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Steve Killgore, ex-Weyerhaeuser Co./Willamette Industries, has joined McKenzie Forest Products, Springfield, Or., as v.p.-sales.

Dennis Parker, ex-Landmark Building Products and Ban Lumber, has joined Fremont Forest Group Corp., Whittier, Ca., as division sales mgr. for treated and composite wood products.

Mike Bland has joined Mendocino Forest Products, Riverside, Ca., as outside sales executive.

Rick Bates is new to the panels sales division at Spokane Forest Products, Spokane, Wa.

Garry Tabor has been promoted to v.p. and general mgr. at Building Material Distributors. Galt. Ca. Other promotions: Victor Vandenburg is now sales mgr. for the Northern California Building Products Division. and Mike Garrison, v.p. and general mgr., Marvin Window Division.

Robert Mellor has been named president and c.e.o. of BMC West parent company Building Materials Holding Corp., San Francisco, Ca. He succeeds George McGowan, who will remain on the board of directors.

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Jon Wolfe, ex-Newquist and Bergstrom, has opened a Newport Beach. Ca.. sales office for Intermountain Orient.

Matthew McClure, ex-Copeland Lumber and Builder's Supply Co., has joined City Lumber, Seaside, Or., as yard mgr. Darren Bryan is a new boom truck operator.

Ray Haagenson has retired from Larsen Brothers Lumber Co., San Leandro, Ca., after 35 years.

Dan Byrne is the new sales mgr. at Zip-O-Log Mills, Eugene, Or.

Frank Peterson, ex-Sierra Pacific, has joined the sales staff at Burns Lumber Co., Anderson, Ca. He is responsible for No. Ca.

Doug Fish, ex-Timber Products, is now panel sales mgr. at Hillsboro Forest Products, Springfield, Or. Will Gonzalez has resigned his inside sales position at All-Coast Forest Products, Chino, Ca., to join the Imperial Valley Police Department.

Dick Reedy, sales mgr., Neiman Enterprises, Hulett, Wy., retired last month after 43 years in the industry.

Brenda Aris is the new assistant credit mgr. at Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca. James Davidson, will-call clerk, Anaheim, married Stacey Betham April 14.

John Romeu is mgr. of the new Home Depot in Fairbanks, Ak. Jim Stoddart has been promoted to president of Home Depot Supply. He replaces Lynn Martineau, who has left the company.

Marco Lowenstien, ex-Plaza Hardwood, Santa Fe, N.M., is the new western regional sales mgr. for SmartWood, based in Portland, Or. He succeeds Walter Smith, who is now senior representative.

Mike Lane, QB Corp., Salmon, Id., has been named president of the American Institute of Timber Construction.

Rich Haddad, director of mktg. and public relations, TRpr-x Inc., has been called up for active military duty at the Pentagon for at least a year. Kuan Leong has joined the company to fill the position.

Robert C. Mitchell, Robert C. Mitchell Lumber Co., Simi Valley, Ca., has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club. Past recipient Bruce Jauman, Hardwood Services Unlimited, Huntington Beach, Ca., received a permanent Man of the Year Award.

Bruce Frost, v.p. and secretary, Frost Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., has been elected president of the International Wood Products Association.

Staff Sgt. Dale Gualdin, True Value Hardware, Woodland, Ca., recently finished a seven-month assignment with the California National Guard providing security at Sacramento International Airport.

Frank Kinney, Halbert Lumber Co., Newark, Ca., and his wife, Beverley, recently returned from a vacation in Las Vegas, Nv.

Ed Fountain Sr., long-time Los Angeles area lumberman, recently celebrated his 99th birthday. Sonny Akers has joined MungusFungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., as a real estate consultant, according to co-owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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Depot Death Brings 2nd Suit

An Idaho family that sued Home Depot in 200 I after their daughter died from injuries at a Twin Falls store, is now suing a second company in connection with the incident.

In May 2000, 3-year-old Janessa Horner was struck in the head by a shattered fragment of a countertop that had fallen to the concrete floor. She later died at an area hospital.

The Horner family is now suing California-based Sani-Top Inc., which makes the skids from which the countertops slipped.

The lawsuit claims that Sani-Top should have known the skids were unable to carry a certain amount of weight and therefore defective.

Home Depot settled with the family early last year.

Bay Area Yard Makes Move

Channel Lumber Co., Richmond, Ca., has bought 25 acres of land at the Tolenas Industrial Park in Fairfield, Ca.

With the acquisition, the company plans to move its Solano Lumber Project location in Fairfield off its existing 3.5-acre site to a 5-acre portion of the newly purchased land. The new yard will feature 150,000 sq. ft. of enclosed space, while the remainder will be used to store lumber.

The vacated Solano Lumber site will be redeveloped, according to company officials.

Channel Lumber development director Mike Connolly said the company is also considering consolidating its Petaluma, Ca., lumberyard at the new property.

"We're looking at this as a longterm investment," said Connolly.

He added that plans for the new property depend on how quickly the company can redevelop the Solano Lumber site.

Worker Falls At Lowe's Site

A worker fell 23 feet at the construction site of a new Lowe's store in Bellingham, Wa.

State officials are investigating the fall of Brook Dubail, 25, who suffered facial and arm fractures

At the time of the accident, Dubail was moving skylights when the metal panel he was standing on collapsed.

Constructed for $16.5 million, the 150.000-sq. ft. home center is expected to open next month.

Panels Keep Inching Up

North American structural wood panel production is expected to climb l%o this year to 39.3 billion sq. ft. (3/8" basis), according to the latest annual five-year forecast by APAThe Engineered Wood Association. Wood l-joist, glulam timber, and laminated veneer lumber output also will rise.

Economic recovery and demographic factors are expected to support demand growth for all categories of structural engineered wood products in the longer term, as well. Panel production, for example, after falling 37o last year, is forecast to rise each year over the next six, reaching 43.84 billion ft. in 2007. Glulam timber production is projected to climb'|Vo, wood I-joist output 187o, and LVL 38% from 2002 to 2007.

This year, residential construction is expected to consume just over 20 billion sq. ft. of structural panels, or nearly 5lVo of combined U.S. and Canadian production. The remaining volume will find its way into the remodeling market, 7.95 billion ft.; industrial applications, 7.1 billion ft.; nonresidential construction, 3.9 billion ft., and international markets, 900 million ft. (excluding U.S.Canadian trans-border shipments).

Offshore imports, meanwhile, are expected to rise to 510 milf ion sq. ft., up about 30Vo from last year. Imported hardwood plywood, some of which competes with domestic structural panels in industrial markets, totaled an additional 2.55 billion sq. ft. last year.

OSB production is expected to rise 980 million sq. ft. this year, to 22.5 billion, while plywood volume is forecast to decline about 600 million ft.. to 16.8 billion.

Plywood production, following years of steady decline, is expected to level off in the 16-17 billion sq. ft. range over the next five years, suggesting that a greater equilibrium has now been reached between plywood and OSB market share.

A total of 156 softwood plywood and OSB mills operated in the U.S. and Canada last year, including 92 plywood and 64 OSB facilities.

The full 60-page report is $175 from APA, (253) 6201 407 and www.apawood.org.