A Fancy Web Site for Truck Trailer Products?
Now, why would anybody in their right mind create a fancy web site for wood truck trailer products?
Well, we built a great database engine and product catalog system - 100% customized and customizable,
with tons of photos and detailed information about the different types of wood.
How could we not use our technology to shamelessly promote one of our favorite products lines?
Getsiv Family History in Truck Trailer Flooring
In 1958, my dad, Ted Getsiv, graduated from Syracuse University in Wood Engineering and went to work for
Weyerhaeuser in Longview, Washington. He helped build one of the first finger-joint edge-glue
factories in the US. One of the main products they made was Vertical Grain Douglas Fir Truck Trailer
Flooring. VG Fir was very popular in the 1960's and my dad spent many years manufacturing and selling
truck trailer flooring products. After a stint at Weyerhaeuser, he helped start General Laminating and
Manufacturing, manufacturers of the not-so-famous GLaM-Deck. General Laminating became Pacific Laminating which
was then purchased by Brazier Forest Industries. We also made K-Deck which was a finger-jounted and edge-glued
trailer flooring products with alternating 1-1/2" wide strips of Apitong / Kapur and Douglas Fir VG.
I joined the truck trailer wood flooring manufacturing in business in 1987 and helped run the company
until 1991 when we had no choice but to shut down due to depressed trailer flooring prices, expensive raw material,
and competition from foreign suppliers. After 4 years in the manufacturing business, I went to work from the Holm
family at Oregon-Canadian Forest Products in North Plains, Oregon. Within a short period of time, I was trading
tropical hardwood lumber products, specializing in truck trailer products again, as well as exterior decking and interior
flooring.
A New Beginning at Nova USA Wood Products, July 2005
14 years is a long time to spend at one company, no doubt. I was itching to build my own company and
partnered up with my best supplier in Brazil, Nova Forest Products SA. We started in 2005 and have
built an outstanding international trading company, specializing in wholesale flooring and decking. See our
main web site for for details at www.novausawood.com.
Experience Counts: John Buchanan, California Sales
John Buchanan began his career as a logger and surveyor on Vancouver Island and in the northern
California Redwood region from 1954 until 1957. In 1957, John was stationed in Korea for a three
year period with the US Army Corps of Engineers. He obtained a degree in forestry from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1961 and became a logging engineer in a variety of countries, including
the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Taiwan.
It was during this time that John had his first involvement with Apitong while selectively
logging piling on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. He then went on to manage a sawmill
and its logging operations for seven years before moving into the log export field in 1978 in
the Pacific Northwest and Alaska regions. Since 1982, John has specialized in importing and
distributing Apitong trailer decking materials.
Our Web Site and Business Philosophy
We created this web site so that we can work with our truck trailer customers as directly as possible. We believe in sharing
as much information as possible about our products: where they come from, how they are made, the scientific
properties of each and every wood species we sell, technical drawings and more.
Our pricing philosophy is simple: we import directly or we work with key trading partners who import and hold stocks
for us. We buy as competitively as possible, based on our years of experience,
and we pass the savings on to you.
Any feedback you can offer will no doubt help us improve the web site and our business.
