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Utility Poles

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Pacific

The Pacific Wood Preserving Companies

Pacific Wood Preserving of Bakersfield: 805-833-0429

Arizona Pacific Wood Preserving: 520-466-7801

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Eagle Hardware & Garden executives deny persistent rumors that it may be bought out by westward-heading Lowe's Cos., North Wilkesboro, N.C. Eagle purchased land in Covina and Norwalk, Ca., andplans a 133,500-sq. ft. store with 30,000sq. ft. garden area in Long Beach, Ca., part of its aggressive expansion plans (see story p.23) ...

Budb Lutnber & Ace Hardware, South Bend, Wa., has been sold by Dean Meek to Karen and Steven Clements...

Brookhart's, Colorado Springs, Co., acquired Soco Manufacturing, Pueblo, Co., and renamed the 45,000-sq. ft. truss plant .loco Building Components

Copeland Lumber Yards held a grand opening of its larger replacement store in Salem, Or.; Steven Sweet, store mgr.; Brian Bruning, asst. store mgr.

BMC West has acquired the assets of Intermountain Lumber & Building Supply, Missoula, Kalispell and Helena, Mt., and Rigid Truss Inc.b truss and wall panel facility in Salem, 0r., from Curt Wolf; BMC West also agreed to buy 18.8 acres in Sherwood, Or., to consolidate facilities from Wilsonville and Beaverton Carson Building Supply, Carson City, Nv., has changed its name to BMC West five years after being acquired by the chain ...

White Cap Industries /nc., Costa Mesa, Ca., agreed to purchase Junior's Tools Inc., Santa Ana, Ca., and completed its acquisitions of Charles R. Watt Co., Seattle, 'Wa., andNYCO Inc. ...

Kitgore -B lackrnan B uilding Materials, South Salem, Or., after 42 years of focusing on contractors, has expanded its retail department also to serve consumers ...

M e s quite Lumb e r, Mesquite, Nv., opened a new 16,500-sq. ft.

Ace Hardware storc; phase II of the expansion includes updating the lumber section

Franklin Building Supply Co. has added a 15,000-sq. ft. truss facility in west Boise, Id.; Mike Jones, dx-BMC West,plarft mgr.

Home Depot opened new stores June 25 in Lindon, Ut., and JtuJy 2 in Cypress, Ca.; unveils a unit July 30 in Anaheim, Ca.; is building a new store in Albany, Or.; broke ground on a new locition in Santa Maria, Ca.; got the go-ahead to build a 130,000-sq. ft. store in Vancouver, Wa., and is seeking a permit for a $15 million, 11.8-acre site in San Marcos, Ca. ...

Home Depot plans to open 137 new stores and relocate six in fiscal 1998 and add 170 stores in 1999, costing an estimated $13.1 million for each opening plus $3.6 million apiece for inventory

Coast Liquidators, Tillamook, Or., has been opened by Larry Newton and Bob Stoughton

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Bowman Lumber Co., Cloverdale, Ca., closed July I after 22 years, following the retirement of owner Joe Bowman

Concannon Lurnber Co., Portland, Or., purchased Offshore Lumber Imports, Sacramento, Ca., and is operating it as a division; no change in personnel ...

Spalding & Son Lumber Co., Grants Pass, Or., is closing due to insufficient log supply; the family business dates back to 1903 ...

Quality Veneer & Lumber Inc., Seattle, Wa., has been formed by investors to acquire a significant stake in 65-year-old Mayr Bros. Lwnber Co., Hoquiam, Wa.; Tom Mayr stays on as president of Mayr Bros.Inc.

WTD Industries, Portland, Or., has put its shuttered SedroWoolley, V/a., mill up for sale and is negotiating with potential buyers for its Trask River kmber facility, Tlllamook, Or. ...

Fullmer Lumber Co., Donald, Or., has changed its name to Fulbner Forest Products to beser reflect its improved manufacturing, packaging and distribution capabilities

Plum Creek Tirnber Co., L.P., Seattle, Wa., completed its purchase of a Meridian, Id., remanufacturing plant from Canfor USA for $5.4 million

Yakima Forest Products next month opens a new small log mill in White Swan, Wa. ...

Capital Lurnber Co. relocated its Denver, Co., DC to 1044 E. 66th Ave.

Universal Forest Products has completed its acquisition of Industrial Lumber Co., Newark, Ca., which distributes cut lumber for packaging parts ...

Louisiana-Paciftc has permanently closed its Dodge City, Ks., DC and completed the sale of its Weather-Seal window and door operations to Arnerican Architectural Products Corp., Youngstown, oh....

Johns Manville, Denver, Co., has completed its acquisitions of Canadian ISO foam manufacturer Exeltherm and Skandinnislca Jute, owner of Swedish fiberglass wallcovering maker Tasso AB

Phoenix Door Manufacturing, Inc. is the new name for New-Tech Door, T\rstin, Ca. ...

Clicker Corp., Escondido, Ca., was acquiredby The Clnmberlain Group.,.

P ac e r Int e rnat io nal, Lafay ette, Ca., agreed to buy Chicago-based Cross Con Terrninals, Inc. and Cross Con Transport, Inc.

Armstrong World Industries agreed to buy Triangle Pacffic Corp., Dallas, Tx., for about $890 million plus the assumption of $260 million in debt

M ac M illan Bloedel completed the sale of its paper manufacturing subsidiary to Vancouver, B.C.based investment group Goepel

McDermid and is progressing on the sale of its MDF plants in Clarion, Pa., and Pembroke, Ontario ...

Vrginia Hardwood opened new Hq. in Azusa, Ca.; the company is now a Premier Wood Floor distributor ...

Domtar Inc. agreed to buy EB. Eddy Ltd. and E.B. Eddy Pape6 /nc. from George Weston Ltd., Toronto, for $803 million ...

Masco Corp. agreed to sell stove maker Thermador, Huntington Beach, C&., to Germany's largest appliance manufacturer, Bosch-Siernens Hausgeraete GmbH

Thomas & Betts Corp., Memphis, Tn., acquired tooling, patents and trademarks from Electrical Spe ciahies Manufacturing, Lodi, Ca....

Anniversaries: Lurnber Products, Tualatin, Or., 60th Fred C. Holmes Lumber, Fort Bragg, Ca., 50th Moreland Ace Hardwcre, Westmoreland, Or., 50th Hollywood Hardware, Sacramento, Ca., 50th, and West Sacramento, 30th ...Lyly & Sons, /nc., Ukiah, Ca.,40th Waldron Forest Products, Fair Oaks, Ca., 20rh ...

New Web sites: AII-Coast Forest Produds, Cloverdale, Ca., www.all-coast.com ... InuisianaPacific Corp., Portland, Or., www.lpcorp.com Strata Forest Products, Santa Ana, Ca., www.strataforest.com ... Cascade Empire, Lake Oswego, Or., www.cascade-empire.com Lurnberrnens C redit As s oc iation /nc., www.lumbermenscredit.com

Michael Weinig Inc., www.weinigusa.com Ferche Millwork lrc.. www.ferche.com.

Housing starts in May (latest figs.) slipped l%o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.530 million, still 9Vo above the year-earlier level ... single-family construction remained flat at 1.228 million, multifamily starts were at 40,000 fot 2-4 units, 262,000 for 5+ units ... building permits rose 2Vo to 1.545 million.

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