PmY rru AusnN, TexAS - ApnlL 3-5, 2003

The best exhibits & buying show for building material dealers in Texas & Louisiana.

ONE exhibits & BUYING SHOW only - Saturday April 5, includes lunch.

Golf on Thursday - April 3

All meetings Friday - April 4

Prize Drawings, show specials in every booth! FREE

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The Lumber Yard will open store #22 in Harrisonburg, Va., in mid-February...

Delaware Cedar & Millwork, Lewes, De., changed its name to American Cedar & Millwork Inc.: stores in Millersville, Md., and Madison. Va.. will follow suit ...

Habitat for Hurnanity opened a Habitat ReStore in Maryville, Tn., to resell recycled building materials (Bob Mardis, mgr.)

Home Depot this month opens new stores in Pelham, Al.; N. Lafayette, La.; Ashburn and E. Manassas, Va.; Clermont and a second in Flagler (Miami), Fl., and Galveston, Flower Mound, Marble Falls, Kerrville, Silverlake (Pearland), and Terrell, Tx.

Home Depot has merged its Southwest and Midwest divisions into a new Chicago-based Central division, headed by division president Bill Patterson; the operating unit will also maintain an office in Dallas. Tx. ...

Lowe's Cos. opens a replacement store this month in Clarksburg, W.V. (Greg Rayfield, mgr.), and recently unveiled new locations in Bessemer, Al. (Mike Griffin, mgr.); SW Pensacola, Fl. (James Rodgers, mgr.); Laurel, Md. (Rick Sharp, mgr.); N. Tulsa, Ok. (Rob Kerkes, mgr.), and Baybrook (Webster), Tx. (Mitch Douglas, mgr.)

Lowe's is choosing between a site in Dunn, N.C., and one in nearby Erwin, N.C.

Cox Lumber Co., Oldmar, Fl., recently hosted the National Association of the Remodeling Industry's Tampa Bay-area chapter "gatage sale," which features overstocks and misorders from area contractors and remodelers ...

Gancedo Lumber Co., Miami, Fl., was recently named one of the top 100 Hispanic businesses in Florida by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce ...

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Albert Forest Products has relocated to Cedar Mountain. N.C.. from Ingomar, Pa.

Kimball International Inc. is closing wood products plants in Greensburg, Ky., and Lafayette, Tn.; lumber yards in those cities are expected to remain open

TrimJoist Corp., Columbus, Ms., has opened a new distribution center in Mobile, Al., to serve customers on the Gulf Coast

Tradewinds of Virginia, Ltd., Bumpass, Va., auctioned its assets Dec. t2, including 78-plus acres and near-new equipment including fiber optimization facility; hardwood and softwood sawmills; stacking, sorting and grading operation; wood planing mill; slasher saw system; scragg mill; pole peeling and shaving operations, and cogeneration plant

Red Boiling Springs Lumber, Red Boiling Springs, Tn., has permanently closed and gone out of business

New South Lumber Co., Myrtle Beach, S.C., has become a participant in the American Forest & Paper Association's Sustainable Forestry Initiative ...

Nevamar Co., Hanover, Md., is permanently closing its Stuart, Va., particleboard plant; production continues in Franklin and Waverlv. Va....

Godfrey Lumber Co., Statesville, N.C., learned the state Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of its lawsuit claiming the company lost customer contracts worth millions after the Division of Water Quality caved to environmental groups and revoked its stormwater permit for a planned chip mill

Rattonier /nc.. Jacksonville. Fl.. agre6d to sell 8,465 acres of Florida timberland to the St. Johns River Water Management District and the State of Florida for $39.9 million...

Ocala Lumber Sales Co., Ocala, Fl., sold 750 acres of land in Marion County, Fl., to the University of Florida Plant Science Research and Education Unit for $2 million

Loui s iana- Pac ific Co rp. has completed the sale of 33,000 acres of timberland near Oakdale, La., to Barrs & Glawson Investments, LLC for roughly $30 million

MeadWestvaco Corp. has sold 95,500 acres of W.V. timberland to The Forestland Group LLC for $50 million...

Glatfelter Pulp Wood Co. agreed to sell 25,000 acres of Md. forestland to The Conservation Fundfor $38 million ...

Richwood Building Products, Richwood, Ky., has been acquired by Alcoa Home Exteriors ...

Velux America Inc., Greenwood, S.C., acquired tube skylight manufacturer SunTunnel Systems ...

Black & Decker is closing its tool manufacturing plant in Easton, Md. ...

Roy O. Martin Lumber Co.'s, Alexandria, La., had its FSc-certified Tuff-Strand OSB named by BuildingGreen as one of the top l0 new green building products

Housing starts in Nov. (latest figures) increased 2.4Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.697 million, with single family starts up 0.9Vo to 1.390 million and multi-family at a rate of 278,000 for 5+ units ... permits dropped 2.7Vo to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.725 million

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