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  • 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.
  • Construction Products Review: Engineered Wood
  • BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (9/1/2005)
  • During the past 15 years that BUILDING PRODUCTS has been in existence, engineered wood garnered widespread approval as new types were introduced to meet design challenges, and as engineering improved and prices fell somewhat. Today, engineered wood still costs at least 10 percent more than traditional lumber in most markets, and only very expensive new homes can boast 100 percent engineered frames. Most builders mix engineered wood with solid-sawn timber.

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