CALENDAR

September

Western Wood Products Association - Sept. 11, new design values seminars, Los Angeles, Ca.; Sept. 16, San Jose, Ca.

Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau - Sept. 12-14, annual meeting, Red Lion Inn, Bellevue, Wa.

Building Industry Credit Association - Sept. 13, credit management seminars, Holiday Inn, Irvine, Ca.

Western Hardwood Association - Sept. 14-17, annual meeting, Red Lion Inn, Sacramento, Ca.

Western Wood Products Associationmeeting, Westin Hotel, Seattle, Wa.

California Builders Supply - Sept. 17, night, Fremont, Ca.

Sept. l4-17, lall open house/casino

Weyerhaeuser Co. - Sept. 19, open house & buying show, Customer Service Center, Sacramento, Ca.

Wood Products Sales & Marketing Workshop - Sept. 1920, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. 20, election of ofTicers, Shandin Hills Golf Course, San Bernardino. Ca.

Bygg-Reis Deg - Sept. 20-29, Nordic building exhibition, Sjolyst Exhibition Center, Oslo, Norway.

Quojem - Sept. 22-25, international hardware, tools & d-i-y show, Paris-Nord Exhibition Grounds, paris. France.

Building Industry Credit Association - Sept. 25, lien law seminars, Holiday Inn, Torrance, Ca.

Weyerhaeuser Co. - Sept. 26, open house & buying show, Customer Service Center. Phoenix. Az.

Woodworking, Machinery & Supply Fair - Sept. 28-Oct. l, Anaheim Convention Center. Anaheim. Ca.

American Plywood Association - Sept. 29-Oct. l, annual meeting, Red Lion Jantzen Beach, Portland, Or.

National Hardwood Lumber Association - Sept. 30-Oct. 2, annual meeting, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Ca.

Western Wood Products Association - Sept. 30, new design values seminars, San Francisco, Ca.; Oct. 1, Albuquerque, N.M.; Boise, Id.; Phoenix, Az.; Sacramento, Ca.; Oct. 3, Denver, Co.; San Diego, Ca.

October

Dub's Ltd.Oct. 4, golf tournament, Poppy Hills Golf Course, Pebble Beach, Ca.

Particleboard/MDF InstituteOct. 6-9, annual meeting, Point Squaw Peak, Phoenix, Az.

Western Wood Products AssociationOct. 8, new design values seminars, Portland, Or.; Oct. 15, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Seattle, Wa.

Architectural Woodwork Institute - Oct.9-11, annual meeting, Nashville, Tn.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo ClubOct. 10, old timers night, Red Fox Steak House, San Diego, Ca.

National Sash & Door Jobbers Association - Oct. 12-16. annual meeting, Marriott, San Francisco, Ca.

Big Show - Oct. 16-lE, Pomona, Ca.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - Oct. 16, regional meetings, Eugene, Or.; Oct. 17, Portland, Or.; Oct.22, Los Angeles, Ca.; Oct. 23, Seattle, Wa.

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers AssociationOct. l7-20, annual meeting, Louisville, Ky.

September 1991

Fibreboard Consolidation

Fibreboard Wood Products Co. is the new name for six formerly separate wood products businesses that have been consolidated by parent Fibreboard Corp., which has its corporate headquarters in Concord, Ca.

All operations and functions of the new unit willl be at Standard, Ca., a small community five miles east of Sonora in the Mother Lode country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The unit's new president is Jim Costello; Bob Shepard is general manager of all operations. Jim Murray is the lumber sales manager and Donn Massett is the plywood sales manager.

Included in the consolidation is a cut-up plant in Fresno, Ca., a Red Bluff, Ca., facility and Turlock, Ca.based Snider Lumber Products. All will now carry the Fibreboard name. Operations are expected to complete the move to Standard this year.

A number of layoffs have resulted from the downsizing and more are anticipated, according to a company spokesman.

Wood products make up about 700/o of Fibreboard sales. The other main units are an insulation products business and a ski resort. Fibreboard expects to substantially reduce costs by cutting overlapping expenses, according to John Roach, chairman and ceo.

The reorganization is the first step in Roach's plan to turn around the troubled firm. Other moves include cutting litigation expenses (mainly relating to asbestos lawsuits). seeking new financing and adding new directors.

1991 Housing Starts lmprove

Housing starts improved by l5o/o by mid year "and though l99l's housing unit total is smaller than hoped, one family housing will be the dynamic part of the construction sector for now as starts advance to an average rate of 900,000 units in the second half of 1991," said George A. Christie, F. W. Dodge.

This brought a smallbut welcome gain to total construction contracting which had been eroded nearly 250/o by six consecutive quarters of decline. "lt s importance was in the change of direction with the promise of further improvement ahead," Christie said.