r DEALER Briefs

Gold Beach Lumber, Gotd Beach, Or., held a grand opening Sept. 6 at its new store in Port Orford, Or.at the former home of McNair True Value Hardware.

Parker Lumber East, gotnett, Wa., auctioned off its equipment. The vard closed Mav 27,16 months after it was purchased'uy Dunn Lumber.

Ace Home Center, Libby, td., is adding 9,000 sq. ft., after absorbing a neighboring storefront.

ABG Supply added a branch in Nampa, ld. (Robb Gardener, mgr.).

Ace Hardware, Gridley, ca., has installed a rooftop solar array that will meet 70% of its elechical needs.

Trifecta Home Center, Sidney, Mt., opened an in-store Sears Hometown Store.

Wilco relocated its 3,000-sq. ft. Bend, Or., location Sept. 9 to a new 35,000-sq. building that will include a True Value hardware & oaint center.

Simpson Lumber Up for Sale

Simpson Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wa., has enlisted a financial advisor to explore the possible sale of the firm.

Assets include mills in Tacoma, Longview and Shelton, Wa.; Meldrim, Ga.; and Georgetown, S.C.

Not up for sale are its Simpson Door Co. division in McCleary, Wa., or any timberlands, which eight years ago were spun off into Green Diamond Resources Co., Seattle, Wa.

Worker Killed By Machinery

A millworker at Freres Lumber, Mill City, Or., was crushed to death when a wood press started up while he was repairing the equipment.

Bryan Dodge, 33, died on the scene Sept. 17.

G-P Sorts Out Cleaning Bill

Twelve years after Georgia-Pacific boarded up its sawmill complex in Fort Bragg, Ca., four lawsuits have finally been resolved concerning who will foot the bill for cleaning up the site.

Cleanupand litigationhave been ongoing for two years.

The city of Fort Bragg agreed to drop its charges against G-P, if G-P dropped its counterclaim against the city. Weeks before, OfficeMax (successor to former mill owner Boise Cascade and Union Lumber Co.) had agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement of another suit brought by G-P.

And, a month before that, Louisiana-Pacific (which operated an on-site plywood mill for three years) agreed to pay G-P $1.5 million to help with the cleanup.

H.B. Fuller Buys ProSpec

H.B. Fuller Co., St. Paul, Mn., has acquired ProSpec Construction Products from Bonsal American, Charlotte, N.C.

The deal includes three plants that expand Fuller's production reach into Texas (Eagle Lake) and California (La Mirada). ProSpec, which makes tile/stone installation products, will be folded into Fuller's North America Construction Products segment.

According to Fuller c.e.o. Jim Owens, "We will be able to better serve our big box customers with locations in the West and Southwest, broaden our product line, reduce our manufacturing and freight costs, and increase our presence with customers and key distributors in the Southeast."

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