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Koppers ro Build First Wood-Treqting Plonf in Forty-ninth State

Koppers Company, Inc., will build and operate the first *oo6-preserving plant in the 49th state-Alaska-it was announced August 29. Douglas Grymes, Jr., vice-president and general manager of the Koppers' Wood-Preserving division, said his Division has started erection of a plant at Whittier, on property leased from The Alaska Railroad, adjacent to property of the Columbia Lumber. Company. _It is anticipaled that the plant will be in operation next July-

Major customers for the pressure-treated wood products. to be-produced in the plant at the beginning of operation will be a dozen or more publicly-owned utilities, The Alaska Railroad (government-owned), which has been using approximately 65,000 pressure-creosoted ties ann-ually, and Columbia 'Lumber. Pressure-creosoted piling for marine installations also will be supplied to Alaskan users. A rapidly growing demand for pressure-treated wood in Alaski also seems assured in line with that state's swift development.

While the Alaskan plant originally will have one treating cylinder, it will be able to pressure-treat wood with creosote, the major chemical preservative used on railroad ties and telephone poles ; with Wolman salts, a preservative most frequently used for treatment of lumber, and with special chemicals that make wood non-combustible'

Koppers' Wood-Preserving division now operates 33 plants in the United States, furnishing preservative treatments which make wood resistant to attack by fungus, decay, termites and fire. Termites are not a problem in the cold-Alaskan climate, but because there is heavy precipitation, both rain and snowfall, fungus and other decaycausing organisms thrive.

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Zesl Goins Notionol Acceptonce for Pocific Cosst Hordwoods

By Horry O. Mitchell, Secretoly-Monoger, Northwest Hardwood Association, Seattle, Washington Paper Presented at the Palm Springs Meeting, NATIONAL WOOD COUNCIL, February L2-L3,1959

THE HARDWOODS OF THE WEST were relatively unknown until recently. Production and sales were spaimodic and uncertain. Acceptance was limited and scepticism and prejudice existed. There werb no production or marketing standards. Grading rules were non-existent. The industry was unorganized. Yet the resource of merchantable trees was enormous and the potentiality for a thriving industry was most promising.

In September of 1955, a group of zealous timberland owners, mill men and wholesalers, cognizant of. this situation and sold on the merits of western hardwoods, organized the Northwest Hardwood Association to promote and conserve the species native to the Pacific Coast hardwood belt that ranges from Northern California to Alaska.

Its first objective was to establish grading rules for logs and lumber. The association's first set of rules, applicable to the most prevalent species-alder and maple-were accepted by the National Hardwood Lumber Association as the national standard for these hardwoods. More recentlv. ash and birch have been added

Then came the important job of promotion. A two-fold program was set up: (1) to sell to its own industry members the need for organized action and to educate them in ways and means to produce a quality product; (2) to sell buyers on the value and adaptability of Pacific Coast hardwoods.

^ Excellent. progress has been made toward realizing the first, objective by conducting meetings with outstanding speakers to inspire, and technical experts to instruct, in such subjects as scientific timber and management and conserva_tion,practices, improved logging, sawmilling, drying and finishing techniques and the development of new uses-.

Clinics and free-for-all discussions have been held. Visits have been paid to leading mills, such as the giant operation at Longview, Washington, to learn about the most efficient production methods. A special training course in hardwood lumber grading was established to leach producers and salesmen, with a veteran inspector from the National Hardwood Lumber Association as instructor. Technical experts were drafted as consultants. An official journal, "Picific Coast Hardwoods," was established.

To reach the field of buyers and users, an intensive pub- licity program was launched. Feature articles were prepired for trade journals in the fields of lumber marketing, iurniture, wood-working and box-making production ant architecture and construction. Timely news items and reports o{ meetings were fed in a constint stream to newspjpers, the wire services and radio and television stations. -Eicel-

Annuql Meeting Sept. 25-26

The third annual meeting of the Northwest Hardwood Association will be held later this month. on the 25th and 26th, at the Monticello hotel in Longview, \A/ashington.

lent results have been obtained with reams of clippings as evidence and numerous full-page and multiple-page feature articles.

Displays of members' products : fine furniture, interior wa1l paneling, woodenware novelties, parquetry flooring, millwork, kitchen cabinets, school equipment, boxes, etc-., were shown at association meetings, in bank lobbies, at chambers of commerce, at hotels, in power-company showrooms and windows, at construction centers, and 6uilders' and architects' trade shows and at educational institutions.

It can now be said that the hardwoods of the Pacific Coast are known frorn Coast to Coast and that their acceptance has been firmly established.

To enlarge the market on a national basis, lower freight rates were obtained from the transcontinental railroads ind connecting lines so that Pacific Coast hardwoods can now be shipped to any place in the United States at softwood rates.

The construction market appears to offer attractive op- portunities and efforts are now being made to enter this field. Hardwoods, by and large, are primarily shop or factory woods, utilized mainly in the manufacture -of furniture and a multitude of woodenware items, and our western hardwoods have successfully invaded this field. But their application in the construition field has thus far been somewhat limited.

_ Bqt some progress is being made in the production of flooring, {actory-built door f}aming, moulding, millwork and interior wall paneling. Exquisiti wall pan6ls with veneers of .western alder, maple, madrone, myrlle, ash, cottonwood, oak and walnut have been producid on an experi- mental basis. The natural charactei-markings of the more exotic species have attracted favorable comment by architects and builders. One example is the installation -of Oregon myrtle in the walls of the executive office of the United States National Bank in Portland which has been widely publicized in the architectural and financial press.

The association's big problem is increasing its membership strength to provide the means with wh-ich to do the things that are possible and so urgently needed but which require far more working capital-than the dues from its present limited membership can provide.

The consumer must be reach-ed with dramatic advertising -to _create a demand that will filter upward through the successive levels af the architects. de(Continued on Page 52)

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NEWEST MATER,IAIs, EGIUIP'NENT AND INNOVATIONS TO BE BUITT INTO THE CLEVETAND N.R..L.D.A. EXPOSITION

A full-size, "ideal" house for families with children will be built, completely furnished, and displayed at the 6th annual NRLDA Building Products Exposition in Cleveland, November 14-17. It will contain many of the latest products developed for residential use. Planned around the needs of families with young, growing children, the house incorporates almost every feature any family could possibly want. The house will be constructed with materials and equipped with products selected for their suitability to the needs of today's active, young families. Every consideration has been given to choosing materials and products that require only a minimum of maintenance and make day-byday living more pleasant.

Designed by the well-known architect, Grosvenor Chapman, AIA, with Laurence S. Higgins, AIA, of the Lumber

Dealers Research Council as Associate, the house will be built on the Lu-Re-Co system of component construction. Sponsorecl by Parents' rvragazlne, it is the twelfth in their series of "Expandable Homes." It features three outdoor living areas, one of which is completely secluded; play areas inside and outside the house, and separate indoor and outdoor living areas for parents and children. The house is entirely suitable for construction in any climate or geographic area on a lot as small as 65 ft. in width.

Among the products to be featured are kitchen and laundry, Strutwall structural wood window units and door frames, smooth surface floor coverings and acoustical ceiling tiles, laminated plastic for counter tops and wall tile, year 'round air conditioning, and aluminum exterior materials including vertical siding, roof shingles, gutters and downspouts. Gas is used as fuel for heating the house, also for cooking, refrigerating, water heating and automatically drying the clothes.

Other materials pertinent to the design of the house are Georgia-Pacific V-Grooved prefinished hardwood paneling which is practically indestructible; bathroom plumbing fixtures and a Modernfold door.

The home will receive nationwide publicity and promo- tion next year when it will be featured editorially in the June 1960 issue of Parents' magazine. Building materials dealers throughout the United States will have an opportu- nity to tie in with the national publicity by making arrangernents to construct the home in their own communities according to standards specified by the magazine and the Lumber Dealers Research Council.

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LIIIANC to Arronge Ghor{er Flighf To Clevelqnd Exposition, Nov. l4-17

Anticipating a large turnout for the sixth annual Building Products Exposition to be held in Cleveland, November 14.17, under the sponsorship of the NRLDA, the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California is planning to arrange a first-class United Airlines DC-78 charter flight from San Francisco direct to Cleveland. This will, the Association notes, result in substantially reduced fares, an added bonus to flying back with the "gang."

The Association has also arranged to have a Northern California dealer hospitality area at the Exposition, in addition to reserving a block oi rooms at the Pick-Carter hotel, co.nvention headquarters, for LMA members and their wrves.

All interested members should contact LMA headquarters, 24 California St., San Francisco, as soon as possible to insure room on the charter flight and hotel accommodations.