Greensboro company lumbers into mail-order fax business. (C.T. Adams Lumber Co.) (Tar Heel Tattler) (company profile)

Greensboro company lumbers into mail-order fax business

As America's fax attack intensifies, a Greensboro business that exports hardwood is suddenly selling a lot of electronic hardware.

Fax City, which advertises in publications such as Inc. and USA Today, is actually a part of C.T. Adams Lumber Co. While selling hardwood lumber overseas, the company found itself constantly corresponding with Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Spain. The fax (short for facsimile) proved a speedy and accurate way to transmit and receive complicated orders.

"About four years ago, we saw the need to buy a large group of fax machines for our suppliers and ourselves," says …