Volumn 1 March 2016

I am very pleased to welcome all of you to our very first edition of Life & Livelihood. This news letter is intended to be a forum by which we can share our company vision, direction, and progress toward our common goal of success “Where there is no vision, the people perish”. This news letter is also intended to be a forum where we can celebrate CTF life as it unfolds in each of our facilities, sharing individual and team successes, company events, and personal milestones in our associate’s lives. For these reasons the name Life & Livelihood seemed a fitting title for our news letter. I hope you enjoy!Over the last three months our company has begun to reinvent ourselves. Fostering communication and information sharing will be vital to our success going forward. As I hope you will find in this news letter, this process is now alive and growing throughout the New CTF. I say the New CTF because I want to make sure we all realize this is truly a new beginning for our company. With the recent executive management change, and the addition of some key executive leaders we will elaborate on later in this news letter, we are forging a new company. The New CTF is committed to a few key elements that we believe are essential to ensuring our success. The keys to success I am referring to, begin with establishing a culture throughout our organization that supports all of our associates so they can provide exceptional quality and service to our customers while always displaying the highest moral fiber, integrity, honesty, compassion for our fellow man, and respect for our environment that will be the cornerstones of our company going forward. These are the principles we will build on as we become the best and most respected Structural Building Component/Innovative Building Solutions Provider in California.

We began 2016 with some real challenges, as we made the necessary changes in our company many of our customers, vendors, and employees were understandably concerned and were likely wondering how things would all work out for CTF. I am pleased to report that through a great deal of support from our partners at ECP, the unwavering efforts of all our valued associates, and our customer base sticking with us and having confidence in our new team, we have gotten off to a great start in the first quarter. January sales were up 19% over last January, February sales were up 46% over last February, and March sales are up 25% over last March for an overall increase in the first quarter of 29% over last year. What is even more exciting is the fact that since we retooled in 2015 we are accomplishing this additional volume at a current capacity rate of only 64% of our overall production capacity companywide. Special thanks goes out to our associates for making these first quarter results happen!This leads me to the root of our challenge for 2016 and beyond. We have the equipment to make our forecast and much more a reality, but what we need now is additional talented/motivated associates. All the technology and state-of the-art equipment in the world doesn’t make a successful company. Our people are truly our greatest asset and we are doing many things to make CTF a great place to be. The HR corner of this news letter will highlight some of the benefit enhancements and recruiting incentives we have implemented to assist us in these efforts. Please join me in promoting our company to the community as we work to attract the valued associates, we must have, to build our CTF Team for the future. Enjoy your news letter and have a blessed life while we build our livelihood together.

Thank you for your support!Steven L. StroderPresidentCalifornia TrusFrame

President’s Message

Introduction of new Corporate Executives

Susan EngquistChief Financial Officer

Susan comes to us with over twenty years of experience in a variety of industries including manufacturing, distribution and technology. In addition, she has also worked for an accounting/business process consulting firm.Susan has helped organizations

position themselves for rapid growth by creating and implementing systems, processes and the infrastructure required to get things done efficiently. Susan is a change ambassador. She has enabled teams to use systems to track and measure results that are key to success. She is passionate about being transparent with information, doing the right thing and creating a work environment where everyone can thrive and win. Susan is working with our CTF team to shape a culture where we are accountable to each other and the business.She comes to us right off of a West African assignment in the Gambia where she helped a company provide clean water to the Gambian people. Susan has relocated from Denver to Southern California. Being an avid Paraglide since 1996, Susan has flown in the SoCal area for years so she was already in love with the area and is excited to be part of CTF.

Valorie BurleighFinancial Controller

Valorie “Val” Burleigh comes to California TrusFrame with over 30 years of accounting and business administration experience, 20 of which obtained while in the building material supply industry. After earning her technical accounting

certificate, she went on to earn tenure in public accounting, resulting with recruitment by an accounting client, component manufacturer Casmin, Inc. Being key point person in Casmin’s successful purchase and transition to becoming part of ProBuild, the country’s largest building supplier of the time, earned Val a corporate position as Sr. Financial Analyst for ProBuild’s manufacturing and installation/construction services divisions, where she was recognized for success in solving problems, working through obstacles, delivering optimal business process improvements, and designing financial analyses that drive

performance, productivity, and profitability. Precision and detail aptitudes make Val a key member of any team. Val currently resides in Moreno Valley, California.

Joseph Michael, AIAVP Sales

Joseph Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1975. After a brief internship he began his professional career working for a construction company in Saudi Arabia building schools for the government. In 1981 he moved to Colorado,

USA and worked for an architectural firm in Denver designing institutional buildings for the state. He obtained his architectural license in the state of Colorado in 1989. He moved to California in October 1988 and joined Gang-Nail Components which was the largest single truss manufacturer in the state of California at that time. He started in the design department and quickly moved to estimating and sales. He obtained his architectural license in the state of California in 1992. Over the next 20 years he continued working with Gang-Nail in sales department and moved to sales management in 1993 and was able to grow the company annual sales from $8 million to $40 million in 7 years. In 2007 he co-founded TrusFrame, Inc. Over the next 5 years, TrusFrame became the second largest truss company in California. In 2012 TrusFrame joined California Truss to form the largest supplier of engineered wood building components on the west coast. Currently, Joseph is the V.P. of sales for California TrusFram, LLC.

Steve HawkinsPerris I GM

Steve started his career with California Truss Co. in November 1982 as a Designer and Salesman. In 1990 he was promoted to position of Sales Manager and in 1995 was again promoted to V.P. of Sales and Marketing. When California Truss Co.

and TrusFrame merged in May 2011 he remained in the position of V.P. of Sales until a short time later when he was made the V.P. of Marketing. In January of this year Steve was promoted to position of General Manager of the Perris plant.

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HR Corner

CTF continues to evolve and grow, thanks to the effort of the entire team!. We appreciate the hard work and contributions of each employee.

Listed below are highlights of some recent changes that we have made in recognition of your efforts:u Enhancements to the vacation package in late 2015u Implementation of sick leave in late 2015u Implementation of production bonus programs throughout the organization in late 2015u Increase in the CTF minimum wage from $9.00 per hour to the current $10.50 per hour in the first quarter of 2016u Employee Referral Bonus Program for production employees in all facilities. This program provides financial

incentives when production employees refer new hires. Program effective March 14, 2016 thru April 15, 2016 1. Refer a friend 2. They must list you as a referral on the application. 3. If hired, they must be employeed by CTF for 90 days 4. After 90 days you will receive $500 BONUS

Our CTF team is important to us and we want to encourage everyone to provide their suggestions.

If you see something in your work area, the yard or the plant that concerns you or needs attention, or you just have a great idea that may improve some area of our operation please let us know.Some examples might include the following:

u Safety issues or “near misses” that happenu Suggestions to improve processes or make workflow more efficientu Morale issues: something in the work environment that affects productivity

You may have heard the saying: “we achieve more as a team”. We value your ideas. Give them to your direct supervisor or send them to: suggestionbox@caltrusframe.com

Coming Soon: CTF P-1 New beak room

Jason Eric WalshPerris II GM

Jason started at Computrus as a designer when he was 20 yrs old. He had no idea what a truss was at the time. Two years later he was hired by Steve Hawkins to come to Cal Truss to be a in the Truss Estimating department.After a few years Jason left Cal

Truss to a few other Truss plants and came full circle back to Cal Truss as a Sale Rep.

One again hired back by none other than Steve Hawkins, he was contracting Multi-Family projects for Cal Truss and at the same time was introduced to Smart Components. At that point Smart Components had only been being implemented into Commercial projects and Track homes and was really new. He brought our customer Manny to the table and sold him our 1st Multi-Family project in Southern California called McArthur Park in LA. From there Kenny took him in and taught him what he needed to progress into the position he is in.

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I remember back at the end of 2014 asking myself, “WHO are we (Sanger) going to BE?” Right about this time Ownership had come into Sanger for a visit and talked to me about growing the CTF culture and investing back into Sanger. This is what we were missing and went hand in hand with my own question of who are we going to be. The next several weeks I worked closely with our Sanger Teams (Office and Production) to put in place a plan to do just what Steve Stroder and I talked about – BUILD THE CTF SANGER CULTURE. Now in early 2015, the Plan was in FULL force steering us into the right direction. Design was all moved into their trailer, the dust had settled with all of the office personnel changes we made, and our Production Yard was now in the middle of its own transformation. I truly believe this next phase of transforming Sanger was the hardest thing we had to do thus far. Over the course of the next several months we would convert over to the Wizard System and processes. The key here was and has been working with the Employees every step of the way to make sure they felt this would be their own system and they could believe in it. We moved all of the Saws into their new buildings that were built 100% by CTF employees.

We started up the Wall Panels lines which were also put together 100% by CTF employees.

This weekend we will be finishing up our latest project, Roofing our NEW buildings now covering our Employees at the Wood tables and Wall Panels Lines. NO MORE TENT CITY…

We are currently in escrow on 10.85 acres that butts up next to our facility to the South. This added land will help us continue to grow and organize the FLOW of the yard while the Sales team expands our Sales Volume.

CTF Sanger has grown 10 fold this last year and only now can I say we have reinvented the culture and who we are here in Sanger.

Anyone who walks the yard can feel the positive environment and see the team working in unison with the same common goal. We are California TrusFrame doing the best we can do every day and I’m proud to lead the team. I’m looking forward to 2016 and the Next phase of our expansion.

Thank you for keeping the Faith and never giving up on Sanger,Jimmy Frausto

Reflecting on Sanger’s Beginnings

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It has been a pleasure working with the City of Sanger along with several local municipalities to ensure we are doing everything we can to get our name out there and give back to surrounding communities in the form of Jobs, community service, and volunteering our time. A few times a year CTF participates in Local events. The job fairs introduce CTF first hand to the communities so we can meet with local people looking for employment and life long careers. During Halloween we participated

in one of the Local Church’s Trunk or Treat and Carnival which gave out 4 TONS of candy to over 3,000 kids and provided them with a safer place to be for Halloween. We are looking forward

to this year’s Halloween events.

Another Project that is coming together very nicely is NorthPointe Community Church’s Kids buildings. This is a project I hold close to my heart because we get to participate with several other local Contractors, Engineers, and Architects in the design and construction of (2) buildings for specifically growing and educating the Childrens’ Ministry. These buildings will be reaching out and touching many lives for years to come. This is another opportunity that our CTF family was able to partner with the community and work hand in hand with the people to help improve this place we call our home.

CTF Sanger partnered up with Valley Public Radio and Zumwalt Construction in the building of VPR’s NEW building here in Fresno. CTF was featured in one of their upcoming segments on Local businesses thriving in the Central Valley. See Link below for the Article:

Inside The Sanger Factory Building The Walls For FM89’s New Home

Workers at California TrusFrame in Sanger are busy building the walls for FM89’s new building at their factory. They will be trucked to the site in Clovis and erected in just days, saving time, money and material.

Employees of the Month Perris

Josefat has been an employee of CTF and Cal Truss for 15 years. He currently works in the yard as a sawyer and cleanup person.Bruce has been an employee of CTF and Cal Truss for 15 years. He works in the shipping department as a driver.Congratulations to Josefat and Bruce! As employees of the month they each get a reserved front row parking space and receive a $100.00 gift card.

Josefat Pacheco Bruce Bankes

Facility Spotlight

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Legacy Framers, a long time CTF customer is predominately known for high volume framing of single family homes and has also built many apartment buildings. CTF and Legacy teamed up this winter on two large 3 story apartment building complexes using Pre-Fab Walls, Smart Components and Top Chord Bearing Floor Trusses. What is truly interesting about this is that Legacy had already built these exact buildings a few years back using conventional shear walls and I-Joists. Even though it has been several years since those last buildings, the memory of fighting the I-Joist floor framing and the go backs for double sided shear walls were still fresh in their minds, so the Smart Components and open web floor trusses were definitely appreciated. Legacy’s project manager worked closely with the CTF design department to keep this job flowing very smoothly. It was fascinating to watch so many large buildings go up with so few framers on site. Every CTF plant provided product for these projects, and we kept it moving right on schedule!

Thanks CTF team!Jeff WilsonHughson General Manager

Ramping Up With Premier Framing, we want to give a CTF thank you to Donna Porter for awarding CTF with a number of new projects after the announcement that Hanson Truss would be closing their Chino truss plant June 1st. Donna Porter is the owner of Premier Framing in Corona, Ca. and has been a great and loyal customer of CTF and Cal Truss for over 20 years.

Thanks to Nathan, Bill, Paul, and Merv from Ervin Companies for taking the time to visit us at CTF Perris

I want to give everyone at CTF a High Fivefor a great meeting & tour Thursday with Ervin

Company! Not only was I impressed, now Ernie isyour biggest fan. I’m going to start calling you

the Rock Stars of Truss Companies.

Customer Spotlight

Donna Potter CEO &Owner of Premier Framing

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Photo Contest Winners

What fun! A photo contest for all of our CTF family each month!We will pick one winner for every month and print it in our Life and Livelyhood Newsletter quarterly. We live in such a beautiful area and there are so many great photographers out there we thought it would be fun to see some of your work. Submit photos to picturecontest@caltrussframe.com

January Photo Contest WinnerMichael Castillo, Perris facility

Great Photos, Congratulations to the Winners!

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February Photo Contest WinnerSharon Gagnier, Sanger facility

March Photo Contest WinnerFred Butler, Sanger facility

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