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rains to meet or exceed all environmental requirements, balancing wildlife concerns while assuring renewability. lonservation is {urther enhanced with Willamette's advanced manufacturing methods which eliminates waste by using every ;crap of wood and wood fiber. With Willamette's sound forestry practices, wood will remain a viable resource. So, before rou consider the pointedly exaggerated claims of alternative building materials, consider the renewable resource ---wood.

Structural Wood Panel Production For '93lJp 4o/o

Structural wood panel production in both the U.S. and Canada is expected to finish 1993 about 4Vo ahead of 1992 md i*,2Vo in 1994, members learned at the 57th annual American Plywood Association meeting in Tucson, Az., Sept.28.

Totalplywood and oriented strand board production in the two countries is forecast to reach 31.5 billion sq. ft. , exceeding the 31.4 billion ft. 1988 record, according to APA's annual End-Use Marketing Profiles for Structural Panels.

Other projections : o 32.2 billion ft. rotal 1994 U.S. and Canadian panel production. o 600 million sq. ft. decrease in 1994 U.S. plywood production; 50 million sq. ft less in Canada o 850 nillion ft. increase in 1994 U.S. OSB production; 500 million fr more in Canada o 2.9 billion ft. decline in 1994 western plywood production o 288 million tt.1993 U.S. glulam beam production, 17 million ft. over 1992:308 million ft. in 1994 o 350 million tt. 1993 U.S. and Canadian wood I-joist production, 125 million ft. above 1992;386 million ft. in 1994 o 25 million ft. 1993 U.S. and Canadian laminated veneer lumber production, up 7 million ft over 1992; 29 million fr. in 1994

Many complex challenges and oppctunities face the structunl wod panel and engineered wood products industries, APA executives lold members.

Chairman Dennis A. Spencer, Stone Forest Industries, Inc., Medford, Or., said "We wouldn't be here on the 60th anniversary of this great association, if we hadn't learned long ago to adapt, to adjust and to create new opportunities for ourselves."

Both Spencer and president David Rogoway advised the 400 attendees

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from the U.S. and Canada to continue to battle to restore stability through responsible management of national forests. Rogoway pointed out that a new kind of green marketing is demanded, stressing engineered wood products have become synonymous with "environmental sensitivity, better resource utilization, less waste and improved quality."

The meeting incorporated for the first time a two day exhibition of products and services for the industry called Info Fair 93.

CCA Potato Test ls Negative

A study by the Swedish Wood Preservation Institute in cooperation with the National Food Administration of Sweden emphasizes CCA treated wood can be safely used in contact with food, plants or animals, the Western Wood Preservers Institute repons.

In the test, two varieties of potatoes were stored in a cold, underground room in bins constructed of CCA treated wood. Each potato had direct con[act with the bin. An analysis performed after seven months using peeled atw potatoes, boiled potatoes and boiled peelings showed no increased levels of arsenic, chromium or copper.

At present, the EPA approved Consumer Information Sheet handed out with a treated wood purchase says treated wood should not be used "under circumstances where the preservative may become a component of food," which would include a potato bin, WWPI adds.

Hoover Treated Wood Products announc€s that a NATIONAL EVALUATION REPORT (NER-4571 has been issued by the National Evaluation Service of the Council of American Building Officials to confirm that PYRO-GUARD Fire Retardant Treated Lumber and Plywood meets requirements of tho BOCA, UBC, and SBCCI model building codes.

PYRO-GUARD has a degradation-free track record, a S0-year projected useful life, and is the FIFSI Fire Retardant Treated Wood with: afhrrd Party Klln Monltorlng In addltlon to U.L.lollow-up servlce a FRf labor and malerials replacement cos| warran|rl