Watch for your Prairie Showcase Surveys coming to you soon!

Thank you to all attendees for Getting Connected at the 2011 Prairie Showcase.

WOW, what a great show. 

• Over 260 exhibiting companies in 600 booths!
• Over 1200 Retail attendees!
• Over 3800 lunches served at Prairieland Park!
• Andre-Philippe Gagnon – funny man – left you craving more!
• GREAT BIG SEA – Awesome!
• Watch www.wrla.org/prairieshowcase/photogallery.html for fun photographs!

2012 Dates are:
January 18th Opening Night Party
January 19 & 20 Buying Showcase!

Online registration is open for the following WRLA sponsored spring courses. Please visit www.wrla.org and click "Education & Training."

• February 14 - 18, 2011 Manual Estimating – Calgary, AB – Instructor – Stan Burkholder
• March 7 - 10, 2011 Manual Estimating – Saskatoon, SK – Instructor – Merv Weiss
• March 11, 2011 Yard Foreman – Saskatoon, SK – Instructor – Merv Weiss

Be in the know and register to have your company shopped by an underground agent.

Shops will be scheduled twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall or once a quarter.

$99 a mystery shop payable upon receipt of report

 

Click here to download the registration form.

Expanding its design capabilities, Ply Gem® Canada introduces the new PrismaClad Colour program to provide virtually limitless colour options for window exteriors. The colour solutions are available on all products within the Ply Gem Canada Elite Series Regency and Fusion product lines.

Through the Ply Gem Canada PrismaClad Colour program, customers who want more options than the six colours that come standard on Regency and five colours on Fusion can select from more than 40 exterior window hues, including 30 signature colours, 17 woodgrain colours and 12 metallic colours for an additional fee.

"The introduction of this program was inspired by customers who were looking for alternatives beyond traditional, standard colours," said Andrew Thompson, marketing manager, Ply Gem Canada. "With PrismaClad, architects, builders, remodelers and homeowners can find the perfect colour for any project."

Within the program, Ply Gem Canada has also created the DuraMatch colour matching process. Through this process, Ply Gem is able to match nearly any existing colour, making it an ideal solution for projects that do not involve the replacement of every window.

"DuraMatch allows us to provide an extended custom colour matching program, with virtually endless options," said Thompson. "This is a great solution for customers who are looking for a finished, professional look that matches an existing colour on the home."

In addition to an expanded colour palette, Ply Gem Canada offers several solutions to enhance home design, such as simulated divided lites, designer glass or brickmoulds.

The Ply Gem Canada PrismaClad Colour program and other design options are available at authorized dealer locations as well as through select builders and renovation contractors.

For more information, please visit www.plygem.ca.

CanWelBroadleaf now exclusive distributor for Ainsworth pointSIXTM Durastrand Flooring

Ainsworth® has signed a multi-year agreement with CanWelBroadleaf to be its exclusive supplier of the company's Oriented Strand Board (OSB) enhanced subfloor product line. AinsworthEngineered® pointSIX Durastrand Flooring will be distributed by CanWelBroadleaf throughout Canada commencing in late-January.

Based in Vancouver, BC, CanWelBroadleaf is a leading national Canadian building material distributor, supplying commodity, engineered wood, industrial and allied products through regional dealers, lumberyards and home improvement centres.

PointSIX Durastrand Flooring is an engineered subfloor solution that utilizes a patented tapered-edge technology to counteract the effects of swelling due to moisture exposure. Introduced in Spring 2010, the pointSIX technology involves a thin layer of the highly compressed fibre along all four edges of the OSB panel being milled off, removing the part of the subfloor that's most prone to swelling. PointSIX takes its name from research results indicating a .6mm taper depth to be the most effective in reducing edge swell.

The engineered solution was developed over five years of extensive research and testing, where pointSIX was subjected to repeated wet and dry cycles to simulate severe, wet jobsite conditions. In one rigorous test, the engineered panel was flooded for 14 days; after drying out the average edge swell was contained to 0.01 inch, not much more than a sheet of paper.

According to Bob Simko, President of CanWelBroadleaf, the pointSIX Durastrand Flooring product is a key component of CanWelBroadleaf's extensive product line offering. "Ainsworth is an innovative company that is committed to meeting the needs of the diverse Canadian customer base," Simko stated.

"We are very pleased to be moving forward in a long-term partnership with CanWelBroadleaf," said Rick Huff, President and CEO of Ainsworth. "As the largest building materials distributor to the Canadian market, CanWelBroadleaf offers a wide selection of top-quality products. It's exciting to have pointSIX Durastrand added to their product lineup." Ainsworth offers a Lifetime Limited Warranty against delamination and a 180-day No-Sand Guarantee on pointSIX Durastrand Flooring. More information, including a technical white paper and educational webinar, is available for download at www.pointsixflooring.com.

Feb 10 - 11, 2011
The Canadian Home Improvement Show & Convention
Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, ON
www.canadianhomeimprovementshow.com

February 14 - 18, 2011
Manual Estimating
Calgary, AB
www.wrla.org

Feb 24 - 25, 2011
Atlantic Building Materials Show
Moncton Coliseum Complex, Moncton, NB
www.absda.ca

March 7 - 10, 2011
Manual Estimating
Saskatoon, SK
www.wrla.org

March 11, 2011
Yard Foreman
Saskatoon, SK
www.wrla.org

March 31 - April 2, 2011
TIM-BR Mart National Buying Show
Toronto Congress Centre
Mississauga, ON
www.timbrmartbuyingshow.com

April 10 - 12, 2011
Home Hardware Spring Market
Home Hardware Stores Limited
St. Jacobs, ON - The National Trade Centre
www.homehardware.ca

April 17 - 19, 2011
TRUSERV CANADA Spring Buying Market
Winnipeg Convention Centre
Winnipeg, MB
www.truserv.ca

May 4 - 6, 2011
2011 Westcost Building & Hardware Show - Spirit of the Westcoast
Victoria, BC
www.bsiabc.ca
Email: Marijoel@bsiabc.ca

NEW RETAIL MEMBERS

Gateway Co-operative Limited
Box 288
Preeceville, SK S0A 3B0
Phone: 306-547-2812
Fax: 306-547-2001
Main Contact: Dan Fairburn
Gateway.preeceville@sasktel.net
(Retailer) FCL

Homestead Ltd.
Box 59
123 Main Street
Lipton, SK S0G 3B0
Phone: 306-336-2336
Fax: 306-336-2556
Main Contact: Garnet Smith
homesteadcountryshop@sasktel.net
(Retailer) Castle

RONA Home Center
P.O. Box 429
437 Main St.
Foam Lake, SK S0A 1A0
Phone: 306-272-3731
Fax: 306-272-6291
Main Contact: Dwayne Grona
gronadollarstore@sasktel.net
(Retailer) RONA

Wallace Construction Specialties Ltd.
1940 Ontario Avenue
Saskatoon, SK S7K 1T6
Phone: 306-653-2020
Fax: 306-665-2142
Main Contact: James Waldbillig
info@wallace.sk.ca
www.wallace.sk.ca
(Retailer) INDEPENDENT

NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Accenture Building Materials Ltd. (Head Office)
P.O. Box 1104
1029 Ridgeway Avenue
Coquitlam, BC V3J 1N3
Phone: 604-931-9003
Fax: 604-937-7005
Main Contract: rick.abm@gmail.com 
(Distributor) (Wholesaler) (Re-Manufacturer)
Domestic and imported plywood and treated plywood – borate, PWF, FR, CCA, Industrial plywood, melamine overlaid products.

ILevel Weyerhaeuser (Head Office)
11553 - 154 St.
Edmonton, AB T5M 3N7
Phone: 604-607-6486
Fax: 780-733-4238
Main Contact: Francis Laderoute
Francis.laderoute@weyerhaeuser.com
www.weyerhaeuser.com
(Distributor) Engineered wood products

Whitehaven Wood Products (Head Office)
3075 White Lake Road
Sorrento, BC V0E 2W1
Phone: 250-803-4616
Main Contact: Jane Darnell
wwp@cablelan.net
www.soffitvents.ca
(Manufacturer) (Re-Manufacturer) Soffit vents