WHOLESALE FOREST PRODUCTS

Ouolity Mills Dependoble Service

'Coming Out Por?y' Ar NRLDA Gonvention

One of the biggest "coming-out" parties for new building materials in industry history will be staged in San Francisco, November 13-16, as part of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association convention. New building materials that will affect nearly every phase of the construction industry are being gtoomed for the meeting's building materiaJs exposition, advance information from exhibitors indicates.

New ideas range from "armor-plated" finishes for hardwood wall paneling to a factory-sealed "garage and utility-room liner" with its own wainscoting and with perforations in the top two thirds to make it a built-in storage wall.

Among the flrst announcements of new products for the extensive NRLDA exhibits is the one from the world's largest plywood maker, Georgia-Pacifrc Corp., which is preparing exhibits of "at least" 10 new forest products, a new factory-finishing process for hardwoods, and "another real eye-catcher or two if our new plants are in production in time to meet the show deadline."

The initial list includes the low-cost garag:e and utility-room storage-wall liner, a beautiful new pecan hardwood wall paneling, a new look in oak wall paneling, Danish contoured "plyfa-Profile" three-dimensional hardwood plywood, a new method of factory finishing natural wood to protect the surface even under the roughest usage, and a factory-flnished "cabinet panel" in tough, smooth hardboard.

The list, an advance report indicates, also will include displays of a new dimensionally stable flakeboard panel with a "silk finish" hardwood veneer on both sides for kitchen, school and other cabinet work where a tough, easily worked warp-resistant and beautiful material is needed.

Among'other items to be given their first general preview for dealers at the NRLDA session, the G-P report reveals, will be a recently developed premium 2-4-1 combination fir plywood underlayment and subfloor. Like previous 2-4-1, it is tongue-andgrooved, serves a double puq)ose and eliminates joists except at 4-foot intervals and without cross bracing. In addition, the new premium grade has a premium g'lue-line that cuts dampness worries during construction and on-site storage, and it has an extra-thick top veneer to allow better fac-

Goodyeor Disploy fo Show Videne lominqting Film

Videne, a new polyester laminating film produced by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, will have its first full-scale trade exhibition at the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association convention in San F rancisco, opening November 13.

"Although Videne offers outstanding protective and decorative characteristics when applied to a variety of woods, metals, plaitics and other rigid materials, the emphasis for this convention will be on its use on wood and associated wood products," explained E. J. Dunlavy, manager of the companys' plastic frlm and sheeting sales department here.

The Videne display will cover the current range of its applications on paneling and furniture products as well as a demonstration of the intensive testing of Videne lami- torysanding and to provide additional panel strength. nated surfaces in the laboratory, he said. Videne-surfaced plywood in paneling, furniture, kitchen cabinets and store fixtures will be shown in specific products now being marketed. Reverse-printed Videne in wood grain efrects will be demonstrated in use on cabinets, seating units and tables of particle board, and on paneling of low-cost plywood.

In the lumber field, among the newer products to be displayed at the show will be a recently-developed G-P end and edgeglued "extra wide--extra long" redwood siding with a roug:h exterior texture. It is long enough to be used vertically on 2-story buildings, and has been utilized by architects and builders for an "unbroken new look" in initial installations of the new product.

Pettibone Mulliken Corporation, 4700 W. Division Street, Chicago, Illinois, has introduced a new 7.000 lb. lift truck with a 4 ft. hydraulic forward reach, lifting to a height of 13 ft., 6 in. It is the latest designed lift truck for lumber handling.

B. J. Stahlman, president, Stahlman Lumber Company, Houston, Texas, reports: "We have found this machine works faster than the averag:e lift truck and because of its reach-out and other benefits, we can load and unload trucks and flat cars from one side. We can reach over low stacks and remove material from high stacks and, because of the absence of a mast, we have no trouble working through low doors of warehouse ceilings since the entire load is of a free-lift nature."

James V. Wright, materials handling director of the NRLDA said: "The Super 7which does considerably more work tlan an ordinary lift truck with the same labor factor-will be exhibited at NRLDA National Exposition, November 13 through 16 in San F rancisco."

A self-contained projection unit in the display will provide a continuous showing of a sound-motion film on Videne, detailing its origin, production, typical installations and test data, the Goodyear official said. In addition, the film will demonstrate the unique processing equipment developed for laminating Videne to plywood and associated wood products on a continuous basis, he stated.

The Goodyear exhibit, located in space 437, will also contain a comprehensive display of products.