Continenfal Moulding's Big, New Plant

First major use of pole-type construction Moulding Company, Sequoia Lumber Sales in buildings devoted to combined manufac- and Sequoia Forest Products Co. Mr. Gus turing-distribution facilities is one of the Luellwitz is President and Mr. Grant B. features in a new industrial complex near- Potter is Executive Vice President of the ing completion by Sequoia Forest Indus- Parent Company. Offices of S,F.I. are lotries, Inc. for its subsidiaries. Continental cated at Dinuba. California. S.F.I. also has at Dinuba, a sawmill and complete lumber products plant that annually.produces and ships approximately 50 Million Board Feet of Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, White Fir and Cedar Lumber.

Comprised oI i0 buildings, covering nearly 73,000 square feet, the complex provides faeilities for manufacturing factory primed door casings, frames and jambs; tor producing siding and trim; ior sorting and bagging various sizes and grades of white fir and pine bark used in landscaping and sold under the well-known "Forest Humus" Iabel; and for a complete wholesale lumber distribution yard.

T. J. "Tom" Hedrick is general manager of the Continental Moulding Company divi. sion, Bruce E. Glanville is the sales manager and John Schick is manager of the wholesale lumber distribution division. The facilities, painted with difierent pastel colors are all located at 1785 North Batavia Street, Orange, Calif.

While pole-type construction has been used extensively for years in farm utility buildings and warehouses, Sequoia Forest Industries, Inc. is believed to be the first to employ it in buildings designed for manufacturing.

A total of 2ll poles, pressure-treated by the Cellon method to prevent decay and

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(Continued lrom Page 10) termite attack, were furnished by the Wood Preserving Division of Koppers Company, Inc., and 9 of the 10 buildings were erected by that Division's Pole-Building Construction department. The lfth building uses pressure-creosoted poles.

The two largest buildings, the first, B0 feet by 160 feet and the other 100 by 200 feet, are devoted to the manufacturing operations.

The first houses part of the operations of the Continental Moulding Company division. The machinery was furnished by TriState Machinery, Inc., of California, located in Los Angeles at 2B2O lconis Blvd., near Soto Street. Tri-State Machinery is a major supplier of woodworking machinery to the remanufacturing trade in the Southland.

Roofs of these buildings are supported by laminated beams. Eight Iaminated beams, each 80 feet long, are used in the 80 by f60 foot building, entirely eliminating structural uprights inside. Twenty laminated beams, each 50 feet long, are used in the 100 by 200 foot building with uprights required only through the center of the structure.

Poles are notched at the top and the laminated beams set in the notches and bolted.

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Another unusual feature of construction on all of the buildines is the inverted rool. Roofs have been built with a one-inch fall in each 12 inches slanting from each side toward the middle. Lengthwise, each building is six inches higher at one end than at the other. This results in a o'trough" in the middle of each roof which funnels rain to one end of the building where it flows into a drainage area. Thus, no gutters are required. Laminated B0-foot beams on the open-span building are o'bowed" to provide the center-roof trough.

Other buildings erected for Sequoia include three of 50 by 124 foot size for lumber storage; a repair building which also includes locker rooms and wash facilities which is 20 by 70 feet; a bark storage building 40 by 80 feet; a finished product storage building with shipping facilities which is 50 by 120 feet, and an office building 4O by 65 feet.

All buildings have plywood roof decks and hot-mopped roofing. The two main manufacturing buildings have concrete floors with utility pipes and cables embedded. The manufacturing buildings are totally enclosed with Sequoia-produced 1" x 8" SL siding which embodies a new concept in pattern detail. The lumber storage buildings have siding on the ends only, leaving bays open for easy access of lifttrucks.

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Millqrd Hohn Advonced

Directors of Vancouver Plywood Company, Vancouver, Washington, have named Millard B. Hahn to the post of vice presidentresearch and development, Frost Snyder, president, has announced.

Hahn joined Vanply last September as manager of the research and development section, in charge of developing new products and improved methods and efficiency of manufacture.

Hahn is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in mechanical engineering. Prior to becoming associated with Vancouver Plywood Company, he served as vice president in charge of Pacific Northwest operations for Production Management Engineering Associates, a firm of consulting engineers.

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Spot testing of laminating stock by Potlatch's recently installed Electro-Mechanically Stress Rating machine confirmed superior strength of material going into laminated beams. 55% showed stronger than visually rated.

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