News Briefs

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Robert Bosch Tool Corp., Chicago, Il., agreed to buy the Roto Zip brand name ...

Martin Metal, LLC, Versailles, Mo., is adding 31,000 sq. ft. to house rollforming and fabrication equipment; the siding and roofing manufacturer was acouired in June by Reuben Graber and a partner

Northern Pro Hardware. Suttons Bay, Mi., and Means Pro Lumber, Beckley, W.V., won Retailer of the Year awards from Pro Group ...

Milgard Windows, Taylor, Mi., opened a customer service & sales center in Grand Rapids, Mi. ...

Medallion Cabinetry, Inc., has broken ground on a new threestory, 23,000-sq. ft. corporate Hq. in Waconia, Mn.

Metal Industries Home Products has begun construction of a new 150,000 sq. ft. facility in Van Alstvne. Tx.

Rayonier, Jacksonville, Fl., is restructuring to qualify as a real estate investment trust effective Jan. 1

Weyerhaeuser's Real Estate Development Co. plans to sell about 30,000 acres in Morgan, Putnam and Oconee counties. Ga.: 174,000 acres in Tn., and 170,000 in N.C. and S.C.

Columbia Forest Products has become the first hardwood plywood manufacturer to agree to utilize Dow BioProducts' wheat straw-based WoodStalk Fiberboard MR as core material

Columbia hardwood flooring is now distributed by Bishop Distributing Co. in In., Mi. and northern Oh.; Bixco Inc., La. and coastal Ms.; CDC Distributors, Oh., W.Va. and Ky., and Royal Scof. Mo.. N.D. and S.D.

Mid-State Lumber Corp.'s DCs in Warwick, N.Y., and Kingston, Pa., are now distributing Alamco Corp.'s Koma Trimboard line of products...

Ame ri c an B iltrit e. Welleslev Mills, Ma., plans to sell or otheiwise dispose of its Janus hardwood flooring business

Ace Hardware Corp. is partnering with The Sherwin-Williams Co. to enable Ace retailers to sell Pratt & Lambert brand paints

Benjamin Moore 's Eco Spec line of paint products has been certified by the Greenguard Environmental Institute

Anniversaries: Grffith Lumber Co., Woolwine, Va., 70th ... M. Fine Lumber Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., 70th Leonard Lumber Co., Liberty, N.Y., 60th ... Perkins Lumber, Steelville, Ms., 55th Reid & Wright, 55th Haywood Builde rs S upply, Waynesville, N.C., 55th ... Babb Lumber Co., Ringgold, Ga., 50th ... Stevenson Lumber Ca., Monroe, Ct., 50th Espy Lumber Co., Hilton Head Island. S.C.. 45th ... Architectural Carpentry Products, Dallas, Tx., 40th Stark Truss Co., Canton, Oh., 40th ... Hogan Hardwoods & Moulding,lnc., Ruston, La., l0th.

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