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Capital Opens Stockton DC

Opened Jan. 19. a nerv distribution facility in Stockton, Ca., allows Capital Lumber. Phoenix, Az.. ro supply its customers in northern and central California and rvestern Nevada.

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Located on six acres in the Port of Stockton. the new location stocks redrvood. Douglas fir. engineered rvood products. composite lumber. and other specialty items. Services include a daily delivery schedule. bar coding. special milling and packaging. and EDI capabilities.

Team members include sales manager Randy Roget. accounts managers Ellen Alfheim and Dave preston. yard foreman Quinn Murphy. and office manager Ann Williams.

Potlatch To Build Poplar Mill

Potlatch Forest Products Corp. is building an on-site sawmill to produce green hardrvood lumber from trees logged at its 17.000-acre poplar plantation near Boardman. Or.

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P.O. Box 75 . McMinnville, OR 97128

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The division of Potlatch Corp.. Spokane. Wa.. rvill invest $8.1 million to construct and equip the facility. which is anticipated to begin production in December. produce roughly 30 million bd. ft. annually, and employ 55.

"The nerv sarvmill rvill allorv us to produce Forest Stewardship Council lumber products in our orvn on-site FSC-certifi ed chain-of-custody sarvmill from our FSC-certified poplar plantation." said Potlatch chairman and c.e.o. L. Pendleton Siegel. "We rvill be better able to ensure consistent high quality and service for hardwood customers."

During the last five years. poplar logs harvested at the plantation have been sold either ro orher FSC-certified mills or processed in a small. temporary facility at the Boardman site. End products include fumiture. molding and milhvork.

"There are many nerv. emerging markets for poplar hardrvood lumber products." sieget added. "With our own processing facility. rve rvill be better able to develop them."

The Boardman facility rvas initially developed rvith sequential annual plantings of poplar trees. beginning in 1993. Computerized drip inigation conserves rvater and delivers nutrients to the poplar trees. which are managed on I l-year rotations and cultured to produce clear. high-quality hardrvood for lumber.

Potlatch is a real estate investment trust rvith 14 manufacturing planrs and 1.5 million acres of timberlands in Oregon, Idaho, Arkansas and Minnesota.