NEWS BRIEFS

A U.S.-Canodu panel cJecided the U.S. nlust reconsider the dccision that triggered taril'fs on imports of Canadian sol'twood lumber and asked the U.S. Intcrnational Trade Commission to reconsider last year's ruling that certain Canadian lumber trade policies including subsidics injured U.S. prociucers

Builders Materia l. l-oncvic\v. Wa., is now part of the Ltinfie.rmen's Building Center.s c:hain with owner Jim Mack retirinq Lumberj ac k R uit din g M ute-riat,\ opened a commercial sales office in Porterville, Ca.. Rick Gonzalcs mgr. ...

Llo;"d Ltrmber Co., Nanrpa, Id., is adapting a 14,000 sq. ft. building across the street ltom its present location for its kitchen cabinet operation; the $250,000 projcct has a fall completion date

Forest Produc ts Wltolesol e, Inc., Dean Wilton, pres., has movcd the retail firnt to laruer facilitics in Gilroy. Ca. -...

Builder's Emporium, Irvine, Ca., which is for salc (sec story p. 26), planncd to close its Tustin, Ca., outlet store when its leasc expircd at the end of July Bauer Luntber Co,, Carlsbad, Ca., received a temporary extension of a deacllinc to close the porlion ol ils operation destined to beconre a rail transit stati0n...

Kitts Enterprlses c:onipletcd a $30,000 remodcl of its Albuquerquc, N.M., training facility F oxworth- G al b raith [.u mber Co. remodeled its Dening, N.M., store, including converting 36,00t) sq. 11. of warehouse into a showroom

Babbit Bros. Tratliag Co., Fiagstaff, Az., is moving its Prcscolt,

Az., krcation into a larger prototype store largetjng contractors in Prcscott Valley, Az. ... IIomeBu,se, Fullerton, Ca., will open in Hohart, In., next year...

Federal Way, Wa., city council approved thc building of a Honte Depot ... negotiations are undcrrvay for Boise, id., and San Mateo, Ca., Home Depots and work continucs on a Mission Vieio. Ca., unit .,.

Burglars broke inro Centrul Vtlley Builders Sup1tl1,, St. Hclcna, Ca., and used power lools from a display to brcak into three saf-gs and lemove $6.000 ... Truirt nnd Wlite Luntber Co., Oakland, Ca., sponsored a kitchen and bath scrninar for cuslOnlers "..

The ntill was up and running with stOragc and packaging moved into local rvarehouscs thrcc davs al'tcr a t'irc in thrcc builclings at Delsan Lturtber Co., Shelton, Wa., July 2-5 clcstroycd lirur billion bl'of l'inished credar and aldcr lumber products valued at $2.5 million and 30,000 sq. ft. of warehouse; total damagc from the blaze of unknown origin was li4 rnillion

Nutiortul Gypsurn Co., Dallas, Tx., emerged lront Clrap. 1l bankruptcy wilh a $7-5 nrillion threeye ar rcvoiving crcdir line 1'ronr Generul Eler:tric Cupitui Corp. (scc story p 37)

Pltttn Craek Tintber Co. L.P.. Seattlc, Wa., rvill buy 867,00rJ acrcs of ltrlontana linrbcriand frout Chnmp iarr Inle rnrttiorral Corp., Smnrford, Ct., tor about $260 nrillion

Unive rsul Forest Produc ts establish0d a new dept. to accelcrate and coordinate growth, expandcd operations in Denver, Co.,

The Merchant Magazine and oJrned a Woodburn, Or., buy- ing crlfice ... Shasta Cascnde Forest Industrie.s acquired a 161/2 acre nrfg. facility in Itedding, Ca. ... Conrud Wood Preservinp Co., Nonh Bcnd. Or.. is installing a pressure treating cylinder for treating withACO Pre.serve

Colorado Forest Industries, I)enver, Co., opencd a sales ofllce/small distribution yard in (irand Junction, Co.,Scott Nichols, mgr., Frank Koenig, sales ... Cooley Wholesale Lumber, l)hoenix, Az., is relnodeling, adding new dry storage and mill sireds, paving, hog and various rnacltinery

IYeyerlrceuser Co. has a new warehouse tacility in Reno, Nv. ,"" Wholesale Ruilding Materkils, an Albuquerque, N.M., ro0fing wholesalcr with $4 million per year sales, has tleen sold to lUm. Ctnteron & Co", Dallas, Tx.

Lyttrr Forest Products, Inc. is now Eadington Fore,tt Products, Iilr:., with mfg. facilities in Corona, Ca., ancl Boise, Id. ".. Forest Pl-ttvood Sale,s closed its North Flollywood, Ca., location, consolidating operations ai its La Mirada, Ca., I'acility .." Stone f" ore s t I rtdusi rie.s auctioned off ccluipmcnt l'rom their Flagstaff, Az., mill Aug. l; will keep the Eager, Az., rnill closed until April 1994, and shut down thc Happy Camp, Ca., ntill in Sept. after logs run out ... Fourplyis mfg, facility in Grants Pass, Or., will closc pcrnianently Aug"27 "."

Americ:ttn Wood Counr:il's Metric Task Group approved updating the "Lumber and Wooc Products Metric Plannins Fackagc" . Southerri PctctJic lJnes put a 2o/a price increasc on all lumber and panel products moving belween transcontinental corridors and corridors east of l)enver, Co., and lll Paso. Tx. "."

Housirtg starts in June (latest figs.) wcre a repeat of May at an annual rate of 1,254,000 units ... single fanilly starts fell while mullis rosc building permrts dropped 1.37a star{s for the first six rnontlrs werc up I"l%o fron't 1992.

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