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Announces Plans For New Everett Plant

Plans for construction at Everett, Wash., ofa large plant capable of chemically processing more than a million board feet of lumber a month have been announced by A. E. Ferguson, Los Angeles, western sales manager of the American Lumber & Treating Co. Output of the new plant will consist of wood treated to resist fire, rot and insects.

The Everett plant will cover seven acres adjacent to the millof the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., and chemicallyprocessing facilities will be operated for that company and other members of the Pacific Northwest lumber industry. Operations are to include treatment of lumber with Wolman salts preservative, creosote and Minalith flameproofing salts. Two huge steel vacuum-pressure treating cylinders, each cap:Lble of handling approximately two carloads of lumber at one time, will be installed.

Three other west coast plants are located at Wauna, Ore., Weed, Calif., and Wilmington, Calif.

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"Expansion of facilities to conserve wood by chemical treatment is a major part of the lumber industry's effort to protect and develop the timber crop," Mr' Ferguson s2id. "Construction of this new plant at Everett is another forward step in the proper utilization of forest resources."

New Hardwood Plyvrood Plant

The new plant of the Tidewater Plywood Company at Brunswick, Ga., built at a cost of $1,0@,000, recently started operation.