulding & Millwork; Pete Delaney, Port-OLite Corp.; Frank DeMott, Best Moulding Corp.; Brian Greber, Weyerhaeuser Co.; Bob Burger, Forestal Copihue; Mark Setzer, Setzer Forest Products, and Dan Wolter, Sierra-Pacific Industries.

Ted James, forester, Sierra-Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., received the Golden Trowel Award from the California State Board of Forestry and California Department of Forestry.

Molly Boldt is new to the hardware division at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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NW Indie To Duel With Depot

Jerry's Home Improvement Center, Eugene, Or., plans to build a 135,000sq. ft. store in nearby Springfield, despite word that Home Depot wants to build its second area store less than a mile away.

Dennis Orem, Jerry's president, said he and his father, Dennis Orem, the company founder, have wanted to build a store in Springfield for 20 years. However, their first priority was expanding the Eugene location, which, when completed in 1996, doubled the size ofthe store to 160,000 sq. ft.

"If we hadn't expanded the existing store, we would have been in Springfield five years ago," he said, noting that opening in Springfield makes sense, as l5%o of his business comes from people who live there.

While building structure supportrelated soil tests are being conducted on the 10.S-acre plot of what would be Jerry's second location, Depot is reportedly pursuing a planning change, as their proposed site is zoned for light industrial use.

Orem hopes to begin construction this summer, once the site has passed its soil test. The store could be built in six to nine months. he said.

If problems arise for either Jerry's or Home Depot during the permit process, either could drop plans to build, although according to Sam Aguirre, manager of the Eugene, Or., Home Depot, the chain will not be deterred from building in Springfield. "We are absolutely going through with that," he said ofthe proposed store.

Treated Wood Site For Users

What kind of fasteners should you use with preserved wood? When can you paint it, and what sort of paint should you buy? How do you dispose of your scraps? Can you recycle the wood? What does the latest research say about the safety of wood that's been treated with CCA, creosote or pentachlorophenol?

Answers to those questions and many more can now be found at www.preservedwood.com, the new Web site of the American Wood Preservers Institute.

Designed to be the authoritative source of information for users of pressure treated wood, the site features Q's & A's on all aspects of preserved wood and an extensive comoilation of research into the health, safety and environmental features of the various types of treated wood.

"Our Web site www.awpi.org had been doing double duty," said Mel Pine, AWPI's manager of communications. "It contained information for members and prospective members of AWPI as well as for users and specifiers of our products. The new site, www.preservedwood.com, is specifically for users, specifiers and others who want to learn more about preserved wood."

Updated Big Book Available

The 2001 Big Book directory with over 8,500 North American softwood companies and more than 33,200 key employees is available from Random Lengths.

The directory lists addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and Web sites, company profiles and other information.

The Yearbook, detailing softwood product prices through 2000, 19972000 housing starts, home mortgage rates and price histories from 19892000 for over 250 lumber and panel products, also is available.

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AWPI Fights Water Standard

The American Wood Preservers Institute has filed a legal challenge in federal court to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's new arsenic regulation, one of the last acts of the departing Clinton Administration.

The rule was published in the Federal Register January 22, despite congressional action urging EPA to develop more appropriate science to address any risks associated with arsenic.

The EPA's regulation would reduce by 8O7o the level of arsenic permitted in drinking water, even though the new standard is well below levels that often occur naturally in water supplies. A Senate bill was filed to overturn the regulation.

According to AWPI president Scott Ramminger. the association was forced to take legal action because the drinking water standard is a benchmark applied informally and by regulation to many other exposures. In addition to its impact on municipalities and water utilities, the regulation indirectly affects virtually all industries that use or process arsenic-containing materials, including many wood treaters.

"The EPA acknowledges that it based its work on highly criticized, 30-year-old epidemiological studies from Taiwan that it analyzed using a ,60-year-old linear extrapolation I method-a method that does not recognize any of the recent, accepted advances in biology and risk assessment," Ramminger said.

Talpx Partners With csXnet

Talpx Inc. and csXnet have formed a strategic partnership to expand ecommerce within the building products industry.

The initial focus of the alliance will be to integrate Talpx's lumber and panel exchange into the csXnet suite of services. An electronic marketplace that extends to the construction and building materials industry, csXnet is jointly owned by ChanneLinx and the Construction Industry Exchange, comprised of 19 of the 21 federated dealer associations.

Members of csXnet that join Talpx will have access to reportedly the single largest online inventory of North American lumber and panel products, with over 200 mills representing nearly 407o of the lumber production in North America. Talpx buying members that join csXnet will be able to process transactions electronically using Channelinx's Trading Management Solution.

"With transaction volume growing so rapidly," noted Talpx president Jim Olmedo, "our members are asking for a technology solution to integrate into their existing systems. The csXnet alliance soeeds that effort."

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