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Koppers Enlorges Plqnt

Koppers Company, Inc. will enlarge its forest products treating plant at Oroville, Calif., for the third time since the company purchased it in 1955, Douglas Grymes, vice president and general manager of the forest products division, has announced.

The new addition will consist of an 8-foot'diameter pressuretreating cylinder 65 foet long, a boiler and a 50,000 board feet capacity lurnber drying kiln. It will allow the Oroville plant for the first time to produce fire-protected wood which is sold under the Koppers trade name of Non-Com. They expect to be in operation by mid-October.

The expansion has been dictated by the increasing demand for fire-protected wood in construction, Grymes said. Following exhaustive tests, the Uniform Building Code now allows fireprotected wood studs to be used in construction of multipleoccupancy, high-rise buildings. Previously, steel studs were required in such buildings and the code change has opened up a large new use for fire-protected wood which meets Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. standards.

More than 75,000 board feet of Non-Com lumber was used recently for ,temporary construction in San Francisco's Cow Palace during the GOP National Convention. This was produced at Koppers Wilmington, Calif. plant.

L. E. Anderson is manager of the Oroville plant.

Ziel's New Mqn in Cqnqdo

Jack Ziel, president oL Ziel & Co., Inc., announced the appointment oI Albert Burke as the company's Canadian representative last month. Burke will make his headquarters at 216 Goulding Avenue, Willowdale, Toronto, and will be active primarily in log and lumber imports for the pioneer San Francisco based importexport firm.

Burke was formerly salesmanager of Premium Forest Products, Ltd., of Toronto, and prior to that operated his own importipg business in Toronto.

CBS Plywood Adds Retqil Outlet

Jack Favors, head of CBS Plywood, 24th & Cypress Streets, Oakland, has announced purchase of Plywood & Lumber, Inc., 2177 Palm Avenue in San Mateo. The former owners of Plywood & Lumber were Frank Egnell and Art Evans with Evans remaining on as manager of the established retail outlet.

CBS Plywood now operates five retail outlets in the Bay Area in addition to its wholesale branch in Reno, Nevada, and its big Oakland headquarters operation.

Forest Service Timber Cut Record

The timber business in the national forests hit an all-time high during fiscal year 1964, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Free' man has announced.

The timber cut from the national forests totalled I0.9 billion board feet-enough to build an 8-foot board walk to the moon. This is twice the amount of timber cut from the forests in 1954 and 900 million board feet more than was cut a year ago.

During fiscal year 1964 the Forest Service sold 11.63 billion board feet of timber. Some of this timber was cut during the year, but most of it'will be cut within the next few years and will show up in future reports.

Last year sales came to I2.2 billion board feet. The higher volume was largely a result of efforts by the Forest Service to salvage timber in the Pacific Northwest blown down by the Oct. 12. 1962 hurricane.

Timber Solvoge Record

"Northwest loggers have accomplished the speediest timber salvage job in historf," W. D. Hagenstein, Timber Disaster Committee chairman, has declared.

In the 20 months since the devastating Columbus Day Storm blew 17 billion feet of timber flat, Washington and Oregon loggers have been harvesting blowdown everywhere. By June 30, sixty percent of the concentrated blowdown had been removed, the committee reports.