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advertise their ability to create any profile the customer wants. "If you can dream it, we can build it!" reads the motto at Carolina Lumber & Supply Co.. Atlanta. Ga.

"We can make or match anything using stock parts or sub-assemblies, all-new custom parts or a combination of both," claims Rick Baumgarten, president of Lee Lumber & Building Materials Corp., which features a 20person millwork shop at its Chicago, ll.. yard. "Because of our size. we can handle any job-large or small."

Yukon Lumber Co., Norfolk, Va., boasts that it can meet any woodworking requirements, whether that's "10 feet or 1,000 feet of custom moulding. With several hundred knives on hand, chances are we have the moulding profile you're searching for. If not,

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PRESSURE TREATED II{VENTORY

Nu Forest Products is adding ACQ Preserver!) to our Wolmanized Natura-l Select I\t pressure treated inventory.

ACQ Preserve:'i - Ammoniacal Copper Quat (Tlpe 8-66.77" Copper as CuO, 33.3'lo ouat as didecyldimethylammonium chloride) was first included in the AWPA standards in 1992. It is a waterborne wood preservative containing no Chromium or Arsenic, used primarily to preserve lumber.

Nu Forest Products pressure treated inventory consists of 2x4 Ihru 2x12, 3x4 thru 3xl 2, 4x4 thru 4x14, 6x6 thru 6x12, and 8x8, all #1 DF FOHC S4S and #2 BTR DF S4S. We can do any specials on request.

For more information, contact: George W. McConnell Jr. $ Liane Mills Q Kris White Q Bruce Brogden $ Tom Gardiner

Nu Forest Products is a full line lumber distribution yard that, unlike many, has a wide range of milling equipment that enables us to handle all your specialized needs. NFP can mill lengths of 8" to 38'-your stock or ours.

Pt.,r, let Nu Forest Products prime your stock through our Paint-o-Matic and drying oven. Protected with up to two coats of top quality primer to minimize moisture problems, NFP Primed Products perform better.

Our inventory includes Redwood (KD & Green), Douglas Fir (KD Clears & Dimension, Timbers), Pine KD (Commons & Clears), Western Red Cedar (Select Ituotty, Clears, Timbers), Hem-Fir (Fascia), Fingerjoint (DF, Redwood, WRC), Pressure Treated DF, and RMT Engineered Timbers

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A.A. Baker's Hardware, Glendale, Ca., will permanently close Oct. I after 87 years in business; Brett Thompson will retire, son Ben Thompson will work in commercial real estate ...

Denault's Hardware recently opened a 50Vo larger 18,000-sq. ft. replacement store at DeNault's Plaza in San Clemente, Ca. ...

Central Valley Builders SuPply, St. Helena. Ca.. won the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's Human Resources Excellence Award ...

Prime Building Materials, North Hollywood, Ca., is looking to open a third store in Ventura Counff, Ca., next year

Ganahl Lumber Co. is remodeling the door and window dePartment at its Capistrano Beach, Ca., location ...

Stouffer Lumber, Twin Harbors, Wa., is liquidating its lumber business after 78 years; the Stouffer family will continue to run the floor covering and cabinetry portion of the business

H&L Lumber Co. and True Value Hardware, Oakhurst, Ca., are seeking approval to build a new 33,000-sq. ft. home center that will house the two companies that now operate at separate locations; Jerry Bryant owns both firms

Hughes Supply has opened a Fire Protection branch in Seattle, Wa., and plans 11 more branches by the end of the year

Lowe's Cos. has begun construction on a 166,000-sq. ft. store in McMinnville, Or., and a 160,000-sq. ft. store with a 24,000sq. ft. garden center in Vista, Ca.; is considering a site in Albany, Or., and received word that a Hercules, Ca., developer who wants a Lowe's in his new shopping center is suing the city over plans to lure Home Depot

Home Depot this month opens a new home center in the former

House2flome/HomeBase in Laguna Niguel, Ca.; plans to build a DC in Latlrop, Ca.; will have the fate of a proposed store in San Juan Capistrano, Ca., decided by voters thii November, and was named Best Garden Shop by readers of San Diego Magazine ...

Kingston Lumber Millwork & Supply is located in Kingston, Wa., and not Port Orchard, Wa., as reported in the July issue ...

Wror:sn:ns/trturlcrunEns World Trade Organization issued a preliminary ruling that the U.S. improperly calculated a Preliminary countervailing dutY on Canadian softwood lumber ...

Burns Lumber Co.. Medford, Or., opened a new sales office in Anderson, Ca., headed by Frank Peterson, ex-Sierra Pacific

ECMD Distribution has oPened a new DC in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. ...

Rocky Mountain Forest Pro' ducts, Trout Creek, Mt., changed its name to Vinson Timber Products; Ochoco Lumber Co., Pineville, Or., is now the comPanY's exclusive sales agent

Pacific Hardwood, Orange, Ca., recently tripled the size of its railserved yard

Weswood Lumber Co., Colton, Ca., has changed its name to Mill Lumber Co. ...

Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal WaY, Wa., will sell Wimer Logging, Atbany, Or., which had been a subsidiarv of Willamene since 1967, and temporarily closed 1.2 million acres of its western Oregon tree farms to public recreation due to the threat of wild fires

, Harnpton Affiliate s, Portland, Or., completed a Washington timberland swap with Lincoln Timber LLC...

Sierra Pacific'Industries is holding an open house Sept. 19 in Redding, Ca.

U.S. TImber Co,Eagle,Id., has begun construction on Southeast' ern Forest Products, a manufacturing facility/DC in Georgia

Buitding Material Distributors has added 4.75 acres and 65,000 sq. ft. to its Galt, Ca., DC, in addition to developing 12.5 acres for warehousing and manufacturing .-. BMD is now distributing Hitachi pneumatic construction tools and CertainTeed's Boardwalk comPosite decking

Boise, White City, Or.; U.S. Forest Industries, White CitY, and SierraPine ltd., Springfield, Or., were among winners in APA's 2001 Mill Safety Competition

NxTrend Te chnolo gy, Colorado Springs, Co., acquired Customer Relationship Management solution provider CorpDNA

Weye rhaeuse r Biilding Materia/s is now distributing CertainTeed WeatherBoard fiber cement siding in California

BruNc Recycling, Eugene, Or., recently salvaged old-growth Doug fir lumber from the dismantled Planing Mill,Sp.nngfield, Or. ...

J&J Forest Products, HumPtulips, Wa., has joined the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, Vancouver, B.C. ...

Behr Process Corp., Santa Ana, Ca., was awarded the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers' PCR Creative Use Award

Trex composite decking was recently installed to complete The Farmhause, a 3,500-sq. ft. environmental home in Boulder, Co., constructed of only bio-based and recycled products

New Web site; Magellan GrouP Inc., Bainbridge Island, Wa., www.woddforest.com

Anniversaries Winds or Mill, Willits. Ca., 30th Miller Whslesale Lumber Co., TemPe, Az., 8th

Housing starts in June (latest figures) dropped 3.6Vo to a seasonaly adjusted rate of 1.672 million single family starts slowed 2.97o to 1.350 million; multi-familv was at a rate of 285"000 for 5+ dnits ... building permits rose l.AVo ta an annual rate of 1.700 million.