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Wood Products Use

The use of wood as a siding material is up sharply both in the U.S. as a whole and in the West, according to recent statistics from the Department of Commerce and HUD. It is the hrst time the numbers involved in principal types of exterior residential sidings have been broken down by regions.

Nati<lnally, wood use in sidings moved from 28%-36Vo from l97 l-

1975 while its use in the West jumped up fronr 28% to 41%.

GR0UNDBBEAKItt|G for new South Bay Redwood office building at their big 0range, Ca. distribution yard included (lr, top) Robert Hoyt, Mayor of 0range, Jim and Harold M. Frodsham, pres. and chairman of the board, respectively, and the architect, Dick Houston. The new 7000 sq. ft., 2-story, wood frame, redwood and Western red cedar bldg. utilizes 3 huge gluelams, open "office landscaping" inside, and two full{ength verandas along the rear with two-story columns. Energyefficient, with a warm, wood-look, it will have extensive windows. 0ther vips present at the creation: (lower photo, back row): . Dick Houston, Andy Enek, Joe Julian, Ron Lewman, Marshall Welty, Jim 0lson and Mayor Hoyt; (front row): George Plourde, Giles Brown, Harold and Jim Frodsham, Carol Ouick and Ginger Calcaterra.

New Nikkel Moulding Plant

The Nikkel Corporation's acquisition of Kimberly-Clark's dual lineal moulding plants located on l0 acres in Anderson. Ca. was announced recently by Robert F. Nikkel, president of The Nikkel Coro.

Loyce Dean is plant superintendent; John Nikkel has moved from their Rocklin, Ca. remanufacturing plant to assist Dean; Donia Bennett is office manager. The new operation has an estimated annual production capacity of one-million board feet of pine lineal moulding.

Sales are being handled by Nikkel's Sacramento. Ca. office.

Warehouse Facility Facts

A typical NBMDA member operates his business on a four acre site with a 48,000 sq. ft. building says a survey by the National Building Material Distributors Association.

Outright ownership of facilities was by far the most popular. 57% owned their land and 63% owned their own buildings, two-thirds of which were specifically designed for warehousing building materials.

The average work force in a warehouse is sixteen, four of whom are part-time. Eight full-time employees are assigned to the warehouse and the remaining four are drivers. 6Wo hold periodic meetings with their warehouse personnel, usually monthly, and 17% offer incentive pay.

Building security was the third general subject covered in the survey. 65% of respondents had perimeter fencing around their buildings, most of which included locking gates. Full or partial outside night lighting is used by 92% of firms reporting.

OUR MAJOR NAIL SUPPLIERS ARE:

MORRISON

U.S. STEEL

IMPORTS (PGL Brand)

STRONGHOLD

HELYX

Plus many other specialty nail suppliers

PGL and PYS warehouses maintain the largest stock of nails in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

In addition to all the regular nails, we also stock a wide variety of specialty nails in STAINLESS, ALUMINUM, BRONZE ANd TEMPERED STEEL.

Nails are only part of the many steel products we handle. Call us for re-bar, fencing, wire, netting, mesh, etc.

Call your nearest PGL/PYS Senrice Center for:

Incrcdible Western Market

California produced 5,333,000,000 board feet of lumber valued at $1,253,300,000 wholesale in 1976. Employment in lumber and wood products in Califomia, excluding furniture, total 59,100. The figures are revealed in the 1976 Statistical Yearbook recently released by Western Wood Products Association.

Of the total lumber shipments, 42.4% moved by rail, 56.5% by truck and 1.1% by water. California received 63.3% of its own output, other Western destinations 7.9% and the Midwest 12.7%. The balance was destined for other regions.

Distribution channels canied 61 .9% of California's lumber going to wholesalers,9% to retailers, 16.5% to plants for further manufacturing and the balance to company owned distribution yards and directly to consumers.

Western states lumber shioments were up 4.2% in the first truti oi 1977 over the first half of 1976. according to WWPA.

Based on statistical sampling, total Western shipments, excluding the California Redwood region, totaled 9.2 billion board feet for the first six months of 1917. The coastal region West of the Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington, shows a 5.7% hike over last year's first half. The inland region, which includes the balance of the nation West of the Great Plains, shows a 29% increase over l9J6 first half shipments.

Western lumber processors, distributors and users continue to be the best customers for Western lumber, accounting for 57% of westem lumber shipments in the first half. Some of this lumber is reprocessed or remarketed, however, and later shipped from the region.

The vast California market tends to dominate shipments from Western producers, taking 35/o of the total in the first half of this year. The north central and northeastern regions of the U.S. received 20% less Western lumber in the first half of 1977 compared with the similar period of 1976.

C0NTRACTOB Don Covarelli was saving time and money in two different ways during construction at Montego Heights apartments, Walnut Creek, Ca. Continuous, multiple-span XL kiln-dried floor joists were lifted by helicopter to third story of proj. ect. Helicopter was more economical than using large crane to lift extra long span joists. Joists, developed and manufactured by Standard Structures Inc., Santa Bosa, Ca., save money because of faster, easier installation. While helicopter added innovative touch, XL joists do not require special handling equipment.