Forest Products Laboratory
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/
Research concentrates on pulp and paper products, housing and structural uses of wood, wood preservation, wood and fungi identification, and finishing and restoration of wood products. In addition to traditional lines of research, FPL is responding to environmental pressures on the forest resource by using cutting-edge techniques to study recycling, develop environmentally friendly technology, and understand ecosystem-based forest management.
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Kiln Drying Lumber: Some
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=328
For almost all uses, wood must be dried before it can be used effectively. Dry kilns are excellent means of controlling the drying process to ensure greatest success with the most economy.
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Measurements and Pricing of Primary Wood Materials
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/forestry/g05506.htm
This guide is for people who would like to know how primary wood building products and wood fuel are sold. Topics discussed are softwood lumber, panel products such as plywood, wood molding and trim, wood flooring, wood shingles and shakes, wood posts, and cordwood.
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Methods of Moisture Content Measurement in the ...
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wood/wpn/methods_moisture.htm
It is the job of wood product producers to establish a moisture content in the wood that will be similar to what the wood will experience in service. To accomplish that, manufacturers must develop a standard procedure that will measure wood moisture content consistently and accurately. This brief note discusses methods of moisture content measurement commonly found in the lumber and furniture industries.
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Quality Control for Edge Glued Panel Manufacturing
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wood/wpn/quality_panel.htm
Edge glued lumber panels are an important component of many high quality furniture designs. The purpose of this report is to discuss propermanufacturing techniques necessary for quality panels.
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Quality Drying of Hardwood Lumber
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/impgtr02.pdf
Easy to use tools to improve hardwood lumber drying operations
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Quality Drying of Softwood Lumber
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/impgtr01.pdf
Easy to use tools a kiln operator can use to maintain an efficient and profitable operation
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Sawmill Safety
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wood/wpn/sawsafe.htm
Lately there has been great interest by smaller lumber manufacturing companies in developing safer operations. The purpose of this Wood Products Note is to help these saw mills develop their own safety program.
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Seasoning of Wood
http://persephone.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/FNR/FNR-155.html
Seasoning is a costly and time consuming process and would not be employed except in special cases unless there were valid reasons why it is required.
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Selecting Preservative Treated Wood
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/housingandclothing/DK0897.html
This bulletin will provide the purchaser of treated wood with the information necessary to select treated wood with a special emphasis on landscape timbers.
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