Milling o.. Priming oo. Inventory

Nu Forest Products is a full-line distribution yard that, unlike many, has a wide range of milling equipment that enables us to handle all your specialized needs. NFP ean mill lengths from 8" to 38'-your stock or ours.

Flus, let Nu Forst Products prime your stock throug[ our Paint-o-Matic and drying oven. Protected with up to two coats of top-quality primer to minimized moisture problems. NFP Primed Products perform better.

Our inventory includes Redwood (KD & Green), Douglas fir (KD Clears & Dimension, Ttmbers), Pine KD (Commons & Clears), Westem Red Cedar (select I{notty, Clears, Timbers), Hem-Fir (Fascia), Fingerjoint (DF, Redwood, WRC), Pressure Treated DF, and RMT Engineered Timbers.

Ghase Buying Platte Valley

Chase Lumber Co.. Aurora. Co., agreed to acquire Fort Collins, Co.based Platte Valley Lumber, manufacturer of high-end architectural solid wood doors, trim and moulding.

"We are very excited about the future of our business and its alliance with Chase and [parent] LBM Holdings," said Platte Valley's Shari Murdock. "We will now have the capital and human resources we need to bring our business and customer service to the next level, while continuing to produce the great products we developed and have delivered over the last 25 years."

Platte Valley will continue to operate out of its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, and retain its name and brand. No personnel changes are expected. Additional hiring is expected later in the year due to planned sales growth.

GSL Markets Euro Glulams

Cascade Structural Laminators, Chehalis, Wa., has an exclusive agreement to market Norway spruce glulams manufactured by Kaufmann Leimholz GmbH, Frankenmarkt, Austria, in the U.S.

The product line, which will be marketed as CSL Import, complements Cascade's wide variety of custom and stock glulams that are distributed across all of North America.

Owned by Stallinger Lumber Industries, Kaufmann is the first glulam producer in Central Europe licensed to export glulam to the U.S. Last fall, after l8 months of technical tests on the spruce glulams, StallingerKaufmann received product certification and code approval for the U.S. market from the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau.

Mary's River Back Looking

Mary's River Lumber Co., Corvallis. Or.. will look for a new site instead of appealing the local planning commission's refusal to rezone 7.4 acres near Brady, Wa., that would have permitted construction of a support complex for its western red cedar sawmill in Montesano,Wa. (see Feb., p.42).

Mary's River is searching for land that is "suited to our needs," said president Brad Kirkbride. "It would be great if it could be [in Grays Harbor Countyl, but we are not going to say that is the only place we will look. We will go [wherever] makes the most sense for the company."

The firm hopes to build a finishing plant to plane red cedar into decking, moulding and other products, along with a dry kiln, storage facilities, and a rail spur. Kirkbride needs a minimum of 7 high, dry acres. The Montesano facility is too cramped to allow further expansion and subject to seasonal flooding.

Residents near the first site were concerned about increased traffic, dust, noise and fears that the mill aquifer might damage local wells.

California Dealer Sentenced

The owner and c.e.o. of Golden State Lumber, Petaluma, Ca., will serve 15 months in federal prison and pay $330,000 in restitution and $40,000 in fines after pleading guilty to tax evasion.

Lee Nobmann, 55, admitted he failed to report $910,000 in income from 1996 to 2000. He is to start serving his sentence July 10.

Nobmann's children will run the business while he is incarcerated. After he is released, Nobmann hopes to continue serving on the board of directors, but does not intend to resume work in daily operations.