Wood Based Panels International, June 1st, 1998
Bill Keil In its continuing quest for raw material supplies, the large integrated US forest products company, Willamette Industries, recently bought some massive tracts of Pacific Northwest timberlands stocked heavily with western hemlock. The Foster mill producing plywood sheathing, underlayment and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) stock, was an ideal site to process a large share of the hemlock, but the move meant a boost in the mill's hemlock diet from 20% up to about 50%. The high moisture content of this species meant that the mill's already creaky dryers, installed in 1958, could not han...
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