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Forest Fiber Enters Into Big Supplementql Sqles Agreement With Koiser Gypsum for ll Western Stqtes

Supplemental sales effort in the 11 Western states has been assured Forest Fiber Products Company of Forest Grove, Ore., a pioneer hardboard producer, through an agreement reached with Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., Oakland, Calif. The latter, a subsidiary of Permanente Cement Company, will do the supplemental sales work through its Insulating Products division.

The sales agreernent, effective September 1, was signed by L M. "Tom" Hughes, Forest Fiber general manager, and Robert A. Costa, vice-president and,assistant general manager of the Insulating Products divisiqn. .--.>

Kaiser entered the insulating products field last November with the purchase of the big Fir-Tex Insulating Board and Western Insulated Products, Inc., plants at St. Helens, Oregon. The Insulating Products division now has more than 80 salesmen in the far west.

"We are most pleased to have the fine Kaiser Gypsum sales organization in the field selling our timetested hardboard products," Hughes said. "We are sure it is the beginning of a happy and profitable relationship fgp all concerned." Costa, who was in Oregon for the signing, accompanied; by Richard C. Crowle, merchandise manager, said, "The Kaiser Gypsum organization is glad to round out its line of products with these excellent hardboard items."

Forest Fiber Products Company, a subsidiary of .Stimson Lumber Co., produced its first hardboard in July 1949 (the fourth plant of its kind built in the U.S.) under the trade name Forest Hardboard. At the plant site seven miles south of Forest Grove a maximum utifization of the entire tree is accomplished through an integrated logging, saw milling, hardboard, wood plastic and green veneer operation. This all

Forest Fiber Products. Company produces a complete line of hardboard products, the nelvest of which is a pre-finished (may be used "as is" without painting) item called Sandalwood, platinum in,color, weather resistant. The company says, "Sandalrvood makes conventional hardboard^ obsolete." Sandalwood is norv available in conventionallv sized panels as well as.specialty products as follows :

FORALL panel in thicknesses of I to )! inches, smooth _on both sides, ideal for sliding doors and cabinet work; PUNCH BOARD (perforated') puts unused spaces to work;

TEE-N-GEE-8 ft. x 16-inch tongue and groove panel

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