Panel Perspectives - Page 2
Stay up to date with the latest panel perspectives features from the global wood based panel industryQuality control on the production line Electronic Wood Systems (EWS), located in Hameln, Germany says it has introduced new technological improvements to blow detection systems for the panel making industry.
Cross laminated timber: The Hulk, green & strong If it were a comic book character, cross laminated timber (CLT) would be ‘The Hulk’ – massive, strong and, yes, even green, given that it imposes a significantly lighter environmental footprint than either concrete or steel, particularly with respect to greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage.
Sustainable forestry helps save rare species
Norbord, European manufacturer of wood based panel products, sources all its virgin softwood in the UK from domestic forests, mainly in Scotland where the company manufactures its Sterling brand...
3-D Density structure of panels produced in a single pressing process
Use of special 3-D structures in sandwich constructions, such as corrugated board or other lightweight panels, is well-known. However until now, no technology could produce such engineered...
North American market recovery: is it faltering?
Developing economies in Asia and Latin America have out-performed the developed world, particularly Europe and the US. However, there have been exceptions; resource-rich economies such as Canada...
A wide range of products to beat the credit crunch
Visiting Santiago de compostela in northwest Spain is like taking a step back in history.
The city, the capital of the celtic region of Galicia, is one of the three most sacred places in...
Hydraulic presses need effective sealing
State-of-the-art continuous press lines have been taking an increasing share of the total manufacturing capacity of raw boards in Europe and globally. However, the majority of today’s presses...
The continuing story of the amazing Chinese panel markets
The late-2008 boost to spending and consumption in China provided by massive spending on infrastructure and other labour- and material-intensive schemes was reflected in 2009 by a rapid...
Challenges facing Iran’s particleboard industry
It is over half a century since the first particleboard production line, of 12,000m3 a year, was established in Bandar Chamkhaleh, Gilan province in Iran.
The existing huge quantity of...
Investing for the future at Kronospan’s UK plant
To put the Kronospan group’s European activities into perspective, it currently has panel making capacities of around nine million m3 of particleboard, five million m3 of MDF and three million...
Softwood plywood celebrates centennial
It was a gathering of the plywood clan assembled by APA-The Engineered Wood Association and the Plywood Pioneers Association to recall those initial, virtually hand-made, wonders.
John...
Wood products companies in the US are under pressure from the economy, environmental regulation and competing materials, says Robert Glowinski, AWC executive director.
The AWC believes that...
The slow and painful recovery has begun
A year ago (Issue 1, 2009, p54) we were trying to assess the damage caused by the 2008 financial meltdown and the resulting crisis. At the end of 2009 and early in 2010, the consensus is that...
The Ecole Supérieure du Bois (ESB) was established in Paris in 1934 as a result of financial support from the wood products sector and significant lobbying of the Ministries of Agriculture and...
Many people will associate MDI (Methylene Diphenyl di-isocyanate) resins with the manufacture of OSB, but in fact this versatile binder can be applied to the production of other composite wood...
In December 2008, Brazilian plywood manufacturer Sudati plywood industry ltda became the first producer of MDF in the state of Santa Catarina
The market has long been looking for a system to
significantly reduce resin
consumption in the
production of such products as low density, medium
density and high density
fibreboard. Sunds MDF Technologies AB in Sweden claims to have the answer
Western Pneumatics, Inc is a
26-year-old, technically-focused, US firm with a
concentration on niche markets and a growing overseas presence. The current economic pinch has had a large...
How much longer in the deep freeze?
About a year ago, I said that
the negative economic rhetoric was overblown and that people were ignoring too many of the positive factors which would support recovery in housing – and...
