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TIMBERMAN, April 2014 – 12

Long-standing US-based organization supports Frame Australia By Charles Barnes Director, International Marketing APA

EADQUARTERED IN the State of Washington (U.S.A.), APA – The Engineered Wood Association (“APA”) is honored to serve as a sponsor for one of the Australian housing industry’s premier activities in 2014 - Frame Australia. APA was founded in 1933 as the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, was renamed the American Plywood Association in 1964 and changed its name again in 1994 to reflect the geographic diversity of its membership (United States and Canada) and its members’ engineered wood product mix, including softwood plywood, oriented

strand board (OSB), glued laminated timber (glulam), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), wood I-joists, structural composite lumber (SCL) and, most recently, cross laminated timber (CLT). With 73 employees, APA services the industry through assisting with North American and international mill certifications and product testing, conducting applied research (primarily on construction systems and components) and engaging in market support and development to expand usage of engineered wood products both domestically and internationally. In addition to having one of the longest histories of any non-profit trade association and certifying agency for engineered wood products

in the world, APA is also believed to be the largest based on members’ collective production volume. The single largest end use market for the majority of this collective production is North American wood frame housing construction. Building on this experience, APA also actively supports promotion of wood frame construction in numerous key countries around the world, including Australia, Japan and elsewhere. Having significantly increased membership over the past six years when other U.S. wood product associations and certification agencies fell victim at the time of a huge drop in new U.S. housing construction, APA’s membership base is now as strong and diverse as ever and has 54 producing member

Fastening solutions are a specialty AIRCO FASTENERS, with both leading brands Airco and Senco, specialise in tailoring loan tool and fastener supply solutions which provide wall frame and truss fabricators with a complete range of: • Collated Strip Nails • Staples • Coil Nails • Corrugated Fasteners • Loan Tools to suit • Conversion of framing tables to fit Airco / Senco tools Included in the Airco offering, is (where required) the supply of new mounting brackets to fit new loan fastening tools to existing plant equipment. Airco offers industry experienced staff, familiar with fastening solutions to provide advice on the latest equipment available – fastening solutions are our speciality, not just an add on range. Airco is an ISO 9001 accredited company with set quality benchmarks in place recognising our commitment to product quality, leadership, systems and the sound and stable process

which delivers a consistent product and service offering. Our service package is backed up by company warehousing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin. In-field technical support staff conduct the servicing of fastening tools provided on loan in most locations. Loan fastening tools are serviced on-site on a time and day of mutual agreement with loan tools, spare parts and the labour cost included in the negotiated fastener pricing. For further information please visit www.aircofasteners.com.au or telephone 1300 139 015.

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companies with 156 member mills located in 23 U.S. states and seven Canadian provinces. Listed are total 2013 North American production volumes (including members’ and nonmembers’ production) for each major product category, percentage used for residential construction/remodeling as well as the APA member share of total production: Structural panels (plywood and OSB): 26.5 million cubic meters; 65% of total is used for new residential construction and home remodeling; APA member market share is 83% of total production. LVL: 1.62 million cubic meters; 73% of total is used for beams and headers in new residential construction; much of the remaining LVL is used for I-joist flanges and is also used in new residential construction; APA member

market share is 72% of total. Glulam: 388,000 cubic meters; 51% of total is used for new residential construction and home remodeling; APA member market share is 80% of total. Wood I-joists: 190.7 million linear meters; 80% of total is used for new residential construction; APA member market share is 70% of total. The progressive North American and Australian housing industries recognize the role of wood frame construction as the most sustainable, efficient, costcompetitive and safe building method for residential construction in our respective countries, and engineered wood products are playing an ever increasingly important role as building technologies and systems evolve. APA is honored to join our

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Australian colleagues and support Frame Australia 2014 toward an even brighter future for wood frame housing.

Flexibility, accuracy, reliability AS THE industry leader in CNC timber processing machinery with more than 4500 machines operating throughout 43 countries worldwide, Hundegger strives constantly to provide the safest, fastest, most flexible and accurate machinery possible with reliability that is second to none. In the last eight years we have strived to set the standard throughout the frame and truss industry and worked hard to install more than 60 machines throughout Australia and New Zealand and established a designated service centre and spare parts stores to maintain and support our growing client base. With a range of machinery to suit every area of timber processing for the building industry we boast machines for fast and basic component cutting such as our SpeedCut series and soon to be released TURBO-Drive right through to massive automatic tool changing robots such as our PBA-Drive for CLT processing and the ROBOT-Drive for flexible carpentry applications. As far as the Frame and Truss industry is concerned the SpeedCut machine has very much become the benchmark saw capable of not only cutting, mitering and labeling a stack of four truss components in a single pass it can also trench, mark and cut top and bottom plates and even dock the ribbon plate at the same time, thus making it a true one stop shop. We have acquired a fantastic customer base with many becoming repeat customers as they either upgrade or

expand to have multiple saws. We have also begun to expand into other markets with the sale of two K2 machines in the area and are certainly looking for more opportunities to evolve this wonderful timber industry and its possibilities that until now have been very much limited to Europe and North America.

Australasia 58A Whiteside Road, Clayton, VIC, 3169, Australia PO Box 1181, Clayton South BC, 3169 Email: enquiries@hundegger.com.au Website: www.hundegger.com.au Phone: (+61) 3 9540 0130 Fax: (+61) 3 9543 3766 ABN: 140 834 29 850