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This hybrid beam gets its extraordinary strength from top and bottom layers made from LVL. Made in standard I-joist depths and sized to match common framing widths. BigBeam continues to be the choice for today's builder.

The Glulam Experts

Rosboro's family of glulam products offers a complete line of beams for almost any project. Whether you need an exposed beam, an l-joist compatible beam, or a deck beam. we have a glulam to meet your needs. Increasingly high design values, ease of use and convenient installation are just a few reasons why our glulams are commonly used in structural applications, such as EWP floor systems, framing. ridges and rafters, and garage door headers.

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By expanding our facilities and using the latest manufacturing technology. we are more equipped than ever to meet our customers' glulam needs. Once a product is ordered. we offer same-day or next-day delivery. depending on when the order is received.

A Commitment to Technologv

Our commitment to keepin-s on top of emerging technologies and innovations allows us to continually improve upon our family of glulam products. Every product that leaves our yard is backed by our technical support staff.

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Life was not always a bowl of cherries

Last weekend my wife and I were out driving back from an industry event, when I was whining (as I tend to do) that it looked like home building might be slowing more abruptly than we had hoped.

My wife said, "Alan, it's been a good run, and it could not go on for ever." Why not? I protested, it means the dynamics of the industry may change. Yes, she said, but as of this minute, has it? I said no, but, but. but... Then as always. sizing me up as she can do quite easily, she said, "Alan. live for the moment. You have never been capable of that." And, I guess she is right, although I have gotten a lot better at it.

Since a very early age my life revolved around my crueer. In truth, in the early years, I could not find a job or company that made me happy, and moved around quite a bit. I found myself fighting for the good jobs with many other candidates who I knew were far better educated than me. and I think it was then that I started to put great personal pressure on myself to achieve more and more.

When I went into sales, I quickly learned that the more sales I achieved. the more money I would earn and the more promotion opportunities would come my way. Within a couple of years and with additional mouths now to feed, it was in my own hands. I was

"Amazing Grace" ln Great Need

Mike Webster, Siskiyou Forest Products, Anderson, Ca., is seeking industry support for his ailing young granddaughter, who has been stricken with a brain tumor.

Grace Katherine Webster. who turns 3 next month, was diagnosed last year with hypothalamic hamartoma (HH). Symptoms include seizures, cognitive decline. behavioral and emotional problems, brain damage, and hormonal disturbances. She was prescribed a regimen of injections and other medications. but her condition has not improved and new symptoms have developed. always thinking, how I could do it better. and, and, and ...1 fought to win every sale and every sales contest, even sometimes for trifle rewards.

This winter. Grace is scheduled to undergo one of two brain surgeries at Barrows Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Az.. to remove the tumor. "Other HH kids have undergone the procedure and thrived," notes her father, Perry Webster. "Now is Grace Katherine's turn. With the new technology at BNI. her chances are better than ever of resuming a normal and happy life once again."

Those who would like to help the family with medical-related expenses not covered by insurance, please send contributions to Amazing Grace Webster Fund, P.O. Box f 590. Anderson. Ca. 9ffi07.

More information is available at www.webstersdesign.com.

Over the next 30 years that panern did not change. I zigzagged around the world-six countries in six days, 20 hours a day meant nothing. My trouble was that I never found the time to smell the coffee. When there was a success. I never gave myself permission and time to enjoy it. As one thing finished I was already onto the next project.

Five years ago, by chance, luck and perhaps fate, I had the opportunity to join some lumber and building products magazines. With my sales, publishing and educational/training background. it seemed a good fit.

From my first week. I met good, honest, helpful, down-to-earth people who seemed to care more about my success than theirs. They would call me to find out how I and my family were doing, or would give me advice. In return. I learned about their issues and their concerns both in and out of the office. At events. I would find myself talking to two or three people who were in competition with each other, but who were great friends (verboten in my other industries), and started to enjoy what I was doing again for the first time in many years.

Today. I have more fun in this industry than in any I have ever worked in, and I enjoy more than anything the people and the many friendships made throughout the country and internationally.

Now celebrating over 40 years of working. I realize that while business life was not always sweet. it prepared me to face the challenges we all face on a daily basis. While I have had both good and bad times. I only wish that. in particular in the middle part of my career. I could have enjoyed more what I was doing.

Today. I give great thanks for the -eood things you have given me and my family in the last few years. Perhaps the moral is to give thanks for what we have. to savor each and every success. and. as my wife said. to enjoy each moment for it can be quickly taken away. karn that today is a good day. I would like to wish all our readers and families a truly Happy Thanksgivin_e.

P.S. For a x'onderfitl opportunin' rc send your holiday greetings to friends in the industry x'hile supporti,tg our troops, turn to page 9l copper prices are I-rforcing up the price of pressure treated wood, since the primary preservatives used in decking, fencing and other residential applications are copper-based.

With global markets-particularly China-consuming more and more building materials and resources, the price of copper skyrocketed 1507o over l8 months to reach an all-time high in May 2006. Prices have softened slightly in the months since, but were still up more than 507o since January.

For much of 2006, the three major suppliers of ACQ and copper azole have absorbed the increased cost of copper, but this fall they have begun passing it on to treaters. CSI, for example, will implement an ACQ price increase in the range of 2OVo to 25Vo effective December 1,2006.

"Price increases in CCA, CA-B, ACQ and ACZA are prevalent," said Darrell Smith, Conrad Forest Products, North Bend, Or. "The increases are not enough to change the decking market, as in reality the cost of the preservative is limited to the price of the wood and the overhead contained in the total costs. It does affect the price. but in percentage points, whereas EPA and local measures are far ahead of copper."

The price of treated wood is also affected by other factors, including transportation (influenced by high fuel costs), competition (construction activity), labor, and the price of lumber. Depressed lumber prices, mired in a five-year low, have helped to mask the other rising costs associated with producing treated wood, at least at retail.

"In general, preservative-treated wood remains the most economical choice for decking and other outdoor applications," said Huck DeVenzio, Arch Wood Protection.

Yet even if lumber prices rebound and copper prices continue to climb, DeVenzio does not expect an exodus away from treated wood. "Anything that pushes the price of treated wood closer to the price of artificial wood could turn more wavering homeowners toward composite or plastic decking," he said. "But, those products face their own financial issues. Some of the artificial wood products are more dependent on fuel for production and transportation than is treated wood. I do not see a lessening of the price gap. Preserved wood is consider-