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The intranet has helped and improved Weyerhaeuser Co in terms of content organization, return on investment, and companywide buy-in. The company's intranet, called Roots, has become helpful in production management, providing geographical data and maps to foresters, engineers and loggers even in the forest. When the maps are downloaded then uploaded for common use, workers in the field can have ready access to the latest harvest maps.

Georgia-Pacific's MRP II Test As materials manager for Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s tissue paper plant in Bellingham, Wash., Tom Spink is presiding over the site's conversion to a distributed manufacturing resource planning, […]

@jwjdoors Wood can be cut, carved & glued, giving a huge advantage over uPVC & Aluminium repairwise. Damage that would merit a complete re-fit for uPVC @Accoya Have you ever [...]

A Clacton-on-Sea timber composites manufacturer claims to have manufactured the strongest wood-plastic composite decking on the market, www.ttjonline.com/composite The 'worrying' shortfall in softwood tree planting has been outlined to Scottish [...]

Grafton's UK merchanting business, which includes Buildbase and Jackson Building Centres, has seen its turnover increase by 5% to [euro] 712.7m in the first half, with operating profits before restructuring [...]

Businesses across the UK are converting to woodfuel, according to new research from Forestry Commission Scotland. www.ttjonline.com/woodfuel Scott Timber Group has launched a pallet recovery service for customers of manufacturer [...]

WOLSELEY IS supporting customers and suppliers in the supply of legally-sourced timber with its own risk assessment system. Using the web-based InSite system, timber suppliers upload all information about products [...]

SUMMARY * iLevel is looking to diversify use of I-joints. * Two new product launches are planned this year. * A website dedicated to the aesthetic use of Parallam will [...]

An integrated e-trading system has been developed and implemented between timber and builders merchant Lawsons and the merchants co-operative Unimer. The system, created by Kerridge Commercial Systems, uses modern e-trading [...]

BUILDERS MERCHANTS buying group Unimer has made a major stategic move in its efforts to get member companies to adopt e-trading with the launch of a 295 [pounds sterling]per-year software [...]

Decorative timber products supplier Richard Burbidge has made its website www.dchardburbidge.co.uk more user-friendly by making all product and service areas directly accessible from the [...]

SUMMARY * CF Anderson has adopted Progressive Solutions' bisTrack system. * Implementation took around six months. * Within the first week the company gained a day on its invoicing. * [...]

Cedar is the unquestioned leader when it comes to appearance softwood products. It has a proud history of use that stretches back centuries. However, new materials have been aggressively marketed, [...]

Are you ready for chip and PIN? Is your software ready for chip and PIN? If companies do not have a compliant, fully-approved chip and PIN solution in place by [...]

AN EXTENSION to Alpine Automation's Alpine Integrated Management System (AiMS Central) is allowing Pace Timber Engineering staff to view the database from any location. Roof designs and pricings can now [...]

MORE THAN 5,000 architects, engineers and other industry professionals have signed up for free access to core information on the askTRADA website since the start of 2004. TRADA, which introduced [...]

Liverpool-based timber and builders merchant Beesley and Rides is introducing Progressive Solutions' bisTrack software to streamline counter [...]

Size of course! Yes, size does matter ... but in this case it's the smaller the better. The future is micro! Technology is definitely moving forward fast. New standards are [...]

The dot com 'boom and bust' is old news and the reality today is that use of the Internet is continuing to grow at a fast rate. According to the [...]

Retailers who use scanning equipment at point of sale would be delighted if all merchandise was shipped by vendors with bar codes pre-affixed. For home centers, however, the ideal of [...]

PCs GIVE FORESTRY-PRODUCTS FIRM A SHARP MARKET EDGE In the beleaguered forest-products industry, monitoring volatile market conditions accurately is paramount to survival. Louisiana-Pacific Corp. uses personal computers to do the [...]

Emulation Opened the Doors for PCs At Timber Firm, Still Guides Their Use Terminal emulation is often seen to be a secondary effect of bringing PCs into a company. In [...]

Planting PCs in the Timber Industry In the past 20 years, Weyerhaeuser Co. has planted more than two billion trees on the six million acres of U.S. timberland it owns. […]