The Merchant Magazine To GoSponsor Material Handling Show

The Merchant Magazine and its sister publication Building Products Digest arc co-sponsors for the Material Handling, Storage & Delivery Show which will share space in the Dallas Convention Center with the Home Center Show's Building, Remodeling & Decor Products ExpoFeb. 13-15.

This show-witlina-show will address the equipment selection needs of lumber and building product dealers attending the show. "Dealer members on the show advisory board argued very penuasively for the addition of this new material handling, storage and delivery equipment show," said John Berry, vice president and director of the Trade Show Division of show producer Vance Publishing. "For the past 18 years, the Home Center Show has been limited to the exhibition only of products and services suitable for resale 0o retail customers."

The addition of the equipment event is in keeping with the new focus and name for the show. More emphasis will be placed on retail dealers' increased interest in serving the needs of professional builder and remodeler customers in addition to do-it-yourself customers.

The Material Handling, Storage & Delivery Show will include exhibits of forklifts, industrial saws and tools, wood waste recycling systems, strapping and banding equipment, delivery truck boom and crane systems, floor trucks, yard/warehouse racking and shelving and computer software relating o yard and store operation.

Information on attending the show is available from (800) &2-7469 or for exhibiting, (800) 545-5859.

Georgia-Pacific Buys Arrowood Plant

Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta Ga., has purchased for an undisclosed amount Fibreboard Technologies Corp.'s engineered lumber manufacturing facility in Roxboro, N.C.

Closed since July 1991, the plant should be fully operational by late spring or early surruner 1994, following several million dollars in plant modifications and upgrades to equipment. The plant will resume production of Anowood engineered composite structural lumber, though likely will drop the Arrowood name, according to Georgia-Pacific.

Currently, G-P's limited engineered wood product involvement is a residential beam and floor joist plant in Ocala, Fl. The Roxboro facility's annual manufacturing capacity of 25 million linear ft. is five times that of the Ocala plant.

After the sale, parent Fibreboard Corp., Standard, Ca., dissolved Fibreboard Technologies, the subsidiary it created when it acquired the Arrowood plant in 1989.