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C&D LUMBER CO. – Where Port
Orford Cedar Is King
Riddle, Ore.—Alfred Johnson established
his sawmill in 1890 on the banks
of the Coquille River, where Port Orford
Cedar was the preferred building material
among the area’s native Americans
and early settlers.
Over a century
later, Alfred’s
grandson, Bud
Johnson, is current
president of
C&D Lumber
Co., located in
Riddle, near the
Coos and
Douglas County
line (hence the
name, C&D).
Like the
founder, Bud
has continued
to build a successful
business
on the reputation
of this
distinctive wood
species.
In the cold,
wet climate
of the Pacific
Northwest,
Port Orford
Cedar’s
durabability
and superior
strength has
made it the
species of
choice for
building
boats, railroad
ties and
long-lasting
fence posts
across the
y e a r s .
According to
W o o d
Handbook:
Wood As An
Engineered
Material, Port
Orford Cedar
outranks all
other Cedars,
Redwood and
Ponderosa
Pine on impact
bending, crushing
strength,
shearing
strength and
side hardness.
Add to these
the qualities of
smooth grain,
fine texture and
light color, Port
Orford Cedar is
a perfect
choice for both exterior and interior
uses. Today, C&D Lumber is one of the
largest manufacturers of Port Orford
Cedar (POC) products in the nation.
Among C&D Lumber’s abundant roster
of high-tech equipment is a 16-knife
planer that produces a smooth finish to
the company’s line of Port Orford Cedar
and Incense Cedar. They also manufacture
these fine species into siding, paneling
and timbers. Cedar oil is a natural
deterent to decay, resulting in an outdoor
surface free of chemical treatments.
C&D Lumber kiln dries decking to a 19
percent moisture content, which contributes
to a stable product and lighter
shipments with as much as 26,000
board feet per truck load. POC decking
also includes a complete line of accessories.
The company’s Appearance Plus
decking is paper-wrapped to further
ensure quality.
In 2004, C&D Lumber revised its
sawmill to produce blemish-free timbers
that are free of dirt, nicks and chain
marks. Premium Exposed rough timbers
are anti-stain and anti-mold treated,
then paper-wrapped to preserve
appearance. They also offer timbers in
architectural, structural or landscape
grades, including 100 percent organic
Pecky Landscape timbers for distinctive
outdoor landscaping features.
Standard operating procedures at C&D
Lumber are designed to meet or exceed
guidelines set by the Oregon Forest
Practices Act, which includes some of
the most comprehensive forest protection
regulations
in the
nation. C&D
Lumber
guarantees
its timber
suppliers
are landowners
licensed by
the Oregon
Dept. of
Forestry
(ODF) and
requires
proof of
each suppli-
C & D Lumber is proud of our Certified Graders, Rich George, Tracy
Moulden, Jason Hardesty and Kris McElmurry. Their commitment to
quality, and their high levels of grading accuracy (95 percent) earned
them the Hi-Q Grader Award from WWPA Grading Bureau.
Our Premium Exposed TM Rough Timbers are beautiful, clean and blemishfree.
They are anti-stain and anti-mold treated, then paper wrapped to preserve
their appearance.
ers Notification
of
Operation
Number,
issued by
ODF.
C & D
Lumber
also operates
with a
“no waste”
policy. The
company
utilizes
every part
of the log,
from bark
for landscaping
material to
wood chips
for paper
products
and sawdust
and
shavings
for pressed
board products.
C & D
Lumber’s
motto of
“ G r e a t
People, Great
Products,
G r e a t
Customers”
reflects its
commitment
to win-win
partnerships
with cust
o m e r s ,
employees
and suppliers.
The company
strives to create
an atmosphere in which employees
can share thoughts and ideas for a
safer, more efficient working environment.
C&D has an active Safety, Health &
Wellness Program, and is assertive in
maintaining a drug free workplace.
Employees are encouraged and rewarded
for not only being safe, but also for
taking care of themselves with proper
health care, exercise and good nutrition.
In 2005, the company’s Safety
Committee earned the Safety
Committee Recognitions Award from
OR-OSHA.
For more information about C&D
Lumber, visit its Web site at www.cdlumber.com
or write to them at 1182 Pruner
Road, P. O. Box 27, Riddle, OR, 97469.
The Web site includes handy links for
locating C&Ds line of products across
the nation. Finally, you may also contact
the main office at (541) 874-2281 or the
sales office at (541) 874-2241.
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Our Port Orford Appearance Plus decking is perfect for any deck
project. With its smooth finish, there’s no worry of splintering, so it’s
great for those bare-feet summer days and kids at play.
Please See Us At
Booth No. 121
High-End Products, Customer Service
Sustain TRINITY FOREST INDUSTRIES
H u r s t , T e x a s —Trinity Forest
Industries Inc., located between Dallas
and Fort Worth, has served the wholesale
lumber, and millwork needs of its
customers since 1982. Business has
been good—so good that a second location
in Albuquerque was added in 1997.
Trinity specializes in
Softwood species
such as Ponderosa
Pine, Sugar Pine,
Douglas Fir (both flat
sawn and vertical
grain), Eastern White
Pine, Yellow Pine and
Radiata Pine. The
company also uses a
wide variety of kilndried
hardwoods, such
as alder, poplar, red
oak, white oak, walnut,
soft and hard maple to
compliment its main
product. Thicknesses
start at 4/4 up to 8/4
through most of the
firm’s inventory, with
some 10/4 and 12/4 in
Sugar Pines and
poplar.
Trinity’s
Albuquerque
location
keeps in
s t o c k
Spanish
Cedar and
alder in addition
to their
main Sugar
Pine and
Ponderosa
Pine inventory.
To maximize
the
firm’s flexibility,
Trinity
Forest carries
as lean
an inventory
as possible while maintaining an average
inventory of 250,000 board feet.
“Our strengths are in the Pines and
Douglas
Fir, but
m e e t
whatever
o u r
clients’
needs
are,” said
Keith
Cortez,
operations,
sales
a n d
product
manager.
“We work
with a lot
of buyers
in charge
of stocking
the lumber yards, of course, but we
also work with window, door and furniture
manufacturers, cabinetry people,
millwork manufacturers, and even toy
and craft manufacturing individuals.”
Trinity Forest has even indirectly or
directly provided service for such wellknown
restaurant chains as Chili’s,
Macaroni Grill, Texas Roadhouse and
Ruby Tuesday, among others. Some of
these millwork packages are shipped all
over North America, Japan and Korea.
“We can take care of any pattern work
that’s needed,” said Cortez. “If we don’t
have the knives already, we can produce
them for the customer and can
develop profiles from a detail or sample.
We’ve got Weinig moulders; we’ve got
gang rips, straight-line rips, planer,
sander, resaw. We can do anything from
cut-to-length jobs to random length. As
long as it can fit through our machines
we’ll run it. We even run 24’ 7 piece
bending handrail, a 24 piece bendable
landing tread, and as well as other stair
parts.”
Trinity Forest is able to fulfill most exact
orders for high-end millwork within two
Greg Ryback is president and owner of Trinity
Forest Industries Inc. in Hurst, Texas.
weeks. With high-end moulders and
some of the highest-grade inventory
available, Trinity’s reputation for quality
stock and workmanship is very well recognized.
The company stays in constant touch
with the needs of their
customers and relays
those needs to the
mills Trinity Forest
buys from. At times
the mills will do a special
cut just for
Trinity’s requirements.
Cortez says,
“Some people don’t
even want to ask the
mills to do things like
we do and some mills
don’t even want to
look at it, but there
are some that will.”
The benefit—in the
long run—is that
clients who may not
have purchased a
particular special
order from Trinity
F o r e s t
Industries do
remember
Trinity’s
assistance
and often
come back
at a future
time, trusting
in the company’s
honesty
and
consideration
for their
budgets.
Trinity
delivers daily
in the Fort
Worth/Dallas
metroplex
and runs trucks to Austin, San Antonio,
Houston, East Texas, Louisiana and
Oklahoma. With a multi-drop truck itinerary,
Trinity includes protective packaging
Jerry Anderson, yard supervisor, examines some basswood stock.
for its
inventory
of highgrade
lumber
products.
In addition
to
Cortez,
key personnel
at
Trinity in
Hurst
include
G r e g
Ryback,
President
a n d
Owner;
J e r r y
“Dirty
Red” Anderson, yard supervisor; Scott
Morris, product management and sales;
Antonio Para, mill supervisor; Dion
Ingersoll, assistant mill supervisor; and
Scott Howe, assistant yard supervisor;
and Alfredo Cardona, inventory specialist.
In Albuquerque, Gary McIntyre
heads the crew. When you add up the
experience, Trinity’s core staff boasts
well over 100 years of know-how in the
lumber industry – yet another reason for
the company’s continued prosperity.
Trinity Forest Industries holds a variety
of memberships in several lumber associations,
including the North American
Wholesale Lumber Assoc. (NAWLA),
the Western Wood Products Assoc.
(WWPA), and the Fort Worth
Lumbermen’s Assoc. The company’s
new Web site is located at
www.trinityforest.com. For more information,
call 817-268-2441.
Scott Howe, assistant yard supervisor, talks with Alfredo Cardona, inventory
specialist.
By Terry Milller
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