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Lumber Merchants Association will be sponsoring Train the Trainer workshops for drug and alcohol testing on yetto-be-set dates in July and August.

Ben Cassinerio, Diablo Timber, and John Saunders, Economy Lumber, won LMA's membership contest, each recruiting three new members. Runner-up Frank Solinsky, Payless Building Supply, sponsored two new members.

Western Building Material Association alerts retailers that, following wood dust's classification as a human carcinogen (see The Merchant, April, p. 22), they will soon be receiving Material Safety Data Sheets and Hazard Warning Labels from manufacturers and suppliers. Dealers should replace previous MSDSs and labels on site with the updated ones. For untreated lumber, new labels should be sent to commercial customers either prior to or with the bill of lading of the net shipment of that specific product to the customer. Updated labels should be sent to commercial customers with every shipment of treated lumber.

Since treated lumber inventories typically increase during the summer, WBMA reminds dealers of their labeling requirements. All dimensional S4S material must be gradestamped by an ALSC recognized grading agency. It must be stamped or tagged by the treater with (1) the year of treatment; (2) treater's trademark, if any; (3) preservative used; (4) applicable AWPA or equivalent standard; (5) maximum exposure conditions to which it should be subjected, and (6) treating company name and plant location.

Although landscape material need not carry an agency grademark due to being unsurfaced and occasionally of hardwood species, it should meet the above six requirements. Exceptions: the declaration "None AWPA Standard" replaces "applic- able AWPA or equivalent standard" and the words "Above Ground Use Only" are required in place of the maximum exposure conditions.

Planetary Solutions, Boulder, Co., will soon open a second environmentally friendly building products store in Cherry Creek, Co., as well as a distribution center to supply other retailers.

The company now operates an interior products sales center and "Green Building Center" in Boulder. The showroom features a library of information about "green building" and lists of health and environmentally oriented building professionals and services.

Materials include recycled pop bottle carpeting, recycled content carpet pads, solar and tankless hot water heaters, and low-toxic, all natural and recycled paints and finishes.

Cabinet Sales Climb

Kitchen cabinet sales this April rose 3.4Vo over April 1994, reports the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Assn. Stock cabinets were up 4.9Vo, while custom cabinets slipped 9.4Vo.