Annual Report Of Research At The Forest Products Laboratory PDF Download

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Forest Products Laboratory, 1961 As the oldest institution of its kind in the world, fpl serves an industrial complex that annually pro duces 35 billion or more board feet of lumber, 7 bil lion square feet of billion square feet of insulation board, 2 billion square feet of hardboard, a quarter billion square feet of particle board, and 34 million tons of paper and paperboard. It also serves the consumers of these products by making possible more efficient utilization of the forest resource and better service life of wood products. The good health of this industrial complex is vital to the economy of the Nation, for it constitutes collectively the Nation's fifth largest industry. The function of this report is to present general facts of research progress during 1961. Detailed ac counts of the work done must, however, be reserved to technical publications, Where full information is available. Those in need of detailed information are referred to such reports. A list of technical and seien tific publications issued during 1961 is appended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.