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The 2010 Canada Green Building Council Trade show wrapped up and the Mckillican / Panel Source Booth was very well attended. Over the 2 days Architectural firms from as far away as France, as well as many from North America stopped by to see the line up of environmental forest products we had on display.

It was also a chance for many to have their questions regarding LEED and green specification answered by Paul Nystrom, McKillican's environmental specification expert.

Our next trade show will be in Chicago for the Greenbuild International Conference November 17-19 2010.

McKillican American Inc., one of North America’s largest building products distributors has completed the acquisition of the assets of Panel Source International (PSI). Started in the 1990’s, PSI has become one of the leading suppliers of sustainable and environmentally friendly wood products, including pressure and fire treated construction gradeⁱ lumber and plywood.

As sustainable green building and development practices grow, the acquisition of PSI will enhance McKillican’s position to achieve our goal of becoming the leading source of eco-friendly wood products that are specified and used in green building standards, such as LEED. The acquisition of PSI will expand our reach into the Lumber & Building Material Dealer (LBM) and Commercial Builder segment which is PSI’s primary market.

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Bevel Siding
Nordic Spruce bevel siding 6” x 3/4", factory primed for easy painting. This is “Grade A Select” siding - looks like cedar but much more durable. For more information, please contact Craig Gidley at 1-877-464-7246 or 1-253-581-2200 for Seattle customers.

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Unbiased information on Green Building! The Wikipedia for best green building practices.

http://futureofbuilding.org/

Looking for unbiased information regarding best building practices? Checkⁱ out futureorbuilding.org. It has been set up much like Wikipedia, where registered users can share their expertise with the building world. The site is independent of any corporation or trade association so the information is unbiased and accurate.

The site is positioning itself to be the research site of choice for best building practices.

The creator and director of the site, Kris Axhoj, can be contacted at:

The Future of Building.Org
414 Fairhaven Ct.
Waxhaw, NC 28173

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Panel Source, North America's leading manufacturer and supplier of forest products suitable for use in the LEED® Construction rating system is pleased to announce a new product.

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Panel Source, a Division of McKillican International, Inc. North America's leading manufacturer and supplier of forest products suitable for use in the LEED® Construction rating system, is now offering FSCⁱ Certified IPE Decking.

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Panel Source is pleased to announce that Purekorⁱ has been verified and accepted by Green Alberta. Green Alberta is an independent third party verifier of green products for use in the construction industry in Alberta.

Plywood buyers in the US have long lamented that there is virtually no supply of FSCⁱ Certified Southern Yellow Pine plywood available from domestic mills. Panel Source has listened to these concerns, and now has a exciting solution for these same customers: PureKor® Southern Import Pine Plywood.

Architects, designers, and builders have long complained that the supply of FSC Certified OSB was either non-existent, or in the few rare cases when it did become available, so expensively priced as to be prohibitive. As with so many other issues in the new world of green building, when problems occur, Panel Source provides answers.

Eight months ago...

It took us a long time, but Panel Source has finally developed a source for high quality Russian Birch plywood. Russian Birch has been very popular in North America since its introduction over 25 years ago. Russian birch is a multi-ply panel utilizing high gradeⁱ white birch veneer from the forests of Northern Russia. Now, it’s also a "green" product.

After nearly 18 months of searching, Panel Source has finally found what we consider to be the ideal "green" hardwood plywood product. Introducing "Green T" Hardwood Plywood - manufactured for Panel Source by one of the nation's leading forest products manufacturers, Timber Products.

From the beginning, Panel Source has devoted a lot of attention to developing sources for LEED® Compliant forest products. As the size of the green building industry has increased, so has the demand for ever greater volumes of FSCⁱ Certified and Urea-Formaldehyde free forest products.

Most of you are already familiar with our original Purekor® Particleboardⁱ - an industrial gradeⁱ and Urea-Formaldehyde free agri-fiber based particleboard.

The publishers of [weblink:108|Wood Digest] recently announced that Pyroblock® Fire Retardant Panels has been selected as one of the top 50 products chosen by wood workers. Pyroblock® will be featured in the publications “Woodworkers Choice Showcase” to be published in December 2006.

After nearly two years of intensive research and development, Panel Source International has now added its new "Veneer Gradeⁱ" product to the "Pyroblock®" family.

Panel Source announced today their newest panel technology breakthrough with the creation of the company's "PureKor® Platinum Grade MDF".