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You'd call a wood products manufacturerdiuersified that produces virtually euery type and size of top quality lumber products unden the sun.

OREGON (Ioll.free 800.542.6065)

DOUGLAS FIR

GlearsBleacher Seats r Export o Finish o Flooring & Stepping r Gutter Stock . Ladder Rails r Mine Shaft Guides . Ship Decking & Margin Plank o Shop Lumber o Tank Stock . Industrial o KD3"&4"

IndustrialsCross Arms & Transmission Arms r KD & Green Laminating Stock

Timbers - Cut through 40' S4S through 16" x 20" Full & Standard Sawn KD & Green o Bridge Plank & Stringers . Exposed Beam Specified Yard Stock r Merchantable

DimensionKD & Green through 32' . Specialize in 22' through 32'

HEM FIR

ClearsFinish r Flooring & Stepping o Industrial Ladder Rails

IndustrialsKD & Green Laminating Stock

DimensionKD & Green through 26'

CEDAR

Western & Western RedStandard Sawn

Timbers r Dimension . Boards . Channel Siding r

ShiPlaP Decking . #4 & #5 Common

FOR THESE PRODUCTS, CALL: OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA (Toll.free 800.824.3867). lN CALIFORN lA: 916.273.3388.

Species: Doug Fir . White Fir o Ponderosa & Sugar Pine o Western Cedar.

Items: Moulding . ShoP . Commons o Select & Commercial Deck . Laminating Stock Stress Grades o Selects . 3" & 4" Cutting o 2x 4 through 2 x 12 Dimension through 20' . Boards

Patterns: 4/4S/L T & G r WP4 o WP1 6/4Channel Dolly Varden . Single&DoubleT&G.Singte& Double ShiPlaP r WP11

And if that same diuersified company delivens - dependably, at comDotitlue pricss - en extensiuo line of wood products including plywood, particleboard and lamineted beams, you'd also call it Bohemia.

Pressure Treated Lumber Push

The Western Wood Preservers Institute (WWPI), the organization of pressure treaters in the Western States, has an aggressive program to obtain a larger share of the market in the sales of lumber, posts, and poles for residential and landscape use, a market traditionally served by untreated woods such as redwood and cedar.

The campaign will focus on consumer education and seek to demonstrate to the homeowner that pressure treatment of wood is the most effective protection against attack by insects and decay. Attention will be drawn to the economical price of pressure treated wood and its ready availability.

There are 19 wood pressure treating plants strategically located throughout the western states. For the past 75 years many of these companies have been providing wood poles to power and telephone companies, cross ties to the railroads and piling and lumber for bridges, docks, and marinas. This technical knowledge (expertise) is now being directed toward supply- ing homeowners with wood that provides protection against decay and termite damage.

The WWPI campaign comes at a time when sales of home improvement materials to "do it yourselfers" are enjoying the greatest boom in U.S. history. A 1978 survey by Sunset Magazine indicated that 32.10/o of homeowners interviewed were planning to build a patio or sundeck within the next year. Fifty-five per cent said they were planning to improve their landscaping.

The Institute's primary goal is to convince homeowners, architects, and landscape architects that their product is the most durable wood for any outdoor project, especially those requiring contact with the ground.

WWPI President Richard E. Gardner, who has been in the treating industry for 20 years, notes that the WWPI promotional program applies to wood products that are pressure treated with waterborne salts. This treatment method is based on dissolving chemicals in water and impregnating them into wood under pressure to obtain thorough penetration that prevents fungus and termites from feeding on it.

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There are two types of waterborne salt treatments used by the 19 WWPI member firms. The are commonly referred to in the industry as ACA and CCA. Both types impart a tint ranging from light green to copper green.

One of the primary advantages of pressure treated wood, according to Gardner, is that it begins with readily available species of western woods, which permits pressure treaters to supply western markets with a constant flow of the same species and grades.

He also points out that increased use of pressure treated wood will reduce the drain on the nation's timber resources by requiring less wood for replacement purposes in the future, owing to the longer life of treated wood.

All pressure treated lumber products are subject to strict quality control standards set by the American Wood Preservers Bureau (AWPB), an independent organization established by the industry to ensure that all producers meet proper treating requirements.

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In addition to providing the normal distribution functions of salesmen service calls, warehousing, trucking, credit and cataloging, PGL goes a few steps turtherin the area ot providing the following: