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The Incredible Shrinking World

As is our custom each December, we present in the following pages a number of business forecasts by experts in our industry. Here we will be discussing a sweeping and long tenn trend: the globalization of our and other nation's economies.

While this increasing change to a world market is no new development, we believe all of us are likely to feel its effects surge at adrzzyngpace in the next few years. New and different products from new sources and companies, upheavals in the old, comfortable patterns of business, profit-affecting influences from far away places with stxange sounding niunes are all going to mean business will never again be conducted as it has been in the past. No one in our business, at whatever level, will be immune to these changes.

Many forces are propelling the huge cbanges in domestic and wodd business. The envirorunentally minded new Clinton Administration is widelv ex- pected to increase the lockups of federal timber, forcing indusEy to increasingly look abroad for new sources and species. A wide range of woodbased building products is expected to be affected, both in availability and cost.

Satellite linking of telephones and faxes has pushed the practicality of doing business with new sources and suppliers that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. And this is the beginning of a technological revolution that will grab us all and accelerate us into new ways of conducting business.

While these sea changes may be unnerving to some, the new facton are not neocesarily negative, just new and different. Coming with th'em are wonderful new opportunities for the swift and nimble to grow and profit as we ftrmp up to a new cen$ry.

Hoover Treated Wood Products announces that a NATIONAL EVALUATION REPORI (NER-4S7) has been issued by the National Evaluation Seruice of the Council of American Building Officials to confirm that PYRO-GUARD Fire Retardant Treated Lumber and Plywood meets requirements of the BOCA, UBC, and SBCCI modet buitding codes.

PYRO-GUARD has a degradation-free track record, a S0-year projected useful life, and is the FIBSI Fire Retardant Treated Wood with; a llrr_rd-Pgrly Klln Monllorlng tn addttton to U.L. follow-up servlce a FRf lobor ond materials replacement cost worrantv

I Cgde Compllance Report with evoluatlon of elevoled ]em.peratu re strength totlt ng for roof aPPtlcsllons

I High ]cmporature slrenglh test tuitutts

I New York Etote Smoke Toxlclty tesr' results

' NER reports are subject to re-examination, rcvisions and possibte closing of file.

For lechnlcol Informotlon Coll r-800-rEc-wooD