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Matheus Lumber, Woodinville, Wa., has added an office in Chandler, Az., staffed by Bob Shook and Steve Maude, ex-ldaho Pacific.

ldaho Forest Group expects to increase production by 100/o this year and add as many as 25 workers at its mill in Moyie Springs, ld.

Stimson Lumber, Portland, or., has agreed to pay for a $6 million remediation project to clean up a cooling pond at its shuttered mill site in Bonner. Mt.

Johns Manville, Denver, Co,, agreed to market SolarFrameWorks' Building Integrated Photovoltaic CoolPly solar roofing components through its JM E(3) Co. subsidiary.

Timber Holdinqs International is now distributirig the complete line of Cambia thermally modified wood products from Northland Forest Products.

Kolbe

& Kolbe Millwork

merged its Inspiration, Foundation, and Resolution vinyl windows and doors into its new Latitude Series.

AZEK Building Products added two new colors to its Deck Terra composite deck collection: Sedona and Tahoe.

CertainTeed's Bufftech Chesterfield vinyl fencing is now available in three new blended colors: Arctic. Weathered, and Arbor.

Georgia-Pacific has doubled the weather exposure limited warranty for DensArmor Plus fiberglass mat gypsum panels from six to 12 months.

Ultra Aluminum Manufacturing updated its website (www. ultrafence.com) to include all its fencing, gates, and porch and decking rails.

Sears' Craftsman brand tools will be offered for sale at Ace Hardware stores beginning later this year.

Anniversaries: Simpson Timber Co., Shelton, Wa., 120th Patrick Lumber Co., Portland, Or., 95th

Buyer Dissolving Gang Nail

Pacific Coast Supply has acquired the inventory, equipment and other assets of 50-year-old Gang Nail Truss, Visalia,Ca., and will merge the operation into its own nearby truss company.

PCS v.p. Joe Gower said the Gang Nail name will no longer be used and its plant will be sold. The assets were acquired from Weyrick Lumber, Templeton, Ca., which bought Gang Nail in August 2008.

A number of Gang Nail employees will also move to Anderson Truss, Visalia, which PCS opened in200'1.

Pacific Coast Supply is a division of Pacific Coast Building Products, which operates 28 Pacific Supply DCs and seven truss plants in Northern and Central California.

Parker Lumber Shuts Down

Parker Lumber, Bremerton, Wa., is closing after 87 years.

"We certainly regret the need for this decision after so many years of success in Kitsap County, but as anyone involved in construction knows, this recession is like nothing we have ever been through before and we don't see a light at the end of the tun- nel any time soon," said owner Rick Barnes. He bought Parker in the early 1990s, after working in management at Seattle's Dunn Lumber.

Founded in 1922 by Willard Parker, the business was originally located next to the Bremerton ferry terminal. Tim Lundberg, general manager and a 25-year employee, said 16 people will lose their jobs. A possible sale or lease of the firm's location is being explored.

Peninsula Door & Millwork, which is also owned by Barnes and is colocated at the site, will remain open for business.

Trinity Sawmill Goming Back

Trinity Lumber hopes to reopen its mill in Weaverville, Ca., by summer.

The mill was destroyed by fire Sept. 12. On Oct. 5, operations were moved to the former Siller Brothers mill in Anderson, Ca., so the Weaverville mill could be rebuilt.

The Weaverville mill opened in the 1950s and employed more than 130 at the time of the fire. Some of these workers are rebuilding the mill, while a crew of 30 makes the 65-minute commute to the older and smaller mill in Anderson.