ANNIVERSARY Flashback
BPD’s First Advertisers
B uilding Products Digest today celebrates its 40th
anniversary—as well as the 100th anniversary of sister publication The Merchant Magazine—with gratitude to our faithful readers and invaluable advertisers. Here, we look back on—and pay special tribute to—those who stood side by side with us in our earliest years and are still going strong four decades later. We thank and appreciate each of you. • Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., started in 1927 wholesaling lumber from its five southern s a w m i l l s . Wi t h i n a decade, it expanded to plywood and was among the advertisers that supported BPD in March of 1982. Today, G-P is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products, and related chemcials, with over 30,000 employees at 300+ locations in North and South America. • Norfield has been serving the machinery needs of North American pre-hung door manufacturers since 1959 and BPD readers since March 1982. Last year, the company was acquired by GED Integrated Solutions. • M i d - S t a t e s Wo o d Preservers, Simsboro, La., was formed by brothers Bert and Bill Jones in 1979 to provide pressure treated wood throughout the mid-South region. In March 1982, MidStates became the first treater to place an ad in BPD.
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• Windsor Mill was launched by Ray Flynn in 1971 to mill western species into millwork, such as the paneling shown in the March 1982 BPD. In 1996, it introduced its now-namesake WindsorONE primed radiata pine. • C&D Lumber Co., Riddle, Or., was born in 1943, deriving its name from its location near southern Oregon’s Coos and Douglas Countylines. First teaming with BPD in March 1982, C&D is now guided by the sixth generation of the Johnson family. • North American Wholesale Lumber Association has closely aligned with BPD since day one, placing a congratulations greeting in issue one in March 1 9 8 2 . We a r e currently the official publication of NAWLA.
• Hampton Lumber patriarch Bud Hampton purchased his first sawmill in Willamina, Or., in 1942, initially to supply his own Tacoma lumber business. His son John launched the wholesale division, Hampton Lumber Sales, in 1950. First advertising in BPD in March 1982, Portland, Or.-based Hampton is now under its fourth generation, with SFI-certified timberlands and nine sawmills in the Northwest. • Setzer Forest Products, another of our issue-one advertisers, began in 1927 as an agricultural box manufacturing plant. Four generations of Setzers and 95 years later, the demand for housing now surpasses the need for vegetable crates. Consequently, Setzer’s mills in Sacramento and Oroville, Ca., have become one of leading producers of MDF mouldings.
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