The Largest Forest Producfs Terminal in Southern California

FFGC terminal division offers full service break-bulk forest products/ building materials handling & storage at Berths T-I22 & T-125 portofLong Beach, Ca.

. 16 acres offully paved outside storage and three covered warehouses.

. 600 feet of berth face with 40' or 12 meter draftaccommodates vessels to 750 feet or 229 meters. New 80'x300' fully enclosed storage building.

Barge discharge notch for ocean going barges for easy pass to storage.

. Rail service and UP-PlusOne Reload Program.

o Container dryage and stripping services within the overweight corridor.

Computerized inventory tracking of mixed products.

. Bonded cargo area movements to Mexico and offshore destinations.

Alex Delgado, Harbor Services Manager Customer Service

Team: Sue Bentley . Kent Thompson. Joe Montoya

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F o xw o r th- Galbraith Lumb er Co. agreed to buy JohnsonManley-Phoenix's El Mirage, Az., lumberyard; Fox-Gal will lease the current lO-acre site with plans to eventually move its satellite yard in Peoria, Az.,to El Mirage ...

B&C True Value Home & Garden Center, Grass Valley, Ca., sustained damage to its roof in a July 9 fire of undetermined origin ...

Ace Hardware, Escondido, Ca., is closing this month after l5 years; owner Greg Clore continues to operate an Ace outlet in Rancho Penasquitos, Ca. ...

Home Depot opened new stores Jane 24 in SW Phoenix, Az., and Oakland. Ca. ... Thousand Oaks, Soquel and Monterey, Ca., are reportedly among the 24 Kmart sites Depot is acquiring for $365 million (see July, p. 26) ...

Home Depot is eyeing a site in Hermiston, Or.; anticipates an OcL 28 opening for a 98,000-sq. ft. store in Watsonville, Ca., and a January 2005 unveiling in Placerville, Ca., and will build a 130,501-sq. ft. store on 10.34 acres in Chehalis, Wa. ...

Home Depot proposed building a 102,513-sq. ft. store on 10 acres in South Beach (Newport), Or.; had approval of a 135,000-sq. ft. store in north Corvallis. Or.. upheld by the city council despite an attempt to reverse the decision by a council member, and got the go-ahead to build a 102,083-sq. ft. store in Lincoln, Ca.

Lowe's Cos. opened a new 116,000-sq. ft. superstore with attached garden center July 23 in N. Lakewood, Co. ...

Lowe's is building new stores in Simi Valley, Ca., and Longview, Wa.; continues fighting to build in Cotati, Ca.; late this year will open a 102,0@-sq. ft. store with 27,000sq. ft. garden center in Espanola, N.M., and a 116,000 sq. ft. store with 31,000-sq. ft. garden center in Farmington, N.M., and next March will unveil a 116,000-sq. ft. store with 31,000-sq. ft. garden center in Meridian, Id.

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Cooley Industries, Inc., Phoenix, Az., opened Cooley Reload, Phoenix; Jeff Pappe, yard mgr. ...

Boston Pacific has moved to a new office in Redding, Ca. ...

AII-Coast Forest Products plans a December start-up of a new 55,000-sq. ft. lumber remanufacturing plant in Cloverdale, Ca.

Tew a Mo uldin g, Albuquerque, N.M., was sold by Lynch Investment Co., Dallas, Tx., and Private Equity Partners, Fort Worth, Tx., to Valor Equity Partners, Chicago, n....

Huttig Building Products is negotiating the sale of American Pine Products' Prineville, Or.. mill to an undisclosed Northwest-based wood products manufacturer ...

Paragon Wood Products, Vernon, 8.C., opened a new finished paneling board plant June 23 in Oroville. Wa.

DK TruckiflB, a division of Willis Enterprises, Montesano, Wa., suffered more than $500,000 in equipment damage from a "highly suspicious" July 20 blaze in Everett, Wa.; lost were a chipper-shredder, large earth mover, log loader and office trailer ...

Setzer Forest Products Inc. acquired three Weinig moulders for their Oroville and Sacramento, Ca., plants ...

James Hardie Building Products will open a 370,000-sq. ft. fiber cement product manufacturing plant in Reno, Nv., by the end of the year; Harvey Shelton, plant mgr.

Fremont Forest Group, Long Beach, Ca., is bringing in monthly shipments of dimension grade lumber from Aspen Planer Mill & Timber, Merritt, B.C.

Roseburg Forest Products, Roseburg, Or., will put 45,000 acres of timberland in Northern California up for sealed-bid auction Aug. 10

Black & Decker agreed to pay $775 million for Pentair Tools Group, including Porter-Cable, Delta" DeVilbiss Air Power, Oldham Saw and Flex units

Abel Building Materials, Stockton, Ca., is now distributing Pvro-Guard interior fire-retardant treated lumber and plywood manufactured by Hoover Treated Wood Products ..,

Smith Millwork, Phoenix, Az., and Plywood Tacoma, Tacoma, Wa., are now distributing Contact Lumber's Natural Wood Wrapped Products

Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa., is now using Lumber Track busi' ness software throughout its wood products division ...

Scott Timber Co., Dillard, Or., and Rosboro Lumber, Springfield, Or., bought two thinning timber tracts from the Roseburg District of the Bureau of Land Management June 22: Scott Timber Paid $1.2 million for 6,188 bd. ft., and Rosboro paid $476,000 for 2,668 bd. ft.

Housing starts in June (latest figures) plunged 8.5Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.802 single family starts fell 9.5Vo to a 1.489 million rate; multi-family

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