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Mayo Building Sapply, Bentonville, Ar., has closed after 23 Years in business, following a 2-month liquidation sale

Cox Lumber, St. Petersburg, Fl., has opened a new store in CaPe Coral, Fl.; Mike Bowman, store mgr..'.

84 Lumber has returned to the Columbus, Ga., market after two decades with the opening a new 28,000-sq. ft. store; Donnie Lemmons, store mgr. ...

Lowe's Cos. oPened a new store late last month on S. Semoran Blvd. in SE Orlando, Fl' (David Willis, mgr.) ... Lowe's will build a 107,000-sq. ft. store on 19 acres in Dickson, Tn., and reportedlY is considering a site in Eastwood, Al.. as one of at least five stores planned for the Birmingham area over the next year

Home Depot this month opens a relocation in Sunset ValleY (S. Austin), Tx., and the first Home Depot Landscape SupplY stores in Duluth, Kennesaw and Woodstock, Ga. Depot applied with the city of Arlington, Tx., to build another 40,000-sq ft. PrototYPe landscape supply store called Greenback ...

Home Depot has begun construction on 33 acres in Denham Springs, La., that the retailer Paid $4.9 mittion for in July; the store is expected to open bY the first of the year ...

Do it Best Corp.hascomPletelY redesigned its e-commerce Web site (doitbest.com) to imProve member brand identitY

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Weyerhaeuser Co. has begun production at a new UltraPine Pariicleboard plant in Simsboro, La.. replacing the SurePine facility that closed in July; the Louisiana Particleboard plant is nearly identical to the one-year-old Carolina Particleboard plant ...

Diamond Hill Plywood has relocated its Raleigh, N.C., DC next door to a larger 96,000-sq. ft. facility on 12.8 acres

Kuykendall Trading Co. has moved its company headquarters from Tulsa to Cleveland, Ok. ...

Hixsan Lumber Sales, Pine Bluff, Ar., has acquired and is dismantling Rison Wood Products' Rison, Ar., treating plant ...

MJB Wood Group has moved its Asheville, N.C., operation into new offices ...

Cameron Ashley Building Products is relocating its Hot Springs, Ar., office to Little Rock, tu....

Wood Lumber Co., Camden Ar., has opened a SYP sales office in Duncan. S.C.: Scott Garber, exTimberland Resources, mgr. ...

Lee Roy Jordan Lumber Co., Dallas, Tx., recently increased the range and inventory of its large length redwood timbers ...

Rayonier, Jacksonville, Fl., has temoorarilv shut down its Lumber City, Ga., sawmill because of a shortage of logs; the decision will be re-evaluated in October ...

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Curt Bean Lumber Co., Amity, Ar.. recentlv installed a new curve sawing gang and a double link infeed chain

Potlatch Corp. received word in early August that workers at its two Warren, Ar., sawmills had gone on strike; the union has said fhe strike was not relatsd to Potlatch's decision to close the hardwood mill in late August ...

Panel Equipment Sales was scheduled to hold an equiuPment auction Sept. 1L-12 at the closed former International Paper MDF plant in Spring Hope, N.C. ...

Premiere Finishing and Coating LIC this month is relocating its hardwood flooring and Panel Pre- finishing operations from Greensboro, N.C., to a larger 57,700-sq. ft. facility in Reidsville, N.C. ...

MH2Technologies, Dallas, Tx., is oartnerinq to connect Masco Corp.'s operiting companies with the distribution chain and its builder customers ...

Eased logging regulations and fewer environmental reviews are being proposed by President George W. Bush to speed the removal of timber from fire-Prone U.S. forests...

Anniversaries: Horstmeier Lumber Co., Baltimore, Md., l25th ..- Mitsubishi CaterPillar Forklift America, Houston, Tx., 10th...

Housing starts in JulY (latest fieures) sliPPed 2.7Vo to a seasonafv adiust6d rate of 1.649 million ...'sinile familv starts slowed 2.2Vo tJ 1.321 miilion; multi-familv was at a rate of 301,000 for 5+ rinits building permits dropped 0.5Vo to a seasonallY adjusted annual rate of 1.698 million '.

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