WOOD FOR TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT

Available From These Quality Manufacturers

e Brackett Brothers Lumber' Central Nebraska Wood Preservers

'Coast Wood Preserving, lnc. ' Coastal Lumber Company Coos Head Fore Deforest Wood Preserving Company, lnc. Eastex Forest Products Ed Everwood Treatment Company, Inc. Fontana Wood Preserving Free State Lumber Co., Hallman Wood Products ' Hatfield Lumber Company Hoover Treated Wood Products ' Hun lowa Wood Preservers J. H. Baxter & Company Langdale Forest Products Co. Les Bois

Woodtreating, lnc. ' Metropolitan Flameproof and Building Supply Midwest Wood Trea Inc. ' Northwest Wood Preservers ' Pacific Wood Preserving ' Posey Lumber & Mfg. ' Qua ., Inc. ' Schroth Industries ' Shenandoah Wood Preservers ' South-East Lumber Co ' South

Quality Forest ood Treating, lnc. . Spa Inc. ' Straits Wood Treating ' Sunbelt Forest Products Corp. Sunpine Forest Products Superior Wood Treating Texas Brothers Lurnber Co. Tri-County Wood Preserving Valley Lumber Company, lnc. Aljoma Lumber, Inc. . An B. & S. of New England, lnc.'Appalachian Forest Products LLC. 'Arizona-Pacific Wood Preserving Corp. ' lnc ' Bestway of New England, Inc. ' Bestway $outh, Inc. ' Blue Ridge Wood Preserving, Inc. Brackett Brothers L ervers' Champion Lumber Company' Chicago Flameproof Cleveland Wood Preservers .Aljoma Lumber, In orp'Coos Head Forest Products, lnc.'CulpeperWood Preservers, Inc. .Davis Brothers LumberCo., Inc. any ' Ed Arey & Sons ' Elder Wood Preserving Co., Inc. Envirofor Preservers Ltd. ' Evenlrood Treatment

Anthony Wood st Products, Inc.

McArthur Lumber & Post ' Georgia-Paciflc Corporation Hager Wood Preserving Co. . Blue Ridge Wood y ' Innovative Pine Technology, Inc. Huntsville Wood Products . Midwest Wood Treating, Inc Les ' outheast Wood Treating, Inc. ' North Texas Flameproof ' Northern Crossarm Co., Inc. .Quali Pres., Inc. ' Bestway Enterprises, Inc. .Spartanburg Forest Products, Inc. . Quality Fore

Angelina Wood Products .Texas Forest Products, Inc. Quality Forest Produc ber, ' F Quality Forest Products, Inc 'Anthony Wood Treating, lnc North Texas Flameproof . Les Bois Trait6s M.G. lnc.

Richardson Bros. Wood Pres., lnc.r d P rving, Inc. .C mbe rest Woo rwoo Co.' lnc.

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Adams Building Materials is building a$2.7 million, 114,000sq. ft. facility on 15 acres in Haines City, Fl., allowing consolidation of its Dundee. Fl.. lumberyard and the door plant from its Winter Haven, Fl., site

Taylor Lumber & Supply, Newfane. N.Y.. has closed after 30 years...

S c hlac hte r Lumber, Gettysburg, S.D., next month will open a showroom with lumber shed in Pierre, S.D.; eventually, a 172' by175' showroom and display area for doors and windows will be added...

Scott Lumber closed its Lancaster, Pa., yard late last month after 32 years due to economic factors; Scott continues operating two yards in Ohio and one in West Virginia ...

True Value Hardware. Riceville. Ia., has been opened by Curwin and Nancy Zimmerman in the former Lenth Feedbuilding

Shaw and Son Ace Hardware, Skittery, Me., closed Feb. 2

Ashburnham True Value, Ashburnham. Ma.. lost its 149year-old building and $600,000 in inventory in a Jan. 27 fire caused by ashes from a pellet stove; owners Richard and Cindy Wright plan to rebuild ...

Fredericksburg Hardware, Fredericksburg, Va., is closing next month after 90 years in business; owners Hunter and Julie Janney will continue operating the Home Design Center next door ...

Menards reopened a newly remodeled 250,000-sq. ft. location Feb. 12 in West Duluth. Mn.-its largest unit to date (Tom Hanson, store mgr.), and acquired a 150-ft. strip of land adjacent to its Plover,

Wi., store, allowing the chain to start this summer on a million-dollar expansion that includes adding a 67,000-sq. ft. warehouse to the lumberyard and a 25,000-sq. ft. garden center

84 Lumber Co. is building a new store on 10 acres in Highspire, Pa., for a June grand opening

Llwe's Cos. recently opened new home centers in Slidell. La.: Lake Park, Fl.; S. Fayetteville, Ar.; Douglas and Vidalia, Ga.; Glen Carbon and Lake in the Hills. Il.: Scio Township (Ann Arbor), Mi.; Halfmoon, N.Y.; Forest City, N.C.; N. Toledo, Oh.; Carlisle, Latrobe and Quakertown, Pa.; Paris, Tn., and Gun Barrel City, Mount Pleasant and Sulphur Springs, Tx.

Lowe's plans to break ground next month in Coon Rapids, Mn., its first Minnesota location; is expanding its Hagerstown, Md., flatbed DC; has acquired 12 acres in Derby (Wichita), Ks., and is considering a site in Plover, Wi.

Home Depot opened a new home center Feb. 4 in Zephyrhills, Fl. (Carlos Fines, store mgr.), and will add a distribution center near Hagerstown, Md., for bath and decorative hardware

Home Depot signed an agreement to become the exclusive building materials supplier for home renovator/reseller HomeVestors of America, Dallas, Tx., and received the National Product Campaign Award from the Env ironmental Protection Agency for its support of national energy saving campaigns in 2003

Home Depot is being sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which claims Depot's Waukesha, Wi., store fired an employee who complained about racial and sexual discrimination; the suit asks that the employee be reinstated and receive monetary compensation

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Austin Wholesale Decking Supply, Austin, Tx., has created a new public auction site, www. lumberauction.com, offering free listings to lumber and building product dealers, wholesalers and manufacturers

Wheeler Lumber, Whitewood, S.D., secured a $500,000 loan to upgrade its wood treating plant, which had been destroved bv fire last March

Conner Industries. Inc.. Fort Worth, Tx., has opened a new remanufacturing facility in Hogansville, Ga. ...

Falkville Wood Treating Inc. hopes to begin creosote treating operations in mid-March at the 20.4-acre former site of WalkerWilliams Lumber Co.. Falkville. A1.; Mitchell and Jay McCord, owners

Monadnock Forest Products shuttered its Jaffrey, N.H., and Claremont, N.H., milling operationsFeb. 11

Botkin Lumber, Farmington, Mo., is nearing completion of a new pallet and packaging plant in Dublin, Mo.

Mountain Home Lumber LLC, Mountain Home, Ar., agreed to pay $520,000 for two parcels of land from bankrupt Champion Boats

Judd Lumber, Dowagiac, Mi., is adding a 32-ft. by 50-ft. storage and maintenance building

Clear Lake Lumber is investing $3.5 million to build a 40,000-sq. ft. hardwood flooring manufacturing plant in Spartansburg, Pa.

Power Wood Corp., Vancouver, 8.C., has opened an on-site, full service western red cedar DC in Surrey, B.C., providing distribu- tion ol high-encl ccclur' ploclucts. I i I lr t r t' nri.r n U I i.re I tt |r rr r:. so r'[ i rt t. gracling uncl truck/containcr- loacling Por,ve r also has arltlccl "nrilk rLnrs" to the Midrie st. Northclrst. Teras unrl soon the Southclst

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