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  • The new wide-flange thousand-series BCI Joist lineBoise Announces Completed Expansion of BCI Joist, Versa-Stud and Versa-Lam Manufacturing Capacity
  • ebuild (3/14/2007)
  • Boise Engineered Wood Products has announced the completion of major expansions of its engineered wood products manufacturing plants begun in 2005. To meet increasing demand, Boise has virtually doubled the capacity at its huge Alexandria, Louisiana, plant and significantly increased its White City, Oregon, plant capacity. With the expansions, both plants are operating at greatly expanded production levels.
  • Boise Engineered Wood ProductsThe 2007 Boise Cascade Family of Engineered Wood Products
  • ebuild (3/14/2007)
  • Boise Engineered Wood Products manufactures and markets engineered wood products, which are building products with improved structural characteristics and use our forests more efficiently. Today Boise owns and operates the two largest laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and I-joist manufacturing plants in the world in Alexandria, Louisiana and White City, Oregon.
  • Dimensionally perfect Versa-Lam laminated veneer lumber makes the perfect header material17 Ways to Build More Profitably in 2007
  • ebuild (3/14/2007)
  • Looking for ways to net more on every home you build? Then switch to Boise Engineered Wood Products, the Simple Framing System. And the sooner, the better. Boise offers you important new tools to help you build homes in less time, for less money. Take a few minutes to look over these 17 time-saving, money-making ideas for 2007:
  • SawTek automated cutting systems can also combine and optimize several orders simultaneously and keep track of each piece. Boise Cascade Continues to Install SawTek Automated Sawing Systems
  • ebuild (3/14/2007)
  • Boise Engineered Wood Products is continuing to install SawTek automated cutting systems across the United States to help its dealers achieve faster, safer, more accurate processing of Boise BCI Joists, Versa-Stud laminated veneer framing lumber and Versa-Lam laminated veneer lumber. SawTek systems are fast and accurate, typically cutting up to 30,000 lineal feet in an 8-hour shift with accuracy to 1/16".
  • Boise, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, manufactures engineered wood products, plywood, lumber, and particleboardBoise Plans Room Online Plan Management Introduced
  • ebuild (3/14/2007)
  • Boise Engineered Wood Products has announced Boise Plans Room, a management tool to be used by building material retailers and homebuilders to streamline the processes of planning and building homes. Boise Plans Room is a software application allowing Boise customers to post electronic drawing files to a secure internet-based information repository for each individual project to communicate, track, update, do take-offs and organize for future use.
  • Product Review: Construction Products
  • PROSALES Magazine (3/1/2007)
  • Year after year, the diversity of our Editors' Choice winners continues to reflect the many ways in which the pro supply industry changes and evolves. We hope many of these products will strike your fancy and reveal themselves to you as valuable tools–not just more items to sell–as you progress through 2007.
  • Simpson Strong-TieHigh Wind Framing Connection Guide Helps Industry Meet New Building Codes in Gulf Coast
  • ebuild (10/20/2006)
  • New companion guide, along with training, saves code officials and contractors time. Simpson Strong-Tie today introduced a companion guide to the AF and PA Wood Frame Construction Manual (WFCM) to help builders and building officials with the rebuilding effort in the Gulf Coast region. The new High Wind Framing Connection Guide is designed to save code officials and contractors time by offering detailed prescriptive solutions for meeting uplift and lateral load requirements in areas with wind speeds of 100 to 140 mph.
  • Engineered Lumber
  • REMODELING Magazine (9/1/2006)
  • Engineered Lumber for all building needs.

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