Limited tlemberships to Be llode Avqiloble to Smoll Builders, Lumber Deolers in Plywood Fqbricotors Service, Inc.

A nationwide network of laboratories and engineering services is being organized by Plywoocl Fabricators Serrice, Inc., on the basis of the pilot program startecl last summer, announces W. D. Page, executive vice-president.

PFS provides quality supervision and control, uniform specifications,. testing, ad-vertising, sales promotion and engineering assistance to fabricators of engineered plywood components.

Page also is working out a test program that will make limited PFS memberships available to small builders, lumber dealers and other smaller operations.

PFS rvas organized as an affiliate of tl-re Douglas Fir Plywood Association and launched in four carefullyielected areas. The first testing laboratories were opened at Ridgewood, Ne'iv Jersey, and the Chicago headquarters.

Trvelve fabricators.originally received PFS services, bdt the first sllrvey undertaken by the new organization indicates 1,634 firms contacted are interested in membership.

New laboratories are being opened in Atlanta, Georgia, to serve the Southeast, and in San Francisco, for the far West. Otherq are planned for Dallas, Texas, and either Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington.

"Our reception by the industry has exceeded our most optimistic hopes," Page said, when expansion plans were announced.

"The gap that existed before the formation of PFS is becoming more and more obviotls as we reach new areas of the country. Builders who could see the advantages of components in ,cutting on-site labor costs were hamstrung because of the difficulty of finding dependable materials.t'