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Georgia-Pacific is laying off 118 employees at its LVL plant in Roxboro, N.C.

Just a "select fevt''workers will stay on to run the facility's l-line.

Marley & Wertz, Evansville, In., suffered damage to its hardwood operations in a Sept. 11 fire.

Weyerhaeuser cut back from three shifts to one at its OSB mill in Arcadia. La.

Boral Gomposites, Roswell, Ga., broke ground on Sept. 9 on a new exterior building producls plant next to its brick manufacturing facility in East Spencer, N.C.

Tamko Building Products, Joplin, Mo., permanently closed its roofing felt plant in Butler, Al.

Parksite, Batavia, ll., is now distributing National Gypsum's cold Bond SoundBreak XP gypsum board at its eight DCs throughout the East.

Parksite was also named Dishibutor of the Decade by Tiger Claw Inc., Bristol. Ct.

Lam-Wood Systems, Denver, Co., and Omaha, Ne., is now exclusive distributor for RedBuilt's Red-l and Redlam lines in Nebraska, Kansas, western lowa, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, To ease the transition, RedBuilt technical sales rep Bret

Maynard is joining the Lam-Wood sales team.

RedBuilt is seeking reps for other regions, from the Midwest and

Northeast. down to Texas and the

Southeast.

I NILCO, N. Jackson, oh., is now distributing Trex products in Indiana,

Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.

Weekes Forest Products. st.

Paul, Mn., is now distributing for Trex in frex. Winchester. Va.. has entered into a licensing agreement with Poly-

Michigan, Indiana and Florida.

Wood lnc., Syracuse, ln., to develop and market the Trex Outdoor Furniture collection.

Flooded McGoy's Resurfaces

McCoy's Building Supply, Belton, Tx., was flooded by 10 inches of water dropped by Tropical Storm Hermine on Sept. 8.

"We had four to five feet of water in our yard, and all the mud and the filth from the drainage creeks came inside the store," said regional manager Ron Van Winkle. Employees cleaned and restocked the store by the following Monday.

Nearly 657o of the yard's building materials were lost to the rising water.

During cleanup, phone calls, deliveries, and pending orders were handled by McCoy's nearby location in Georgetown.

"We're all one big family here at McCoy's," said store manager Carlos Garcia. "We're more than prepared to help folks in the Belton area start rebuilding."

Founded in 1921, McCoy's employs nearly 2,000 people and operates 83 stores in Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

SAMUEL AUTOMATIC BAR CODING OF GREEN, KD OR TREATED PRODUCTS WITH STAPTES OR ADHESIVE

Samuel pioneered automatic application of bar codes to individual boards in 1990.

Further developments:

. Installations of countless systems across North America o Hot melt, non-contact application for KD and some Breen products

Staple-on application for treated and very green products Systems to apply bar codes to each board in a completed package.

Samuel Bar Coding System Providts Substantial Savings

Manual label application is a very expensive process. Stapling a label to every board in a load of 200 to 300 boards is a big job. In addition, the label must be of substantial strength to be held in place with a staple. Samuel Automatic Bar Coding Systems eliminate labor costs and, in many cases, label costs.

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Owens Corning, Toledo, oh., will divest its fiberglass reinforcements ptant in Capivari, Brazil.