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Trus Joist® engineered wood product from Weyerhaeuser offers predictable performance and superior strength for homes, multi-family and light commercial buildings
Federal Way, Wash., September 14, 2011 – During the summer of 1986, the movies “Top Gun” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” were box office hits, and teenagers danced to New Wave music. In building technology, Parallam® parallel strand lumber (PSL) was...

Builder magazine 2010 Brand Use Survey also lists TJI joists as the brand builders use most
Federal Way, Wash., September 8, 2011 – Trus Joist® TJI® joists from Weyerhaeuser – one of the most well-known structural framing products on the market – have again come out on top in a nationwide survey of building product quality. The Builder magazine “2010 Brand Use Survey” of 10,800 builders, builder-developers and...

Following the huge success of Yorkshire Copper Tube’s visit to PHEX in April the company has signed up to the Manchester and Chelsea events.

It will exhibit at Old Trafford on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th October and at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th November as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations of successful manufacture in Kirkby, Liverpool.

The copper tubing specialist, which...

YORKSHIRE Copper Tube is flying the flag for UK manufacturing with 60 years of innovation and excellence.
The leading supplier of copper tubing, which operates one of the most sophisticated plants in the world, is celebrating six decades of copper tube production at its plant in Kirkby near Liverpool

Yorkshire Copper Tube has more than 200 employees at the site and is planning celebratory anniversary events...

The winner of Yorkshire Copper Tube’s latest competition has lots of celebrations in the pipeline this year and a £300 hotel voucher prize is the icing on the cake.

Christopher Watson, who is the second generation to run J Watson Plumbing in Blackburn, has been using Yorkshire’s copper tubing since he started his career 34 years ago.

His father, Joseph, started the business in 1950, which coincides with...