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PCBC EVENT - Continued from page 24 of housing’s most respected thinkers and practitioners, as well as leading outside visionaries who bring a fresh perspective to the industry. PCBC provides industry connections, too, at celebrated galas like the Gold Nugget Awards and Hall of Fame Gala, as well as through facilitated engagements like the Key Buyers Club. An extensive marketplace showcasing the latest innovations in homebuilding product and service solutions, PCBC’s exhibit floor also hosts annual features such as model show homes and specialty pavilions. Additionally, PCBC hosts a series of unique buyer events designed to bring buyers and sellers together through private, pre-arranged meetings. The National Buyers Circle connects executive purchasing professionals from the 20 Leading Builders of America member companies with representatives from top national manufacturers, while the Key Buyers Club facilitates private meetings between regional buyers and PCBC exhibitors in what has become one of the most highly regarded business exchanges in the housing industry. See more details about this annual event at www.pcbc.com. n Great facilities make great products. Specializing in Eastern White Pine Lumber Mixed Truckloads • PTL • Partial Units Partial Loads • Custom Programs Custom Kiln Drying • Trucking Arrangements NELMA Patterns & Custom Patterns Double-milled with Weinig Moulder Finish 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and Timbers • 1/2 x 6” & 8” Bevel Siding Primed D Select Boards • DPS - “Band - Tex” Finish dipriziopine.com 800-647-8989 or 603-473-2210 Route 153, Kings Hwy Middleton, NH 03887 Email Jamie Moulton jmoulton@lavalleys.com Since 1938 Great People. Great Facilites. Great Solutions. Great Pine. Siding • Clapboards • Flooring • Paneling Broadest Selection of Patterns and Textures APA - Continued from page 2 Forest Products Company in Coquille, Oregon, for its safe driver process. Based on a number of near misses between truck drivers and mobile equipment operators, the team at Roseburg developed a Safe Driver Process. It erected small buildings at each of three load/ unload sites on the property. These structures, equipped with heat and air conditioning to keep drivers comfortable while they wait, each feature weight sensitive mats connected to flashing lights to let the forklift drivers involved in the load process know that the truck driver is out of their work area. The safe driver shacks have led to a reduction in near misses between truck drivers and forklift operators as well as increased communication and safety awareness. Begun in 1982, the APA awards program honors the management and employees of companies and mills with the lowest Weighted Incident Rate (WIR) that is calculated using the number and severity of recordable incidents reported on the mill’s annual OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) report. Since 2008 was the first year that WIR was used, awards and reports for 2009 through 2016 continue to also show Total Incident Rate (TIR), the measure used in previous years. Seventy-eight APA-member structural wood panel and engineered wood product facilities in the U.S., Canada Pictures at Left: The Log Procurement Team Our Promise To You: Accurate Complete & On-Time Breadth of Selection and Mixed Loads is Our Specialty Always Competitive Prices: The Secret is Our Processes The Quality is Our Hallmark Give Us a Try Before You Buy and abroad participated in the 2018 program. A total of 20 facilities representing six APA member companies earned awards in various competition categories. Some of the mills were multiple award winners. In addition to the Safest Company and Innovation awards, other competition categories include Safety Improvement, Annual Safety and Health Honor Roll, 3-Year Safety Award and Incident Free Honor Society. The annual honor roll, three-year average and safety improvement categories are divided into three divisions based on the type of product manufactured at the mill. While the program awards are limited to APA members, data are collected from both member and non-member mills in order to provide a broad-based industry performance benchmark. A total of 78 mills reported data for 2018. The winning facilities and companies will be recognized and their safety accomplishments celebrated during the Chairman’s Dinner at APA’s annual meeting in November in Tucson, Arizona. Award plaques also will be presented to the winning mills by senior APA management staff. Continued on page 51 Page 34 Softwood Forest Products Buyer n July/August 2019
SLB - Continued from page 2 wood lumber products and their many uses in both residential and commercial construction. The mobile exhibit will feature a variety of activation elements including LED screens providing an opportunity to tell the SLB story from the forest to the market, both inside and outside the box itself. “This experiential mobile tour is an exciting opportunity for thousands of people in cities across the country to see, touch, and smell the many possibilities with wood,” said Ryan Flom, SLB’s CMO. “Where most see just a tree, we see the future of the built environment.” Planned locations include: • CTBUH 10th World Congress – Chicago • International Builder Show – Las Vegas • Mass Timber Conference – Portland, Ore. • AIA Conference on Architecture – Los Angeles The SLB is seeking partnerships with aligned goals to champion this effort for the Softwood lumber industry. To date, it is in negotiations for a vehicle donation and have secured a commitment from the U.S. Forest Service. If you or your organization is interested in providing support, please contact Ryan Flom, flom@softwoodlumberboard.org. n regulatory requirements alone account for 25 percent of the price of a single-family home, and 30 percent of the cost of a multifamily development. Even with lower mortgage interest rates, housing affordability is relatively the same as it was a year ago. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index found only 61 percent of new and existing homes were affordable to a typical household. The current homeownership rate (64.2 percent) remains below the 25-year average rate (66.3 percent), according to the Census Bureau’s Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS). More than half (53 percent) of buyers actively searching for a home in the first quarter of 2019 have been looking for three months or longer, according to NAHB’s Housing Trends Report (HTR). Home buyers say high home prices are the principal barrier to homeownership. A majority (78 percent) of buyers estimated they could afford fewer than half of the homes for sale in their markets. n Keep up with the latest industry news millerwootradepub.com Washington Scene - Continued from page 11 The NAHB sites rising costs from excessive regulation, a shortage of construction workers, tariffs on billion worth of building materials, and housing finance concerns are having detrimental effects on housing affordability. NAHB analysis shows that No matter the grade, REA JET high resolution printers leave a clear and reliable mark. Our innovative coding and marking technology replaces messy grade stamping methods so you can avoid the maintenance and the downtime. To learn more call 440-232-0555 or visit reajetus.com. Softwood Forest Products Buyer n July/August 2019 Page 35
