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(Continued from Page 38) built Moore dryers, two Coe 14-bin auto veneer stackers, two Metriguard 2800 DME, a Coe D-Tec veneer grade scanner, and regenerative catalytic oxidizer.

The veneer lay-up and press department consists of a Raute Woods turn key, dual lay-up, and an eight-opening, 90-ft. hot press line with a capacity of900 cu. ft' per hour'

Other machinery includes a USNR rip gang saw with top easer arbor, graders station, stainless steel Willamette spiay booth for applying sealant to header material, I-line with 8-foot ripsaw, assembler machine, and cross cut saw.

In the packaging department are two Signode plastic banding lines, P.E.T saws, paper wrap dispenser, unit end seal applicator, finished package line, and Signode plastic banding/auto batten placer.

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Joseph Windsor, sales mgr., has been promoted to v.p. of sales for Roadside Lumber & Hardware Inc., Agoura Hills, Ca. He has been with the firm more than five years.

Mike Garrity has been promoted to general mgr. of Ban Lumber Co., Rosemead, Ca.

Kim Eickerman and Steve Hogan have left Exterior Wood, Washougal, Wa.

G. Wayne Bagwell, ex-PPG Industries, has joined Snavely Forest Products as western region national accounts mgr.

Ryan Ellis, formerly with Weyerhaeuser, and Jay Watson, exNorth Pacific, are new to the Tustin, Ca., sales office of Crown Pacific.

David Morton is now branch mgr. for BMC West, Bakersfield, Ca. Bryan Reckrodt has relocated from Tulsa, Ok., to Denver, Co., as Hope Lumber & Supply's regional mgr.

Sam Bacogiannis and Dave Willis are new to wholesale trading of Wiscal Sales, a subsidiary of Wisconsin-California Forest Products, Redding, Ca.

Bob Cochrane, sales mgr., PoPe & Talbot, Spearfish, S.D., and a Portland, Or., resident, has retired after 39 years in the industrY, 19 with the company.

Doug Kelly, ex-Do it Best, has joined Pelican Bay Forest Products, Bend, Or.

Dan Gust, owner of Garden Acres Ace Hardware, Longmont, Co., and Johnstown Ace Hardware, Johnstown. Co.. was reelected to a three-year term on Ace Hardware's board of directors. rePresenting Mt., Id., Wy., Ut., Co., Ia., Ks., Mn., Mo., Ne., N.D. and S.D.