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Managing national forests of the eastern United States for non-timber forest products

Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the economic and ecological potential of non-timber forest products. In the United States, much of this increased interest stems from drastic changes in forest practices and policies in the Pacific Northwest region, a region that produces many non-timber forest products. The forests of the eastern United States...

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Author(s):

James L. Chamberlain; Robert J. Bush; A.L. Hammett; Philip A. Araman

Year:

2000

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Proceedings, XXI IUFRO World Congress 2000, Forests and Society: The Role of Research. 1: 407-420.

Development of a Computer Vision Technology for the Forest Products Manufacturing Industry

The goal of this research is to create an automated processing/grading system for hardwood lumber that will be of use to the forest products industry. The objective of creating a full scale machine vision prototype for inspecting hardwood lumber will become a reality in calendar year 1992. Space for the full scale prototype has been created at the Brooks Forest...

Author(s):

D. Earl Kline; Richard Conners; Philip A. Araman

Year:

1992

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Proceedings, All-Division 5 Conference Forest Products. 2: 875

Reflections on the Development of a Machine Vision Technology for the Forest Products

The authors have approximately 25 years experience in developing machine vision technology for the forest products industry. Based on this experience this paper will attempt to realistically predict what the future holds for this technology. In particular, this paper will attempt to describe some of the benefits this technology will offer, describe how the technology...

Author(s):

Richard W. Conners; D.Earl Kline; Philip A. Araman; Robert L. Brisbon

Year:

1992

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Proceedings, Knowledge Based Expert System for the Furniture Industry. 6/1-6/20.

Trends in the use of materials for pallets and other factors affecting the demand for hardwood products

The pallet and container industry plays a critical role in the forest products industry and the U.S. economy. The industry provides a large market for low-grade wood, employs more than 50,000 in the U.S., and its products facilitate the shipment of goods within and outside the country. Due to the importance of this industry, the Center for Forest Products Marketing and...

Author(s):

Robert J. Bush; Jeffery J. Bejune; Bruce G. Hansen; Philip A. Araman

Year:

2002

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Proceedings, 30th Annual Hardwood Symposium. 76-81.

Recycling In The U.S. Pallet Industry: 1993

This report provides the details of a study which investigated pallet recycling activity in the United States pallet industry (Standard Industrial Classification 2448) during 1993. The study was conducted by the Center for Forest Products Marketing at Virginia Tech and replicates a similar study that investigated pallet recycling during 1992. The report provides the...

Author(s):

Bruce G. Hansen; Robert Bush; John Punches; Philip A. Araman

Year:

1995

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Virginia Tech. Center for Forest Products Marketing.

Non-timber forest products in sustainable forest management

The forests of Southern United States are the source of many non-timber forest products (NTFPs). The collection, trade and use of these products have been important to rural economies since Europeans settled in this country. At the same time the plants from which these products originate are crucial to healthy ecosystems. Over the last decade, the market demand and the...

Author(s):

James L. Chamberlain; A.L. Hammett; Philip A. Araman

Year:

2001

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Proceedings, Southern Forest Science Conference. 10 pp.

Volatile organic compound emissions from engineered wood products

Thirteen bonded engineered wood products representing those commonly used in building construction were evaluated for volatile organic chemicals using methods developed for interior bonded wood products. Although formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were emitted from all samples, they were not the dominant volatiles, which greatly depended on wood species and bonding...

Author(s):

Steve Zylkowski; Charles Frihart

Year:

2017

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Volatile organic compounds, engineered wood products, laboratory testing, commercially bonded products

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Research Note. FPL-RN-0350. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 8 p.

Special Forest Products: A Southern Strategy for Research & Technology Transfer

Increasing levels of collection of special forest products (SFPs) have tirggered concerns about the long-term social, ecological, and economic sustainability of the resources from which these products orginate. At this time, there is too little information to assess the current situation and to make informed decisions about managing the forest resources for these...

Author(s):

Rod Sallee; Wayne Owen; Karen Kenna; Gary Kauffman; Marla Emery; Tony Johnson; Phil Araman; Dan Stratton; Ray Sheffield; Vic Rudis; Susan Loeb; David White; Jim Chamberlain

Year:

2004

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USDA Forest Service, Souther Research Station, Southern Region, Science Update SRS-006

Research determines intelligent consumption of forest products is growing and saving trees - an example with wooden pallets

Wooden pallets help transport, store and sell products demanded by all of us. As our population and product demands increase, so do the demands for wooden pallets. We will present data on the industrial demands for wooden pallets. We will explain how increased demands for wood pallets in the US have required less new wood from trees and show that the pallet industry is...

Author(s):

Philip A. Araman; Robert J. Bush; Bruce Hansen

Year:

2001

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Proceedings, Southern Forest Science Conference. 1 p.

The world wide web: an emerging technology for marketing special forest products (poster abstract)

Interest by forest landowners and agriculturist in Special Forest Products (SFPs) is increasing rapidly. At present there are numerous efforts to increase awareness of these products and the market potential. However, there is a shortage of information available and there are few means effective in disseminating the information necessary for the sustainable management...

Author(s):

A.L. Hammett; Shelby Jones; Philip A. Araman

Year:

1999

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Proceedings, North American Conference on Enterprise Development Through Agroforestry: Farming the Agroforest for Specialty Products

Wood Use in the U.S. Pallet and Container Industry: 1995

This report from the Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management at Virginia Tech provides results of a study ofwood material use in the pallet and container industry (Standard Industrial Classification codes 2441, 2448, and 2449). The report furnishes estimates of industry-wide use ofvarious wood materials (i.e., solid hardwood, solid softwood,oriented strand...

Author(s):

Vijay S. Reddy; Robert J. Bush; Matthew S. Bumgardner; James L. Chamberlain; Philip A. Araman

Year:

1997

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(Executive Summary Only). Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management - Virginia Tech. 17 pp.

Adhesive interactions with wood

While the chemistry for the polymerization of wood adhesives has been studied systematically and extensively, the critical aspects of the interaction of adhesives with wood are less clearly understood. General theories of bond formation need to be modified to take into account the porosity of wood and the ability of chemicals to be absorbed into the cell wall....

Author(s):

Charles R. Frihart

Year:

2004

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Wood-adhesive interactions, bond formation

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Fundamentals of composite processing : proceedings of a workshop, November 5-6, 2003. Madison, WI : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2004. General technical report FPL ; FPL-GTR-149: Pages 29-38

Nanotechnology applications in the forest products industry

Nanotechnology is the study and engineering of matter at the dimensions of 1 to 100 nanometers, where the physical, chemical, or biological properties are fundamentally different from those of the bulk material. By expanding our understanding and control of matter at such levels, new avenues in product development can be opened. Nanoscale-based science has...

Author(s):

Robert J. Moon; Charles R. Frihart; Theodore Wegner

Year:

2006

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Forest products industry, forest products research, nanotechnology, research, research & development

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Forest products journal. Vol. 56, no. 5 (May 2006): pages 4-10.

Adhesives with wood materials : bond formation and performance

Adhesive bonding of wood plays an increasing role in the forest products industry and is a key factor for efficiently utilizing our timber resource. The main use of adhesives is in the manufacture of building materials, including plywood, oriented strandboard, particleboard, fiberboard, structural composite lumber, doors, windows and frames, and factory-laminated wood...

Author(s):

Charles R. Frihart; Christopher G. Hunt

Year:

2010

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Adhesives, adhesion, glue, mechanical properties, wood moisture, moisture, porosity, wood density, density, joints, standards, gluing, bonding, wood bonding, moisture content, durability, dimensional stability, bond strength, surface properties, physical properties, wood strength, strength

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Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material: chapter 10. Centennial ed. General technical report FPL ; GTR-190. Madison, WI : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2010: p. 10.1-10.24.

Machine Vision Technology for the Forest Products Industry

From forest to finished product, wood is moved from one processing stage to the next, subject to the decisions of individuals along the way. While this process has worked for hundreds of years, the technology exists today to provide more complete information to the decision makers. Virginia Tech has developed this technology, creating a machine vision prototype for...

Author(s):

Richard W. Conners; D.Earl Kline; Philip A. Araman; Thomas T. Drayer

Year:

1997

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Computer. 30(7): 43-48.

Wood adhesives : vital for producing most wood products

A main route for the efficient utilization of wood resources is to reduce wood to small pieces and then bond them together (Frihart and Hunt 2010). Although humankind has been bonding wood since early Egyptian civilizations, the quality and quantity of bonded wood products has increased dramatically over the past 100 years with the development of new adhesives and...

Author(s):

Charles R. Frihart

Year:

2011

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Adhesives, adhesion, glue, gluing, testing, composite materials, standards, forest products, utilization, research, wood strength, review article, durability, bonding, performance testing, bond strength, wood bonding, bondline, forest products research

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Forest products journal. Vol. 61, no. 1 (Jan. 2011): p. 4-12.

Industrial Development Opportunities For Wood Products In Virginia

The forest-based industry in Virginia, with some 65,000 employees, is already a significant contributor to the stateâs economy. But the forest resources of the Old Dominion, which cover 61 percent of its land area ranging from the mountains to the sea, are still underutilized. It is this under-used portion that holds opportunities for more industrial development and...

Author(s):

Fred M. Lamb; Eugene M. Wengert; Philip A. Araman; Brecc Avellar; Frederick A. Kamke; John Muench; Marshall S. White

Year:

1990

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Committee on Economic Development in the Forest Products Industry. 31 pp.

Assessment of increased wet wood bonding for epoxy-bonded samples using a melamine-urea-formaldehyde priming agent

Is the hydroxymethylated resorcinol (HMR) primer unique or can a melamine- based primer also increase the wet wood strength of epoxy bonds? Although the exact reason for poor durability with some wood adhesives is not known, the HMR priming agent was found to facilitate durable bonds in most cases tested. A model of cell wall stabilization that is believed to be the...

Author(s):

Jermal G. Chandler; Charles R. Frihart

Year:

2005

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Wood surfaces, resorcinol, moisture content, wood moisture, urea-formaldehyde resins, epoxy resins, adhesion, adhesives, testing, formaldehyde, primers, coating, bond strength, strength, melamine resins, bonding, swelling

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Wood adhesives 2005 : November 2-4, 2005 ... San Diego, California, USA. Madison, WI : Forest Products Society: ISBN: 1892529459: pages 99-106.

Hardwoods in U.S. wood pallet production

Research indicates that in 2006, 7.26 billion board feet (approximately 17.1 million m3) of new solid wood was utilized by the U.S. wood pallet and container manufacturing industry. During the same year, the study estimates that 5.09 billion board feet (approximately 12.0 million m3) were recovered mostly from used pallets for reuse and recycling. This paper reports...

Author(s):

Robert J. Bush; Philip A. Araman; E. Bradley Hager

Year:

2011

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In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Scientific Conference on Hardwood Processing (ISCHP32011). Blacksburg, Virginia. 197-202.

Small angle neutron scattering as a tool to evaluate moisture-induced swelling in the nanostructure of chemically modified wood cell walls

Wood-based products can be a sustainable and more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional construction materials because of their reduced contribution to air and water pollution. An integral component of these products is often an adhesive. Because wood is hygroscopic, moisture-induced swelling in the cell walls near the wood? adhesive bondlines can lead to...

Author(s):

Nayomi Z. Plaza; Joseph E. Jakes; Charles R. Frihart; Christopher G. Hunt; Daniel J. Yelle; Linda F. Lorenz

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Wood adhesive, neutron scattering, infiltration

Source:

In: Hunt, C.G., Smith, G.D., Yan, N., eds. Proceedings, 2017 international conference on wood adhesives. Peachtree Corners, GA: Forest Products Society: 6 p.

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Managing national forests of the eastern United States for non-timber forest products

Development of a Computer Vision Technology for the Forest Products Manufacturing Industry

Reflections on the Development of a Machine Vision Technology for the Forest Products

Trends in the use of materials for pallets and other factors affecting the demand for hardwood products

Recycling In The U.S. Pallet Industry: 1993

Non-timber forest products in sustainable forest management

Volatile organic compound emissions from engineered wood products

Special Forest Products: A Southern Strategy for Research & Technology Transfer

Research determines intelligent consumption of forest products is growing and saving trees - an example with wooden pallets

The world wide web: an emerging technology for marketing special forest products (poster abstract)

Wood Use in the U.S. Pallet and Container Industry: 1995

Adhesive interactions with wood

Nanotechnology applications in the forest products industry

Adhesives with wood materials : bond formation and performance

Machine Vision Technology for the Forest Products Industry

Wood adhesives : vital for producing most wood products

Industrial Development Opportunities For Wood Products In Virginia

Assessment of increased wet wood bonding for epoxy-bonded samples using a melamine-urea-formaldehyde priming agent

Hardwoods in U.S. wood pallet production

Small angle neutron scattering as a tool to evaluate moisture-induced swelling in the nanostructure of chemically modified wood cell walls

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