HEAUY EXHAUST FANS

a a o Fan shafts are turned, ground & polished for true smooth running. o Heavy cast pillow block spherical roller bearings for lono trouble free life. o Sizes trori oootts,0oo CFM with o Many sizes in stock.

Performance in accordance with the A.M.C.A. Heavy plate material handling radial wheel lndividual blades and wrap around scroll with liner that will bolt in place for easy replacement Replacement parts are normally in stock for fast delivery and minimum down time.

New L-P Purchase Gompleted

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has completed its purchase of I 5 Southern California building material centers from Lone Star Industries, Inc.. it has been announced bv Harrv A. Merlo, L-P chairman and president.

Also acquired by L-P were Lone Star's roof truss manufacturine facility in Orange, Ca., and carg6 handling and distribution facilities on the docks ofSan Pedro, near Los Angeles harbor. Price of the fixed assets was approximately $10 million plus about $22 million for inventories.

The building centers are located in Camarillo, Capistrano Beach, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden

Grove, Long Beach, Los Alamitos, Orange, Oxnard, San Pedro and Ventura. Several of the centers operate both contractor and retail yards. Sales in 1978 totaled $135 million.

The centers presently operate under the names Ward & Harrington, Crown Plywood, Sun Lumber, E.K. Wood Lumber. Peo- ples Lumber, Peoples-Wagon Wheel and Crown Supply.

Ted Schafer, Sr. has been named general manager of L-P's Los Angeles Distribution div. and is in charge of the newly acquired facilities. He was formerly Lone Star's director of contractor operations for these facilities.

Pressure Treaters' Program

The Western Wood Preservers Institute, comprised of l9 producers of pressure treated wood in the l3 western states, has appointed the Capener Co., La Jolla, Ca., to develop and execute an aggressive consumer education campaign. Information on the benefits of pressure treated wood will be directed at homeowners, contractors and lumber dealers.

The campaign was kicked off recently with a four-page insert in the February and April issues of The Merchant Magazine. The first in a series of press kits on outdoor DoIt-Yourself projects for the home was distributed to newspapers and magazines in April. These articles feature a variety ofprojects, such as sundecks and patio covers, that can be built with pressure treated wood. Karl Nordling, a former builder,

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"l've checked your credit, Mr. Emery, and v)e can sell you the lumber this year and the nails next year ."

The Merchonl Mdgozine is the account executive. R.L. "Buzz" Capener, president of the advertising-p.r. agency. is management supervisor.

Hardwood Furniture Trends

Brighter brown tones made news at the spring Furniture Market as fewer buyers made more purchases to make this a very satisfactory introduction to a quality oriented, yet competitive, furniture industry in 1979, according to Larry Frye, executive director of the Fine Hardwoods/American Walnut Association.

The wood species story saw a change from a year ago with maple regaining third position behind oak and pine. Some industry leaders point out that this is an indication of the returning popularity of close grain woods.

Oak at 17.30/o is the leader, but down from 22.91\hlast fall. Pine also shows a drop from its peak of l2.lol, last October to 10.80h this spring. Actually, this is identical to the market share pine had a year ago. Pecan in fourth place was tabulated as 8.701r and 217 different suites. It had been ll.1olt.

Cherry, as a close grain wood was the featured wood in l6l suites out of the 2494 tabulated or 6.5%,. Walnut, appearing in some very important lines, increased from 106 suites last fall to l2l suites and 4.90h of the showroom presentations. Mahogany had 3.20[, many of the groups in the growing English style category.

Ash and elm held their position as leaders in the "secondary six" wood species, followed by prima vera and birch - each of which had

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25 suites exhibited. Birch is included in the all-other classification at 3.1olt of the total. Burl continued important, bu1 was less lavishly used than in 1978. They now total L6%r down from 2.4%, last fall.

Some of the "wicker" units were embossed alder plywood and lumber. Others were expanded plastics or laminated bamboo fronts in typical South Pacific motifs.

New Remanufacturing Facility

Construction is in progress for the new J.H. Blevins plant in Napa, Ca. According to James H. Blevins, president, "it will be the newest, most productive remanufacturing plant on the west coast."

Under construction are a 12,600 sq. ft. building, two individual planing mills equipped with an A-66 Yates-American double profile planer matcher and a Woods 414CM 5 head planer matcher with 32 pulls each.

In addition, plans call for two 54" McDonough self centering resaws and two 42" Turner twin band resaws for the benderboard program. The moulding plant will have a Yates-American 4"x 10" moulder plus the cut up yard. The facility is on an SP rail spur. Upon completion the plant will have an estimated capacity of 500,000 board feet per shift. Target date for the first phase is August, 1979.