Mitling ..o Priming .,. 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 specialZed needs. NFP can mill lengths from 8" to 38'-your stock or ours.

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

Our inventory includes Redwood (KD & Green), Douglas fir {KD Clears & Dimension, Timbers), Pine KD (Commons & Clears), Western Red Cedar (Select lfuotty, Clears, Timbers), Hem-Fir {Fascia}, Finge{oint (DF, Redwood, WRC), Pressure Treated DF, and RMT Engineered Timbers.

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Hardware Hawaii opened its 4th retail store/lumberyard and first on Kauai, July 7 in the former HaIe Kaual in Koloa, Hi. (Tony Obloy, mgr.; Lynn Tamashiro and Macky DeSilva, pro sales)

Stock Building Supply is building a 22,O00-sq. ft. store on 8 acres in Yerington, Nv.-three times the size of a Home Lumber Co. yard it will replace by the end of the year ...

84 Lumber will build a new yard in Hesperia, Ca.

Hadlock Building Supply has begun construction of a new 10,400-sq. ft. equipment rental center across the street from its Port Hadlock, Wa., store, replacing a 900-sq. ft. facility; completion is expected by late September or October

Ace Hardware, Naches, Wa., will be opened in the spring by Brad Christianson, operator of two other Ace stores in the region

Tomasini Rex Ace Hardware and Country Store,Petaluma, Ca., will rebuild after a $1 million fire gutted the 155-year old building June 24; investigators say the fire was caused by a flood lamp or an electrical short in a conjunction box...

True Value Hardware, Yerington, Nv., has broken ground on a

20,000-sq, ft. store to replace its current 6,000-sq. ft. location in the spnng

Lowe's Cos. opened new stores Augusr 4 in Salt Lake City, Ut., and June 30 in Midway, Wa., and is readying for an August 21 unveiling in Lehi, Ut.

Lowe 's expects to open new 117,000-sq. ft. stores with 31,000sq. ft. garden centers late this year in Sierra Vista, Az., and Castle Rock, Co., and a 116,000-sq. ft. store with 31,100-sq. ft. garden center in Turlock, Ca., early next year" ...

Lowe's purchased 12 acres of a former gravel pit outside Monroe, Wa., for $9 million and applied for building permits and a site review to build a 138,684-sq. ft. store with 31,709-sq. ft, garden center in Bonney Lake, Wa. ...

Home Depot opened new stores Iuly 27 on the site of a former Kmart in Inglewood, Ca., and June 15 in Tramonto (Phoenix), Az. ...

Home Depot has begun construction of a 102,000-sq. ft. store in Omak, Wa., to open in February; paid nearly $75 million for a 20-acre site in Playa Vista, Ca., formerly used by the U.S. Postal Service; has broken ground in Roseburg, Or., for an early 2A07 opening, and wants to build a 106,432-sq. ft. store with 36,760sq. ft. garden center in Jackson, Ca.. but is facing strong opposition from residents

Home Depot applied to the planning commission to build a store in Moorpark, Ca.; had its application to build in El Cajon, Ca., rejected by the San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission; wants to renew its lease option on a 10.8-acre site in Auburn, Ca., on which it hopes to build a 130,000-sq. ft. home and garden center, and will start selling advertising on its Web site

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Centex Homes will build a 75,000-sq. ft. truss manufacturing plant with BNSF rail access in Hesperia, Ca.

Riley Creek is reducing production by 50Vo at its stud mill in Moyie Springs, Id., for at least 60 days, beginning July 24 Riley Creek's Denver, Co., distribution center sold more than 50 milllion bd. ft. to 170 customers during its first four months of operation

Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id., agreed to sell the Minnesota, Dakota & Western railway in International Falls, Mn., to Watco Cos....

Northwest Specialty Lumber, Valemount, 8.C., was acquired by Valemount Forest Products ...

Ready Mix, Inc. opened a new concrete batch plant in Las Vegas, Nv....

Ainsworth, Vancouver, 8.C., has expanded distribution of its Durastrand flooring to dealers nationwide

BlueLinx has introduced SteelLinx. a full line of metal building products...

HB&G acquired PVC products manufacturer Turnkey Millwork ...

BASF acquired resins manufacttrer Johnson Polyme to become part of its Performance Chemicals division ...

Anniversaries: Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., Truckee, Ca.o 75th Kilgore Blackman Building Materials, Salem, Or., 50th ... Waldun Forest Products. Sumas. Wa.,28th ...

Housing starts in June fell 5.87o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.85 million... single-fam-

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